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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 -47
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 196 136 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.46% 4.08% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.36% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 62 144
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,813 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,250 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -8.57%

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 4,105 3,118 5,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.41% 93.49% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,699 1,242 3,995
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,775 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,813 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,587 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +13.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +32 84 £66,000 +1.54% 29
Berkshire +4 77 £52,500 -16.67% 53
Oxfordshire +19 35 £63,750 -1.92% 35
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 7 (3.57%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.55%) CMS
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (47.96%) Azure
2 89 (45.41%) AWS
3 28 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (13.27%) Power Platform
5 25 (12.76%) Serverless
6 18 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (8.67%) SaaS
8 15 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.12%) GCP
10 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
11 10 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (3.06%) dbt
13 6 (3.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.67%) Firewall
2 7 (3.57%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.53%) DHCP
5 2 (1.02%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.69%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.08%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.06%) MySQL
4 6 (3.06%) Power BI
5 4 (2.04%) Airbyte
5 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.53%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.02%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) Looker
8 1 (0.51%) QGIS
8 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 46 (23.47%) Git
2 23 (11.73%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.20%) GitLab
4 9 (4.59%) JIRA
5 6 (3.06%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.06%) JUnit
6 5 (2.55%) Postman
6 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.04%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.04%) JMeter
7 4 (2.04%) Mockito
7 4 (2.04%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.53%) MLflow
8 3 (1.53%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.53%) Selenium
8 3 (1.53%) VectorCAST
8 3 (1.53%) Yeoman
9 2 (1.02%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Finance
4 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.63%) Games
6 11 (5.61%) Law
6 11 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Aviation
11 1 (0.51%) Advertising
11 1 (0.51%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (23.98%) Developer
2 43 (21.94%) Lead
3 23 (11.73%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Senior
5 18 (9.18%) Team Leader
6 17 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Power Platform Developer
8 15 (7.65%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.14%) Architect
10 12 (6.12%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 9 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 8 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.57%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.43%) REST
2 30 (15.31%) .NET
3 25 (12.76%) JSON
4 17 (8.67%) React
5 15 (7.65%) XML
5 15 (7.65%) YAML
6 14 (7.14%) Middleware
6 14 (7.14%) SOAP
6 14 (7.14%) Spring
6 14 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 13 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (6.63%) Kafka
8 12 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (6.12%) Web Services
9 11 (5.61%) RESTful
10 10 (5.10%) Jinja
10 10 (5.10%) Node.js
11 9 (4.59%) .NET Framework
11 9 (4.59%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 31 (15.82%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.18%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.10%) Life Science
4 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.02%) Robotics
10 2 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (60.71%) DevOps
2 99 (50.51%) Agile
3 69 (35.20%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (23.98%) AI
6 40 (20.41%) Containerisation
7 37 (18.88%) Software Engineering
8 36 (18.37%) Microservices
9 33 (16.84%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.33%) Data Governance
10 32 (16.33%) Data Modelling
11 29 (14.80%) Analytics
11 29 (14.80%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (12.76%) Machine Learning
14 23 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (11.73%) TDD
15 22 (11.22%) Decision-Making
16 21 (10.71%) Scrum
17 19 (9.69%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 92 (46.94%) Python
2 49 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 37 (18.88%) C#
3 37 (18.88%) SQL
4 35 (17.86%) Java
5 12 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.10%) C++
7 9 (4.59%) Bash
8 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.57%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.55%) Groovy
11 3 (1.53%) C
11 3 (1.53%) Perl
11 3 (1.53%) PHP
11 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.53%) R
12 2 (1.02%) Go
12 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.02%) Ruby
13 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 25 (12.76%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.04%) PhD
7 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.53%) ICAEW
8 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.29%) QA
2 10 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.04%) WCAG
5 3 (1.53%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.53%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.02%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.02%) ECSS
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) MISRA
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (20.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.53%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (21.43%) Terraform
2 38 (19.39%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.14%) Ansible
4 6 (3.06%) Grafana
4 6 (3.06%) Kibana
4 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.04%) Packer
6 3 (1.53%) Argo
7 2 (1.02%) Istio
7 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 39 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.63%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.61%) Databricks
4 10 (5.10%) Cisco
5 9 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.57%) IBM
6 7 (3.57%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.06%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.55%) F5
8 5 (2.55%) Juniper
8 5 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.55%) Splunk
9 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.04%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.53%) Adobe
10 3 (1.53%) VMware
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle
11 2 (1.02%) SAP
11 2 (1.02%) Telerik
12 1 (0.51%) Informatica