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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 51 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -37
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 211 168 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.25% 4.71% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 5.22% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 146 64 114
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +11.37% -15.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,250 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -5.19%

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 4,612 3,217 4,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.93% 90.16% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 1,424 2,823
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,828 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,198
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.21% -5.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 August 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 1 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
Buckinghamshire +18 79 £63,500 -10.56% 21
Oxfordshire +18 68 £57,500 -11.54% 40
Berkshire -11 64 £67,500 -11.48% 59
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 3 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.42%) CMS
1 3 (1.42%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.42%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 112 (53.08%) Azure
2 110 (52.13%) AWS
3 28 (13.27%) Serverless
4 23 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.53%) SaaS
6 17 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.06%) GCP
6 17 (8.06%) GitHub
6 17 (8.06%) OpenShift
7 15 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (6.64%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.69%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.32%) Apigee
14 7 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.11%) Firewall
2 5 (2.37%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (2.37%) DNS
2 5 (2.37%) Internet
2 5 (2.37%) MQTT
3 3 (1.42%) DHCP
3 3 (1.42%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.42%) Wireless
4 2 (0.95%) HTTP
4 2 (0.95%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) Modbus
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.53%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (7.11%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.27%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.32%) MySQL
5 7 (3.32%) Power BI
6 6 (2.84%) Airbyte
6 6 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.90%) Redis
9 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.47%) GIS
11 1 (0.47%) Metadata
11 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (17.54%) Git
2 26 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.85%) GitLab
4 13 (6.16%) JIRA
5 9 (4.27%) JUnit
6 7 (3.32%) JMeter
6 7 (3.32%) Mockito
6 7 (3.32%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.37%) Yeoman
8 4 (1.90%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.90%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.90%) Eclipse RCP
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.90%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.42%) PetaLinux
9 3 (1.42%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.42%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.95%) Mocha
General
1 60 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.37%) Finance
4 17 (8.06%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.74%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.79%) Games
8 7 (3.32%) Advertising
9 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Marketing
11 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.42%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.47%) Automotive
13 1 (0.47%) Aviation
13 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.47%) Law
13 1 (0.47%) Military
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (16.59%) Developer
2 31 (14.69%) Software Engineer
3 26 (12.32%) Senior
4 25 (11.85%) Lead
5 21 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.00%) Architect
7 18 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.11%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) Consultant
11 10 (4.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.33%) .NET
2 34 (16.11%) REST
3 28 (13.27%) JSON
4 25 (11.85%) HTML
5 23 (10.90%) React
6 19 (9.00%) CSS
7 18 (8.53%) ASP.NET
8 17 (8.06%) Spring Boot
8 17 (8.06%) YAML
9 16 (7.58%) .NET Core
9 16 (7.58%) XML
10 15 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (6.64%) Spring
12 13 (6.16%) AngularJS
13 11 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (5.21%) RESTful
14 10 (4.74%) Jinja
15 9 (4.27%) Entity Framework
15 9 (4.27%) Node.js
15 9 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.06%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.69%) Life Science
5 11 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.74%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.32%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.84%) IoT
11 5 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.37%) Robotics
12 4 (1.90%) FPGA
12 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.42%) Verilog
13 3 (1.42%) VHDL
13 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.85%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Unix
3 3 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (59.72%) DevOps
2 103 (48.82%) Agile
3 66 (31.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (27.01%) Software Engineering
6 52 (24.64%) AI
7 49 (23.22%) Test Automation
8 48 (22.75%) Containerisation
9 40 (18.96%) Microservices
10 33 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (15.17%) Machine Learning
12 30 (14.22%) Mentoring
12 30 (14.22%) TDD
13 29 (13.74%) Analytics
14 26 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (11.85%) Data Modelling
16 24 (11.37%) Observability
17 23 (10.90%) DevSecOps
17 23 (10.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.76%) Python
2 48 (22.75%) C#
3 47 (22.27%) SQL
4 32 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 31 (14.69%) Java
6 18 (8.53%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.16%) C++
8 12 (5.69%) Bash
9 10 (4.74%) C
10 9 (4.27%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.32%) Groovy
12 6 (2.84%) PowerShell
13 5 (2.37%) Go
14 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.42%) Perl
14 3 (1.42%) Rust
15 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.95%) PHP
15 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (15.17%) Degree
2 25 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.95%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.21%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.84%) ICAEW
8 4 (1.90%) PhD
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.17%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.42%) ECSS
4 3 (1.42%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.42%) ISO 26262
4 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.42%) WCAG
5 2 (0.95%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) MISRA
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (27.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.95%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (26.54%) Kubernetes
2 54 (25.59%) Terraform
3 14 (6.64%) Ansible
4 10 (4.74%) Grafana
5 9 (4.27%) Kibana
5 9 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.84%) Argo
7 4 (1.90%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.90%) Packer
8 3 (1.42%) Istio
9 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 47 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.64%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.21%) Cisco
4 8 (3.79%) Splunk
5 7 (3.32%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.32%) Facebook
5 7 (3.32%) IBM
5 7 (3.32%) YouTube
6 6 (2.84%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.37%) Databricks
7 5 (2.37%) F5
7 5 (2.37%) Juniper
7 5 (2.37%) New Relic
7 5 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.42%) Adobe
8 3 (1.42%) Google
8 3 (1.42%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.42%) VMware
8 3 (1.42%) Xilinx