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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 35 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -13
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 139 51 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 4.54% 4.66% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 5.92% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 104 39 106
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £54,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +15.07%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £102,410 £90,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.14%

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 2,154 861 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 70.35% 78.63% 78.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 632 1,292
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,075 £30,279
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,950 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 8 September 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 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.47%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (1.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (39.57%) AWS
2 54 (38.85%) Azure
3 31 (22.30%) GitHub
4 30 (21.58%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (17.27%) Serverless
6 18 (12.95%) GCP
7 15 (10.79%) IaaS
7 15 (10.79%) PaaS
8 13 (9.35%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (8.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (8.63%) Azure Functions
9 12 (8.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.32%) SaaS
13 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) VPN
2 7 (5.04%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.16%) 3GPP
3 3 (2.16%) Network Security
3 3 (2.16%) TETRA
4 2 (1.44%) MQTT
5 1 (0.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (7.91%) Big Data
4 10 (7.19%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.04%) MySQL
7 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.60%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.60%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.88%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.16%) ClickHouse
10 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.16%) Redis
11 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.44%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.44%) Metadata
12 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (28.78%) Git
2 19 (13.67%) JIRA
3 13 (9.35%) GitLab
4 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.16%) git-flow
6 2 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.44%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.44%) MLflow
6 2 (1.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.72%) Storybook
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 39 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.46%) Finance
3 18 (12.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.07%) Aerospace
5 12 (8.63%) Law
6 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.76%) Automotive
7 8 (5.76%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.16%) Legal
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (23.74%) Senior
2 21 (15.11%) Software Engineer
3 20 (14.39%) Lead
4 16 (11.51%) Developer
5 12 (8.63%) Analyst
5 12 (8.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (7.91%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Python Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Site Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (42.45%) Terraform
2 19 (13.67%) REST
3 17 (12.23%) React
4 9 (6.47%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.76%) Kafka
5 8 (5.76%) Next.js
5 8 (5.76%) Node.js
6 7 (5.04%) CSS
6 7 (5.04%) Django
6 7 (5.04%) FastAPI
6 7 (5.04%) React Native
7 6 (4.32%) AWS CDK
8 5 (3.60%) Flutter
8 5 (3.60%) HTML
8 5 (3.60%) Vue
9 4 (2.88%) .NET
9 4 (2.88%) Flask
9 4 (2.88%) LangChain
9 4 (2.88%) OAuth
9 4 (2.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.35%) Public Cloud
3 12 (8.63%) Podcast
3 12 (8.63%) Security Posture
4 7 (5.04%) Device Driver
4 7 (5.04%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (5.04%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.88%) CUDA
7 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.88%) IoT
7 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.16%) Blog
9 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.44%) PropTech
9 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.86%) Windows
2 28 (20.14%) Linux
3 13 (9.35%) VMS
4 9 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.76%) Unix
6 5 (3.60%) Android
6 5 (3.60%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.71%) DevOps
2 63 (45.32%) Agile
3 59 (42.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (36.69%) Software Engineering
5 42 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (28.78%) AI
7 35 (25.18%) Observability
8 31 (22.30%) Mentoring
8 31 (22.30%) Test Automation
9 29 (20.86%) Scrum
10 28 (20.14%) Analytics
10 28 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (18.71%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (14.39%) SDLC
13 19 (13.67%) Cloud Security
13 19 (13.67%) Computer Science
13 19 (13.67%) Decision-Making
13 19 (13.67%) Roadmaps
14 18 (12.95%) Code Quality
14 18 (12.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.62%) Python
2 34 (24.46%) SQL
3 22 (15.83%) Bash
4 18 (12.95%) PowerShell
5 14 (10.07%) Bicep
5 14 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (7.91%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.19%) C++
9 8 (5.76%) C#
10 7 (5.04%) Embedded C++
11 6 (4.32%) Java
12 3 (2.16%) Go
13 2 (1.44%) PHP
13 2 (1.44%) VBA
14 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.79%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.35%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (7.19%) AWS Certification
6 10 (7.19%) Degree
7 9 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.79%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) QA
3 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.16%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) NCSC
4 2 (1.44%) IFRS
4 2 (1.44%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.44%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (14.39%) Docker
2 18 (12.95%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.63%) vSphere
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (12.23%) Ansible
1 17 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.79%) Puppet
3 5 (3.60%) Grafana
3 5 (3.60%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.63%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (8.63%) VMware
3 11 (7.91%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.47%) Databricks
5 8 (5.76%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.60%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.60%) Intel
6 5 (3.60%) Oracle
7 2 (1.44%) Google
8 1 (0.72%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.72%) Foundry
8 1 (0.72%) YouTube