Continuous Integration Job Trends in the South West

Continuous Integration
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 147 147
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 49 22 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.53% 0.63% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.76% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 19 5 73
10th Percentile £37,500 £52,750 £47,710
25th Percentile £45,375 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +0.80%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £68,076 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.75% +7.69% -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,602 2,878 6,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.18% 82.82% 75.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,419 1,885 4,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the South West

Continuous Integration
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Continuous Integration
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South West over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Integration in the South West

Continuous Integration
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Gloucestershire -42 17 £52,500 - 19
Somerset - 10 - - 1
Bristol -33 9 £80,000 +36.75% 5
Dorset - 7 - - 1
Wiltshire -18 3 - -
Devon -23 2 £62,500 - 2
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Drupal
2 1 (2.04%) IIS
2 1 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) Entra ID
3 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) AWS
5 2 (4.08%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.04%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.04%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Network Security
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.04%) Redis
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) JIRA
2 8 (16.33%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) JMeter
4 3 (6.12%) Maven
5 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.08%) GitLab
5 2 (4.08%) Gradle
5 2 (4.08%) Selenium
5 2 (4.08%) Subversion
5 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.04%) Gatling
6 1 (2.04%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Automotive
3 7 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Games
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) IT Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) IT Support
3 9 (18.37%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Server Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Server Support
3 9 (18.37%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Lead
4 7 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Systems Support
4 7 (14.29%) Systems Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Test Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (4.08%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Flutter
1 5 (10.20%) GraphQL
1 5 (10.20%) React Native
1 5 (10.20%) REST
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) .NET
2 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (6.12%) OpenGL
2 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.12%) Vulkan
3 2 (4.08%) WinForms
4 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.04%) JSON
4 1 (2.04%) LAMP
4 1 (2.04%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Mobile App
1 5 (10.20%) PKI
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (6.12%) CUDA
4 2 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Windows
3 7 (14.29%) Android
3 7 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.08%) Unix
5 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.04%) CentOS
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.82%) Agile
2 20 (40.82%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) Software Engineering
4 17 (34.69%) Test Automation
5 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (26.53%) Code Quality
7 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.41%) Software Architecture
7 10 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (18.37%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (18.37%) Edge Computing
8 9 (18.37%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 9 (18.37%) Software Licensing
8 9 (18.37%) Software Testing
9 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (12.24%) Validation
12 5 (10.20%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) C++
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) C#
3 9 (18.37%) C
3 9 (18.37%) SQL
4 7 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) Rust
6 3 (6.12%) GLSL
6 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.08%) Groovy
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
2 12 (24.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Kibana
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) logstash
3 1 (2.04%) Consul
3 1 (2.04%) Packer
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle
2 1 (2.04%) TOWER Software
2 1 (2.04%) YouTube