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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 344 298
Rank change year-on-year -36 -46 -16
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 696 961 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.98% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.02% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 355 628 1,081
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,180 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 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 +38 551 £55,000 -7.60% 136
England -54 533 £58,350 -10.23% 178
Work from Home +80 432 £55,000 -8.33% 121
North of England +53 175 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North West +28 108 £60,000 +9.09% 24
London -115 103 £74,137 -1.88% 57
Midlands +14 102 £52,500 -15.32% 32
Scotland -27 73 £55,000 -8.33% 16
South East -1 71 £60,000 -7.69% 20
South West -19 64 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire +61 57 £52,500 -8.70% 9
West Midlands +12 55 £55,000 - 20
East Midlands +12 44 £51,000 -24.44% 12
Wales +32 38 £50,000 +9.95% 5
Northern Ireland - 17 - - 2
East of England -32 11 £50,000 -33.33% 8
North East -1 10 £70,000 +25.00% 5

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 51 (7.33%) Confluence
2 14 (2.01%) NServiceBus
3 8 (1.15%) nginx
4 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Drupal
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Liferay
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.15%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.29%) Magento
3 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 197 (28.30%) Azure
2 163 (23.42%) AWS
3 56 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (7.90%) GCP
5 40 (5.75%) SaaS
6 29 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (2.59%) OpenShift
9 16 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (2.01%) Serverless
11 12 (1.72%) AWS CodeStar
11 12 (1.72%) OCI
12 10 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.01%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.86%) Power Platform
15 5 (0.72%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Fargate
15 5 (0.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.44%) HTTPS
2 8 (1.15%) SSL
3 6 (0.86%) WAN
4 5 (0.72%) Bluetooth
4 5 (0.72%) LAN
4 5 (0.72%) WLAN
5 4 (0.57%) DNS
5 4 (0.57%) Internet
5 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.43%) HTTP
6 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.43%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.29%) Broadband
7 2 (0.29%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.29%) IPsec
7 2 (0.29%) MQTT
8 1 (0.14%) DAB
8 1 (0.14%) DHCP
8 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (1.01%) MySQL
4 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.86%) Power BI
6 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.43%) Tableau
8 2 (0.29%) Big Data
8 2 (0.29%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.29%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) Metadata
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (11.78%) JIRA
2 39 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.60%) Git
4 26 (3.74%) GitLab
5 17 (2.44%) IBM UrbanCode
6 14 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.72%) Terragrunt
8 8 (1.15%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.72%) Appium
9 5 (0.72%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.57%) Gatling
10 4 (0.57%) JBehave
10 4 (0.57%) JMeter
10 4 (0.57%) JUnit
10 4 (0.57%) Postman
10 4 (0.57%) Subversion
11 3 (0.43%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 189 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.24%) Finance
3 53 (7.61%) Banking
4 49 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (3.88%) Marketing
8 24 (3.45%) Local Government
9 19 (2.73%) Legal
9 19 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.59%) Public Sector
11 17 (2.44%) Back Office
12 15 (2.16%) Law
13 14 (2.01%) Automotive
14 12 (1.72%) Billing
15 11 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.44%) Electronics
16 10 (1.44%) Retail Banking
17 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 205 (29.45%) Project Manager
2 159 (22.84%) Presales Manager
3 95 (13.65%) Senior
4 81 (11.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (11.06%) Lead
6 61 (8.76%) Architect
7 49 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (6.18%) Developer
9 39 (5.60%) Software Manager
10 36 (5.17%) Presales Solution Architect
10 36 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
12 22 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.02%) Software Project Manager
14 20 (2.87%) Analyst
15 18 (2.59%) Support Engineer
16 17 (2.44%) Business Analyst
16 17 (2.44%) Senior Support Engineer
16 17 (2.44%) Software Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.76%) .NET
2 39 (5.60%) Node.js
3 33 (4.74%) AngularJS
3 33 (4.74%) React
4 28 (4.02%) Vue
5 19 (2.73%) ARM Templates
6 17 (2.44%) .NET Core
7 14 (2.01%) Apache Cordova
8 10 (1.44%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.29%) Spring
10 8 (1.15%) AWS CDK
11 7 (1.01%) HTML
11 7 (1.01%) Next.js
12 6 (0.86%) ADO
12 6 (0.86%) CSS
13 5 (0.72%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.72%) REST
13 5 (0.72%) Software Packaging
13 5 (0.72%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.48%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.45%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.72%) NHS
12 4 (0.57%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.57%) IoT
12 4 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.57%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
14 2 (0.29%) Device Driver
14 2 (0.29%) Online Games
14 2 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.76%) Linux
2 37 (5.32%) Windows
3 26 (3.74%) Apple iOS
4 23 (3.30%) Android
5 10 (1.44%) CentOS
6 9 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Unix
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (72.27%) Agile
2 242 (34.77%) Project Management
3 223 (32.04%) Presales
4 212 (30.46%) DevOps
5 206 (29.60%) Project Delivery
6 187 (26.87%) SDLC
7 176 (25.29%) Scrum
8 175 (25.14%) Actionable Insight
9 160 (22.99%) Agile Project Management
10 116 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 106 (15.23%) Software Engineering
12 100 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 85 (12.21%) Mentoring
14 74 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 74 (10.63%) Roadmaps
15 71 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
16 65 (9.34%) TDD
17 54 (7.76%) Test Automation
18 53 (7.61%) Coaching
19 46 (6.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (12.21%) C#
2 68 (9.77%) JavaScript
3 67 (9.63%) Python
4 43 (6.18%) SQL
5 41 (5.89%) Java
6 26 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 24 (3.45%) Bash
8 22 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.59%) Bicep
9 18 (2.59%) Groovy
10 15 (2.16%) C++
11 13 (1.87%) C
12 12 (1.72%) PHP
13 8 (1.15%) Go
13 8 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.01%) Ruby
15 5 (0.72%) GLSL
16 2 (0.29%) Embedded C
17 1 (0.14%) COBOL
17 1 (0.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 67 (9.63%) Degree
2 40 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 36 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
4 23 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 23 (3.30%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.43%) APMP
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.43%) PMP
12 3 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.33%) QA
2 18 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.72%) GDPR
6 4 (0.57%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.29%) TickIT
8 1 (0.14%) AQAP
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (8.05%) Docker
2 25 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) Firmware
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) etcd
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 83 (11.93%) Terraform
2 69 (9.91%) Ansible
3 64 (9.20%) Kubernetes
4 23 (3.30%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.44%) Rancher
6 7 (1.01%) Kibana
6 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.86%) Grafana
7 6 (0.86%) Puppet
8 5 (0.72%) SCCM
9 3 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.43%) Packer
10 2 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.14%) Consul
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 80 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.88%) Google
3 22 (3.16%) IBM
4 19 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.87%) Xamarin
6 12 (1.72%) Black Duck
7 11 (1.58%) VMware
8 8 (1.15%) NEC
9 6 (0.86%) Databricks
9 6 (0.86%) YouTube
10 5 (0.72%) Oracle
10 5 (0.72%) Splunk
11 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.57%) SAP
12 3 (0.43%) Apple
12 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.29%) QNX
13 2 (0.29%) Red Hat
14 1 (0.14%) Progress