CI/CD Job Trends in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England 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 32 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -21
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 4,540 2,743 3,102
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.60% 6.37% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 7.20% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,190 1,613 2,068
10th Percentile £46,789 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,313 38,098 55,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.52% 80.82%
Number of salaries quoted 51,484 21,895 33,187
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in England

CI/CD
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
London -5 1,791 £85,000 +3.03% 3,005
North of England +19 993 £66,000 -2.22% 667
South East +20 624 £63,750 -1.92% 493
North West +17 540 £67,500 +3.85% 386
South West +9 476 £65,000 +8.33% 342
Midlands +17 373 £64,000 -1.54% 232
Yorkshire +13 249 £69,310 +1.93% 178
West Midlands +15 242 £65,000 +4.00% 147
North East +26 204 £57,500 -4.17% 108
East of England +5 177 £61,300 -7.82% 211
East Midlands -7 131 £61,250 -7.55% 84
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 128 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 86 (1.89%) Apache
3 82 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.52%) Confluence
5 38 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 28 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 24 (0.53%) IIS
8 23 (0.51%) CMS
9 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.44%) Jupyter
11 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 16 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 14 (0.31%) Mule
13 14 (0.31%) nginx
13 14 (0.31%) SAS
14 13 (0.29%) WordPress
15 11 (0.24%) Camunda
16 8 (0.18%) Headless CMS
16 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 5 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.11%) Simulink
5 3 (0.066%) Blender
5 3 (0.066%) Maya
5 3 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.044%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.044%) Trello
7 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.088%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.088%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.066%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.066%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.044%) Magento
6 2 (0.044%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.044%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.022%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.022%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,217 (48.83%) Azure
2 2,049 (45.13%) AWS
3 758 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
4 752 (16.56%) GitHub
5 670 (14.76%) GCP
6 552 (12.16%) Serverless
7 376 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
8 300 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 289 (6.37%) Power Platform
10 273 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
11 267 (5.88%) Amazon S3
12 247 (5.44%) SaaS
13 178 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
14 168 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 165 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
16 160 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
17 157 (3.46%) Azure AKS
18 150 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 142 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
20 127 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.33%) Broadband
2 90 (1.98%) Firewall
3 84 (1.85%) VPN
4 75 (1.65%) DNS
5 55 (1.21%) Network Security
6 42 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 28 (0.62%) Wireless
8 24 (0.53%) BGP
8 24 (0.53%) HTTP
9 22 (0.48%) MQTT
10 20 (0.44%) DHCP
11 19 (0.42%) Internet
12 17 (0.37%) SSL
12 17 (0.37%) WAN
13 16 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.31%) OSPF
15 13 (0.29%) DMARC
16 12 (0.26%) 3GPP
17 11 (0.24%) LAN
17 11 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (7.22%) MongoDB
2 320 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 286 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 277 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 275 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 179 (3.94%) Power BI
7 164 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 155 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
9 147 (3.24%) DynamoDB
10 138 (3.04%) MySQL
11 117 (2.58%) Metadata
12 116 (2.56%) Data Lake
13 97 (2.14%) Redis
14 96 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
15 80 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
16 68 (1.50%) Delta Lake
17 59 (1.30%) Big Data
18 55 (1.21%) BigQuery
19 53 (1.17%) Spark SQL
20 50 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 837 (18.44%) Git
2 501 (11.04%) GitLab
3 494 (10.88%) Jenkins
4 176 (3.88%) JIRA
5 118 (2.60%) Cypress.io
6 113 (2.49%) Selenium
7 90 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 77 (1.70%) Maven
9 74 (1.63%) JUnit
10 66 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 65 (1.43%) Postman
11 65 (1.43%) SonarQube
12 63 (1.39%) TeamCity
13 52 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 50 (1.10%) JMeter
15 42 (0.93%) Mockito
16 39 (0.86%) Claude Code
17 38 (0.84%) REST Assured
18 36 (0.79%) Gatling
18 36 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,141 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 986 (21.72%) Finance
3 404 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 390 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 366 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 275 (6.06%) Banking
7 180 (3.96%) Law
8 141 (3.11%) Marketing
9 134 (2.95%) Retail
10 94 (2.07%) Advertising
11 80 (1.76%) Legal
12 76 (1.67%) Games
13 74 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 63 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 62 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (1.32%) Manufacturing
17 50 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.79%) Back Office
19 34 (0.75%) Front Office
20 32 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,120 (24.67%) Senior
2 997 (21.96%) Developer
3 668 (14.71%) Lead
4 529 (11.65%) Software Engineer
5 424 (9.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 357 (7.86%) Architect
7 307 (6.76%) Data Engineer
8 255 (5.62%) Senior Developer
9 228 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
10 227 (5.00%) .NET Developer
11 202 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 196 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
13 170 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 166 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
15 163 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
16 128 (2.82%) Java Developer
16 128 (2.82%) Software Developer
17 122 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
18 121 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 121 (2.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,382 (30.44%) Terraform
2 698 (15.37%) .NET
3 551 (12.14%) React
4 474 (10.44%) REST
5 460 (10.13%) Node.js
6 370 (8.15%) Spring
7 352 (7.75%) CSS
8 336 (7.40%) HTML
9 326 (7.18%) RESTful
10 302 (6.65%) Spring Boot
11 280 (6.17%) Kafka
12 278 (6.12%) ASP.NET
13 271 (5.97%) .NET Core
14 239 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
15 204 (4.49%) AngularJS
16 165 (3.63%) Playwright
17 149 (3.28%) PySpark
18 146 (3.22%) Vue
19 138 (3.04%) Entity Framework
20 117 (2.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,022 (22.51%) Cloud Native
2 450 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 329 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 181 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
5 148 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 138 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 131 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 127 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 115 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 104 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 101 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 81 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 66 (1.45%) Algorithms
13 66 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.43%) Data Structures
15 60 (1.32%) e-Learning
16 57 (1.26%) Low-Code
17 53 (1.17%) Security Posture
18 52 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
18 52 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 558 (12.29%) Linux
2 243 (5.35%) Windows
3 80 (1.76%) Unix
4 66 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 57 (1.26%) Android
6 57 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 51 (1.12%) CentOS
8 32 (0.70%) VMS
9 26 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
11 18 (0.40%) Debian
12 12 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.11%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.11%) Rocky
15 4 (0.088%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,440 (53.74%) DevOps
2 1,854 (40.84%) Agile
3 1,511 (33.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,220 (26.87%) Software Engineering
5 1,211 (26.67%) AI
6 1,163 (25.62%) Test Automation
7 1,061 (23.37%) Mentoring
8 1,017 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 919 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
10 912 (20.09%) Microservices
11 860 (18.94%) Containerisation
12 789 (17.38%) Observability
13 718 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 678 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
15 609 (13.41%) Analytics
16 542 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
17 527 (11.61%) Machine Learning
18 525 (11.56%) Roadmaps
19 459 (10.11%) Event-Driven
20 440 (9.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,565 (34.47%) Python
2 1,121 (24.69%) SQL
3 840 (18.50%) Java
4 755 (16.63%) C#
5 658 (14.49%) JavaScript
6 595 (13.11%) TypeScript
7 382 (8.41%) Bash
8 302 (6.65%) PowerShell
9 207 (4.56%) Go
10 169 (3.72%) C++
11 148 (3.26%) Bicep
12 90 (1.98%) Kotlin
13 87 (1.92%) Scala
14 77 (1.70%) PHP
15 61 (1.34%) C
16 58 (1.28%) Rust
17 52 (1.15%) Apex Code
18 51 (1.12%) Groovy
19 40 (0.88%) SOQL
20 37 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 794 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 538 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 483 (10.64%) Degree
4 237 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 221 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 171 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 155 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 104 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 72 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 51 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 40 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 28 (0.62%) PhD
15 23 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 20 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 20 (0.44%) OSCP
17 19 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (10.44%) QA
2 275 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 220 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 124 (2.73%) GDPR
5 74 (1.63%) WCAG
6 64 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 55 (1.21%) GRC
8 47 (1.04%) NIST
9 40 (0.88%) SLA
10 34 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 25 (0.55%) NCSC
12 20 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.18%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.13%) JTAG
17 6 (0.13%) PMO
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,169 (25.75%) Docker
2 114 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.73%) vSphere
6 18 (0.40%) Firmware
7 13 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.18%) Squid
11 7 (0.15%) Ceph
12 5 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.044%) Lustre
13 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.044%) Xen
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,203 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 438 (9.65%) Ansible
3 242 (5.33%) Grafana
4 160 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 89 (1.96%) Argo
6 64 (1.41%) Puppet
7 41 (0.90%) Kibana
8 38 (0.84%) Istio
8 38 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 28 (0.62%) Packer
9 28 (0.62%) Podman
10 21 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.42%) logstash
13 18 (0.40%) Nagios
14 16 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
15 15 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (0.31%) Cilium
16 14 (0.31%) CloudHub
17 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 817 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.84%) Databricks
3 178 (3.92%) Google
4 129 (2.84%) Oracle
5 118 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 98 (2.16%) Splunk
6 98 (2.16%) VMware
7 79 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 64 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 56 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 53 (1.17%) SAP
12 46 (1.01%) Facebook
13 44 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 38 (0.84%) MuleSoft
15 36 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
16 32 (0.70%) Tenable
17 27 (0.59%) Cisco
18 25 (0.55%) AppDynamics
18 25 (0.55%) Pega