Continuous Integration Job Trends in the South East

Continuous Integration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 268 118
Rank change year-on-year -45 -150 +24
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 26 23 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.26% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.29% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 167
10th Percentile £49,125 £55,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £74,063 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.13% +2.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £105,500 -
England median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +0.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Continuous Integration 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 13,451 7,884 10,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.89% 88.02% 81.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,589 4,225 5,885
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the South East

Continuous Integration
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South East over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
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 Continuous Integration within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +4 15 £97,500 +34.48% 15
Berkshire +16 11 £97,500 +34.48% 6
Hampshire -46 7 £57,500 -14.81% 10
Surrey -30 4 £85,000 -5.56% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 8
Buckinghamshire -3 1 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (15.38%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.85%) Boomi
7 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 7 (26.92%) GitLab
4 6 (23.08%) JIRA
5 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
6 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
6 3 (11.54%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (3.85%) HP UFT
7 1 (3.85%) JUnit
7 1 (3.85%) Selenium
7 1 (3.85%) TestNG
7 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Chief Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Chief Software Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Software Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) YAML
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) Flask
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) Middleware
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Life Science
2 3 (11.54%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Rocky
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) AI
5 8 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 7 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (26.92%) Secure Coding
6 7 (26.92%) SysML
6 7 (26.92%) UML
7 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
7 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (19.23%) Change Control
8 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
8 5 (19.23%) Key Management
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Microservices
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) C
1 12 (46.15%) C++
2 8 (30.77%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) C#
3 5 (19.23%) Groovy
3 5 (19.23%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) Rust
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.69%) Perl
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) DV Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) HND
6 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) MISRA
2 6 (23.08%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (7.69%) MISRA C
3 2 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Firmware
2 4 (15.38%) Docker
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (3.85%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
1 3 (11.54%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Sparx