CI/CD Jobs with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 38 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,960 4,022 8,838
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.80% 9.70% 12.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 10.09% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 3,054 4,542
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £84,919 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

CI/CD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 49 (2.50%) Apache
2 40 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.73%) Confluence
5 31 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (1.53%) OpenStack
7 27 (1.38%) nginx
8 26 (1.33%) IIS
9 23 (1.17%) CMS
10 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.71%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.51%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.10%) Moodle
15 1 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.051%) JBoss
15 1 (0.051%) Mule
15 1 (0.051%) SAS
15 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Sketch
4 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.051%) Blender
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 38 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.20%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 986 (50.31%) Azure
2 860 (43.88%) AWS
3 419 (21.38%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (11.17%) Serverless
5 214 (10.92%) GCP
6 206 (10.51%) SaaS
7 172 (8.78%) GitHub
8 126 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 81 (4.13%) PaaS
11 80 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (4.03%) Amazon S3
13 73 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (3.37%) Snowflake
17 58 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
19 54 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.39%) Firewall
2 76 (3.88%) DNS
3 44 (2.24%) WAN
4 34 (1.73%) VPN
5 28 (1.43%) SD-WAN
5 28 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.28%) HTTP
7 23 (1.17%) DHCP
8 17 (0.87%) Internet
8 17 (0.87%) Network Security
9 14 (0.71%) LAN
10 12 (0.61%) NGFW
11 10 (0.51%) SNMP
11 10 (0.51%) tcpdump
12 8 (0.41%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.41%) MQTT
12 8 (0.41%) WLAN
13 6 (0.31%) SSL
14 5 (0.26%) AMQP
14 5 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (10.36%) SQL Server
2 149 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (4.18%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 79 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.83%) MySQL
7 73 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 70 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 67 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
10 60 (3.06%) DynamoDB
11 56 (2.86%) Power BI
12 51 (2.60%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 37 (1.89%) Redis
14 35 (1.79%) Star Schema
15 32 (1.63%) Big Data
16 31 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (1.43%) RDBMS
18 22 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
19 18 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 352 (17.96%) Jenkins
2 323 (16.48%) Git
3 201 (10.26%) GitLab
4 142 (7.24%) JIRA
5 97 (4.95%) Selenium
6 94 (4.80%) Cucumber
7 91 (4.64%) Postman
8 61 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 51 (2.60%) Visual Studio
10 43 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 34 (1.73%) JUnit
12 30 (1.53%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
14 26 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (1.17%) JMeter
16 20 (1.02%) CircleCI
17 19 (0.97%) SpecFlow
18 15 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
19 14 (0.71%) REST Assured
19 14 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 429 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 336 (17.14%) Finance
3 122 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (5.97%) Banking
5 95 (4.85%) Retail
6 80 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (3.78%) Public Sector
8 63 (3.21%) Law
9 49 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 42 (2.14%) Marketing
11 27 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.33%) Games
12 26 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.22%) Legal
14 23 (1.17%) Tech for Good
15 17 (0.87%) Police
16 16 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.71%) Back Office
18 12 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 520 (26.53%) Developer
2 469 (23.93%) Senior
3 354 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 303 (15.46%) Lead
5 185 (9.44%) Senior Developer
6 179 (9.13%) Software Engineer
7 137 (6.99%) Data Engineer
8 125 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 114 (5.82%) Architect
10 110 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 106 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
12 97 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
13 78 (3.98%) Software Developer
14 71 (3.62%) .NET Developer
15 62 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
15 62 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 61 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 58 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
18 55 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
19 53 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (18.16%) .NET
2 215 (10.97%) React
3 197 (10.05%) REST
4 158 (8.06%) Node.js
5 130 (6.63%) RESTful
6 119 (6.07%) CSS
7 118 (6.02%) Kafka
8 117 (5.97%) Web Services
9 113 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 106 (5.41%) HTML
11 102 (5.20%) .NET Framework
12 99 (5.05%) .NET Core
13 83 (4.23%) GraphQL
14 80 (4.08%) JSON
15 75 (3.83%) Django
16 74 (3.78%) Spring
17 71 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
18 67 (3.42%) ASP.NET
19 53 (2.70%) ARM Templates
20 48 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 97 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
3 87 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 65 (3.32%) Public Cloud
7 51 (2.60%) Private Cloud
8 50 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (2.35%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.04%) IoT
12 39 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.89%) Client/Server
14 36 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 31 (1.58%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
17 25 (1.28%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
18 22 (1.12%) Blog
19 21 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 332 (16.94%) Linux
2 188 (9.59%) Windows
3 54 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.12%) Unix
6 20 (1.02%) Android
7 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.61%) VMS
10 10 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.51%) Solaris
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
12 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.051%) Debian
14 1 (0.051%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (60.31%) DevOps
2 912 (46.53%) Agile
3 513 (26.17%) Software Engineering
4 403 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
6 334 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
7 328 (16.73%) Microservices
8 311 (15.87%) Scrum
9 291 (14.85%) TDD
10 280 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 273 (13.93%) Containerisation
12 226 (11.53%) Full Stack Development
13 201 (10.26%) Continuous Deployment
14 193 (9.85%) Analytics
15 187 (9.54%) Mentoring
16 179 (9.13%) Continuous Delivery
17 170 (8.67%) SDLC
18 157 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 156 (7.96%) BDD
19 156 (7.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 545 (27.81%) Python
2 435 (22.19%) C#
3 395 (20.15%) Java
4 386 (19.69%) SQL
5 325 (16.58%) JavaScript
6 191 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 158 (8.06%) PowerShell
8 129 (6.58%) Bash
9 119 (6.07%) Go
10 57 (2.91%) PHP
11 44 (2.24%) C
12 43 (2.19%) Perl
13 42 (2.14%) Scala
14 36 (1.84%) C++
15 35 (1.79%) Bicep
16 33 (1.68%) Ruby
17 32 (1.63%) T-SQL
18 30 (1.53%) Shell Script
19 26 (1.33%) Groovy
20 15 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 282 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 191 (9.74%) Degree
3 175 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 102 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 71 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 57 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.43%) CISM
11 28 (1.43%) CISSP
12 27 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.38%) CCSK
12 27 (1.38%) CCSP
13 24 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.13%) QA
2 58 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.53%) NIST
5 13 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.36%) GDPR
7 6 (0.31%) WCAG
8 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.20%) NCSC
9 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.15%) PSD2
10 3 (0.15%) SLA
11 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.051%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.051%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.051%) GMP
12 1 (0.051%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.051%) MiFID
System Software
1 619 (31.58%) Docker
2 58 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.61%) vSphere
8 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Ceph
10 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Varnish
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 610 (31.12%) Kubernetes
2 542 (27.65%) Terraform
3 234 (11.94%) Ansible
4 73 (3.72%) Puppet
5 70 (3.57%) Grafana
6 32 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (1.07%) SCCM
10 20 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (0.97%) Kibana
12 17 (0.87%) Packer
13 15 (0.77%) Salt
14 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.71%) SCOM
14 14 (0.71%) WSUS
15 13 (0.66%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.61%) Nagios
17 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 368 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.37%) Google
3 65 (3.32%) Oracle
4 59 (3.01%) Databricks
5 33 (1.68%) VMware
6 19 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 18 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 16 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 16 (0.82%) Splunk
9 15 (0.77%) Xamarin
10 13 (0.66%) Teradata
10 13 (0.66%) WSO2
11 12 (0.61%) Citrix
12 11 (0.56%) TOWER Software
13 10 (0.51%) Remedy
13 10 (0.51%) SAP
13 10 (0.51%) Serena
13 10 (0.51%) Sun
14 9 (0.46%) Cisco
15 8 (0.41%) Meraki