CI/CD Job Trends in London

CI/CD
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,235 1,422 1,699
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.34% 8.41% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.35% 9.10% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 785 891 1,476
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £54,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +3.03% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £121,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% -3.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,932 15,634 17,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.27% 92.49% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7,643 9,118 14,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in London

CI/CD
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the London region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
Central London +5 202 £85,000 +6.25% 99
South London +30 28 £70,000 +14.29% 44
West London -15 6 £82,500 +23.60% 17
East London -13 4 £75,000 -9.09% 23
North London - 3 £52,500 - 3
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 69 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 48 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.62%) Apache
3 20 (1.62%) Confluence
4 11 (0.89%) IIS
5 10 (0.81%) CMS
6 8 (0.65%) Appian
7 6 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.16%) JBoss
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
11 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.13%) Maya
2 9 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) Endur
4 7 (0.57%) SAP CX
4 7 (0.57%) Shopify
5 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.081%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.081%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.081%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 598 (48.42%) Azure
2 594 (48.10%) AWS
3 251 (20.32%) GCP
4 201 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (15.95%) GitHub
6 147 (11.90%) Serverless
7 114 (9.23%) Power Platform
8 106 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
9 84 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (6.40%) SaaS
11 74 (5.99%) Amazon S3
12 56 (4.53%) Datadog
13 55 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 51 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
16 49 (3.97%) PaaS
17 44 (3.56%) Snowflake
18 42 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.27%) Firewall
2 21 (1.70%) WAN
3 20 (1.62%) Network Security
4 16 (1.30%) VPN
5 15 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.05%) Broadband
6 13 (1.05%) DNS
7 10 (0.81%) LAN
8 9 (0.73%) VLAN
9 8 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.49%) BGP
10 6 (0.49%) HTTP
11 4 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.24%) AMQP
12 3 (0.24%) DHCP
12 3 (0.24%) NAS
12 3 (0.24%) OSPF
12 3 (0.24%) SAN
13 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (10.77%) NoSQL
2 118 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 100 (8.10%) Relational Database
4 98 (7.94%) Power BI
5 72 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 51 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 50 (4.05%) Big Data
8 49 (3.97%) MySQL
9 45 (3.64%) DynamoDB
10 40 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (3.24%) RDBMS
11 38 (3.08%) Hadoop
12 33 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (2.35%) Metadata
15 28 (2.27%) Tableau
16 26 (2.11%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 218 (17.65%) Git
2 160 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 85 (6.88%) JIRA
4 76 (6.15%) GitLab
5 41 (3.32%) Selenium
5 41 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 34 (2.75%) JMeter
7 31 (2.51%) Visual Studio
8 28 (2.27%) JUnit
9 27 (2.19%) Bitbucket
10 26 (2.11%) Cucumber
11 25 (2.02%) MLflow
12 24 (1.94%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.70%) Mockito
14 15 (1.21%) CircleCI
14 15 (1.21%) Postman
15 14 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
16 13 (1.05%) Artifactory
16 13 (1.05%) Vite
17 11 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 435 (35.22%) Finance
2 393 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 184 (14.90%) Law
4 165 (13.36%) Banking
5 137 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (6.40%) Retail
8 77 (6.23%) Marketing
9 65 (5.26%) Financial Institution
10 56 (4.53%) Public Sector
11 42 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 37 (3.00%) Back Office
14 35 (2.83%) Telecoms
15 31 (2.51%) Legal
16 28 (2.27%) Front Office
17 26 (2.11%) Games
17 26 (2.11%) Manufacturing
18 21 (1.70%) Investment Banking
19 20 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (22.83%) Senior
2 271 (21.94%) Developer
3 238 (19.27%) Lead
4 139 (11.26%) Software Engineer
5 101 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 99 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 84 (6.80%) Architect
8 76 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 64 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 60 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
11 59 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
12 58 (4.70%) Python Developer
13 54 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
14 47 (3.81%) Lead Developer
15 45 (3.64%) Java Developer
15 45 (3.64%) Java Engineer
16 40 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
17 39 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 38 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (14.01%) React
2 165 (13.36%) REST
3 128 (10.36%) .NET
3 128 (10.36%) Kafka
4 108 (8.74%) RESTful
5 105 (8.50%) Node.js
6 94 (7.61%) Spring
7 77 (6.23%) Spring Boot
8 73 (5.91%) HTML
9 57 (4.62%) Web Services
10 54 (4.37%) YAML
11 52 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 52 (4.21%) CSS
11 52 (4.21%) GraphQL
12 51 (4.13%) JSON
13 50 (4.05%) FastAPI
14 46 (3.72%) Django
15 39 (3.16%) Flask
15 39 (3.16%) SOAP
15 39 (3.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 247 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 116 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.67%) Data Structures
10 32 (2.59%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
12 29 (2.35%) Virtual Team
13 25 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (2.02%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.86%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.78%) e-Learning
16 20 (1.62%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.62%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 126 (10.20%) Linux
2 61 (4.94%) Windows
3 26 (2.11%) Android
3 26 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.78%) Unix
5 20 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.49%) VMS
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.24%) SUSE
10 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.081%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (54.90%) DevOps
2 492 (39.84%) Agile
3 294 (23.81%) Software Engineering
4 290 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 280 (22.67%) Test Automation
6 271 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
7 270 (21.86%) AI
8 252 (20.40%) Microservices
9 228 (18.46%) Containerisation
10 210 (17.00%) Mentoring
11 208 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 204 (16.52%) Analytics
13 171 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
14 164 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
15 163 (13.20%) Machine Learning
15 163 (13.20%) SDLC
16 150 (12.15%) Observability
17 147 (11.90%) Computer Science
18 146 (11.82%) Data Engineering
19 137 (11.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 605 (48.99%) Python
2 309 (25.02%) SQL
3 296 (23.97%) Java
4 184 (14.90%) JavaScript
5 149 (12.06%) C#
6 144 (11.66%) PowerShell
7 141 (11.42%) TypeScript
8 125 (10.12%) Bash
9 73 (5.91%) Go
10 43 (3.48%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.27%) Scala
12 27 (2.19%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.94%) Bicep
14 20 (1.62%) C++
15 18 (1.46%) PHP
16 17 (1.38%) T-SQL
17 15 (1.21%) Apex Code
18 14 (1.13%) Ruby
19 13 (1.05%) Perl
20 10 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 213 (17.25%) Degree
2 92 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 90 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (4.62%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.62%) Master's Degree
5 56 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 48 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.62%) PhD
9 17 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.73%) CCNP
14 7 (0.57%) MCP
15 6 (0.49%) SnowPro
16 5 (0.40%) CCIE
17 4 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.61%) QA
2 77 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 67 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (5.10%) GDPR
5 60 (4.86%) Accessibility
6 44 (3.56%) NIST
7 23 (1.86%) NCSC
8 20 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.62%) SLA
9 18 (1.46%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.73%) WCAG
12 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.40%) PERC
14 4 (0.32%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.32%) GRC
14 4 (0.32%) MiFID
15 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 323 (26.15%) Docker
2 26 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.65%) HDFS
6 4 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.24%) zsh
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.16%) vSphere
9 1 (0.081%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 392 (31.74%) Kubernetes
2 331 (26.80%) Terraform
3 134 (10.85%) Ansible
4 81 (6.56%) Grafana
5 75 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.02%) Kibana
7 24 (1.94%) Argo
8 10 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.73%) Puppet
10 5 (0.40%) logstash
11 4 (0.32%) CASB
11 4 (0.32%) Cilium
11 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 163 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.77%) Databricks
3 52 (4.21%) SAP
4 50 (4.05%) Google
5 49 (3.97%) Oracle
6 45 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 44 (3.56%) Splunk
8 35 (2.83%) MuleSoft
9 34 (2.75%) VMware
10 32 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.86%) Dynatrace
13 22 (1.78%) Adobe
13 22 (1.78%) OpenAI
14 20 (1.62%) Guidewire
15 19 (1.54%) Cisco
16 17 (1.38%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.30%) Informatica
18 15 (1.21%) Dell
18 15 (1.21%) Tenable