Software Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 241 256 296
Rank change year-on-year +15 +40 +3
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 745 1,829 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 1.46% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.52% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 378 963 1,066
10th Percentile £42,439 £44,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £84,056 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery.

Salary trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 -14 571 £68,000 +1.82% 204
Work from Home +100 521 £67,950 +2.95% 111
UK excluding London +44 516 £62,500 +4.17% 155
London -74 180 £76,000 +4.83% 77
North of England +57 173 £70,000 +10.24% 36
North West +60 109 £71,500 +12.60% 20
South East +77 83 £72,500 +11.54% 41
Scotland +57 75 £45,000 -35.71% 19
Midlands +6 61 £55,000 -4.35% 28
Yorkshire +58 58 £65,000 -3.70% 12
South West +4 58 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Wales +40 43 £60,000 +26.32% 2
East Midlands +30 33 £57,500 -11.54% 7
West Midlands -4 28 £55,000 +12.24% 21
Northern Ireland +53 22 - -
North East +30 6 £53,250 +6.50% 4
East of England +84 3 £64,500 +17.27% 12

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (3.89%) Confluence
2 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.48%) IIS
3 11 (1.48%) NServiceBus
4 4 (0.54%) nginx
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) CMS
5 2 (0.27%) JBoss
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.27%) TPMS
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.07%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.13%) Endur
5 1 (0.13%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 197 (26.44%) Azure
2 184 (24.70%) AWS
3 52 (6.98%) GCP
4 43 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (4.43%) Serverless
6 25 (3.36%) SaaS
7 21 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 20 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (2.15%) Azure Functions
9 16 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 14 (1.88%) PaaS
12 12 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.48%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.34%) GitHub
14 10 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (0.94%) Yammer
17 6 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.95%) Internet
2 7 (0.94%) PBX
2 7 (0.94%) VoIP
3 5 (0.67%) 5G
3 5 (0.67%) Network Security
4 4 (0.54%) DNS
4 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.54%) WAN
5 3 (0.40%) AMQP
5 3 (0.40%) HTTP
5 3 (0.40%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.27%) Firewall
6 2 (0.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) DHCP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) IPsec
7 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (4.97%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.42%) Power BI
4 16 (2.15%) MySQL
5 14 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.61%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.48%) Event Store
7 11 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.48%) RavenDB
8 10 (1.34%) Big Data
9 7 (0.94%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.54%) ArangoDB
13 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.13%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 68 (9.13%) Git
2 57 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 43 (5.77%) JIRA
4 16 (2.15%) Bitbucket
4 16 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 14 (1.88%) GitLab
5 14 (1.88%) IBM UrbanCode
5 14 (1.88%) SonarQube
5 14 (1.88%) SpecFlow
6 12 (1.61%) Mercurial
6 12 (1.61%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.34%) Travis CI
8 8 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.54%) Maven
9 4 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.54%) Postman
9 4 (0.54%) Selenium
9 4 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 261 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 138 (18.52%) Finance
3 110 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.17%) Banking
6 33 (4.43%) Retail
7 27 (3.62%) Law
8 24 (3.22%) Marketing
8 24 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.22%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.01%) Retail Banking
10 14 (1.88%) Tech for Good
11 13 (1.74%) Legal
12 11 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.34%) Back Office
13 10 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.67%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (24.43%) Lead
2 181 (24.30%) Senior
3 106 (14.23%) Architect
4 100 (13.42%) Project Manager
5 95 (12.75%) Solutions Architect
6 75 (10.07%) Senior Architect
7 73 (9.80%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 62 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 57 (7.65%) Developer
10 56 (7.52%) Software Engineer
11 46 (6.17%) Presales Manager
12 40 (5.37%) Software Manager
13 39 (5.23%) Delivery Manager
14 32 (4.30%) Analyst
15 28 (3.76%) Product Manager
16 27 (3.62%) Senior Developer
16 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (3.36%) Software Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (9.93%) .NET
2 40 (5.37%) React
3 33 (4.43%) AngularJS
4 30 (4.03%) Node.js
5 27 (3.62%) HTML
6 25 (3.36%) Spring
7 24 (3.22%) CSS
8 22 (2.95%) Spring Boot
9 19 (2.55%) HTML5
10 16 (2.15%) RESTful
11 12 (1.61%) jQuery
12 11 (1.48%) Apache Cordova
13 10 (1.34%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.34%) Kafka
14 9 (1.21%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (1.07%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.07%) Next.js
16 7 (0.94%) EDI
17 6 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 76 (10.20%) Data Structures
3 53 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.62%) Cyberattack
6 23 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 22 (2.95%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.55%) Online Banking
9 16 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
10 15 (2.01%) Driving Licence
10 15 (2.01%) Robotics
11 13 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.94%) iPad
14 7 (0.94%) Legacy Code
15 6 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (7.38%) Linux
2 5 (0.67%) Windows
3 4 (0.54%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) Android
4 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (66.71%) Agile
2 254 (34.09%) Presales
3 247 (33.15%) Actionable Insight
4 242 (32.48%) Software Engineering
5 199 (26.71%) Scrum
6 179 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 169 (22.68%) DevOps
8 156 (20.94%) SDLC
9 147 (19.73%) Project Delivery
10 145 (19.46%) Technical Leadership
11 142 (19.06%) Project Management
12 115 (15.44%) CI/CD
12 115 (15.44%) Thought Leadership
13 110 (14.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 104 (13.96%) Mentoring
15 102 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
16 97 (13.02%) Design Patterns
17 87 (11.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 84 (11.28%) Business Case
19 79 (10.60%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 135 (18.12%) Java
2 102 (13.69%) JavaScript
3 80 (10.74%) Python
4 72 (9.66%) C#
5 54 (7.25%) SQL
6 48 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.77%) Go
8 24 (3.22%) Bash
9 23 (3.09%) Rust
10 17 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.67%) Groovy
12 5 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.54%) PHP
13 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.40%) Scala
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) C++
15 2 (0.27%) Ruby
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (9.66%) TOGAF Certification
2 68 (9.13%) Degree
3 47 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.03%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 23 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 18 (2.42%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.40%) PMP
13 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (12.89%) QA
2 11 (1.48%) PMO
3 10 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.81%) GRC
4 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.40%) SLA
5 3 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.27%) GDPR
6 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.27%) WCAG
7 1 (0.13%) EMIR
7 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (9.93%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.54%) Ceph
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.83%) Terraform
3 17 (2.28%) Ansible
4 8 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.94%) Rancher
6 5 (0.67%) Puppet
7 4 (0.54%) Kibana
8 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.68%) Google
3 14 (1.88%) IBM
3 14 (1.88%) Veracode
4 12 (1.61%) Xamarin
5 11 (1.48%) VMware
6 9 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.07%) Oracle
8 6 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.81%) Splunk
9 5 (0.67%) Databricks
10 4 (0.54%) Adyen
11 3 (0.40%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.40%) SAP
11 3 (0.40%) Siemens
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.13%) Remedy
12 1 (0.13%) Sun