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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 60 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 -53
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 191 156 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.20% 4.51% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.88% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 137 67 136
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,000 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £88,500 £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 4,280 3,195 5,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.79% 92.39% 82.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,968 1,275 3,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% +0.50% -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 26 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 26 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 +21 81 £67,000 -4.96% 16
Berkshire -12 61 £62,500 -16.67% 35
Oxfordshire +12 49 £57,500 -11.54% 22
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 (2.09%) CMS
1 4 (2.09%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Lightworks
2 2 (1.05%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (53.40%) Azure
2 93 (48.69%) AWS
3 28 (14.66%) Serverless
4 24 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.52%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (8.38%) SaaS
8 15 (7.85%) OpenShift
9 14 (7.33%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.28%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (5.24%) GCP
14 9 (4.71%) GitHub
15 7 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (3.14%) dbt
16 6 (3.14%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.38%) Firewall
2 6 (3.14%) DNS
3 5 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.57%) DHCP
4 3 (1.57%) Internet
4 3 (1.57%) MQTT
5 2 (1.05%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.05%) SpaceWire
5 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.05%) Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) HTTP
6 1 (0.52%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.42%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.71%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.66%) Power BI
6 6 (3.14%) Airbyte
6 6 (3.14%) MySQL
6 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.62%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.05%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Metadata
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (19.37%) Git
2 24 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.04%) GitLab
4 11 (5.76%) JIRA
5 9 (4.71%) JUnit
6 7 (3.66%) JMeter
6 7 (3.66%) Mockito
7 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.62%) Yeoman
9 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
9 4 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.09%) Postman
9 4 (2.09%) Selenium
9 4 (2.09%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.57%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.57%) Eclipse RCP
10 3 (1.57%) Polyspace
10 3 (1.57%) VectorCAST
11 2 (1.05%) Mocha
General
1 52 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.14%) Finance
4 15 (7.85%) Manufacturing
4 15 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.76%) Games
6 10 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.62%) Advertising
7 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.62%) Law
8 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.09%) Marketing
9 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.94%) Developer
2 30 (15.71%) Lead
3 27 (14.14%) Software Engineer
4 22 (11.52%) Data Engineer
5 19 (9.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.42%) Architect
7 16 (8.38%) Senior
8 15 (7.85%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Java Developer
9 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Consultant
12 9 (4.71%) Java Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.42%) .NET
2 36 (18.85%) REST
3 27 (14.14%) JSON
4 20 (10.47%) HTML
5 17 (8.90%) YAML
6 16 (8.38%) React
6 16 (8.38%) Spring Boot
6 16 (8.38%) XML
7 14 (7.33%) CSS
7 14 (7.33%) Spring
8 13 (6.81%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.28%) .NET Core
10 11 (5.76%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.76%) RESTful
11 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (5.24%) Jinja
11 10 (5.24%) Web Services
12 9 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.71%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.28%) Low-Code
5 11 (5.76%) Life Science
6 10 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.66%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (3.14%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.57%) FPGA
11 3 (1.57%) IoT
11 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.52%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (1.05%) VxWorks
3 2 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (61.78%) DevOps
2 95 (49.74%) Agile
3 65 (34.03%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (28.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (24.08%) Software Engineering
6 45 (23.56%) AI
6 45 (23.56%) Containerisation
7 43 (22.51%) Test Automation
8 38 (19.90%) Microservices
9 29 (15.18%) Analytics
9 29 (15.18%) Data Governance
9 29 (15.18%) Machine Learning
10 28 (14.66%) TDD
11 26 (13.61%) Data Modelling
11 26 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (12.57%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
15 20 (10.47%) Design Patterns
15 20 (10.47%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 81 (42.41%) Python
2 47 (24.61%) C#
3 40 (20.94%) JavaScript
3 40 (20.94%) SQL
4 33 (17.28%) Java
5 12 (6.28%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.76%) C++
6 11 (5.76%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.24%) Bash
8 8 (4.19%) C
9 6 (3.14%) Groovy
10 3 (1.57%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.57%) Perl
10 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.05%) PHP
11 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) R
11 2 (1.05%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (14.66%) Degree
2 25 (13.09%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.14%) ICAEW
7 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.09%) PhD
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.61%) QA
2 11 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.09%) ECSS
4 4 (2.09%) WCAG
5 3 (1.57%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.57%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.57%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.05%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.05%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) MISRA
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (25.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (24.08%) Kubernetes
2 35 (18.32%) Terraform
3 14 (7.33%) Ansible
4 9 (4.71%) Kibana
5 7 (3.66%) Grafana
5 7 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.62%) Argo
7 4 (2.09%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.09%) Packer
8 3 (1.57%) Istio
9 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 44 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.33%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.24%) Cisco
4 8 (4.19%) Splunk
5 7 (3.66%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.66%) IBM
5 7 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.14%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.14%) Databricks
7 5 (2.62%) F5
7 5 (2.62%) Facebook
7 5 (2.62%) Juniper
7 5 (2.62%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.62%) YouTube
8 4 (2.09%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.09%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.57%) Adobe
9 3 (1.57%) VMware
10 2 (1.05%) Oracle
10 2 (1.05%) SAP