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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 65 85
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -54
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 161 113 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.45% 4.00% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.26% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 112 61 142
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -0.40% -15.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £93,750 £85,900
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 3,513 2,652 5,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 75.26% 93.98% 86.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,183 1,208 3,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,673 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.77% +13.35% -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 15 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 15 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 +8 83 £52,500 -14.29% 30
Buckinghamshire +20 52 £67,000 -5.63% 30
Oxfordshire +8 26 £70,000 -6.67% 24
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 (3.73%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.86%) Azure
2 67 (41.61%) AWS
3 27 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 20 (12.42%) Serverless
6 19 (11.80%) SaaS
7 16 (9.94%) GCP
8 15 (9.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (9.32%) GitHub
9 13 (8.07%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (6.83%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 8 (4.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.45%) Firewall
2 5 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.48%) SpaceWire
4 3 (1.86%) DNS
5 1 (0.62%) Modbus
5 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.56%) Relational Database
2 15 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.21%) MySQL
5 9 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.86%) Power BI
9 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.24%) Metadata
11 1 (0.62%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.62%) Tableau
11 1 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (24.84%) Git
2 18 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.32%) GitLab
4 7 (4.35%) JUnit
5 6 (3.73%) JMeter
5 6 (3.73%) Mockito
6 5 (3.11%) git-flow
7 4 (2.48%) JIRA
7 4 (2.48%) Selenium
8 3 (1.86%) MLflow
8 3 (1.86%) Postman
9 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.62%) NUnit
10 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 57 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.53%) Finance
4 19 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.32%) Law
6 12 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.97%) Games
9 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.86%) Aviation
11 3 (1.86%) Retail
12 2 (1.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.62%) Marketing
13 1 (0.62%) Military
13 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.62%) Publishing
13 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) Developer
2 35 (21.74%) Lead
3 27 (16.77%) Senior
4 21 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (9.94%) Team Leader
6 15 (9.32%) Power Platform Developer
7 14 (8.70%) Data Engineer
8 13 (8.07%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (8.07%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.83%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Network Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Architect
11 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.97%) Salesforce Developer
13 7 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
13 7 (4.35%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
13 7 (4.35%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.50%) REST
2 28 (17.39%) .NET
3 18 (11.18%) React
4 16 (9.94%) JSON
5 14 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.07%) Kafka
6 13 (8.07%) Middleware
6 13 (8.07%) Spring
7 11 (6.83%) HTML
7 11 (6.83%) Web Services
7 11 (6.83%) XML
8 10 (6.21%) Jinja
8 10 (6.21%) Node.js
8 10 (6.21%) SOAP
8 10 (6.21%) YAML
9 9 (5.59%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (5.59%) Visualforce
10 8 (4.97%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.97%) CSS
11 6 (3.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.18%) Low-Code
3 16 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.48%) Life Science
7 3 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.70%) Linux
2 7 (4.35%) Unix
3 4 (2.48%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (55.90%) DevOps
2 73 (45.34%) Agile
3 54 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (18.63%) AI
6 29 (18.01%) Microservices
7 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 26 (16.15%) Data Modelling
8 26 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (15.53%) Data Governance
10 24 (14.91%) Software Engineering
11 20 (12.42%) Analytics
11 20 (12.42%) SDLC
12 19 (11.80%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (11.18%) Decision-Making
14 17 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (10.56%) Scrum
15 16 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (9.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.45%) Python
2 52 (32.30%) JavaScript
3 33 (20.50%) C#
4 31 (19.25%) Java
5 25 (15.53%) SQL
6 18 (11.18%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.07%) C++
8 11 (6.83%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.59%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.11%) C
11 4 (2.48%) Bash
12 3 (1.86%) ABAP
12 3 (1.86%) PHP
12 3 (1.86%) R
13 2 (1.24%) Go
13 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.24%) Ruby
14 1 (0.62%) Scala
14 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.04%) Degree
3 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) PhD
7 2 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISA
8 1 (0.62%) CISM
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.07%) QA
2 9 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.73%) ECSS
4 5 (3.11%) GDPR
5 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.24%) WCAG
7 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.62%) MISRA
7 1 (0.62%) NIST
7 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (20.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (18.01%) Kubernetes
1 29 (18.01%) Terraform
2 6 (3.73%) Kibana
3 3 (1.86%) Ansible
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
4 2 (1.24%) Argo
4 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.45%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.21%) Cisco
3 10 (6.21%) Databricks
4 9 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.97%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.73%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.73%) Splunk
7 5 (3.11%) F5
7 5 (3.11%) Juniper
7 5 (3.11%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.48%) Telerik
9 3 (1.86%) SAP
9 3 (1.86%) Workday
10 2 (1.24%) Google
10 2 (1.24%) Oracle
10 2 (1.24%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.62%) Informatica
11 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.62%) VMware