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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 387 345
Rank change year-on-year +112 -42 -47
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 619 690 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.67% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.80% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 213 349 616
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £84,813
90th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - -7.60% -0.79%

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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
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 29 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 29 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 +141 601 £65,000 +11.40% 1,234
Work from Home +90 442 £60,000 +9.09% 811
UK excluding London +31 309 £55,000 - 1,200
London +172 186 £81,975 +10.57% 184
South East +109 80 £75,000 +22.78% 311
North of England -43 76 £54,793 -8.68% 272
North West -36 64 £54,793 -8.68% 135
East of England +88 58 £62,500 +25.00% 165
Midlands +7 46 £60,000 +14.29% 224
South West +88 34 £57,500 +4.55% 161
West Midlands +25 23 £60,000 +9.09% 117
East Midlands +14 23 £60,000 +25.00% 95
Scotland +65 11 £60,000 - 65
Yorkshire +12 11 £45,000 -14.29% 104
Wales +11 3 £50,000 - 33
North East +37 1 - - 34
Northern Ireland +28 1 £85,000 - 15

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 13 (2.10%) Confluence
2 7 (1.13%) Apache Solr
2 7 (1.13%) nginx
3 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.32%) Appian
4 2 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.46%) Simulink
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (14.38%) Azure
2 83 (13.41%) AWS
3 37 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (5.65%) GCP
5 27 (4.36%) GitHub
6 21 (3.39%) SaaS
6 21 (3.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 20 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (1.45%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.45%) Serverless
9 8 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (1.29%) Datadog
9 8 (1.29%) npm
10 7 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (1.13%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 294 (47.50%) Broadband
2 7 (1.13%) DNS
2 7 (1.13%) HTTPS
2 7 (1.13%) IPsec
2 7 (1.13%) SSL
2 7 (1.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.65%) FTP
4 3 (0.48%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) LAN
5 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.42%) MongoDB
2 14 (2.26%) Big Data
3 12 (1.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.29%) MySQL
6 7 (1.13%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.65%) DB2
8 3 (0.48%) Power BI
9 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) KDB
10 1 (0.16%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 238 (38.45%) JIRA
2 11 (1.78%) Git
2 11 (1.78%) GitLab
3 9 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.97%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
5 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.32%) JMeter
6 2 (0.32%) Postman
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.16%) Moq
7 1 (0.16%) NUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 193 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.57%) Finance
3 80 (12.92%) Games
4 51 (8.24%) Banking
5 41 (6.62%) Aerospace
6 33 (5.33%) Law
7 28 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.88%) Marketing
9 20 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.42%) Front Office
11 9 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.29%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.13%) Local Government
14 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Retail
15 2 (0.32%) Aviation
15 2 (0.32%) Back Office
15 2 (0.32%) Legal
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 216 (34.89%) Release Engineer
2 215 (34.73%) Embedded Engineer
3 162 (26.17%) Senior
4 92 (14.86%) Engineering Manager
5 83 (13.41%) Senior Manager
6 80 (12.92%) Senior Service Manager
7 79 (12.76%) ServiceNow Manager
8 68 (10.99%) Lead
9 49 (7.92%) Architect
10 41 (6.62%) Software Engineer
10 41 (6.62%) Team Leader
11 40 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (6.46%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 40 (6.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 40 (6.46%) Systems Engineer
12 29 (4.68%) Project Manager
13 26 (4.20%) Developer
14 23 (3.72%) Enterprise Architect
14 23 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (3.55%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (39.26%) Middleware
2 33 (5.33%) .NET
3 32 (5.17%) REST
4 28 (4.52%) React
5 23 (3.72%) SOAP
6 21 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.42%) Spring
8 13 (2.10%) Kafka
9 12 (1.94%) gRPC
10 11 (1.78%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.62%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.45%) Node.js
12 9 (1.45%) OAuth
12 9 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.29%) RESTful
14 7 (1.13%) Android Jetpack
14 7 (1.13%) Jetpack Compose
14 7 (1.13%) SwiftUI
14 7 (1.13%) UIKit
15 5 (0.81%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 215 (34.73%) Embedded Systems
2 100 (16.16%) Product Ownership
3 79 (12.76%) Management Information System
3 79 (12.76%) Video\Live Streaming
4 24 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.94%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.94%) Replication
10 10 (1.62%) Derivative
11 8 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.65%) AS400
13 4 (0.65%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.65%) iSeries
14 3 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.29%) Android
2 7 (1.13%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.65%) 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
1 420 (67.85%) Agile
2 332 (53.63%) CI/CD
3 318 (51.37%) Roadmaps
4 228 (36.83%) Release Automation
5 226 (36.51%) Continuous Deployment
6 225 (36.35%) Strategic Thinking
7 220 (35.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 164 (26.49%) Software Engineering
9 114 (18.42%) DevOps
10 108 (17.45%) Computer Science
11 100 (16.16%) Change Management
12 94 (15.19%) Deployment Automation
13 84 (13.57%) Validation
14 81 (13.09%) ITSM
15 80 (12.92%) Service Delivery
16 79 (12.76%) Incident Management
16 79 (12.76%) Problem Management
17 75 (12.12%) Coaching
18 68 (10.99%) Microservices
19 67 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.41%) Java
2 43 (6.95%) Python
3 36 (5.82%) C#
4 32 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.72%) SQL
5 23 (3.72%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.39%) Apex Code
7 18 (2.91%) Bash
8 16 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.45%) PHP
10 7 (1.13%) Swift
11 4 (0.65%) Bicep
11 4 (0.65%) Go
11 4 (0.65%) RPG
11 4 (0.65%) RPG IV
11 4 (0.65%) Ruby
12 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 112 (18.09%) Degree
2 102 (16.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (6.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.55%) Master's Degree
4 22 (3.55%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.58%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.32%) ISEB
8 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.16%) CBAP
9 1 (0.16%) CCNP
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.72%) QA
2 21 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.65%) PMO
4 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.16%) GDPR
4 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (6.14%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 48 (7.75%) Terraform
3 21 (3.39%) Ansible
4 9 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.81%) Argo
5 5 (0.81%) Grafana
5 5 (0.81%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.16%) Puppet
6 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (13.57%) ServiceNow
2 72 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.46%) MathWorks
4 30 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 11 (1.78%) Google
7 9 (1.45%) Cisco
8 8 (1.29%) VMware
9 4 (0.65%) IBM
9 4 (0.65%) Splunk
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle
10 2 (0.32%) Pega
10 2 (0.32%) 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%) Sage
11 1 (0.16%) SAP
11 1 (0.16%) TIBCO