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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 61 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -55
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 184 150 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.14% 4.40% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 4.75% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 134 61 135
10th Percentile £45,375 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,600
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 4,196 3,159 6,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.54% 92.61% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,912 1,234 4,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +28 80 £67,000 -4.29% 14
Berkshire -9 60 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Oxfordshire +9 44 £57,500 -11.54% 20
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 4 (2.17%) CMS
1 4 (2.17%) OpenStack
1 4 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.09%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.80%) Azure
2 89 (48.37%) AWS
3 28 (15.22%) Serverless
4 23 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
6 18 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.70%) SaaS
8 15 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.15%) OpenShift
9 14 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.52%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.35%) GCP
14 7 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (3.26%) GitHub
16 5 (2.72%) Apigee
16 5 (2.72%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.70%) Firewall
2 6 (3.26%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.63%) DHCP
5 2 (1.09%) Internet
5 2 (1.09%) MQTT
5 2 (1.09%) SpaceWire
5 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) Modbus
6 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.24%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.89%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.26%) Power BI
7 5 (2.72%) Airbyte
7 5 (2.72%) MySQL
7 5 (2.72%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.09%) Redis
11 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.54%) Metadata
11 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 35 (19.02%) Git
2 23 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.41%) GitLab
4 11 (5.98%) JIRA
5 9 (4.89%) JUnit
6 7 (3.80%) JMeter
6 7 (3.80%) Mockito
7 5 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.72%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.72%) Yeoman
8 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.17%) Postman
8 4 (2.17%) Selenium
8 4 (2.17%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.63%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.63%) VectorCAST
10 2 (1.09%) Mocha
11 1 (0.54%) Subversion
11 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.67%) Finance
4 15 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.98%) Games
6 11 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.72%) Advertising
7 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Law
8 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.17%) Marketing
9 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.09%) Automotive
9 2 (1.09%) Aviation
9 2 (1.09%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.54%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (21.20%) Developer
2 30 (16.30%) Lead
3 24 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 21 (11.41%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Architect
7 15 (8.15%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (7.61%) Senior
9 12 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.43%) .NET Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (5.43%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Consultant
12 9 (4.89%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.11%) .NET
2 36 (19.57%) REST
3 27 (14.67%) JSON
4 18 (9.78%) HTML
5 17 (9.24%) React
5 17 (9.24%) YAML
6 16 (8.70%) XML
7 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.07%) Spring
9 12 (6.52%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.52%) CSS
10 11 (5.98%) .NET Core
10 11 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.98%) RESTful
10 11 (5.98%) Web Services
11 10 (5.43%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (5.43%) Jinja
12 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.28%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Low-Code
4 11 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.89%) Life Science
5 9 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.09%) IoT
10 2 (1.09%) Robotics
10 2 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.41%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (1.09%) VxWorks
3 2 (1.09%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.96%) DevOps
2 93 (50.54%) Agile
3 62 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (29.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (24.46%) Containerisation
6 41 (22.28%) AI
6 41 (22.28%) Software Engineering
7 39 (21.20%) Test Automation
8 38 (20.65%) Microservices
9 29 (15.76%) TDD
10 28 (15.22%) Analytics
10 28 (15.22%) Data Governance
11 26 (14.13%) Machine Learning
12 25 (13.59%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 20 (10.87%) Event-Driven
15 20 (10.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.93%) Python
2 45 (24.46%) C#
3 41 (22.28%) JavaScript
4 39 (21.20%) SQL
5 32 (17.39%) Java
6 11 (5.98%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.43%) C++
7 10 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.89%) Bash
9 6 (3.26%) C
10 5 (2.72%) Groovy
11 3 (1.63%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.63%) Perl
11 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.09%) R
13 1 (0.54%) ABAP
13 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (14.67%) Degree
2 24 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.26%) ICAEW
7 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.72%) PhD
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.13%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.17%) WCAG
5 3 (1.63%) ECSS
5 3 (1.63%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.63%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.63%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.09%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 1 (0.54%) MISRA
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.63%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (17.93%) Terraform
3 14 (7.61%) Ansible
4 9 (4.89%) Kibana
5 7 (3.80%) Grafana
5 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.72%) Argo
7 4 (2.17%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.17%) Packer
8 3 (1.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.54%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 43 (23.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.61%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.43%) Cisco
4 8 (4.35%) Splunk
5 7 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.80%) IBM
5 7 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.26%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.26%) Databricks
7 5 (2.72%) F5
7 5 (2.72%) Facebook
7 5 (2.72%) Juniper
7 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.72%) YouTube
8 4 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.17%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.63%) Adobe
9 3 (1.63%) VMware
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle
10 2 (1.09%) SAP