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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 469 512
Rank change year-on-year -127 +43 -2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 57 310 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 29 140 168
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,938 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £63,984
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.50% -7.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £77,750 £107,500 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,465 £58,000
% change year-on-year +6.93% +12.87% -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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 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 -112 53 £70,000 +3.70% 58
London +7 37 £72,500 -19.44% 29
Work from Home -43 22 £70,000 +6.93% 40
UK excluding London -101 15 £70,000 +6.93% 38
South East -42 8 £70,000 - 9
North of England -4 4 £75,000 +14.57% 9
Midlands +31 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
West Midlands +22 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
North West +13 3 £75,000 +17.22% 7
Yorkshire -18 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 8 (14.04%) IIS
2 6 (10.53%) Confluence
3 4 (7.02%) nginx
3 4 (7.02%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) GCP
3 21 (36.84%) Azure
4 18 (31.58%) SaaS
5 14 (24.56%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (8.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (8.77%) GitHub
9 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (7.02%) Cloudflare
9 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.26%) Pulumi
11 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.75%) Looker
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Git
2 14 (24.56%) TeamCity
3 10 (17.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.28%) JIRA
5 6 (10.53%) GitLab
6 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
7 4 (7.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.02%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (7.02%) Selenium
8 3 (5.26%) Appium
8 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.75%) Bugzilla
9 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.75%) JMeter
9 1 (1.75%) JUnit
9 1 (1.75%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.75%) mountebank
9 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.75%) TestNG
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 18 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (31.58%) Law
3 14 (24.56%) Back Office
3 14 (24.56%) Banking
3 14 (24.56%) Financial Institution
3 14 (24.56%) Retail
4 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Legal
6 3 (5.26%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Lead
3 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 7 (12.28%) Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) Loki
3 5 (8.77%) Kafka
3 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (7.02%) ARM Templates
4 4 (7.02%) Middleware
5 3 (5.26%) Playwright
5 3 (5.26%) React Native
5 3 (5.26%) RESTful
6 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) React
7 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.75%) Laravel
7 1 (1.75%) REST
7 1 (1.75%) Symfony
7 1 (1.75%) Vue
7 1 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 11 (19.30%) Linux
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 30 (52.63%) Continuous Integration
2 30 (52.63%) Test Automation
3 29 (50.88%) DevOps
4 27 (47.37%) Microservices
5 21 (36.84%) Agile
5 21 (36.84%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (35.09%) Software Engineering
7 19 (33.33%) Clean Code
7 19 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (28.07%) Mentoring
9 12 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
10 9 (15.79%) Task Automation
11 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (14.04%) SDLC
12 7 (12.28%) Configuration Management
12 7 (12.28%) Fintech
12 7 (12.28%) TDD
12 7 (12.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) Java
2 18 (31.58%) Python
3 10 (17.54%) C#
3 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.04%) SQL
5 7 (12.28%) Bash
5 7 (12.28%) Go
6 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
8 4 (7.02%) Bicep
9 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (10.53%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 33 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 29 (50.88%) Grafana
3 23 (40.35%) Terraform
4 9 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 8 (14.04%) Ansible
6 6 (10.53%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.02%) Puppet
8 3 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (5.26%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) VMware
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.77%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.26%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.51%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) CA Agile Central