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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 435 509
Rank change year-on-year -162 +74 +36
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 48 294 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.60% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 20 123 170
10th Percentile £48,565 £47,797 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,063 £58,219 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% -3.45%
75th Percentile £82,572 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.15% +12.50% -9.77%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 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 4 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 -121 41 £75,000 +7.14% 98
London -5 26 £77,500 -13.89% 17
Work from Home -25 21 £42,500 -37.04% 80
UK excluding London -113 16 £73,000 +8.15% 91
South East -55 6 £78,000 +7.59% 25
North West +17 4 £75,000 +14.57% 8
North of England -27 4 £75,000 +14.57% 21
West Midlands +12 3 £71,000 +9.23% 8
Midlands +1 3 £71,000 +8.84% 15
Wales -3 3 £41,000 -22.04% 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) IIS
2 4 (8.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (39.58%) GCP
3 17 (35.42%) SaaS
4 11 (22.92%) Azure
5 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) dbt
8 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.17%) Fivetran
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.17%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.17%) Looker
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) TeamCity
2 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.67%) GitLab
4 7 (14.58%) JIRA
5 6 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket
7 4 (8.33%) Git
7 4 (8.33%) Selenium
8 3 (6.25%) SpecFlow
8 3 (6.25%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.08%) Bugzilla
10 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.08%) JMeter
10 1 (2.08%) JUnit
10 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
10 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
10 1 (2.08%) Subversion
10 1 (2.08%) TestNG
General
1 19 (39.58%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
2 17 (35.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (35.42%) Law
2 17 (35.42%) Retail
3 15 (31.25%) Back Office
3 15 (31.25%) Financial Institution
4 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Java Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Lead
3 7 (14.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Customer Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Customer Service Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (10.42%) Kafka
3 4 (8.33%) Middleware
3 4 (8.33%) React
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) Web Services
5 2 (4.17%) Sass
6 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.08%) Laravel
6 1 (2.08%) Node.js
6 1 (2.08%) Playwright
6 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.08%) Symfony
6 1 (2.08%) Vue
6 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Blog
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 29 (60.42%) DevOps
3 27 (56.25%) Test Automation
4 24 (50.00%) Agile
5 21 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (43.75%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (41.67%) Clean Code
7 18 (37.50%) Microservices
8 17 (35.42%) Software Engineering
9 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
10 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (16.67%) Scrum
12 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (12.50%) Coaching
13 6 (12.50%) Fintech
13 6 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
13 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) C#
3 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 29 (60.42%) Terraform
2 27 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 18 (37.50%) Grafana
4 10 (20.83%) Ansible
5 6 (12.50%) Puppet
6 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.08%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
1 5 (10.42%) VMware
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.08%) OneLogin