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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 454 500
Rank change year-on-year -147 +46 +56
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 53 312 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 29 139 166
10th Percentile £59,250 £48,687 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.20% -10.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £108,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £67,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% +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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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 -123 45 £75,000 +11.11% 153
London +3 26 £75,000 -16.67% 15
Work from Home -37 25 £70,000 +5.29% 14
UK excluding London -95 20 £70,500 +4.44% 159
South East -33 11 £70,000 +1.82% 36
North West +29 3 £75,000 +14.57% 19
Midlands +13 3 £71,000 +8.46% 29
West Midlands +13 3 £71,000 +8.46% 15
Wales -4 3 £41,000 -22.04% 6
North of England -26 3 £75,000 +14.57% 37

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 (15.09%) IIS
2 6 (11.32%) Confluence
3 4 (7.55%) nginx
3 4 (7.55%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) AWS
2 18 (33.96%) GCP
3 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 17 (32.08%) SaaS
4 16 (30.19%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (9.43%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (7.55%) Cloudflare
8 4 (7.55%) GitHub
9 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.66%) Serverless
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.77%) dbt
10 2 (3.77%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) DNS
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.77%) Looker
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) TeamCity
2 11 (20.75%) Git
2 11 (20.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.98%) GitLab
4 7 (13.21%) JIRA
4 7 (13.21%) Selenium
5 6 (11.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
6 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (5.66%) Appium
8 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 3 (5.66%) SpecFlow
8 3 (5.66%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.89%) JUnit
9 1 (1.89%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.89%) mountebank
9 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.89%) TestNG
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (30.19%) Law
3 15 (28.30%) Back Office
3 15 (28.30%) Banking
3 15 (28.30%) Financial Institution
3 15 (28.30%) Retail
4 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Advertising
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Software Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Lead
2 8 (15.09%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Java Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) QA Test Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) .NET
2 5 (9.43%) Kafka
2 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.55%) Loki
3 4 (7.55%) Middleware
3 4 (7.55%) Playwright
4 3 (5.66%) REST
4 3 (5.66%) RESTful
4 3 (5.66%) Web Services
5 2 (3.77%) React
6 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.89%) Laravel
6 1 (1.89%) Node.js
6 1 (1.89%) React Native
6 1 (1.89%) Symfony
6 1 (1.89%) Vue
6 1 (1.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Linux
1 13 (24.53%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (79.25%) CI/CD
2 31 (58.49%) DevOps
3 30 (56.60%) Test Automation
4 27 (50.94%) Agile
5 24 (45.28%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (45.28%) Microservices
6 21 (39.62%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (33.96%) Clean Code
7 18 (33.96%) Software Engineering
8 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
9 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (18.87%) Scrum
11 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
13 7 (13.21%) Performance Monitoring
13 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (13.21%) SDLC
14 6 (11.32%) Coaching
14 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) Java
2 14 (26.42%) Python
3 11 (20.75%) C#
4 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
5 8 (15.09%) SQL
6 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.43%) Bash
7 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.55%) Bicep
9 1 (1.89%) Go
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.66%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 30 (56.60%) Kubernetes
2 24 (45.28%) Terraform
3 22 (41.51%) Grafana
4 10 (18.87%) Ansible
5 6 (11.32%) Prometheus
6 5 (9.43%) Puppet
7 4 (7.55%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.66%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (5.66%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) VMware
2 5 (9.43%) Atlassian
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.66%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.89%) OneLogin