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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,066 8,509 19,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 8.40% 12.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 8.78% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,252 5,438 8,182
10th Percentile £44,299 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 4,354 £62,500 -3.85% 658
England -27 3,641 £70,000 -6.67% 1,106
Scotland +32 2,116 £65,000 -3.70% 76
Work from Home -15 1,960 £67,500 -10.00% 646
London -18 1,424 £85,000 +4.62% 504
North of England -14 645 £62,500 -3.85% 187
South East -35 615 £64,000 -8.57% 118
South West -3 433 £65,000 -0.54% 116
North West -8 376 £62,500 -7.41% 114
Midlands -17 357 £62,500 -3.85% 83
West Midlands -1 253 £65,000 - 61
Yorkshire -24 197 £65,000 - 56
East Midlands -36 104 £60,000 -11.11% 21
East of England -64 94 £62,500 -13.19% 54
Wales +4 84 £55,000 +4.76% 23
North East -1 72 £63,000 +10.53% 18
Northern Ireland -36 11 £61,250 +25.64% 16
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
1 614 (10.12%) Apache Spark
2 252 (4.15%) Apache
3 191 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 99 (1.63%) Confluence
5 98 (1.62%) FileNet
6 60 (0.99%) IIS
7 58 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 57 (0.94%) nginx
9 42 (0.69%) 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%) Cloud Foundry
15 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 16 (0.26%) WordPress
17 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
18 11 (0.18%) CICS
19 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
20 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 (0.082%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.049%) Simulink
5 3 (0.049%) Sketch
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
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 64 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
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 2,843 (46.87%) AWS
2 2,121 (34.97%) Azure
3 899 (14.82%) Azure DevOps
4 570 (9.40%) GCP
5 533 (8.79%) Serverless
6 413 (6.81%) GitHub
7 324 (5.34%) Amazon S3
8 298 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
9 297 (4.90%) SaaS
10 233 (3.84%) Power Platform
11 226 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 222 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 203 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 194 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 182 (3.00%) PaaS
16 177 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
17 171 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
18 154 (2.54%) Datadog
19 151 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
20 132 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 151 (2.49%) Firewall
2 112 (1.85%) DNS
3 81 (1.34%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 64 (1.06%) VPN
6 52 (0.86%) Network Security
7 47 (0.77%) HTTP
8 36 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 27 (0.45%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) BGP
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
14 16 (0.26%) SSL
15 15 (0.25%) PBX
16 12 (0.20%) NGFW
17 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 879 (14.49%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.05%) Big Data
3 406 (6.69%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.83%) Hadoop
5 258 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 255 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 253 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 234 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
9 196 (3.23%) MySQL
10 191 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 186 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
12 182 (3.00%) Data Lake
13 171 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.57%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.18%) BigQuery
16 118 (1.95%) Power BI
17 113 (1.86%) Looker
18 109 (1.80%) DynamoDB
19 104 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
20 103 (1.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,039 (17.13%) Jenkins
2 852 (14.05%) Git
3 425 (7.01%) GitLab
4 314 (5.18%) JIRA
5 295 (4.86%) JUnit
6 217 (3.58%) Selenium
7 167 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 153 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 144 (2.37%) Cypress.io
10 142 (2.34%) Postman
11 128 (2.11%) Artifactory
12 121 (1.99%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 96 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 94 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.25%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.20%) Maven
19 66 (1.09%) JMeter
20 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,731 (45.02%) Finance
2 2,188 (36.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,096 (34.55%) Law
4 1,059 (17.46%) Social Skills
5 1,033 (17.03%) Marketing
6 742 (12.23%) Legal
7 588 (9.69%) Banking
8 337 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
9 313 (5.16%) Investment Banking
10 267 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.34%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 150 (2.47%) Retail
14 77 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.04%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.01%) Front Office
19 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,083 (34.34%) Software Engineer
2 1,161 (19.14%) Developer
3 1,133 (18.68%) Lead
4 976 (16.09%) Senior
5 710 (11.70%) Java Engineer
6 695 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 692 (11.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 589 (9.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 509 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
10 489 (8.06%) Data Engineer
11 380 (6.26%) Python Engineer
12 356 (5.87%) Big Data Engineer
13 354 (5.84%) Senior Developer
14 345 (5.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 317 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
16 317 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
17 305 (5.03%) AWS Software Engineer
18 283 (4.67%) Architect
19 282 (4.65%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 905 (14.92%) React
2 793 (13.07%) Spring
3 747 (12.31%) .NET
4 545 (8.98%) AngularJS
5 529 (8.72%) Kafka
6 494 (8.14%) HTML
7 462 (7.62%) Node.js
8 453 (7.47%) CSS
9 441 (7.27%) Spring Boot
10 423 (6.97%) REST
11 393 (6.48%) RESTful
12 372 (6.13%) JSON
13 294 (4.85%) J2EE
14 289 (4.76%) Web Services
15 217 (3.58%) GraphQL
16 214 (3.53%) .NET Core
17 212 (3.49%) PySpark
18 208 (3.43%) Hibernate
19 203 (3.35%) .NET Framework
20 192 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 903 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 845 (13.93%) Algorithms
3 379 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 337 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 240 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 223 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
7 220 (3.63%) Onboarding
8 195 (3.21%) Data Structures
9 131 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 115 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 88 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 87 (1.43%) Market Risk
15 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
16 80 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
17 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
18 71 (1.17%) IoT
19 68 (1.12%) Blockchain
20 61 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 735 (12.12%) Linux
2 291 (4.80%) Windows
3 190 (3.13%) Unix
4 88 (1.45%) Android
5 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 54 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 48 (0.79%) Debian
9 47 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
14 11 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,814 (62.88%) Agile
2 2,953 (48.68%) Software Engineering
3 2,537 (41.82%) DevOps
4 2,183 (35.99%) SDLC
5 1,608 (26.51%) Operational Stability
6 1,497 (24.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,454 (23.97%) Machine Learning
8 1,312 (21.63%) Community of Practice
9 1,100 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,059 (17.46%) Microservices
11 980 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
12 886 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 877 (14.46%) Visualisation
14 850 (14.01%) Test Automation
15 829 (13.67%) Continuous Delivery
16 777 (12.81%) TDD
17 732 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
18 725 (11.95%) Risk Management
19 674 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,237 (36.88%) Java
2 1,894 (31.22%) Python
3 1,711 (28.21%) SQL
4 964 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 876 (14.44%) C#
6 566 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 364 (6.00%) Scala
8 345 (5.69%) PowerShell
9 327 (5.39%) Go
10 311 (5.13%) Bash
11 159 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 126 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 125 (2.06%) PHP
14 99 (1.63%) Ruby
15 96 (1.58%) Bicep
16 95 (1.57%) Shell Script
17 86 (1.42%) C++
18 83 (1.37%) C
19 65 (1.07%) Prolog
19 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 519 (8.56%) Degree
2 485 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 289 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 283 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 173 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 157 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 114 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 113 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 61 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 53 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (0.76%) CISSP
13 46 (0.76%) MCSE
14 42 (0.69%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 30 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (6.76%) QA
2 155 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 84 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.22%) SLA
5 53 (0.87%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.49%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.16%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.082%) GRC
14 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.082%) NCSC
15 3 (0.049%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.033%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,262 (20.80%) Docker
2 166 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 96 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 45 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 18 (0.30%) 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 (0.049%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.049%) Xen
15 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.016%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,589 (26.20%) Kubernetes
2 1,370 (22.58%) Terraform
3 444 (7.32%) Ansible
4 309 (5.09%) Grafana
5 189 (3.12%) Prometheus
6 123 (2.03%) Puppet
7 71 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.09%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 43 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 30 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 22 (0.36%) Consul
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 744 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 415 (6.84%) Oracle
3 383 (6.31%) Databricks
4 291 (4.80%) Google
5 234 (3.86%) Splunk
6 197 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 109 (1.80%) VMware
8 100 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.43%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.25%) IBM
12 73 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
13 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.64%) 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