Software Delivery Jobs

Software Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 387 348
Rank change year-on-year +117 -39 -47
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 639 690 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 0.67% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 230 345 610
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,111 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £59,763
% change year-on-year +1.82% -7.97% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Delivery 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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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 +150 618 £65,000 +11.40% 345
Work from Home +99 460 £60,000 +9.09% 207
UK excluding London +36 325 £56,000 +1.82% 239
London +178 188 £82,500 +11.28% 135
South East +87 80 £75,000 +22.78% 44
North of England -50 77 £54,793 -8.68% 63
North West -40 65 £54,793 -8.68% 38
East of England +97 59 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Midlands +16 51 £60,000 +14.29% 44
South West +90 42 £57,500 +4.55% 46
East Midlands +27 27 £60,000 +25.00% 22
West Midlands +26 24 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Scotland +66 12 £60,000 - 18
Yorkshire +11 11 £45,000 -14.29% 20
Wales +7 3 £50,000 - 6
North East +41 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland +26 1 £85,000 - 6

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 14 (2.19%) Appian
2 13 (2.03%) Confluence
3 8 (1.25%) Apache Solr
3 8 (1.25%) nginx
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.26%) Simulink
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 91 (14.24%) Azure
2 84 (13.15%) AWS
3 38 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (5.48%) GCP
5 27 (4.23%) GitHub
6 21 (3.29%) SaaS
6 21 (3.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 20 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.41%) Serverless
9 8 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (1.25%) Datadog
9 8 (1.25%) npm
10 7 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (1.10%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 294 (46.01%) Broadband
2 8 (1.25%) DNS
2 8 (1.25%) HTTPS
2 8 (1.25%) IPsec
2 8 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.10%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) FTP
5 3 (0.47%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.35%) MongoDB
2 14 (2.19%) Big Data
3 13 (2.03%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.41%) MySQL
5 9 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.25%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.63%) DB2
8 3 (0.47%) Power BI
9 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) GIS
10 1 (0.16%) KDB
10 1 (0.16%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 238 (37.25%) JIRA
2 11 (1.72%) Git
2 11 (1.72%) GitLab
3 9 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.63%) Selenium
6 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.47%) Postman
8 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.31%) JMeter
8 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.16%) Moq
9 1 (0.16%) NUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 196 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 95 (14.87%) Finance
3 80 (12.52%) Games
4 55 (8.61%) Banking
5 41 (6.42%) Aerospace
6 35 (5.48%) Law
7 28 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (3.91%) Marketing
9 22 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.66%) Front Office
11 10 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.25%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.10%) Local Government
14 4 (0.63%) Retail
15 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.31%) Aviation
16 2 (0.31%) Back Office
16 2 (0.31%) Legal
17 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 216 (33.80%) Release Engineer
2 215 (33.65%) Embedded Engineer
3 170 (26.60%) Senior
4 92 (14.40%) Engineering Manager
5 85 (13.30%) Senior Manager
6 80 (12.52%) Senior Service Manager
7 79 (12.36%) ServiceNow Manager
8 70 (10.95%) Lead
9 49 (7.67%) Architect
10 42 (6.57%) Software Engineer
10 42 (6.57%) Team Leader
11 40 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (6.26%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 40 (6.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 40 (6.26%) Systems Engineer
12 39 (6.10%) Developer
13 30 (4.69%) Project Manager
14 24 (3.76%) Development Manager
15 23 (3.60%) Enterprise Architect
15 23 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (38.03%) Middleware
2 34 (5.32%) REST
3 33 (5.16%) .NET
4 28 (4.38%) React
5 23 (3.60%) SOAP
6 21 (3.29%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.35%) Spring
8 13 (2.03%) Kafka
9 12 (1.88%) gRPC
10 11 (1.72%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.56%) .NET Core
11 10 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (1.41%) Node.js
12 9 (1.41%) OAuth
13 8 (1.25%) RESTful
14 7 (1.10%) Android Jetpack
14 7 (1.10%) Jetpack Compose
14 7 (1.10%) SwiftUI
14 7 (1.10%) UIKit
15 6 (0.94%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 215 (33.65%) Embedded Systems
2 100 (15.65%) Product Ownership
3 79 (12.36%) Management Information System
3 79 (12.36%) Video\Live Streaming
4 25 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.44%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.88%) Derivative
9 12 (1.88%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.88%) Replication
10 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (0.78%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.63%) AS400
12 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.63%) iSeries
13 3 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.25%) Android
2 7 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.63%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (68.39%) Agile
2 334 (52.27%) CI/CD
3 319 (49.92%) Roadmaps
4 228 (35.68%) Release Automation
5 226 (35.37%) Continuous Deployment
5 226 (35.37%) Strategic Thinking
6 220 (34.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 166 (25.98%) Software Engineering
8 117 (18.31%) DevOps
9 109 (17.06%) Computer Science
10 100 (15.65%) Change Management
11 94 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
12 84 (13.15%) Validation
13 81 (12.68%) ITSM
14 80 (12.52%) Service Delivery
15 79 (12.36%) Incident Management
15 79 (12.36%) Problem Management
16 75 (11.74%) Coaching
17 68 (10.64%) Microservices
17 68 (10.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (13.30%) Java
2 46 (7.20%) Python
3 38 (5.95%) C#
4 33 (5.16%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.60%) SQL
5 23 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.29%) Apex Code
7 18 (2.82%) Bash
8 16 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.56%) PHP
10 9 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.10%) Swift
12 4 (0.63%) Bicep
12 4 (0.63%) Go
12 4 (0.63%) RPG
12 4 (0.63%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.63%) Ruby
13 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 114 (17.84%) Degree
2 103 (16.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (6.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 22 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.29%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.47%) ISEB
9 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CCNA
11 1 (0.16%) CCNP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.85%) QA
2 21 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.78%) PMO
4 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (5.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (9.08%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.67%) Terraform
3 22 (3.44%) Ansible
4 9 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.78%) Argo
5 5 (0.78%) Grafana
5 5 (0.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.16%) Puppet
6 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (13.15%) ServiceNow
2 75 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.26%) MathWorks
4 30 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 11 (1.72%) Google
7 9 (1.41%) Cisco
8 8 (1.25%) VMware
9 4 (0.63%) IBM
9 4 (0.63%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle
10 2 (0.31%) Pega
10 2 (0.31%) Snow
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix
11 1 (0.16%) HP
11 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.16%) SAP
11 1 (0.16%) Sparx
11 1 (0.16%) Wrike