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

6 months to
15 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 6,059 8,378 19,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 8.40% 12.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 8.79% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 5,341 8,143
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 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
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 15 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 15 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 4,355 £62,500 -3.85% 670
England -27 3,636 £70,000 -6.67% 1,109
Scotland +32 2,116 £65,000 -3.70% 77
Work from Home -16 1,954 £67,500 -10.00% 710
London -18 1,420 £85,000 +5.86% 511
North of England -12 651 £62,500 -3.85% 200
South East -35 615 £64,000 -8.57% 121
South West +1 436 £65,000 - 121
North West -5 379 £62,500 -10.00% 128
Midlands -16 350 £63,750 -1.92% 81
West Midlands 0 249 £65,000 - 59
Yorkshire -24 198 £60,000 -7.69% 50
East Midlands -37 100 £60,000 -11.11% 21
East of England -70 93 £62,500 -10.71% 46
Wales +2 83 £55,000 +4.76% 26
North East +2 74 £63,000 +9.57% 24
Northern Ireland -39 10 £61,250 +25.64% 13
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 (10.15%) Apache Spark
2 254 (4.19%) Apache
3 193 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 97 (1.60%) Confluence
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
6 57 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 55 (0.91%) IIS
8 43 (0.71%) CMS
9 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 20 (0.33%) Camunda
13 19 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
14 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.26%) WordPress
16 15 (0.25%) 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 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) 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
5 3 (0.050%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
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 (1.04%) 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 2,853 (47.09%) AWS
2 2,116 (34.92%) Azure
3 886 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
4 576 (9.51%) GCP
5 541 (8.93%) Serverless
6 411 (6.78%) GitHub
7 323 (5.33%) Amazon S3
8 304 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
9 294 (4.85%) SaaS
10 233 (3.85%) Power Platform
11 222 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 219 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
13 201 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
14 180 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 178 (2.94%) PaaS
16 174 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
17 173 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
18 154 (2.54%) Datadog
19 149 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
20 133 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 151 (2.49%) Firewall
2 111 (1.83%) DNS
3 77 (1.27%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 62 (1.02%) VPN
6 51 (0.84%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.59%) 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
13 17 (0.28%) SSL
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
15 14 (0.23%) PBX
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
16 11 (0.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 879 (14.51%) NoSQL
2 548 (9.04%) Big Data
3 407 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 292 (4.82%) Hadoop
5 257 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
5 257 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 250 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
7 233 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
8 195 (3.22%) MySQL
9 193 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 193 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 181 (2.99%) Data Lake
11 169 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
12 157 (2.59%) Apache Hive
13 133 (2.20%) BigQuery
14 120 (1.98%) DynamoDB
15 118 (1.95%) Power BI
16 113 (1.86%) Looker
17 105 (1.73%) Metadata
18 103 (1.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,018 (16.80%) Jenkins
2 863 (14.24%) Git
3 422 (6.96%) GitLab
4 311 (5.13%) JIRA
5 294 (4.85%) JUnit
6 212 (3.50%) Selenium
7 161 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 152 (2.51%) Bitbucket
9 144 (2.38%) Cypress.io
10 138 (2.28%) Postman
11 125 (2.06%) Artifactory
12 121 (2.00%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 96 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 93 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 77 (1.27%) Visual Studio
18 74 (1.22%) Maven
19 66 (1.09%) JMeter
20 65 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,726 (44.99%) Finance
2 2,189 (36.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,097 (34.61%) Law
4 1,084 (17.89%) Social Skills
5 1,036 (17.10%) Marketing
6 741 (12.23%) Legal
7 588 (9.70%) Banking
8 336 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
9 310 (5.12%) Investment Banking
10 269 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.34%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (2.51%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 68 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
18 59 (0.97%) Front Office
18 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,099 (34.64%) Software Engineer
2 1,168 (19.28%) Developer
3 1,131 (18.67%) Lead
4 979 (16.16%) Senior
5 712 (11.75%) Java Engineer
6 694 (11.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 676 (11.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 592 (9.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 509 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 487 (8.04%) Data Engineer
11 385 (6.35%) Python Engineer
12 358 (5.91%) Senior Developer
13 356 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
14 349 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 324 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 318 (5.25%) Full Stack Engineer
18 310 (5.12%) AWS Software Engineer
19 283 (4.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 279 (4.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (15.07%) React
2 799 (13.19%) Spring
3 754 (12.44%) .NET
4 548 (9.04%) AngularJS
5 528 (8.71%) Kafka
6 497 (8.20%) HTML
7 469 (7.74%) Node.js
8 454 (7.49%) CSS
9 444 (7.33%) Spring Boot
10 420 (6.93%) REST
11 403 (6.65%) RESTful
12 368 (6.07%) JSON
13 292 (4.82%) J2EE
14 287 (4.74%) Web Services
15 227 (3.75%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.52%) PySpark
17 212 (3.50%) .NET Core
18 207 (3.42%) Hibernate
19 203 (3.35%) .NET Framework
20 192 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 902 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 846 (13.96%) Algorithms
3 363 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 341 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 223 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 210 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 131 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 112 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
15 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
16 70 (1.16%) IoT
17 68 (1.12%) Blockchain
18 60 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.73%) Linux
2 276 (4.56%) Windows
3 189 (3.12%) Unix
4 89 (1.47%) Android
5 75 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 58 (0.96%) CentOS
7 54 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.78%) Debian
9 45 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) 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 3,815 (62.96%) Agile
2 2,956 (48.79%) Software Engineering
3 2,522 (41.62%) DevOps
4 2,185 (36.06%) SDLC
5 1,609 (26.56%) Operational Stability
6 1,497 (24.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,456 (24.03%) Machine Learning
8 1,314 (21.69%) Community of Practice
9 1,103 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,052 (17.36%) Microservices
11 999 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
12 877 (14.47%) Visualisation
13 871 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 846 (13.96%) Test Automation
15 823 (13.58%) Continuous Delivery
16 786 (12.97%) TDD
17 749 (12.36%) Full Stack Development
18 726 (11.98%) Risk Management
19 718 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
20 665 (10.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,235 (36.89%) Java
2 1,902 (31.39%) Python
3 1,696 (27.99%) SQL
4 961 (15.86%) JavaScript
5 880 (14.52%) C#
6 565 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 365 (6.02%) Scala
8 332 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 326 (5.38%) Go
10 298 (4.92%) Bash
11 156 (2.57%) PL/SQL
12 131 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 122 (2.01%) PHP
14 96 (1.58%) Ruby
15 95 (1.57%) Bicep
16 94 (1.55%) Shell Script
17 87 (1.44%) C++
18 84 (1.39%) C
19 65 (1.07%) Prolog
19 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 526 (8.68%) Degree
2 477 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 294 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 281 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 175 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 160 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 117 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 112 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 71 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 47 (0.78%) CISSP
14 45 (0.74%) MCSE
15 42 (0.69%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (6.87%) QA
2 156 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 86 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.22%) SLA
5 53 (0.87%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 18 (0.30%) 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%) EMIR
16 2 (0.033%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,246 (20.56%) Docker
2 165 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 98 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 43 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.26%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,574 (25.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,351 (22.30%) Terraform
3 427 (7.05%) Ansible
4 292 (4.82%) Grafana
5 173 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 120 (1.98%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 65 (1.07%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 45 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 31 (0.51%) 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%) Nagios
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 749 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.83%) Oracle
3 384 (6.34%) Databricks
4 294 (4.85%) Google
5 232 (3.83%) Splunk
6 197 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 100 (1.65%) VMware
8 99 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 90 (1.49%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 76 (1.25%) IBM
12 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
12 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
13 40 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.51%) Cisco
14 31 (0.51%) Sybase
15 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
16 24 (0.40%) Facebook
17 22 (0.36%) Pega