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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,086 8,154 21,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.93% 8.38% 12.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.04% 8.77% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,245 5,165 8,169
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
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% +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 28 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 28 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 +11 4,369 £62,500 -3.85% 748
England -27 3,679 £70,000 -6.67% 1,243
Scotland +33 2,091 £65,000 -6.40% 67
Work from Home -16 1,965 £67,500 -10.00% 761
London -16 1,424 £85,000 +3.03% 569
North of England -21 671 £62,500 -7.41% 248
South East -33 621 £64,000 -5.19% 128
South West 0 446 £65,000 - 118
North West -15 384 £62,500 -10.00% 150
Midlands -14 345 £62,500 -3.85% 100
West Midlands -12 238 £65,000 - 74
Yorkshire -26 211 £60,000 -7.69% 69
East Midlands -29 106 £60,000 +4.35% 26
East of England -64 98 £61,250 -12.50% 64
Wales -2 84 £55,000 - 19
North East +3 76 £63,500 +10.43% 31
Northern Ireland -42 12 £58,800 +23.79% 20
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
1 611 (10.04%) Apache Spark
2 254 (4.17%) Apache
3 189 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.61%) FileNet
5 93 (1.53%) Confluence
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
7 56 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 50 (0.82%) IIS
9 42 (0.69%) CMS
10 38 (0.62%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
13 21 (0.35%) GemFire
14 19 (0.31%) Camunda
15 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 16 (0.26%) WordPress
17 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
18 11 (0.18%) CICS
19 10 (0.16%) Tomcat
20 8 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 22 (0.36%) 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%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.016%) Blender
7 1 (0.016%) Notion
7 1 (0.016%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.016%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 8 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.049%) Magento
8 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,852 (46.86%) AWS
2 2,170 (35.66%) Azure
3 895 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (9.76%) GCP
5 523 (8.59%) Serverless
6 406 (6.67%) GitHub
7 315 (5.18%) Amazon S3
8 289 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 279 (4.58%) SaaS
10 238 (3.91%) Power Platform
11 214 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
12 210 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
13 196 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
14 188 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 182 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
16 172 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
17 165 (2.71%) PaaS
18 153 (2.51%) Datadog
19 150 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
20 135 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.42%) Firewall
2 109 (1.79%) DNS
3 76 (1.25%) WAN
4 65 (1.07%) Kerberos
5 58 (0.95%) VPN
6 50 (0.82%) Network Security
7 47 (0.77%) HTTP
8 37 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 27 (0.44%) DHCP
11 21 (0.35%) Internet
12 17 (0.28%) DSL
12 17 (0.28%) LAN
12 17 (0.28%) SSL
13 16 (0.26%) BGP
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
1 875 (14.38%) NoSQL
2 537 (8.82%) Big Data
3 420 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 286 (4.70%) Hadoop
5 260 (4.27%) Relational Database
6 258 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
7 249 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
8 231 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 190 (3.12%) MongoDB
10 189 (3.11%) MySQL
11 188 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
12 179 (2.94%) Data Lake
13 170 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
14 152 (2.50%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
16 120 (1.97%) Power BI
17 119 (1.96%) DynamoDB
18 113 (1.86%) Looker
19 108 (1.77%) Metadata
20 100 (1.64%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,002 (16.46%) Jenkins
2 871 (14.31%) Git
3 437 (7.18%) GitLab
4 319 (5.24%) JIRA
5 292 (4.80%) JUnit
6 206 (3.38%) Selenium
7 148 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 146 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 142 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 130 (2.14%) Postman
11 125 (2.05%) CircleCI
12 119 (1.96%) Artifactory
13 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
14 92 (1.51%) TeamCity
15 89 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 80 (1.31%) Visual Studio
18 75 (1.23%) Maven
19 64 (1.05%) JMeter
20 63 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,694 (44.27%) Finance
2 2,167 (35.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,066 (33.95%) Law
4 1,112 (18.27%) Social Skills
5 1,017 (16.71%) Marketing
6 739 (12.14%) Legal
7 576 (9.46%) Banking
8 333 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
9 304 (5.00%) Investment Banking
10 285 (4.68%) Public Sector
11 259 (4.26%) Financial Institution
12 168 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 151 (2.48%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
15 74 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.00%) Private Banking
16 61 (1.00%) Retail Banking
17 56 (0.92%) Front Office
18 50 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,099 (34.49%) Software Engineer
2 1,190 (19.55%) Developer
3 1,119 (18.39%) Lead
4 1,011 (16.61%) Senior
5 707 (11.62%) Java Engineer
6 689 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
7 675 (11.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 592 (9.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 488 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
10 481 (7.90%) Data Engineer
11 383 (6.29%) Python Engineer
12 370 (6.08%) Senior Developer
13 349 (5.73%) Big Data Engineer
14 346 (5.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 332 (5.46%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 323 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
17 319 (5.24%) Full Stack Engineer
18 306 (5.03%) AWS Software Engineer
19 279 (4.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 278 (4.57%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (15.12%) React
2 791 (13.00%) Spring
3 781 (12.83%) .NET
4 555 (9.12%) AngularJS
5 525 (8.63%) Kafka
6 502 (8.25%) HTML
7 491 (8.07%) Node.js
8 462 (7.59%) CSS
9 440 (7.23%) Spring Boot
10 419 (6.88%) REST
11 413 (6.79%) RESTful
12 365 (6.00%) JSON
13 294 (4.83%) Web Services
14 284 (4.67%) J2EE
15 235 (3.86%) GraphQL
16 212 (3.48%) .NET Core
17 208 (3.42%) .NET Framework
17 208 (3.42%) PySpark
18 207 (3.40%) Hibernate
19 195 (3.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 911 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 843 (13.85%) Algorithms
3 351 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 347 (5.70%) Public Cloud
5 241 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 226 (3.71%) Onboarding
7 217 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 193 (3.17%) Data Structures
9 126 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 126 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 108 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 105 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 86 (1.41%) Market Risk
13 83 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Private Cloud
15 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
16 70 (1.15%) IoT
17 68 (1.12%) Blockchain
18 58 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 699 (11.49%) Linux
2 268 (4.40%) Windows
3 188 (3.09%) Unix
4 88 (1.45%) Android
5 76 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 53 (0.87%) 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 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,826 (62.87%) Agile
2 2,955 (48.55%) Software Engineering
3 2,543 (41.78%) DevOps
4 2,167 (35.61%) SDLC
5 1,586 (26.06%) Operational Stability
6 1,491 (24.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,451 (23.84%) Machine Learning
8 1,307 (21.48%) Community of Practice
9 1,114 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,058 (17.38%) Microservices
11 1,004 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
12 892 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 872 (14.33%) Visualisation
14 861 (14.15%) Test Automation
15 817 (13.42%) Continuous Delivery
16 796 (13.08%) TDD
17 776 (12.75%) Full Stack Development
18 728 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
19 718 (11.80%) Risk Management
20 680 (11.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,215 (36.40%) Java
2 1,905 (31.30%) Python
3 1,683 (27.65%) SQL
4 984 (16.17%) JavaScript
5 904 (14.85%) C#
6 572 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 371 (6.10%) Scala
8 348 (5.72%) PowerShell
9 324 (5.32%) Go
10 292 (4.80%) Bash
11 152 (2.50%) PL/SQL
12 148 (2.43%) Kotlin
13 117 (1.92%) PHP
14 97 (1.59%) Bicep
14 97 (1.59%) Ruby
15 95 (1.56%) C++
16 94 (1.54%) Shell Script
17 86 (1.41%) C
18 65 (1.07%) Prolog
18 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 535 (8.79%) Degree
2 515 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 310 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 301 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (3.12%) Azure Certification
6 176 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 122 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 114 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 50 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 48 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (0.79%) CISSP
13 43 (0.71%) MCSA
13 43 (0.71%) MCSE
14 38 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 29 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (6.88%) QA
2 158 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 91 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 75 (1.23%) SLA
5 55 (0.90%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.54%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.31%) PMO
10 12 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.18%) PSD2
12 10 (0.16%) WCAG
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.099%) NCSC
15 5 (0.082%) GRC
15 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.049%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.049%) Software Quality Assurance
17 2 (0.033%) EMIR
System Software
1 1,274 (20.93%) Docker
2 165 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 113 (1.86%) HDFS
4 112 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 39 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 21 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.21%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 8 (0.13%) Ceph
12 8 (0.13%) KVM
13 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.066%) Xen
15 3 (0.049%) Varnish
15 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 1 (0.016%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,596 (26.22%) Kubernetes
2 1,375 (22.59%) Terraform
3 453 (7.44%) Ansible
4 288 (4.73%) Grafana
5 172 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 112 (1.84%) Puppet
7 70 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 61 (1.00%) Kibana
9 48 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.56%) Istio
12 33 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 25 (0.41%) Packer
14 25 (0.41%) SCCM
15 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.35%) Nagios
15 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 763 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 410 (6.74%) Oracle
3 381 (6.26%) Databricks
4 302 (4.96%) Google
5 233 (3.83%) Splunk
6 193 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 98 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 91 (1.50%) VMware
9 89 (1.46%) Informatica
10 81 (1.33%) Cloudera
11 75 (1.23%) IBM
12 73 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
14 58 (0.95%) Salesforce
15 55 (0.90%) ServiceNow
16 32 (0.53%) Cisco
17 30 (0.49%) Sybase
18 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
19 24 (0.39%) Facebook
20 23 (0.38%) CyberArk