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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 184 181
Rank change year-on-year -72 -3 -54
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 38 70 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.27% 1.03% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.15% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13 39 179
10th Percentile £58,200 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +11.40% -2.75%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £83,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +9.64% -10.71%

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 10,143 6,102 13,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.32% 90.04% 84.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,523 3,280 9,727
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £27,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,928 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,268
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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
Hampshire -9 17 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Thames Valley -17 9 £82,500 +26.92% 7
Berkshire +5 7 £82,500 +50.00% 5
Kent -35 6 - -
Surrey -29 4 £95,000 +72.73%
Buckinghamshire -24 2 £62,250 -4.23%
Middlesex +38 1 - -
West Sussex -27 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (26.32%) AWS
4 7 (18.42%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (15.79%) GitHub
5 6 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
6 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.63%) GCP
9 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Broadband
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) GIS
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 17 (44.74%) GitLab
3 10 (26.32%) Git
4 6 (15.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (15.79%) JIRA
4 6 (15.79%) SonarQube
5 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.53%) Selenium
6 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
6 3 (7.89%) MLflow
7 2 (5.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (5.26%) TestRail
8 1 (2.63%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.63%) Appium
8 1 (2.63%) CMake
8 1 (2.63%) JUnit
8 1 (2.63%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.63%) Xcode
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Games
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Manual Tester
7 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Tester
8 1 (2.63%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (13.16%) REST
2 5 (13.16%) Visualforce
3 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (7.89%) JSON
4 3 (7.89%) Keras
4 3 (7.89%) React
4 3 (7.89%) scikit-learn
4 3 (7.89%) TensorFlow
5 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.26%) SOAP
5 2 (5.26%) YAML
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.63%) CSS
6 1 (2.63%) Google Maps API
6 1 (2.63%) HTML
6 1 (2.63%) OpenGL
6 1 (2.63%) Qt
6 1 (2.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Android
3 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) DevOps
2 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
3 25 (65.79%) Agile
4 17 (44.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (36.84%) Scrum
5 14 (36.84%) Software Testing
5 14 (36.84%) Sprint Retrospective
6 13 (34.21%) Kanban
7 12 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
8 11 (28.95%) Deployment Automation
8 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
9 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
10 9 (23.68%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (23.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
11 8 (21.05%) Sprint Review
11 8 (21.05%) User Stories
12 7 (18.42%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) Apex Code
4 4 (10.53%) Groovy
4 4 (10.53%) Ruby
5 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) Perl
6 2 (5.26%) SQL
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) Rust
7 1 (2.63%) SOQL
7 1 (2.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) Degree
3 9 (23.68%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
5 3 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (26.32%) Terraform
3 8 (21.05%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.26%) Nessus
5 2 (5.26%) Packer
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Apple
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) ESRI
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Mapbox
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Tenable
4 1 (2.63%) Xamarin