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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 241 179
Rank change year-on-year -30 -62 -55
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 33 27 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.35% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 208
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,500 £58,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,125 £69,250
90th Percentile - £89,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,932 £69,384 £63,749
% change year-on-year +2.23% +8.84% -8.21%

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 10,400 7,047 14,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.90% 90.51% 82.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,168 3,313 10,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,363 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -20 16 £85,000 +25.93% 10
Thames Valley -3 7 £82,500 +13.79% 10
Berkshire +8 6 £82,500 +13.79% 6
Kent -24 6 - -
Surrey -19 4 - - 3
Buckinghamshire -11 1 £67,000 +7.20%
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 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Serverless
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) GitLab
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) Git
3 6 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 4 (12.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
4 4 (12.12%) JIRA
5 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.06%) MLflow
7 1 (3.03%) HP UFT
7 1 (3.03%) JUnit
7 1 (3.03%) Selenium
7 1 (3.03%) TestNG
7 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Games
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Lightning Web Components
1 5 (15.15%) Visualforce
2 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) Keras
4 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
5 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.03%) GStreamer
5 1 (3.03%) Laravel
5 1 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Life Science
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) DevOps
2 23 (69.70%) Agile
3 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (36.36%) Scrum
6 11 (33.33%) Kanban
6 11 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 11 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
7 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 9 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
9 7 (21.21%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) Static Code Analysis
10 6 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (18.18%) Secure Coding
10 6 (18.18%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) Apex Code
3 5 (15.15%) Groovy
4 4 (12.12%) Ruby
5 3 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.06%) C
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
7 1 (3.03%) SOQL
7 1 (3.03%) SOSL
7 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 8 (24.24%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Packer
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.06%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Tenable