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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,028 8,408 19,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 8.38% 12.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 8.76% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 5,382 8,213
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
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 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
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 £96,250
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 14 May 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 14 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 +13 4,337 £62,500 -3.85% 664
England -26 3,607 £70,000 -6.67% 1,132
Scotland +32 2,114 £65,000 -3.80% 73
Work from Home -16 1,938 £67,500 -10.00% 690
London -17 1,407 £85,000 +5.86% 527
North of England -16 647 £62,500 -3.85% 192
South East -35 609 £64,000 -8.57% 126
South West +1 431 £65,000 - 119
North West -5 378 £62,500 -7.41% 120
Midlands -15 351 £65,000 - 84
West Midlands -7 250 £65,000 - 63
Yorkshire -22 197 £65,000 - 51
East Midlands -39 101 £60,000 -11.11% 20
East of England -70 93 £62,500 -10.71% 49
Wales +9 83 £55,000 +4.76% 25
North East +2 72 £63,000 +9.57% 23
Northern Ireland -39 10 £61,250 +25.64% 11
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
1 615 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 253 (4.20%) Apache
3 192 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.63%) FileNet
5 97 (1.61%) Confluence
6 57 (0.95%) nginx
6 57 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 55 (0.91%) IIS
8 42 (0.70%) CMS
9 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 20 (0.33%) Camunda
13 19 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
14 18 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.27%) WordPress
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.100%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.050%) Simulink
5 3 (0.050%) Sketch
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.017%) Blender
7 1 (0.017%) Notion
7 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
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 (0.050%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,830 (46.95%) AWS
2 2,101 (34.85%) Azure
3 881 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
4 570 (9.46%) GCP
5 530 (8.79%) Serverless
6 408 (6.77%) GitHub
7 324 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 294 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 294 (4.88%) SaaS
9 232 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 222 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
11 219 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
12 201 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 179 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 177 (2.94%) PaaS
15 173 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
16 172 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
17 154 (2.55%) Datadog
18 148 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
19 131 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.47%) Firewall
2 110 (1.82%) DNS
3 77 (1.28%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 62 (1.03%) VPN
6 52 (0.86%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.43%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) BGP
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 16 (0.27%) MQTT
14 16 (0.27%) SSL
15 14 (0.23%) PBX
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
16 11 (0.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 875 (14.52%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.11%) Big Data
3 399 (6.62%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.86%) Hadoop
5 257 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 257 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 251 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
7 234 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
8 193 (3.20%) MySQL
9 190 (3.15%) MongoDB
10 183 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
11 181 (3.00%) Data Lake
12 169 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 156 (2.59%) Apache Hive
14 132 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 118 (1.96%) Power BI
16 113 (1.87%) Looker
17 110 (1.82%) DynamoDB
18 105 (1.74%) Metadata
19 103 (1.71%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,014 (16.82%) Jenkins
2 847 (14.05%) Git
3 412 (6.83%) GitLab
4 308 (5.11%) JIRA
5 294 (4.88%) JUnit
6 213 (3.53%) Selenium
7 163 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 151 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 144 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 138 (2.29%) Postman
11 126 (2.09%) Artifactory
12 119 (1.97%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.76%) Jasmine
14 95 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 93 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.36%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.26%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.21%) Maven
19 64 (1.06%) JMeter
19 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,724 (45.19%) Finance
2 2,188 (36.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,096 (34.77%) Law
4 1,067 (17.70%) Social Skills
5 1,035 (17.17%) Marketing
6 740 (12.28%) Legal
7 588 (9.75%) Banking
8 336 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
9 310 (5.14%) Investment Banking
10 267 (4.43%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.36%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (2.52%) Retail
14 76 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.23%) Billing
16 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.05%) Aerospace
18 59 (0.98%) Front Office
18 59 (0.98%) Retail Banking
19 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,088 (34.64%) Software Engineer
2 1,155 (19.16%) Developer
3 1,129 (18.73%) Lead
4 975 (16.17%) Senior
5 712 (11.81%) Java Engineer
6 694 (11.51%) Java Software Engineer
7 673 (11.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 589 (9.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 504 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
10 488 (8.10%) Data Engineer
11 381 (6.32%) Python Engineer
12 357 (5.92%) Big Data Engineer
13 356 (5.91%) Senior Developer
14 346 (5.74%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 317 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 317 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
17 307 (5.09%) AWS Software Engineer
18 282 (4.68%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 278 (4.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (15.05%) React
2 796 (13.21%) Spring
3 744 (12.34%) .NET
4 544 (9.02%) AngularJS
5 527 (8.74%) Kafka
6 492 (8.16%) HTML
7 467 (7.75%) Node.js
8 451 (7.48%) CSS
9 443 (7.35%) Spring Boot
10 419 (6.95%) REST
11 392 (6.50%) RESTful
12 368 (6.10%) JSON
13 292 (4.84%) J2EE
14 286 (4.74%) Web Services
15 217 (3.60%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.53%) PySpark
17 209 (3.47%) .NET Core
18 207 (3.43%) Hibernate
19 201 (3.33%) .NET Framework
20 190 (3.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 901 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 845 (14.02%) Algorithms
3 361 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 339 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 239 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 223 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 207 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.22%) Data Structures
9 129 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 118 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 113 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
16 70 (1.16%) IoT
17 68 (1.13%) Blockchain
18 60 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.79%) Linux
2 277 (4.60%) Windows
3 190 (3.15%) Unix
4 89 (1.48%) Android
5 75 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 58 (0.96%) CentOS
7 54 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.78%) Debian
9 44 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,791 (62.89%) Agile
2 2,939 (48.76%) Software Engineering
3 2,507 (41.59%) DevOps
4 2,183 (36.21%) SDLC
5 1,608 (26.68%) Operational Stability
6 1,495 (24.80%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,452 (24.09%) Machine Learning
8 1,313 (21.78%) Community of Practice
9 1,102 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,047 (17.37%) Microservices
11 979 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
12 876 (14.53%) Visualisation
13 863 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 843 (13.98%) Test Automation
15 821 (13.62%) Continuous Delivery
16 772 (12.81%) TDD
17 730 (12.11%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (12.03%) Risk Management
19 714 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
20 661 (10.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,228 (36.96%) Java
2 1,890 (31.35%) Python
3 1,697 (28.15%) SQL
4 958 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 871 (14.45%) C#
6 564 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 362 (6.01%) Scala
8 331 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 326 (5.41%) Go
10 294 (4.88%) Bash
11 156 (2.59%) PL/SQL
12 127 (2.11%) Kotlin
13 122 (2.02%) PHP
14 98 (1.63%) Ruby
15 95 (1.58%) Bicep
15 95 (1.58%) Shell Script
16 86 (1.43%) C++
17 83 (1.38%) C
18 65 (1.08%) Prolog
18 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 521 (8.64%) Degree
2 474 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 292 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 278 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 175 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 157 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 125 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 115 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 113 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 61 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 47 (0.78%) CISSP
14 45 (0.75%) MCSE
15 42 (0.70%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 30 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (6.82%) QA
2 155 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 86 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.23%) SLA
5 53 (0.88%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 17 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.17%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.083%) GRC
14 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.083%) NCSC
15 3 (0.050%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) MiFID
16 2 (0.033%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,238 (20.54%) Docker
2 165 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.96%) HDFS
4 96 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 43 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.27%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 7 (0.12%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) Varnish
14 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.050%) Xen
15 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,564 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 1,347 (22.35%) Terraform
3 428 (7.10%) Ansible
4 294 (4.88%) Grafana
5 175 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 122 (2.02%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 65 (1.08%) Kibana
9 50 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 30 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) Consul
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
18 19 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 739 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 413 (6.85%) Oracle
3 382 (6.34%) Databricks
4 292 (4.84%) Google
5 231 (3.83%) Splunk
6 197 (3.27%) Dynatrace
7 100 (1.66%) VMware
8 98 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 90 (1.49%) Informatica
10 82 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.26%) IBM
12 74 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 59 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 31 (0.51%) Cisco
15 31 (0.51%) Sybase
16 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
17 24 (0.40%) Facebook
18 22 (0.36%) Pega