Continuous Deployment Job Trends

Continuous Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 470 541
Rank change year-on-year -117 +71 +58
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 116 185 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47 98 261
10th Percentile £46,833 £52,564 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £63,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.57% -4.43%
75th Percentile £81,507 £92,833 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,500 £97,528 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £74,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +24.58% -1.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Deployment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Deployment relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Deployment job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Deployment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Deployment within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -101 104 £67,153 -15.00% 16
Work from Home +24 69 £52,130 -21.02% 9
London -26 59 £85,000 +6.25% 8
UK excluding London -146 38 £65,000 -13.04% 8
South East -36 16 £85,000 +36.00% 2
North of England -76 15 £52,130 -41.20% 2
North West -36 7 £52,130 -41.20% 2
Yorkshire -64 6 £52,130 -44.92%
Wales -33 5 £52,000 -1.13%
West Midlands -31 2 £65,000 -10.34% 1
Midlands -45 2 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North East - 2 £52,130 -
South West -61 1 - - 2

Continuous Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.45%) Confluence
1 4 (3.45%) IIS
1 4 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 76 (65.52%) AWS
2 54 (46.55%) Amazon EKS
3 50 (43.10%) GCP
4 31 (26.72%) SaaS
5 30 (25.86%) Azure
6 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.34%) GitHub
7 10 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.76%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.45%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.45%) Serverless
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.59%) Datadog
11 3 (2.59%) PaaS
12 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.72%) dbt
12 2 (1.72%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.07%) MongoDB
2 14 (12.07%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.48%) MySQL
4 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.72%) Looker
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (40.52%) TeamCity
2 21 (18.10%) Jenkins
3 19 (16.38%) GitLab
4 11 (9.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (8.62%) Git
6 8 (6.90%) JIRA
6 8 (6.90%) Selenium
7 6 (5.17%) SpecFlow
8 5 (4.31%) WebDriver
9 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.59%) JMeter
10 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.72%) Appium
11 2 (1.72%) NUnit
11 2 (1.72%) Postman
11 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.72%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (43.10%) Law
2 48 (41.38%) Banking
2 48 (41.38%) Retail
3 47 (40.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (37.07%) Finance
5 31 (26.72%) Back Office
5 31 (26.72%) Financial Institution
6 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
7 10 (8.62%) Social Skills
8 8 (6.90%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Local Government
10 2 (1.72%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (46.55%) Software Engineer
2 25 (21.55%) Java Engineer
2 25 (21.55%) Java Software Engineer
3 24 (20.69%) Lead
4 23 (19.83%) Senior
5 19 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (9.48%) Customer Engineer
8 11 (9.48%) Customer Service Engineer
9 10 (8.62%) Software Team Leader
9 10 (8.62%) Team Leader
10 8 (6.90%) Developer
11 7 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Software Developer
12 6 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Software Integration Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) RESTful
2 7 (6.03%) React
2 7 (6.03%) REST
2 7 (6.03%) Sass
2 7 (6.03%) Web Services
3 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.45%) Kafka
3 4 (3.45%) Middleware
4 3 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.59%) JSON
4 3 (2.59%) Playwright
4 3 (2.59%) YAML
5 2 (1.72%) Nightwatchjs
5 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.86%) .NET
6 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.86%) CSS
6 1 (0.86%) HTML
6 1 (0.86%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (58.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.79%) Blog
2 16 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.07%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (80.17%) CI/CD
2 84 (72.41%) Test Automation
3 61 (52.59%) Software Engineering
4 60 (51.72%) DevOps
5 59 (50.86%) Deployment Automation
6 56 (48.28%) Agile
7 51 (43.97%) Clean Code
8 48 (41.38%) Microservices
9 40 (34.48%) Continuous Integration
9 40 (34.48%) Mentoring
10 32 (27.59%) Fintech
11 31 (26.72%) Coaching
11 31 (26.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (22.41%) Disruptive Innovation
13 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (15.52%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (15.52%) TDD
15 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
16 16 (13.79%) BDD
16 16 (13.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (58.62%) Java
2 23 (19.83%) Python
3 20 (17.24%) SQL
4 13 (11.21%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.34%) Bash
6 10 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.17%) C#
8 2 (1.72%) Groovy
8 2 (1.72%) Perl
9 1 (0.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.62%) DV Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 69 (59.48%) Terraform
3 51 (43.97%) Grafana
4 16 (13.79%) Ansible
5 7 (6.03%) Puppet
6 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.72%) Packer
9 1 (0.86%) Argo
9 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle
2 4 (3.45%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.45%) VMware
3 2 (1.72%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.72%) Google
3 2 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.86%) OneLogin