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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 433 516
Rank change year-on-year -152 +83 +36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 73 292 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 27 117 214
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,697 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.66% -8.62%
75th Percentile £79,007 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,263 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.28% +15.44% -8.05%

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 50,353 48,156 59,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.19% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 29,725 23,186 46,025
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 10 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 25 January 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 -127 63 £75,000 +7.14% 29
London -1 44 £86,250 +1.47% 9
Work from Home -15 41 £43,337 -35.80% 13
UK excluding London -144 15 £75,000 +8.28% 23
South East -46 6 £78,000 +4.00% 10
West Midlands +9 3 £71,000 +9.23%
North West 0 3 £75,000 +13.21% 5
Wales -4 3 £41,000 -22.04% 1
Midlands -8 3 £71,000 +9.23%
North of England -46 3 £75,000 +11.11% 7

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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) IIS
2 4 (5.48%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (61.64%) AWS
2 37 (50.68%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (49.32%) GCP
4 26 (35.62%) SaaS
5 12 (16.44%) Azure
6 7 (9.59%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.74%) dbt
10 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.74%) Fivetran
10 2 (2.74%) IaaS
10 2 (2.74%) PaaS
10 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.74%) Serverless
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.74%) Looker
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (46.58%) TeamCity
2 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (13.70%) GitLab
4 8 (10.96%) Git
4 8 (10.96%) JIRA
4 8 (10.96%) Selenium
5 6 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.85%) SpecFlow
6 5 (6.85%) WebDriver
7 4 (5.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.11%) JMeter
8 3 (4.11%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.74%) Appium
9 2 (2.74%) NUnit
9 2 (2.74%) Postman
9 2 (2.74%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 34 (46.58%) Banking
1 34 (46.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 34 (46.58%) Law
1 34 (46.58%) Retail
2 30 (41.10%) Finance
3 24 (32.88%) Back Office
3 24 (32.88%) Financial Institution
4 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.74%) Local Government
7 1 (1.37%) Advertising
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (39.73%) Software Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 13 (17.81%) Lead
4 12 (16.44%) Java Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Customer Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Customer Service Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Test Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Software Team Leader
10 5 (6.85%) Team Leader
11 4 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) React
1 6 (8.22%) Web Services
2 5 (6.85%) .NET
2 5 (6.85%) Kafka
2 5 (6.85%) REST
2 5 (6.85%) RESTful
2 5 (6.85%) Sass
3 4 (5.48%) Middleware
4 3 (4.11%) Playwright
5 2 (2.74%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.37%) Laravel
6 1 (1.37%) Node.js
6 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.37%) Symfony
6 1 (1.37%) Vue
6 1 (1.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 37 (50.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.81%) Product Ownership
3 10 (13.70%) Blog
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
2 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (86.30%) CI/CD
2 50 (68.49%) Test Automation
3 39 (53.42%) Deployment Automation
4 37 (50.68%) DevOps
5 36 (49.32%) Clean Code
6 31 (42.47%) Agile
7 30 (41.10%) Software Engineering
8 29 (39.73%) Microservices
9 26 (35.62%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (26.03%) Fintech
11 17 (23.29%) Mentoring
12 15 (20.55%) Disruptive Innovation
13 13 (17.81%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (15.07%) Coaching
15 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (13.70%) Scrum
16 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 7 (9.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) Java
2 13 (17.81%) Python
3 9 (12.33%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.96%) C#
4 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.59%) Bash
6 6 (8.22%) SQL
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (67.12%) Terraform
2 46 (63.01%) Kubernetes
3 34 (46.58%) Grafana
4 12 (16.44%) Ansible
5 7 (9.59%) Puppet
6 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.48%) VMware
3 2 (2.74%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.37%) OneLogin