CI/CD Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -43
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 152 144 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.51% 4.31% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.63% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 101 64 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +4.74% -12.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,625 £86,875
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,419 3,109 4,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.96% 93.00% 87.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 1,300 3,390
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,650 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,002 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,100 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Berkshire -10 76 £55,000 -12.70% 31
Buckinghamshire +30 48 £72,500 -3.33% 13
Oxfordshire +11 28 £70,000 -6.67% 27
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (3.95%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) CMS
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (42.76%) AWS
2 60 (39.47%) Azure
3 28 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (15.13%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.13%) Serverless
5 18 (11.84%) GitHub
6 17 (11.18%) SaaS
7 16 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.87%) GCP
9 13 (8.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.24%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (4.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.63%) SpaceWire
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) Relational Database
2 19 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.89%) MySQL
4 10 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.92%) RDBMS
5 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.29%) Power BI
8 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.97%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (1.97%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.32%) Metadata
10 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.66%) QGIS
11 1 (0.66%) Redis
11 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (25.66%) Git
2 24 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.58%) JUnit
4 9 (5.92%) JMeter
4 9 (5.92%) Mockito
5 7 (4.61%) Selenium
6 6 (3.95%) GitLab
7 5 (3.29%) git-flow
8 3 (1.97%) MLflow
9 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.32%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.32%) Postman
10 1 (0.66%) Appium
10 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.66%) Testinfra
General
1 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.87%) Law
6 9 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.61%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.95%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Aviation
9 3 (1.97%) Marketing
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Automotive
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
11 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (36.84%) Developer
2 36 (23.68%) Lead
3 28 (18.42%) Senior
4 24 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 14 (9.21%) Team Leader
7 13 (8.55%) Power Platform Developer
8 12 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (7.89%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (5.26%) Architect
11 7 (4.61%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Salesforce Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.29%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
13 5 (3.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 5 (3.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.42%) REST
2 25 (16.45%) .NET
3 18 (11.84%) Spring Boot
4 17 (11.18%) React
4 17 (11.18%) Spring
5 14 (9.21%) HTML
5 14 (9.21%) Web Services
6 12 (7.89%) Kafka
6 12 (7.89%) Middleware
6 12 (7.89%) Node.js
7 10 (6.58%) JSON
8 9 (5.92%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (5.92%) Apache Camel
8 9 (5.92%) Hibernate
8 9 (5.92%) jQuery
8 9 (5.92%) SOAP
8 9 (5.92%) WireMock
8 9 (5.92%) XML
9 8 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
9 8 (5.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.53%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.97%) Life Science
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.66%) FPGA
8 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.92%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) VMS
3 4 (2.63%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (53.95%) DevOps
2 73 (48.03%) Agile
3 42 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (18.42%) AI
7 27 (17.76%) Microservices
8 25 (16.45%) SDLC
9 24 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 21 (13.82%) TDD
11 20 (13.16%) Data Modelling
12 19 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (11.84%) Data Governance
14 17 (11.18%) Containerisation
15 16 (10.53%) Test Automation
16 15 (9.87%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (9.87%) Workflow
17 14 (9.21%) Scrum
17 14 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.08%) Python
2 49 (32.24%) JavaScript
3 36 (23.68%) Java
4 29 (19.08%) C#
5 22 (14.47%) TypeScript
6 21 (13.82%) SQL
7 13 (8.55%) C++
7 13 (8.55%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.26%) Apex Code
8 8 (5.26%) Bash
9 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.29%) C
11 3 (1.97%) ABAP
11 3 (1.97%) Go
12 2 (1.32%) R
12 2 (1.32%) Ruby
12 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.82%) Degree
3 13 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) PhD
7 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CISA
8 1 (0.66%) CISM
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.84%) QA
2 11 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.95%) ECSS
4 4 (2.63%) GDPR
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.32%) WCAG
7 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.66%) MISRA
7 1 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (25.66%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (19.74%) Terraform
3 9 (5.92%) Kibana
4 4 (2.63%) Ansible
5 3 (1.97%) Argo
5 3 (1.97%) Grafana
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.66%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.92%) Splunk
3 8 (5.26%) Databricks
3 8 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.61%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.63%) Telerik
6 3 (1.97%) SAP
6 3 (1.97%) Workday
7 2 (1.32%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.66%) Informatica
8 1 (0.66%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.66%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.66%) VMware