CI/CD
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,070 7,839 21,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.77% 8.27% 12.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 8.66% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 5,065 8,099
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CI/CD 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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 4,349 £62,500 -3.85% 756
England -27 3,696 £70,000 -6.67% 1,306
Scotland +32 2,056 £65,000 -6.40% 68
Work from Home -15 1,970 £67,500 -10.00% 740
London -15 1,430 £85,000 +5.86% 632
North of England -22 685 £62,500 -7.41% 226
South East -32 623 £64,000 -5.19% 146
South West -1 443 £65,000 - 110
North West -16 395 £62,500 -10.00% 143
Midlands -21 345 £62,500 -3.85% 109
West Midlands -16 236 £65,000 - 79
Yorkshire -21 213 £60,000 -7.69% 57
East Midlands -31 108 £60,000 - 30
East of England -70 98 £61,250 -12.50% 61
Wales -5 85 £55,000 +2.33% 22
North East -2 77 £64,000 +11.30% 26
Northern Ireland -37 13 £64,400 +35.58% 24
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

CI/CD
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
1 601 (9.90%) Apache Spark
2 250 (4.12%) Apache
3 187 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.61%) FileNet
5 96 (1.58%) Confluence
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
7 55 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 46 (0.76%) IIS
9 41 (0.68%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
13 21 (0.35%) GemFire
14 18 (0.30%) Camunda
15 17 (0.28%) WordPress
16 16 (0.26%) Jupyter
16 16 (0.26%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
17 11 (0.18%) Tomcat
18 8 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.082%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.049%) Simulink
5 3 (0.049%) Sketch
5 3 (0.049%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.016%) Blender
7 1 (0.016%) Notion
7 1 (0.016%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,844 (46.85%) AWS
2 2,172 (35.78%) Azure
3 893 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 593 (9.77%) GCP
5 519 (8.55%) Serverless
6 405 (6.67%) GitHub
7 312 (5.14%) Amazon S3
8 287 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
9 286 (4.71%) SaaS
10 240 (3.95%) Power Platform
11 215 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
12 209 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
13 194 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
14 189 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 179 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
16 176 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
17 156 (2.57%) PaaS
18 153 (2.52%) Datadog
19 149 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
20 138 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.42%) Firewall
2 108 (1.78%) DNS
3 75 (1.24%) WAN
4 65 (1.07%) Kerberos
5 59 (0.97%) VPN
6 50 (0.82%) Network Security
7 47 (0.77%) HTTP
8 38 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 27 (0.44%) DHCP
11 20 (0.33%) Internet
12 17 (0.28%) LAN
12 17 (0.28%) SSL
13 16 (0.26%) BGP
13 16 (0.26%) DSL
13 16 (0.26%) MQTT
14 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.18%) MPLS
15 10 (0.16%) PBX
16 9 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 865 (14.25%) NoSQL
2 523 (8.62%) Big Data
3 419 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 278 (4.58%) Hadoop
5 260 (4.28%) Relational Database
6 258 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 250 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
8 230 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 192 (3.16%) MySQL
10 189 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
11 186 (3.06%) MongoDB
12 181 (2.98%) Data Lake
13 170 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 147 (2.42%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
16 122 (2.01%) Power BI
17 119 (1.96%) DynamoDB
18 112 (1.85%) Looker
19 110 (1.81%) Metadata
20 98 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 990 (16.31%) Jenkins
2 873 (14.38%) Git
3 439 (7.23%) GitLab
4 320 (5.27%) JIRA
5 294 (4.84%) JUnit
6 206 (3.39%) Selenium
7 147 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 145 (2.39%) Cucumber
9 140 (2.31%) Cypress.io
10 131 (2.16%) Postman
11 126 (2.08%) CircleCI
12 119 (1.96%) Artifactory
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 93 (1.53%) TeamCity
15 88 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 79 (1.30%) Visual Studio
18 76 (1.25%) Maven
19 65 (1.07%) JMeter
20 64 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,655 (43.74%) Finance
2 2,140 (35.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,030 (33.44%) Law
4 1,117 (18.40%) Social Skills
5 993 (16.36%) Marketing
6 733 (12.08%) Legal
7 565 (9.31%) Banking
8 330 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
9 300 (4.94%) Investment Banking
10 290 (4.78%) Public Sector
11 253 (4.17%) Financial Institution
12 164 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 154 (2.54%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 71 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 61 (1.00%) Retail Banking
18 58 (0.96%) Private Banking
19 56 (0.92%) Front Office
20 51 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,074 (34.17%) Software Engineer
2 1,199 (19.75%) Developer
3 1,121 (18.47%) Lead
4 1,020 (16.80%) Senior
5 697 (11.48%) Java Engineer
6 679 (11.19%) Java Software Engineer
7 674 (11.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 586 (9.65%) Lead Software Engineer
9 481 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
10 477 (7.86%) Data Engineer
11 380 (6.26%) Python Engineer
12 374 (6.16%) Senior Developer
13 342 (5.63%) Python Software Engineer
14 339 (5.58%) Big Data Engineer
15 323 (5.32%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 313 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
16 313 (5.16%) Full Stack Engineer
17 299 (4.93%) AWS Software Engineer
18 282 (4.65%) Architect
19 273 (4.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 927 (15.27%) React
2 789 (13.00%) .NET
3 786 (12.95%) Spring
4 550 (9.06%) AngularJS
5 521 (8.58%) Kafka
6 506 (8.34%) HTML
7 498 (8.20%) Node.js
8 464 (7.64%) CSS
9 434 (7.15%) Spring Boot
10 418 (6.89%) REST
11 414 (6.82%) RESTful
12 364 (6.00%) JSON
13 295 (4.86%) Web Services
14 282 (4.65%) J2EE
15 236 (3.89%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.51%) .NET Core
17 211 (3.48%) .NET Framework
17 211 (3.48%) PySpark
18 210 (3.46%) Hibernate
19 192 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 903 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 835 (13.76%) Algorithms
3 342 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 332 (5.47%) Public Cloud
5 240 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 225 (3.71%) Onboarding
7 217 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 126 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 125 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 108 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 107 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 85 (1.40%) Market Risk
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
15 78 (1.29%) Private Cloud
16 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
17 70 (1.15%) IoT
18 68 (1.12%) Blockchain
19 59 (0.97%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 699 (11.52%) Linux
2 267 (4.40%) Windows
3 185 (3.05%) Unix
4 89 (1.47%) Android
5 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 54 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.77%) Debian
9 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
9 40 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (0.33%) VMS
11 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.18%) Solaris
12 11 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,803 (62.65%) Agile
2 2,927 (48.22%) Software Engineering
3 2,551 (42.03%) DevOps
4 2,139 (35.24%) SDLC
5 1,558 (25.67%) Operational Stability
6 1,476 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,434 (23.62%) Machine Learning
8 1,289 (21.24%) Community of Practice
9 1,103 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,058 (17.43%) Microservices
11 1,003 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
12 889 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 861 (14.18%) Test Automation
13 861 (14.18%) Visualisation
14 812 (13.38%) Continuous Delivery
15 800 (13.18%) TDD
16 779 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
17 741 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
18 709 (11.68%) Risk Management
19 679 (11.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,190 (36.08%) Java
2 1,895 (31.22%) Python
3 1,668 (27.48%) SQL
4 983 (16.19%) JavaScript
5 907 (14.94%) C#
6 572 (9.42%) TypeScript
7 363 (5.98%) Scala
8 355 (5.85%) PowerShell
9 325 (5.35%) Go
10 291 (4.79%) Bash
11 152 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 148 (2.44%) PL/SQL
13 120 (1.98%) PHP
14 99 (1.63%) C++
15 97 (1.60%) Bicep
15 97 (1.60%) Ruby
16 91 (1.50%) Shell Script
17 87 (1.43%) C
18 65 (1.07%) Prolog
18 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 529 (8.71%) Degree
2 515 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 313 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 299 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 174 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 122 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 113 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 51 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 50 (0.82%) CISSP
13 48 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (0.69%) MCSA
14 42 (0.69%) MCSE
15 37 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (6.90%) QA
2 156 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 94 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 71 (1.17%) SLA
5 58 (0.96%) GDPR
6 38 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.54%) NIST
8 21 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.30%) PMO
10 13 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.18%) PSD2
12 10 (0.16%) WCAG
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 6 (0.099%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.082%) GRC
16 4 (0.066%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.049%) EMIR
17 3 (0.049%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,277 (21.04%) Docker
2 168 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 115 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 111 (1.83%) HDFS
5 46 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 40 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 19 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.21%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 8 (0.13%) Ceph
13 8 (0.13%) KVM
14 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.066%) Xen
16 3 (0.049%) Varnish
16 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,593 (26.24%) Kubernetes
2 1,368 (22.54%) Terraform
3 453 (7.46%) Ansible
4 284 (4.68%) Grafana
5 170 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 112 (1.85%) Puppet
7 70 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 62 (1.02%) Kibana
9 46 (0.76%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.56%) Istio
12 30 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 25 (0.41%) Packer
15 24 (0.40%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
17 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 756 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 406 (6.69%) Oracle
3 378 (6.23%) Databricks
4 300 (4.94%) Google
5 233 (3.84%) Splunk
6 193 (3.18%) Dynatrace
7 98 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 90 (1.48%) Informatica
9 88 (1.45%) VMware
10 79 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 74 (1.22%) IBM
12 73 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 58 (0.96%) Alteryx
14 56 (0.92%) Salesforce
14 56 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 32 (0.53%) Cisco
16 29 (0.48%) Sybase
17 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
18 24 (0.40%) CyberArk
18 24 (0.40%) Facebook