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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 65 53
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 -11
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 619 341 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.59% 3.82% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 4.34% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 509 177 342
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £86,000
England median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% -6.67%

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 12,300 7,858 11,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.40% 88.00% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 4,198 7,200
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +26 214 £62,500 -11.97% 86
Hampshire +26 188 £65,000 +18.18% 46
Surrey +8 94 £65,000 - 12
Buckinghamshire +19 76 £65,000 -8.45% 14
Oxfordshire +21 73 £57,500 -11.54% 18
Berkshire -2 65 £75,000 -3.23% 55
West Sussex +16 53 £71,250 +1.79% 8
East Sussex +14 39 £50,000 -7.83% 4
Kent -21 18 £56,250 +50.00% 7
Middlesex +4 5 - - 1
Isle of Wight - 5 £50,000 - 1
Sussex - 3 £65,000 -
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 10 (1.62%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.29%) Apache
2 8 (1.29%) IIS
3 7 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.13%) Confluence
3 7 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.81%) nginx
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Lightworks
2 3 (0.48%) Simulink
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 354 (57.19%) Azure
2 273 (44.10%) AWS
3 97 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (15.19%) GitHub
5 73 (11.79%) Serverless
6 61 (9.85%) GCP
7 60 (9.69%) SaaS
8 52 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (5.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 31 (5.01%) Snowflake
11 30 (4.85%) Amazon S3
12 28 (4.52%) Azure AI
13 27 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (4.36%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.36%) OpenShift
14 24 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.88%) PaaS
14 24 (3.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.04%) Firewall
2 20 (3.23%) VPN
3 15 (2.42%) MQTT
4 10 (1.62%) Internet
4 10 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.45%) DNS
5 9 (1.45%) Wireless
6 8 (1.29%) HTTP
6 8 (1.29%) WAN
7 6 (0.97%) Network Security
7 6 (0.97%) VoIP
8 4 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.65%) LAN
9 3 (0.48%) 5G
9 3 (0.48%) BGP
9 3 (0.48%) DHCP
9 3 (0.48%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.48%) SSH
10 2 (0.32%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (14.54%) SQL Server
2 66 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (10.50%) MongoDB
4 63 (10.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (6.79%) NoSQL
6 31 (5.01%) Redis
7 29 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 24 (3.88%) MySQL
9 18 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.42%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.45%) Power BI
13 8 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.29%) Metadata
13 8 (1.29%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.97%) Airbyte
15 4 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 3 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 145 (23.42%) Git
2 69 (11.15%) GitLab
3 49 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 26 (4.20%) JIRA
5 15 (2.42%) JUnit
6 14 (2.26%) JMeter
6 14 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (1.94%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.62%) Mockito
10 9 (1.45%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.13%) Selenium
12 6 (0.97%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.81%) CMake
13 5 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.81%) Yeoman
14 4 (0.65%) Eclipse RCP
14 4 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 168 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.99%) Finance
3 65 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.68%) Advertising
5 27 (4.36%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.72%) Games
7 22 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.62%) Marketing
12 9 (1.45%) Legal
12 9 (1.45%) Retail
13 8 (1.29%) Electronics
14 7 (1.13%) Automotive
14 7 (1.13%) Aviation
15 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.65%) Banking
17 3 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 170 (27.46%) Developer
2 96 (15.51%) Senior
3 90 (14.54%) Lead
3 90 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 65 (10.50%) .NET Developer
5 49 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (6.46%) Architect
7 39 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (5.65%) Software Developer
9 34 (5.49%) Data Engineer
10 33 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (3.88%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.55%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 19 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (2.91%) Java Developer
16 18 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (2.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (24.88%) .NET
2 93 (15.02%) ASP.NET
3 89 (14.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 77 (12.44%) HTML
5 76 (12.28%) React
6 70 (11.31%) REST
7 68 (10.99%) CSS
8 61 (9.85%) .NET Core
9 46 (7.43%) Vue
10 45 (7.27%) Node.js
11 41 (6.62%) AngularJS
12 40 (6.46%) RESTful
13 35 (5.65%) Entity Framework
14 32 (5.17%) Kafka
14 32 (5.17%) YAML
15 30 (4.85%) ARM Templates
15 30 (4.85%) Spring
15 30 (4.85%) Spring Boot
16 29 (4.68%) JSON
17 28 (4.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 60 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 25 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.07%) Embedded Systems
8 17 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.94%) Life Science
10 12 (1.94%) Robotics
11 10 (1.62%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.29%) IoT
14 7 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 128 (20.68%) Linux
2 30 (4.85%) Windows
3 16 (2.58%) Debian
3 16 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.29%) CentOS
7 6 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.65%) Unix
8 4 (0.65%) VMS
8 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.48%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (54.28%) DevOps
2 299 (48.30%) Agile
3 186 (30.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (27.95%) Software Engineering
5 169 (27.30%) AI
5 169 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (23.26%) Microservices
7 141 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 128 (20.68%) Containerisation
9 113 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 102 (16.48%) Test Automation
11 99 (15.99%) Computer Science
11 99 (15.99%) Mentoring
12 92 (14.86%) DevSecOps
13 91 (14.70%) Machine Learning
14 87 (14.05%) Observability
14 87 (14.05%) Technical Leadership
15 86 (13.89%) SDLC
16 72 (11.63%) Analytics
16 72 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (36.67%) Python
2 176 (28.43%) C#
3 170 (27.46%) SQL
4 90 (14.54%) JavaScript
5 83 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 71 (11.47%) Java
7 62 (10.02%) Bash
8 56 (9.05%) PowerShell
9 38 (6.14%) C++
10 34 (5.49%) Go
11 29 (4.68%) PHP
12 24 (3.88%) Bicep
13 21 (3.39%) Rust
14 14 (2.26%) C
15 12 (1.94%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.13%) Groovy
18 6 (0.97%) Perl
19 5 (0.81%) Apex Code
20 4 (0.65%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 129 (20.84%) Security Cleared
2 124 (20.03%) Degree
3 88 (14.22%) SC Cleared
4 71 (11.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.97%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.48%) HNC
12 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.48%) PhD
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.21%) QA
2 15 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.42%) GDPR
3 12 (1.94%) NIST
4 11 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.29%) WCAG
6 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.65%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.48%) ECSS
8 3 (0.48%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.48%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 216 (34.89%) Docker
2 17 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.65%) Firmware
6 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.32%) Lustre
7 2 (0.32%) Xen
8 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 220 (35.54%) Kubernetes
2 188 (30.37%) Terraform
3 76 (12.28%) Ansible
4 53 (8.56%) Grafana
5 42 (6.79%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.42%) Argo
6 15 (2.42%) Puppet
7 14 (2.26%) Kibana
8 9 (1.45%) Podman
8 9 (1.45%) ZABBIX
9 8 (1.29%) Istio
9 8 (1.29%) Kustomize
10 7 (1.13%) Nagios
11 6 (0.97%) Packer
12 4 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.48%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.48%) Scalr
14 2 (0.32%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 151 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.88%) Red Hat
3 21 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 20 (3.23%) Oracle
5 18 (2.91%) Splunk
6 16 (2.58%) Facebook
7 13 (2.10%) Databricks
8 12 (1.94%) Google
8 12 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.94%) YouTube
9 9 (1.45%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.45%) Cisco
9 9 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.29%) VMware
11 7 (1.13%) IBM
12 6 (0.97%) New Relic
13 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.81%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.65%) Juniper
14 4 (0.65%) Palo Alto