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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 435 495
Rank change year-on-year -159 +60 +40
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 49 306 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.61% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 21 133 167
10th Percentile £49,378 £47,797 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.19% +12.50% -8.40%

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 49,174 50,059 47,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.96% 89.84% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28,944 25,024 36,293
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
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 £80,000
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% -4.34%

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 27 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 27 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 -133 41 £75,000 +10.27% 220
London -23 25 £76,250 -12.86% 25
Work from Home -30 23 £60,000 -11.11% 77
UK excluding London -134 17 £71,000 +5.19% 216
South East -50 7 £74,000 +5.71% 52
North West +6 4 £75,000 +14.57% 23
North of England -36 4 £75,000 +14.57% 48
West Midlands +12 3 £71,000 +8.84% 20
Midlands +11 3 £71,000 +8.46% 40
Wales -10 3 £41,000 -22.04% 7

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 (12.24%) Confluence
2 5 (10.20%) IIS
3 4 (8.16%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.04%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (38.78%) GCP
3 17 (34.69%) SaaS
4 12 (24.49%) Azure
5 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.24%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.08%) dbt
7 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.08%) Fivetran
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.08%) Looker
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) TeamCity
2 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.33%) GitLab
4 7 (14.29%) JIRA
5 6 (12.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (10.20%) Bitbucket
6 5 (10.20%) Git
6 5 (10.20%) Selenium
7 3 (6.12%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.12%) SpecFlow
7 3 (6.12%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.04%) Appium
8 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.04%) JUnit
8 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.04%) mountebank
8 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.04%) TestNG
General
1 19 (38.78%) Finance
2 17 (34.69%) Banking
2 17 (34.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (34.69%) Law
2 17 (34.69%) Retail
3 15 (30.61%) Back Office
3 15 (30.61%) Financial Institution
4 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Software Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Senior
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Lead
3 7 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Software Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Customer Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Customer Service Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Principal Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) Kafka
3 4 (8.16%) Middleware
3 4 (8.16%) React
4 3 (6.12%) REST
4 3 (6.12%) RESTful
4 3 (6.12%) Web Services
5 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.08%) Playwright
5 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.08%) Sass
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.04%) Laravel
6 1 (2.04%) Loki
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) Symfony
6 1 (2.04%) Vue
6 1 (2.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Blog
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 29 (59.18%) DevOps
3 28 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 25 (51.02%) Agile
5 21 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (40.82%) Clean Code
7 19 (38.78%) Microservices
8 17 (34.69%) Software Engineering
9 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
10 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (16.33%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (16.33%) Scrum
12 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (12.24%) Coaching
13 6 (12.24%) Fintech
13 6 (12.24%) Performance Monitoring
13 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) Java
2 10 (20.41%) Python
3 8 (16.33%) C#
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.24%) Bash
4 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.04%) vCloud
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 28 (57.14%) Terraform
2 19 (38.78%) Grafana
3 10 (20.41%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Puppet
5 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Atlassian
1 5 (10.20%) VMware
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.08%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.04%) OneLogin