CI/CD Job Trends in Bristol

CI/CD
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 35 122 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.74% 8.50% 11.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 9.71% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31 90 162
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,503 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,125 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,625 £83,750 £84,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £96,125
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,304 1,257 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.97% 87.60% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 972 686 1,285
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,900 £87,500 £90,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +5.03%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Bristol

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Bristol

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Superset
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 21 (60.00%) AWS
3 13 (37.14%) GitHub
4 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (22.86%) Serverless
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
6 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (17.14%) GCP
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (5.71%) Datadog
10 2 (5.71%) SaaS
10 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.86%) PaaS
11 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.57%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Back Office
4 2 (5.71%) Billing
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Games
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Applications Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 5 (14.29%) Universal Windows Platform
3 5 (14.29%) WinUI
3 5 (14.29%) WPF
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) PySpark
4 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.86%) Jest
6 1 (2.86%) ML.NET
6 1 (2.86%) Next.js
6 1 (2.86%) PrimeNG
6 1 (2.86%) React Native
6 1 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.86%) IoT
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.86%) Clean Code
5 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (17.14%) AI
7 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.29%) MVVM
9 4 (11.43%) Analytics
9 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
9 4 (11.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 7 (20.00%) Bash
5 6 (17.14%) Java
5 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.43%) Bicep
6 4 (11.43%) C#
7 3 (8.57%) Go
7 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.86%) C
9 1 (2.86%) C++
9 1 (2.86%) PHP
9 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (14.29%) Degree
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (40.00%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (14.29%) Grafana
5 3 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
5 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.71%) Puppet
7 1 (2.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Syncfusion
1 5 (14.29%) Telerik
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Foundry
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Palantir
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) SAP