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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 62 77
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 -45
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 154 120 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.45% 3.97% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.22% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 101 58 139
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -13.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,125 £85,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -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 3,425 2,843 4,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.67% 93.95% 86.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,024 1,218 3,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,035
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £76,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £91,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 March 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 March 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 -3 81 £52,500 -14.29% 120
Buckinghamshire +29 46 £67,500 -10.00% 54
Oxfordshire +10 27 £70,000 -6.67% 33
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 (3.90%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (42.21%) AWS
2 63 (40.91%) Azure
3 29 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
4 23 (14.94%) Serverless
5 17 (11.04%) GitHub
5 17 (11.04%) SaaS
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (9.74%) GCP
8 14 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (8.44%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (5.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.90%) Firewall
2 4 (2.60%) SpaceWire
3 3 (1.95%) DNS
4 2 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.34%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.49%) MySQL
4 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.19%) RDBMS
6 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.90%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.95%) Power BI
8 3 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (1.95%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.30%) Metadata
10 1 (0.65%) Looker
10 1 (0.65%) QGIS
10 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.65%) Tableau
10 1 (0.65%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (25.32%) Git
2 22 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.84%) GitLab
3 9 (5.84%) JUnit
4 8 (5.19%) JMeter
4 8 (5.19%) Mockito
5 7 (4.55%) Selenium
6 5 (3.25%) git-flow
7 3 (1.95%) JIRA
7 3 (1.95%) MLflow
8 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.30%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.65%) Appium
9 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.23%) Finance
4 22 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 16 (10.39%) Law
6 10 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.90%) Games
8 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.95%) Aviation
9 3 (1.95%) Retail
10 2 (1.30%) Automotive
10 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
11 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (37.01%) Developer
2 33 (21.43%) Lead
3 28 (18.18%) Senior
4 23 (14.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (9.74%) Java Developer
5 15 (9.74%) Power Platform Developer
6 14 (9.09%) Team Leader
7 12 (7.79%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Architect
10 8 (5.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Salesforce Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 5 (3.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 5 (3.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.48%) REST
2 26 (16.88%) .NET
3 20 (12.99%) React
4 17 (11.04%) Spring Boot
5 16 (10.39%) Spring
6 13 (8.44%) HTML
6 13 (8.44%) Middleware
6 13 (8.44%) Web Services
7 12 (7.79%) JSON
7 12 (7.79%) Kafka
8 10 (6.49%) Node.js
8 10 (6.49%) SOAP
8 10 (6.49%) XML
9 9 (5.84%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (5.84%) Visualforce
10 8 (5.19%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (5.19%) Apache Camel
10 8 (5.19%) CSS
10 8 (5.19%) jQuery
10 8 (5.19%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.69%) Low-Code
3 17 (11.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.95%) Life Science
6 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.14%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Unix
2 4 (2.60%) VMS
2 4 (2.60%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (55.84%) DevOps
2 75 (48.70%) Agile
3 49 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (18.83%) Microservices
6 27 (17.53%) AI
7 24 (15.58%) SDLC
7 24 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 23 (14.94%) Data Modelling
9 22 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 21 (13.64%) Containerisation
11 20 (12.99%) TDD
12 19 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (11.69%) Machine Learning
14 17 (11.04%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (11.04%) Scrum
15 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (9.74%) Business Process Analysis
17 14 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (47.40%) Python
2 53 (34.42%) JavaScript
3 36 (23.38%) Java
4 31 (20.13%) C#
5 21 (13.64%) SQL
6 20 (12.99%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.09%) C++
8 13 (8.44%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.84%) Apex Code
10 6 (3.90%) Bash
11 5 (3.25%) C
12 4 (2.60%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.95%) ABAP
13 3 (1.95%) PHP
13 3 (1.95%) R
14 2 (1.30%) Go
14 2 (1.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.29%) Degree
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.30%) PhD
7 2 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CISA
8 1 (0.65%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.39%) QA
2 11 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.90%) ECSS
4 5 (3.25%) GDPR
5 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) MISRA
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (23.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.83%) Terraform
3 8 (5.19%) Kibana
4 3 (1.95%) Ansible
4 3 (1.95%) Grafana
5 2 (1.30%) Argo
5 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.84%) Databricks
2 9 (5.84%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.19%) MuleSoft
3 8 (5.19%) Splunk
4 6 (3.90%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.60%) Cisco
5 4 (2.60%) Telerik
6 3 (1.95%) SAP
6 3 (1.95%) Workday
7 2 (1.30%) F5
7 2 (1.30%) Google
7 2 (1.30%) Juniper
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle
7 2 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.30%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica
8 1 (0.65%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.65%) VMware