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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 449 498
Rank change year-on-year -134 +49 -17
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 66 302 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.54% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 34 137 184
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,550 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,375 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +16.38% -7.20%

All Process and 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 43,588 55,894 49,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.96% 82.57% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,305 29,396 38,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

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 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 12 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 6 November 2025. 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 -120 59 £70,000 +3.70% 64
London -2 41 £70,000 -20.00% 35
Work from Home -70 21 £65,000 -0.71% 42
UK excluding London -104 18 £70,000 +3.70% 50
South East -46 8 £70,000 - 28
North of England -43 5 £72,500 +11.14% 7
North West +13 4 £72,500 +13.31% 5
West Midlands +32 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
Midlands +27 3 £71,000 +6.80% 2
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 5
Scotland 0 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -10 1 - - 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 6 (9.09%) IIS
2 4 (6.06%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) nginx
3 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) AWS
2 28 (42.42%) Azure
3 22 (33.33%) GCP
4 17 (25.76%) SaaS
5 10 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (7.58%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (6.06%) Cloudflare
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) Pulumi
9 3 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) Broadband
2 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (28.79%) Git
2 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (15.15%) TeamCity
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 5 (7.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (7.58%) Selenium
6 4 (6.06%) Appium
6 4 (6.06%) GitLab
6 4 (6.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.52%) Bugzilla
9 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.52%) JMeter
9 1 (1.52%) JUnit
9 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.52%) Subversion
9 1 (1.52%) TestNG
General
1 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 14 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (21.21%) Law
4 10 (15.15%) Back Office
4 10 (15.15%) Banking
4 10 (15.15%) Financial Institution
4 10 (15.15%) Retail
5 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Health Technology
6 4 (6.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Advertising
7 1 (1.52%) Aviation
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Software Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Lead
3 11 (16.67%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Applications Support
6 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) QA Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) QA Test Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) Loki
3 7 (10.61%) Middleware
4 5 (7.58%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (7.58%) React Native
4 5 (7.58%) RESTful
5 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
5 4 (6.06%) Playwright
6 3 (4.55%) Kafka
7 2 (3.03%) Node.js
7 2 (3.03%) React
7 2 (3.03%) REST
8 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.52%) Laravel
8 1 (1.52%) OAuth
8 1 (1.52%) OpenID
8 1 (1.52%) Spring
8 1 (1.52%) Symfony
8 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Linux
3 8 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.58%) Unix
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 38 (57.58%) Continuous Integration
3 30 (45.45%) DevOps
3 30 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 25 (37.88%) Agile
4 25 (37.88%) Microservices
5 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 17 (25.76%) Clean Code
7 17 (25.76%) Software Engineering
8 16 (24.24%) Mentoring
9 12 (18.18%) Task Automation
10 11 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
11 9 (13.64%) SDLC
11 9 (13.64%) TDD
12 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (12.12%) Performance Testing
12 8 (12.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Java
2 19 (28.79%) Python
3 13 (19.70%) SQL
4 11 (16.67%) C#
4 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 8 (12.12%) Go
6 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 8 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.09%) Bash
8 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
9 4 (6.06%) Bicep
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 6 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.55%) vCloud
4 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (45.45%) Grafana
2 29 (43.94%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Terraform
4 10 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.61%) Progress Chef
6 6 (9.09%) Ansible
7 3 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (4.55%) Rundeck
8 2 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle
2 6 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.58%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.58%) Google
3 5 (7.58%) Splunk
3 5 (7.58%) VMware
4 4 (6.06%) Hitachi
5 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.52%) CA Agile Central