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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 516 559
Rank change year-on-year -111 +43 +19
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 131 155 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56 90 249
10th Percentile £46,833 £60,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,630 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +14.62% -2.26%
75th Percentile £92,500 £89,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% +4.35%

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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 June 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 25 June 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 -86 108 £65,000 -13.33% 20
Work from Home +48 90 £53,171 -21.81% 14
London -57 54 £100,000 +37.93% 4
UK excluding London -95 50 £65,000 -13.33% 18
South East -14 24 £85,000 +21.43% 7
North of England -48 15 £52,130 -41.20% 6
North West -13 7 £52,130 -41.20% 4
Wales -40 7 £53,171 -
Yorkshire -33 6 £52,130 -44.92% 1
South West -65 3 - - 5
West Midlands -19 2 £65,000 -27.78%
Midlands -25 2 £65,000 -27.78%
North East - 2 £52,130 - 1

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 2 (1.53%) IIS
1 2 (1.53%) nginx
2 1 (0.76%) Apache
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 95 (72.52%) AWS
2 63 (48.09%) Amazon EKS
3 58 (44.27%) GCP
4 49 (37.40%) SaaS
5 29 (22.14%) Azure
6 15 (11.45%) GitHub
7 11 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.87%) Snowflake
10 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.58%) Serverless
12 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.82%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.29%) Datadog
15 2 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (1.53%) Azure Pipelines
15 2 (1.53%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.69%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.69%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.16%) MySQL
4 11 (8.40%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.63%) Redis
6 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.76%) Adabas
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.76%) Big Data
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (43.51%) TeamCity
2 16 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.92%) GitLab
4 12 (9.16%) Git
5 6 (4.58%) Selenium
6 5 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.82%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.82%) JIRA
6 5 (3.82%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.05%) JMeter
8 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.29%) Postman
8 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.53%) Appium
9 2 (1.53%) NUnit
9 2 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.53%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (45.80%) Law
2 58 (44.27%) Banking
2 58 (44.27%) Retail
3 57 (43.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (38.17%) Finance
5 40 (30.53%) Back Office
5 40 (30.53%) Financial Institution
6 17 (12.98%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.11%) Social Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Local Government
10 2 (1.53%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (52.67%) Software Engineer
2 35 (26.72%) Lead
3 30 (22.90%) Senior
4 26 (19.85%) Java Engineer
4 26 (19.85%) Java Software Engineer
5 21 (16.03%) Developer
6 19 (14.50%) Software Developer
7 18 (13.74%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (12.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (10.69%) Software Team Leader
9 14 (10.69%) Team Leader
10 12 (9.16%) Lead Developer
10 12 (9.16%) Lead Software Developer
11 10 (7.63%) Customer Engineer
11 10 (7.63%) Customer Service Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (6.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (5.34%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.27%) RESTful
2 12 (9.16%) Node.js
3 9 (6.87%) Vue
4 8 (6.11%) React
5 7 (5.34%) .NET
6 6 (4.58%) REST
7 5 (3.82%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.82%) Playwright
7 5 (3.82%) Sass
8 4 (3.05%) CSS
8 4 (3.05%) HTML
8 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.05%) Web Services
9 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.29%) JSON
9 3 (2.29%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (2.29%) Spring
9 3 (2.29%) YAML
10 2 (1.53%) Loki
10 2 (1.53%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 80 (61.07%) Cloud Native
2 26 (19.85%) Product Ownership
3 17 (12.98%) Blog
4 5 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Windows
3 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (83.97%) CI/CD
2 96 (73.28%) Test Automation
3 76 (58.02%) Microservices
3 76 (58.02%) Software Engineering
4 71 (54.20%) Clean Code
5 69 (52.67%) Deployment Automation
6 62 (47.33%) DevOps
7 51 (38.93%) Agile
8 49 (37.40%) Mentoring
9 43 (32.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (31.30%) Coaching
11 38 (29.01%) Fintech
12 35 (26.72%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (23.66%) Disruptive Innovation
14 22 (16.79%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (16.79%) TDD
15 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (14.50%) User Stories
17 18 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 17 (12.98%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 79 (60.31%) Java
2 21 (16.03%) JavaScript
3 19 (14.50%) SQL
4 17 (12.98%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.21%) Python
6 11 (8.40%) C#
7 8 (6.11%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.58%) Bash
9 3 (2.29%) Ruby
10 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) Groovy
10 2 (1.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) Natural
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) Degree
3 10 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.87%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (58.78%) Kubernetes
2 75 (57.25%) Terraform
3 63 (48.09%) Grafana
4 10 (7.63%) Ansible
5 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.53%) Packer
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.53%) IBM
2 2 (1.53%) OneLogin
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle