CI/CD Job Trends in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 45 51
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 300 491 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.89% 5.47% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 6.20% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 203 272 287
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £43,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,688 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,625 £86,750
England median annual salary £73,250 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% - -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the South East

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Thames Valley +4 141 £70,000 - 241
Hampshire -15 78 £64,750 -0.38% 69
Berkshire -14 73 £57,500 -8.73% 164
Buckinghamshire +34 45 £71,250 -19.03% 36
West Sussex +16 25 £70,000 +30.23% 47
Surrey -47 24 £62,500 -7.41% 59
Oxfordshire +12 23 £72,500 -4.92% 42
East Sussex +1 10 £81,250 +62.50% 46
Kent -16 10 £37,500 -34.78% 46
Middlesex -22 9 £37,500 -40.00% 2
Sussex +6 4 £75,000 +12.78% 1
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.67%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.33%) Apache
2 4 (1.33%) Appian
2 4 (1.33%) IIS
3 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (51.00%) Azure
2 105 (35.00%) AWS
3 93 (31.00%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (14.67%) GitHub
5 29 (9.67%) Power Platform
6 28 (9.33%) Serverless
7 25 (8.33%) GCP
8 24 (8.00%) SaaS
9 22 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.67%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.67%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.67%) PaaS
13 13 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (3.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.33%) DNS
2 9 (3.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.33%) HTTP
3 4 (1.33%) VPN
4 2 (0.67%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.67%) SpaceWire
4 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) AMQP
5 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.33%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.67%) MySQL
5 13 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.00%) Power BI
6 12 (4.00%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.67%) Airbyte
9 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.00%) Looker
11 3 (1.00%) Metadata
11 3 (1.00%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (25.00%) Git
2 47 (15.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (9.67%) Selenium
4 23 (7.67%) GitLab
5 21 (7.00%) Robot Framework
5 21 (7.00%) Snyk
6 16 (5.33%) JUnit
7 15 (5.00%) JMeter
8 11 (3.67%) Mockito
9 9 (3.00%) JIRA
10 7 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.33%) Storybook
11 5 (1.67%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.67%) git-flow
12 4 (1.33%) Appium
12 4 (1.33%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.00%) MLflow
13 3 (1.00%) Postman
14 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 98 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.00%) Finance
3 33 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.00%) Law
6 9 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.00%) Billing
7 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.67%) Banking
8 5 (1.67%) Games
8 5 (1.67%) Marketing
9 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.00%) Automotive
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Aviation
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 83 (27.67%) Developer
2 67 (22.33%) Lead
3 48 (16.00%) Senior
4 35 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (7.67%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.00%) Java Developer
6 21 (7.00%) Quality Engineer
7 17 (5.67%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (4.33%) Team Leader
11 11 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 11 (3.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 11 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Architect
12 10 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 8 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.67%) .NET
2 45 (15.00%) REST
3 41 (13.67%) React
4 25 (8.33%) Spring
5 24 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.67%) HTML
6 23 (7.67%) Kafka
7 19 (6.33%) Web Services
8 18 (6.00%) RESTful
9 16 (5.33%) .NET Core
9 16 (5.33%) Blazor
10 15 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.00%) Node.js
11 14 (4.67%) CSS
12 13 (4.33%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.33%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.33%) JSON
13 12 (4.00%) .NET Framework
13 12 (4.00%) WireMock
13 12 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.67%) Low-Code
5 10 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.00%) IoT
9 3 (1.00%) Life Science
9 3 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.00%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.67%) Clustering
10 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.00%) Linux
2 25 (8.33%) Windows
3 10 (3.33%) Android
3 10 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.67%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (62.33%) DevOps
2 170 (56.67%) Agile
3 72 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 71 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 56 (18.67%) Scrum
7 52 (17.33%) Microservices
8 48 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 47 (15.67%) Mentoring
10 38 (12.67%) AI
11 36 (12.00%) DevSecOps
12 35 (11.67%) Containerisation
12 35 (11.67%) SDLC
13 34 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (10.00%) Computer Science
15 28 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 27 (9.00%) Machine Learning
17 26 (8.67%) Clean Code
17 26 (8.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.00%) Python
2 56 (18.67%) JavaScript
3 51 (17.00%) SQL
4 50 (16.67%) C#
5 48 (16.00%) Java
6 36 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.00%) Bash
9 13 (4.33%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.00%) C++
11 7 (2.33%) Apex Code
11 7 (2.33%) Go
12 5 (1.67%) Bicep
13 4 (1.33%) Ruby
14 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) ABAP
15 2 (0.67%) C
15 2 (0.67%) Perl
16 1 (0.33%) Delphi
16 1 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.00%) Degree
3 25 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.33%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.00%) ISTQB
5 9 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.00%) ISEB
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.67%) CISSP
8 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.67%) LPIC
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CISA
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.00%) QA
2 13 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.00%) NIST
4 8 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
6 5 (1.67%) GDPR
6 5 (1.67%) NCSC
7 4 (1.33%) ECSS
8 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (24.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) vCloud
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (28.00%) Terraform
2 69 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.67%) Ansible
4 12 (4.00%) Kibana
5 10 (3.33%) Grafana
6 8 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.33%) Argo
8 2 (0.67%) Nessus
8 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.67%) Puppet
8 2 (0.67%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.33%) Nagios
9 1 (0.33%) Packer
9 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.33%) Black Duck
2 19 (6.33%) Coverity
3 14 (4.67%) Splunk
4 12 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.67%) Databricks
6 8 (2.67%) VMware
7 7 (2.33%) Google
8 6 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.00%) Oracle
9 4 (1.33%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.33%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.33%) Telerik
9 4 (1.33%) UiPath
10 2 (0.67%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.67%) Okta
10 2 (0.67%) Qualys
10 2 (0.67%) SAP
10 2 (0.67%) Workday