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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 591 457
Rank change year-on-year -40 -134 +71
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 177 79 347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 166
10th Percentile £43,862 £60,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.93% +0.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £90,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.93% +13.85%

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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 15 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 23 September 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 -69 125 £77,000 +10.00% 128
Work from Home +35 101 £90,000 +36.36% 64
UK excluding London -62 94 £65,000 -7.14% 71
London -71 43 £75,000 +7.14% 78
South East -24 33 £90,000 +28.57% 14
North of England -44 22 £57,500 -22.82% 26
North West -23 13 £55,000 -26.17% 12
Midlands -45 13 £77,500 - 7
South West - 11 £62,500 - 7
Wales - 10 £47,835 - 6
West Midlands -32 9 £77,500 - 4
Scotland +12 6 - - 5
North East - 5 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -36 4 - - 7
East Midlands - 4 - - 3

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 5 (2.82%) IIS
1 5 (2.82%) nginx
2 3 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 143 (80.79%) AWS
2 99 (55.93%) GCP
3 72 (40.68%) Amazon EKS
4 69 (38.98%) SaaS
5 53 (29.94%) Azure
6 28 (15.82%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (11.30%) GitHub
8 17 (9.60%) Snowflake
9 13 (7.34%) Serverless
10 11 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.95%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.95%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.82%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (2.82%) Cloudflare
14 5 (2.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.43%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.30%) Redis
3 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.69%) Big Data
6 3 (1.69%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Adabas
7 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (36.72%) TeamCity
2 44 (24.86%) Git
3 19 (10.73%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.91%) GitLab
5 10 (5.65%) JIRA
6 5 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.69%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.69%) Subversion
9 2 (1.13%) JUnit
9 2 (1.13%) Snyk
9 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (42.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (39.55%) Law
3 67 (37.85%) Banking
4 65 (36.72%) Retail
5 64 (36.16%) Finance
6 52 (29.38%) Back Office
6 52 (29.38%) Financial Institution
7 33 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (7.34%) Social Skills
9 12 (6.78%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.82%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (44.07%) Software Engineer
2 53 (29.94%) Lead
3 45 (25.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (18.64%) Developer
5 28 (15.82%) Senior
5 28 (15.82%) Trainee
6 26 (14.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (13.56%) Software Team Leader
7 24 (13.56%) Team Leader
8 23 (12.99%) Software Developer
9 20 (11.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (11.30%) Lead Developer
9 20 (11.30%) Lead Software Developer
10 19 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (9.60%) Java Engineer
11 17 (9.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 17 (9.60%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (6.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 11 (6.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (50.28%) Terraform
2 26 (14.69%) Node.js
3 17 (9.60%) Vue
4 13 (7.34%) React
5 9 (5.08%) .NET
5 9 (5.08%) Jest
5 9 (5.08%) RESTful
5 9 (5.08%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.52%) ARM Templates
6 8 (4.52%) Spring
7 7 (3.95%) Next.js
7 7 (3.95%) REST
8 6 (3.39%) CSS
8 6 (3.39%) HTML
8 6 (3.39%) Playwright
8 6 (3.39%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (2.82%) Loki
10 4 (2.26%) CSS3
10 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 76 (42.94%) Cloud Native
2 54 (30.51%) Product Ownership
3 28 (15.82%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (8.47%) Blog
5 6 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.13%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.42%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Unix
4 2 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (90.96%) CI/CD
2 111 (62.71%) DevOps
3 99 (55.93%) Test Automation
4 97 (54.80%) Microservices
5 96 (54.24%) Clean Code
6 91 (51.41%) Software Engineering
7 83 (46.89%) Mentoring
8 79 (44.63%) Deployment Automation
9 71 (40.11%) Continuous Integration
10 60 (33.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (28.81%) Coaching
12 49 (27.68%) DevSecOps
13 48 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (25.42%) AI
15 44 (24.86%) Containerisation
15 44 (24.86%) Continuous Delivery
16 42 (23.73%) Agile
17 40 (22.60%) SDLC
18 36 (20.34%) Fintech
18 36 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.76%) Java
2 36 (20.34%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.82%) Shell Script
4 26 (14.69%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.17%) Python
6 13 (7.34%) C#
7 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.65%) SQL
8 6 (3.39%) Ruby
9 5 (2.82%) Bash
9 5 (2.82%) Bicep
9 5 (2.82%) Scala
10 2 (1.13%) Groovy
10 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.13%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) Natural
Qualifications
1 26 (14.69%) Degree
2 21 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 13 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.26%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (29.38%) Docker
2 5 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (51.98%) Kubernetes
2 77 (43.50%) Grafana
3 10 (5.65%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.08%) Ansible
5 2 (1.13%) Argo
5 2 (1.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.08%) Google
3 5 (2.82%) OneLogin
4 3 (1.69%) Workday
5 2 (1.13%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.13%) Databricks
5 2 (1.13%) IBM
5 2 (1.13%) Splunk
6 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle