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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,094 8,099 21,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.90% 8.34% 12.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 8.72% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,245 5,106 8,104
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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 29 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 29 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 4,377 £62,500 -3.85% 734
England -27 3,687 £70,000 -6.67% 1,233
Scotland +33 2,091 £65,000 -6.40% 67
Work from Home -16 1,964 £67,500 -10.00% 749
London -15 1,425 £85,000 +5.59% 576
North of England -19 677 £62,500 -6.02% 243
South East -31 622 £64,000 -5.19% 124
South West 0 446 £65,000 - 112
North West -12 388 £62,500 -10.00% 148
Midlands -21 345 £62,500 -3.85% 100
West Midlands -7 237 £65,000 - 75
Yorkshire -23 213 £60,000 -7.69% 67
East Midlands -37 107 £60,000 -4.00% 25
East of England -62 99 £60,000 -14.29% 63
Wales -5 84 £55,000 - 20
North East +6 76 £63,500 +10.43% 30
Northern Ireland -41 12 £58,800 +23.79% 21
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
1 609 (9.99%) Apache Spark
2 253 (4.15%) Apache
3 188 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.61%) FileNet
5 93 (1.53%) Confluence
6 56 (0.92%) nginx
7 55 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 49 (0.80%) IIS
9 42 (0.69%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
13 21 (0.34%) GemFire
14 19 (0.31%) Camunda
15 16 (0.26%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.26%) WordPress
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 10 (0.16%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.098%) 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 (0.11%) 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 2,860 (46.93%) AWS
2 2,173 (35.66%) Azure
3 894 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (9.75%) GCP
5 523 (8.58%) Serverless
6 407 (6.68%) GitHub
7 314 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 290 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 282 (4.63%) SaaS
10 237 (3.89%) Power Platform
11 216 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
12 209 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
13 195 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
14 190 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 181 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
16 176 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
17 159 (2.61%) PaaS
18 153 (2.51%) Datadog
19 149 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
20 136 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 146 (2.40%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 874 (14.34%) NoSQL
2 536 (8.80%) Big Data
3 421 (6.91%) SQL Server
4 285 (4.68%) Hadoop
5 262 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 257 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
7 247 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
8 231 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 191 (3.13%) MySQL
10 189 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
10 189 (3.10%) MongoDB
11 181 (2.97%) Data Lake
12 170 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
13 152 (2.49%) Apache Hive
14 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
15 119 (1.95%) DynamoDB
15 119 (1.95%) Power BI
16 113 (1.85%) Looker
17 108 (1.77%) Metadata
18 100 (1.64%) HBase
Development Applications
1 994 (16.31%) Jenkins
2 873 (14.33%) Git
3 438 (7.19%) GitLab
4 317 (5.20%) JIRA
5 293 (4.81%) JUnit
6 205 (3.36%) Selenium
7 146 (2.40%) Bitbucket
7 146 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 141 (2.31%) Cypress.io
9 130 (2.13%) Postman
10 127 (2.08%) CircleCI
11 119 (1.95%) Artifactory
12 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
13 92 (1.51%) TeamCity
14 89 (1.46%) Bitbucket Server
15 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
16 80 (1.31%) Visual Studio
17 76 (1.25%) Maven
18 64 (1.05%) JMeter
19 63 (1.03%) Protractor
General
1 2,689 (44.13%) Finance
2 2,166 (35.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,064 (33.87%) Law
4 1,116 (18.31%) Social Skills
5 1,015 (16.66%) Marketing
6 740 (12.14%) Legal
7 572 (9.39%) Banking
8 333 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
9 304 (4.99%) Investment Banking
10 287 (4.71%) Public Sector
11 259 (4.25%) Financial Institution
12 168 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 152 (2.49%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.21%) Billing
15 74 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 61 (1.00%) Private Banking
16 61 (1.00%) Retail Banking
17 56 (0.92%) Front Office
18 51 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,099 (34.44%) Software Engineer
2 1,196 (19.63%) Developer
3 1,125 (18.46%) Lead
4 1,017 (16.69%) Senior
5 707 (11.60%) Java Engineer
6 689 (11.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 679 (11.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 593 (9.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 488 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
10 481 (7.89%) Data Engineer
11 384 (6.30%) Python Engineer
12 374 (6.14%) Senior Developer
13 348 (5.71%) Big Data Engineer
14 346 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
15 332 (5.45%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 319 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
16 319 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
17 305 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
18 279 (4.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 277 (4.55%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 925 (15.18%) React
2 792 (13.00%) Spring
3 786 (12.90%) .NET
4 554 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 523 (8.58%) Kafka
6 505 (8.29%) HTML
7 493 (8.09%) Node.js
8 464 (7.61%) CSS
9 439 (7.20%) Spring Boot
10 418 (6.86%) REST
11 414 (6.79%) RESTful
12 363 (5.96%) JSON
13 294 (4.82%) Web Services
14 284 (4.66%) J2EE
15 236 (3.87%) GraphQL
16 214 (3.51%) .NET Core
17 210 (3.45%) .NET Framework
18 209 (3.43%) Hibernate
19 207 (3.40%) PySpark
20 194 (3.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 911 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 844 (13.85%) Algorithms
3 347 (5.69%) Product Ownership
4 344 (5.64%) Public Cloud
5 241 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 226 (3.71%) Onboarding
7 219 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
8 193 (3.17%) Data Structures
9 125 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 125 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 107 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 107 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 86 (1.41%) Market Risk
12 84 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 81 (1.33%) 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
1 703 (11.54%) Linux
2 267 (4.38%) Windows
3 188 (3.09%) Unix
4 88 (1.44%) Android
5 76 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 53 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.77%) Debian
9 41 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 20 (0.33%) VMS
12 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.18%) Solaris
13 11 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,818 (62.65%) Agile
2 2,957 (48.52%) Software Engineering
3 2,546 (41.78%) DevOps
4 2,167 (35.56%) SDLC
5 1,585 (26.01%) Operational Stability
6 1,492 (24.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,452 (23.83%) Machine Learning
8 1,307 (21.45%) Community of Practice
9 1,113 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,058 (17.36%) Microservices
11 1,005 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
12 890 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 872 (14.31%) Visualisation
14 859 (14.10%) Test Automation
15 816 (13.39%) Continuous Delivery
16 796 (13.06%) TDD
17 780 (12.80%) Full Stack Development
18 729 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
19 718 (11.78%) Risk Management
20 677 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,216 (36.36%) Java
2 1,903 (31.23%) Python
3 1,689 (27.72%) SQL
4 982 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 906 (14.87%) C#
6 576 (9.45%) TypeScript
7 369 (6.06%) Scala
8 350 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 324 (5.32%) Go
10 291 (4.78%) Bash
11 153 (2.51%) PL/SQL
12 148 (2.43%) Kotlin
13 118 (1.94%) PHP
14 97 (1.59%) Bicep
14 97 (1.59%) Ruby
15 96 (1.58%) C++
16 93 (1.53%) Shell Script
17 87 (1.43%) C
18 65 (1.07%) Prolog
18 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 534 (8.76%) Degree
2 511 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 307 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 300 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 191 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 176 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 121 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 114 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 51 (0.84%) 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 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 418 (6.86%) QA
2 158 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 92 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 75 (1.23%) SLA
5 57 (0.94%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.54%) NIST
8 21 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.31%) PMO
10 13 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.18%) PSD2
12 10 (0.16%) WCAG
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.098%) NCSC
15 5 (0.082%) GRC
15 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.066%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.049%) EMIR
17 3 (0.049%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,274 (20.91%) Docker
2 166 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 113 (1.85%) HDFS
3 113 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 32 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.21%) vSphere
9 12 (0.20%) Firmware
10 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
11 8 (0.13%) Ceph
11 8 (0.13%) KVM
12 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.066%) Xen
14 3 (0.049%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,596 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 1,373 (22.53%) Terraform
3 453 (7.43%) Ansible
4 287 (4.71%) Grafana
5 171 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 114 (1.87%) Puppet
7 72 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 61 (1.00%) Kibana
9 47 (0.77%) HAProxy
10 41 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.56%) Istio
12 31 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 25 (0.41%) Packer
14 25 (0.41%) SCCM
15 21 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.34%) Nagios
15 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 761 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 412 (6.76%) Oracle
3 382 (6.27%) Databricks
4 301 (4.94%) Google
5 233 (3.82%) Splunk
6 193 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 98 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 90 (1.48%) VMware
9 89 (1.46%) Informatica
10 81 (1.33%) Cloudera
11 75 (1.23%) IBM
12 73 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 60 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
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