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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,057 8,994 18,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.18% 8.59% 12.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 8.99% 12.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,259 5,717 8,300
10th Percentile £43,750 £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 £93,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 4,321 £62,500 -3.85% 675
England -27 3,643 £70,000 -6.67% 1,090
Scotland +27 2,099 £65,000 -3.70% 74
Work from Home -16 2,000 £70,000 -6.04% 660
London -18 1,448 £85,000 +3.03% 489
North of England -18 636 £62,500 -3.85% 187
South East -29 614 £64,000 -8.57% 137
South West -2 423 £62,500 -3.85% 111
North West -3 369 £62,500 -7.41% 114
Midlands -18 357 £65,000 - 78
West Midlands +3 256 £65,000 - 52
Yorkshire -30 196 £65,000 - 57
East Midlands -37 103 £60,000 -11.11% 26
East of England -73 96 £62,500 -16.67% 59
Wales +8 88 £55,000 - 23
North East -1 71 £62,891 +9.38% 18
Northern Ireland -37 11 £61,250 +28.95% 21
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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
1 618 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 261 (4.31%) Apache
3 191 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 106 (1.75%) Confluence
5 96 (1.58%) FileNet
6 60 (0.99%) IIS
7 59 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 57 (0.94%) nginx
9 48 (0.79%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 18 (0.30%) WordPress
15 17 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
15 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.20%) 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
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 66 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Magento
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,824 (46.62%) AWS
2 2,110 (34.84%) Azure
3 910 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
4 569 (9.39%) GCP
5 550 (9.08%) Serverless
6 424 (7.00%) GitHub
7 330 (5.45%) Amazon S3
8 309 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 305 (5.04%) SaaS
10 234 (3.86%) Power Platform
11 230 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
12 229 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
13 206 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
13 206 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 186 (3.07%) PaaS
15 178 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
16 169 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
17 151 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
18 145 (2.39%) Datadog
19 135 (2.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.46%) Firewall
2 110 (1.82%) DNS
3 79 (1.30%) WAN
4 67 (1.11%) VPN
5 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 55 (0.91%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 35 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 34 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.45%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 19 (0.31%) BGP
13 18 (0.30%) DSL
14 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 17 (0.28%) PBX
15 15 (0.25%) MQTT
16 14 (0.23%) NGFW
16 14 (0.23%) SSL
17 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 878 (14.50%) NoSQL
2 554 (9.15%) Big Data
3 404 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 292 (4.82%) Hadoop
5 264 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
6 257 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 248 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
8 232 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 214 (3.53%) MySQL
10 193 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
11 183 (3.02%) Data Lake
11 183 (3.02%) MongoDB
12 167 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
13 156 (2.58%) Apache Hive
14 137 (2.26%) BigQuery
15 121 (2.00%) Power BI
16 120 (1.98%) Looker
17 109 (1.80%) DynamoDB
18 106 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
19 103 (1.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,067 (17.62%) Jenkins
2 843 (13.92%) Git
3 414 (6.84%) GitLab
4 323 (5.33%) JIRA
5 292 (4.82%) JUnit
6 227 (3.75%) Selenium
7 181 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 155 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 153 (2.53%) Postman
10 145 (2.39%) Cypress.io
11 134 (2.21%) Artifactory
12 116 (1.92%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 99 (1.63%) TeamCity
15 96 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 75 (1.24%) Maven
17 75 (1.24%) Visual Studio
18 69 (1.14%) JMeter
19 63 (1.04%) Protractor
General
1 2,732 (45.10%) Finance
2 2,166 (35.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,073 (34.22%) Law
4 1,050 (17.34%) Social Skills
5 1,030 (17.01%) Marketing
6 735 (12.13%) Legal
7 598 (9.87%) Banking
8 348 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
9 314 (5.18%) Investment Banking
10 261 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 255 (4.21%) Public Sector
12 180 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
13 157 (2.59%) Retail
14 74 (1.22%) Billing
14 74 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 64 (1.06%) Front Office
15 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
16 55 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 53 (0.88%) Retail Banking
18 51 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,055 (33.93%) Software Engineer
2 1,165 (19.23%) Developer
3 1,127 (18.61%) Lead
4 970 (16.01%) Senior
5 701 (11.57%) Java Engineer
6 693 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 685 (11.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 574 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
9 509 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 480 (7.92%) Data Engineer
11 378 (6.24%) Python Engineer
12 356 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
13 351 (5.79%) Senior Developer
14 341 (5.63%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 315 (5.20%) Full Stack Engineer
17 308 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
18 301 (4.97%) AWS Software Engineer
19 282 (4.66%) Architect
20 278 (4.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 888 (14.66%) React
2 788 (13.01%) Spring
3 745 (12.30%) .NET
4 554 (9.15%) AngularJS
5 529 (8.73%) Kafka
6 485 (8.01%) HTML
7 449 (7.41%) Node.js
8 447 (7.38%) CSS
9 442 (7.30%) Spring Boot
10 440 (7.26%) REST
11 390 (6.44%) RESTful
12 382 (6.31%) JSON
13 296 (4.89%) J2EE
14 282 (4.66%) Web Services
15 215 (3.55%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.52%) .NET Core
17 210 (3.47%) Hibernate
17 210 (3.47%) PySpark
18 205 (3.38%) .NET Framework
19 193 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 898 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 839 (13.85%) Algorithms
3 368 (6.08%) Public Cloud
4 333 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 216 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 214 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 131 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 120 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 116 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 101 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 84 (1.39%) Market Risk
15 79 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 78 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
17 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
18 68 (1.12%) IoT
19 66 (1.09%) Blockchain
20 62 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 735 (12.13%) Linux
2 293 (4.84%) Windows
3 186 (3.07%) Unix
4 85 (1.40%) Android
5 76 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 52 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 49 (0.81%) Debian
9 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 20 (0.33%) VMS
12 19 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.066%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,808 (62.87%) Agile
2 2,930 (48.37%) Software Engineering
3 2,539 (41.92%) DevOps
4 2,172 (35.86%) SDLC
5 1,593 (26.30%) Operational Stability
6 1,480 (24.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,443 (23.82%) Machine Learning
8 1,290 (21.30%) Community of Practice
9 1,080 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,044 (17.24%) Microservices
11 980 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
12 874 (14.43%) Visualisation
13 863 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 851 (14.05%) Test Automation
15 843 (13.92%) Continuous Delivery
16 770 (12.71%) TDD
17 730 (12.05%) Full Stack Development
18 718 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
19 715 (11.80%) Risk Management
20 678 (11.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,236 (36.92%) Java
2 1,903 (31.42%) Python
3 1,728 (28.53%) SQL
4 968 (15.98%) JavaScript
5 882 (14.56%) C#
6 560 (9.25%) TypeScript
7 366 (6.04%) Scala
8 347 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 325 (5.37%) Go
10 315 (5.20%) Bash
11 158 (2.61%) PL/SQL
12 131 (2.16%) PHP
13 118 (1.95%) Kotlin
14 103 (1.70%) Ruby
15 101 (1.67%) Shell Script
16 96 (1.58%) Bicep
17 84 (1.39%) C++
18 77 (1.27%) C
19 69 (1.14%) T-SQL
20 65 (1.07%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 518 (8.55%) Degree
2 477 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 292 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 281 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 167 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 153 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 127 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 112 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 59 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 57 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.76%) MCSE
14 45 (0.74%) CISSP
15 42 (0.69%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
18 27 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (6.98%) QA
2 160 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 80 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 72 (1.19%) SLA
5 50 (0.83%) GDPR
6 35 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.26%) 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
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 5 (0.083%) GRC
15 4 (0.066%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 3 (0.050%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.050%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,257 (20.75%) Docker
2 166 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 90 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 49 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 23 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 20 (0.33%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.083%) KVM
14 3 (0.050%) Ceph
14 3 (0.050%) Varnish
14 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.017%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,579 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 1,355 (22.37%) Terraform
3 440 (7.26%) Ansible
4 302 (4.99%) Grafana
5 177 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 125 (2.06%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 67 (1.11%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.54%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (0.43%) Packer
14 24 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Consul
17 20 (0.33%) Salt
17 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 735 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 410 (6.77%) Oracle
3 383 (6.32%) Databricks
4 298 (4.92%) Google
5 231 (3.81%) Splunk
6 195 (3.22%) Dynatrace
7 115 (1.90%) VMware
8 101 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.44%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 77 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 75 (1.24%) IBM
13 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 58 (0.96%) Alteryx
15 38 (0.63%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
17 29 (0.48%) Sybase
18 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
19 24 (0.40%) Facebook
19 24 (0.40%) TOWER Software