Continuous Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 199 186
Rank change year-on-year -75 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 1,067 1,921 3,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.90% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.98% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 467 789 1,223
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.94%
75th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,634 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous 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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous 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 Continuous Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London -21 848 £65,000 -3.89% 72
Scotland +68 521 £60,000 -27.55% 10
England -211 477 £72,500 -6.45% 102
Work from Home -88 277 £70,000 -9.68% 57
London -192 156 £85,000 +3.03% 38
North of England -101 94 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Midlands -92 92 £65,000 - 4
West Midlands -18 90 £65,000 - 3
North West -38 70 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West -65 59 £75,000 +11.11% 15
South East -108 48 £80,000 +6.67% 15
East of England -9 24 £57,500 -12.21% 4
Yorkshire -29 15 £52,500 -19.23% 7
North East -29 9 £56,250 -19.64% 2
Northern Ireland -5 7 £67,500 +35.00% 4
Wales -23 3 £51,996 +15.55% 1
East Midlands -89 2 £105,000 +121.05% 1

Continuous 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 97 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.44%) IIS
4 21 (1.97%) GemFire
5 18 (1.69%) Apache
6 12 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.84%) Confluence
7 9 (0.84%) nginx
8 4 (0.37%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.094%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 17 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 17 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.094%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 414 (38.80%) AWS
2 312 (29.24%) Azure
3 123 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
4 117 (10.97%) Datadog
5 94 (8.81%) Power Platform
6 81 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
7 76 (7.12%) GCP
8 61 (5.72%) Serverless
9 58 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 55 (5.15%) SaaS
11 38 (3.56%) PaaS
12 37 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (3.37%) GitHub
14 35 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 35 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (2.44%) IaaS
17 24 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (2.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.19%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.53%) WAN
3 18 (1.69%) DSL
4 8 (0.75%) VPN
5 7 (0.66%) Internet
6 6 (0.56%) Firewall
7 4 (0.37%) FTP
8 2 (0.19%) HTTP
8 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.094%) Broadband
9 1 (0.094%) DNS
9 1 (0.094%) IPsec
9 1 (0.094%) LAN
9 1 (0.094%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (18.65%) NoSQL
2 103 (9.65%) Relational Database
3 100 (9.37%) Big Data
4 95 (8.90%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.19%) Metadata
6 43 (4.03%) MongoDB
7 41 (3.84%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (2.16%) Power BI
10 22 (2.06%) Looker
11 21 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 21 (1.97%) CockroachDB
11 21 (1.97%) Hazelcast
12 20 (1.87%) Hadoop
12 20 (1.87%) Tableau
13 19 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (1.69%) DB2
14 18 (1.69%) Flink
15 14 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 130 (12.18%) Jenkins
2 125 (11.72%) Git
3 72 (6.75%) Bitbucket
4 66 (6.19%) Artifactory
5 47 (4.40%) GitLab
6 29 (2.72%) Visual Studio
7 21 (1.97%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.78%) JIRA
8 19 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 18 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.22%) Storybook
11 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.66%) JUnit
13 6 (0.56%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.56%) git-flow
13 6 (0.56%) MSTest
14 5 (0.47%) Postman
14 5 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 588 (55.11%) Finance
2 525 (49.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 507 (47.52%) Law
4 401 (37.58%) Marketing
5 187 (17.53%) Social Skills
6 155 (14.53%) Financial Institution
7 146 (13.68%) Banking
8 82 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (6.75%) Investment Banking
10 63 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
11 32 (3.00%) Retail
12 28 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.16%) Public Sector
14 22 (2.06%) Prime Brokerage
15 15 (1.41%) Retail Banking
16 10 (0.94%) French Language
16 10 (0.94%) Front Office
17 9 (0.84%) Private Banking
18 8 (0.75%) Legal
19 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 369 (34.58%) Software Engineer
2 363 (34.02%) Lead
3 296 (27.74%) Lead Software Engineer
4 178 (16.68%) Senior
5 153 (14.34%) Developer
6 133 (12.46%) Engineering Manager
7 121 (11.34%) Software Engineering Manager
8 92 (8.62%) Architect
9 90 (8.43%) Java Engineer
10 86 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 81 (7.59%) Lead Java Engineer
12 64 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 54 (5.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 53 (4.97%) Big Data Manager
16 52 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (4.78%) Senior Developer
17 51 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
17 51 (4.78%) UI Engineer
18 48 (4.50%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (11.90%) .NET
2 118 (11.06%) React
3 116 (10.87%) Spring
4 111 (10.40%) Web Services
5 105 (9.84%) Kafka
6 102 (9.56%) RESTful
7 94 (8.81%) CSS
8 91 (8.53%) OpenTelemetry
9 90 (8.43%) HTML
10 89 (8.34%) Spring Boot
11 78 (7.31%) OpenID
12 74 (6.94%) JSON
13 72 (6.75%) Node.js
14 70 (6.56%) SAML
15 69 (6.47%) XML
16 65 (6.09%) JSON-LD
16 65 (6.09%) LDAP
17 63 (5.90%) NumPy
17 63 (5.90%) Pandas
18 57 (5.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 284 (26.62%) Cloud Native
2 149 (13.96%) Management Information System
3 146 (13.68%) Public Cloud
4 76 (7.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 68 (6.37%) Product Ownership
6 67 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (6.28%) Reference Data
7 59 (5.53%) Market Risk
8 31 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.72%) Data Structures
10 27 (2.53%) Algorithms
11 26 (2.44%) Clustering
12 25 (2.34%) Mobile App
13 24 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.97%) Replication
16 18 (1.69%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.50%) FMCG
18 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
19 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.28%) Linux
2 17 (1.59%) Android
3 14 (1.31%) Windows
4 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.75%) Debian
7 6 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.37%) CentOS
8 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (77.69%) Agile
1 829 (77.69%) CI/CD
2 685 (64.20%) Software Engineering
3 507 (47.52%) SDLC
4 363 (34.02%) Operational Stability
5 346 (32.43%) Community of Practice
6 321 (30.08%) Architectural Design
7 316 (29.62%) Information Architecture
8 313 (29.33%) DevOps
9 312 (29.24%) Continuous Integration
10 225 (21.09%) Machine Learning
11 223 (20.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 192 (17.99%) Test Automation
13 150 (14.06%) Mentoring
14 148 (13.87%) Data Modelling
14 148 (13.87%) Roadmaps
15 135 (12.65%) Computer Science
16 133 (12.46%) TDD
17 125 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
18 117 (10.97%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 437 (40.96%) Java
2 385 (36.08%) SQL
3 266 (24.93%) Python
4 154 (14.43%) JavaScript
5 128 (12.00%) C#
6 118 (11.06%) Scala
7 109 (10.22%) TypeScript
8 100 (9.37%) Go
9 65 (6.09%) Prolog
9 65 (6.09%) SPARQL
10 29 (2.72%) Groovy
11 24 (2.25%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.22%) Bash
16 12 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 11 (1.03%) PHP
18 8 (0.75%) Ruby
19 7 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 127 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 84 (7.87%) Degree
3 81 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CISM
13 2 (0.19%) CISSP
13 2 (0.19%) ISEB
13 2 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.19%) OSCP
13 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 36 (3.37%) SLA
3 31 (2.91%) QA
4 28 (2.62%) PMO
5 8 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.75%) NCSC
6 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.37%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.094%) GDPR
10 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 120 (11.25%) Docker
2 74 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.75%) HDFS
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.094%) RACF
5 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 142 (13.31%) Terraform
3 118 (11.06%) Grafana
4 59 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.00%) Ansible
6 28 (2.62%) Kibana
7 21 (1.97%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (1.97%) Zipkin
8 20 (1.87%) Puppet
9 16 (1.50%) Consul
10 7 (0.66%) Rancher
11 3 (0.28%) Graphite
11 3 (0.28%) Nagios
11 3 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.19%) cPanel
12 2 (0.19%) Istio
12 2 (0.19%) linkerd
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.094%) Podman
Vendors
1 194 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 127 (11.90%) Splunk
3 125 (11.72%) Oracle
4 112 (10.50%) Dynatrace
5 38 (3.56%) Google
6 36 (3.37%) Databricks
7 33 (3.09%) VMware
8 20 (1.87%) Atlassian
9 19 (1.78%) Cognos
9 19 (1.78%) SAP
10 18 (1.69%) Alteryx
10 18 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.69%) Sybase
11 10 (0.94%) Commvault
11 10 (0.94%) Teradata
12 8 (0.75%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.56%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.56%) Cadence
13 6 (0.56%) McAfee
14 4 (0.37%) Reuters