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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 320 301
Rank change year-on-year -52 -19 -23
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 723 1,102 2,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.09% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.14% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 377 630 1,034
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £90,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +8.11%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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% +9.38%

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 10 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 10 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 -8 572 £55,000 -7.60% 126
England -79 553 £58,350 -10.23% 154
Work from Home +96 464 £55,000 -8.33% 116
North of England +18 180 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North West -8 112 £60,000 +9.09% 23
London -119 108 £74,137 -1.88% 43
Midlands 0 105 £52,500 -17.00% 25
South East +5 79 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Scotland -29 77 £55,000 -8.33% 13
South West -26 66 £55,000 - 22
Yorkshire +56 58 £52,500 -4.55% 10
West Midlands +4 57 £52,500 -8.70% 11
East Midlands -8 45 £51,000 -24.44% 14
Wales +33 39 £50,000 +9.90% 6
Northern Ireland - 18 - - 1
North East -1 10 £70,000 +25.00% 2
East of England -33 8 £50,000 -33.33% 11

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 53 (7.33%) Confluence
2 12 (1.66%) NServiceBus
3 10 (1.38%) nginx
4 8 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Magento
3 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 186 (25.73%) Azure
2 162 (22.41%) AWS
3 58 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (5.95%) SaaS
5 42 (5.81%) GCP
6 18 (2.49%) OpenShift
7 17 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (2.21%) Serverless
9 13 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.11%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.11%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.38%) HTTPS
2 8 (1.11%) SSL
3 6 (0.83%) WAN
4 5 (0.69%) Bluetooth
4 5 (0.69%) DNS
4 5 (0.69%) LAN
4 5 (0.69%) WLAN
5 4 (0.55%) Internet
5 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.41%) Firewall
6 3 (0.41%) HTTP
6 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.41%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.28%) Broadband
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.28%) IPsec
7 2 (0.28%) MQTT
7 2 (0.28%) Wireless
8 1 (0.14%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (1.11%) MySQL
4 8 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.11%) Power BI
5 7 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) Tableau
8 2 (0.28%) Big Data
8 2 (0.28%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.28%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.28%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 71 (9.82%) JIRA
2 33 (4.56%) Git
3 28 (3.87%) GitLab
4 27 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.35%) IBM UrbanCode
6 16 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.11%) Vagrant
8 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.69%) Appium
9 5 (0.69%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.55%) Gatling
10 4 (0.55%) JBehave
10 4 (0.55%) JMeter
10 4 (0.55%) JUnit
10 4 (0.55%) Subversion
11 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.41%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 189 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.74%) Finance
3 53 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (7.33%) Banking
4 43 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (3.46%) Marketing
7 21 (2.90%) Local Government
8 19 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.35%) Back Office
10 16 (2.21%) Law
10 16 (2.21%) Legal
11 14 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.80%) Automotive
13 12 (1.66%) Billing
14 10 (1.38%) Electronics
14 10 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.24%) Retail
16 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (30.15%) Project Manager
2 171 (23.65%) Presales Manager
3 107 (14.80%) Senior
4 90 (12.45%) Lead
5 75 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (8.30%) Architect
7 47 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
8 44 (6.09%) Developer
9 40 (5.53%) Software Manager
10 35 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (3.32%) Presales Solution Architect
13 22 (3.04%) Analyst
13 22 (3.04%) Software Project Manager
14 21 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.77%) Senior Architect
15 20 (2.77%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.49%) Business Analyst
16 18 (2.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.44%) .NET
2 39 (5.39%) React
3 32 (4.43%) AngularJS
4 29 (4.01%) Node.js
5 27 (3.73%) Vue
6 17 (2.35%) .NET Core
7 14 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 13 (1.80%) Spring
9 12 (1.66%) Apache Cordova
10 11 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.11%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.11%) HTML
12 7 (0.97%) ARM Templates
12 7 (0.97%) ASP.NET
12 7 (0.97%) CSS
12 7 (0.97%) Next.js
13 6 (0.83%) ADO
14 5 (0.69%) Kafka
14 5 (0.69%) REST
14 5 (0.69%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.77%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.77%) Public Cloud
4 20 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 6 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.69%) NHS
10 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.55%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.55%) IoT
10 4 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.41%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.41%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.28%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.28%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.13%) Linux
2 38 (5.26%) Windows
3 25 (3.46%) Apple iOS
4 22 (3.04%) Android
5 11 (1.52%) CentOS
6 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.41%) Unix
8 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (71.65%) Agile
2 254 (35.13%) Project Management
3 246 (34.02%) Presales
4 225 (31.12%) Project Delivery
5 214 (29.60%) DevOps
6 211 (29.18%) Actionable Insight
7 201 (27.80%) SDLC
8 172 (23.79%) Agile Project Management
9 170 (23.51%) Scrum
10 118 (16.32%) Software Engineering
11 113 (15.63%) CI/CD
12 101 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 76 (10.51%) Roadmaps
14 75 (10.37%) Mentoring
15 73 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
16 69 (9.54%) TDD
17 64 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 59 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
19 52 (7.19%) Coaching
20 45 (6.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 85 (11.76%) C#
2 57 (7.88%) JavaScript
3 55 (7.61%) Python
4 45 (6.22%) SQL
5 44 (6.09%) Java
6 27 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 24 (3.32%) Bash
7 24 (3.32%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.49%) Bicep
8 18 (2.49%) Groovy
9 14 (1.94%) C++
9 14 (1.94%) PHP
10 12 (1.66%) C
11 8 (1.11%) Go
11 8 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.97%) Ruby
13 5 (0.69%) GLSL
14 2 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.14%) JCL
15 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (9.27%) Degree
2 36 (4.98%) TOGAF Certification
3 33 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 17 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.11%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.41%) APMP
10 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.41%) PMP
10 3 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.19%) QA
2 15 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.69%) GDPR
6 4 (0.55%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (0.28%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.28%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.28%) 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 46 (6.36%) Docker
2 26 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.41%) Firmware
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) etcd
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (10.51%) Terraform
2 59 (8.16%) Ansible
2 59 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.18%) Progress Chef
4 15 (2.07%) Rancher
5 9 (1.24%) Kibana
6 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.97%) Grafana
8 6 (0.83%) Puppet
8 6 (0.83%) SCCM
9 3 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.41%) Packer
10 2 (0.28%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 81 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.87%) Google
3 22 (3.04%) IBM
4 14 (1.94%) VMware
5 12 (1.66%) Xamarin
6 10 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.97%) Databricks
7 7 (0.97%) Oracle
7 7 (0.97%) Splunk
8 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.83%) YouTube
9 5 (0.69%) NEC
10 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.55%) SAP
11 3 (0.41%) Apple
12 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.28%) QNX
12 2 (0.28%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.14%) New Relic
13 1 (0.14%) Thales