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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 63 80
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 -48
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 184 144 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.20% 4.28% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.61% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 131 60 139
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £55,000
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £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 4,127 3,125 5,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.74% 92.84% 82.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,864 1,204 4,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 12 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 12 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 +34 81 £66,000 -5.71% 10
Berkshire -10 62 £62,500 -16.67% 32
Oxfordshire +11 41 £58,750 -9.62% 14
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 5 (2.72%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.17%) CMS
2 4 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.09%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 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 97 (52.72%) Azure
2 90 (48.91%) AWS
3 29 (15.76%) Serverless
4 24 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
6 19 (10.33%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.70%) SaaS
8 15 (8.15%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.61%) OpenShift
10 13 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (7.07%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (4.35%) GCP
14 6 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (2.72%) dbt
15 5 (2.72%) Fivetran
15 5 (2.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.24%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) DNS
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.63%) DHCP
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%) Internet
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 8 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.72%) Airbyte
6 5 (2.72%) Power BI
6 5 (2.72%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.17%) MySQL
8 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.54%) Metadata
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 38 (20.65%) Git
2 23 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.96%) GitLab
4 11 (5.98%) JIRA
5 8 (4.35%) 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 28 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (15.22%) Finance
3 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
5 11 (5.98%) Games
5 11 (5.98%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Law
7 4 (2.17%) Advertising
7 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.17%) Marketing
8 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.09%) Automotive
8 2 (1.09%) Aviation
8 2 (1.09%) Retail
9 1 (0.54%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 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 20 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Architect
7 15 (8.15%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (7.61%) Senior
9 12 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 12 (6.52%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Power Platform Developer
10 11 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Consultant
12 9 (4.89%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Team Leader
13 8 (4.35%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.11%) REST
2 36 (19.57%) .NET
3 27 (14.67%) JSON
4 17 (9.24%) React
4 17 (9.24%) YAML
5 16 (8.70%) XML
6 15 (8.15%) HTML
7 14 (7.61%) Spring
7 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 12 (6.52%) Web Services
9 11 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.98%) RESTful
10 10 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.43%) ASP.NET
10 10 (5.43%) Jinja
10 10 (5.43%) Kafka
10 10 (5.43%) Node.js
11 9 (4.89%) CSS
11 9 (4.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 29 (15.76%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.07%) Low-Code
4 11 (5.98%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.43%) Life Science
6 9 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.63%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.09%) FPGA
12 2 (1.09%) IoT
12 2 (1.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.41%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (1.09%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (61.41%) DevOps
2 94 (51.09%) Agile
3 63 (34.24%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (25.54%) Containerisation
6 42 (22.83%) AI
7 41 (22.28%) Software Engineering
8 39 (21.20%) Microservices
8 39 (21.20%) Test Automation
9 30 (16.30%) TDD
10 29 (15.76%) Data Governance
11 27 (14.67%) Analytics
12 26 (14.13%) Machine Learning
13 24 (13.04%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (11.96%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.41%) Scrum
17 20 (10.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 81 (44.02%) Python
2 44 (23.91%) C#
3 43 (23.37%) JavaScript
4 36 (19.57%) 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 28 (15.22%) Degree
2 23 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (9.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.89%) 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 27 (14.67%) QA
2 9 (4.89%) 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 32 (17.39%) Terraform
3 14 (7.61%) Ansible
4 9 (4.89%) Kibana
5 6 (3.26%) Grafana
5 6 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.17%) Argo
6 4 (2.17%) Packer
7 3 (1.63%) Istio
7 3 (1.63%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.54%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 42 (22.83%) 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%) Juniper
7 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.17%) Facebook
8 4 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.17%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.17%) YouTube
9 3 (1.63%) Adobe
9 3 (1.63%) VMware
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle
10 2 (1.09%) SAP