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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 57 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -52
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 175 128 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.51% 4.65% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.98% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 128 66 146
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £86,000
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 3,663 2,568 5,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.57% 93.31% 85.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,347 1,195 3,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,430
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +18.98% -4.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -2 81 £52,500 -16.00% 37
Buckinghamshire +16 64 £63,500 -10.56% 35
Oxfordshire +7 30 £67,500 - 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 (3.43%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (43.43%) AWS
1 76 (43.43%) Azure
2 25 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 25 (14.29%) Serverless
3 23 (13.14%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.86%) SaaS
5 17 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (9.14%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (7.43%) GCP
9 11 (6.29%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.71%) GitHub
11 9 (5.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (4.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) Firewall
2 5 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.29%) DNS
3 4 (2.29%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) Modbus
4 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.29%) Relational Database
2 16 (9.14%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.14%) MySQL
5 8 (4.57%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.29%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.71%) Power BI
9 3 (1.71%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (1.71%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.14%) Metadata
11 1 (0.57%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (26.86%) Git
2 23 (13.14%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.43%) GitLab
4 10 (5.71%) JIRA
5 6 (3.43%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.86%) JUnit
6 5 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.29%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.29%) git-flow
7 4 (2.29%) JMeter
7 4 (2.29%) Mockito
7 4 (2.29%) Postman
8 3 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.71%) MLflow
8 3 (1.71%) Selenium
8 3 (1.71%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.14%) Polyspace
9 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.14%) VectorCAST
General
1 61 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.71%) Finance
4 18 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.00%) Law
6 12 (6.86%) Games
6 12 (6.86%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.71%) Automotive
10 3 (1.71%) Aviation
11 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.57%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.57%) Marketing
12 1 (0.57%) Military
12 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.57%) Publishing
12 1 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (32.00%) Developer
2 38 (21.71%) Lead
3 25 (14.29%) Senior
4 18 (10.29%) Data Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (9.71%) Team Leader
6 16 (9.14%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (8.57%) Power Platform Developer
8 14 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 13 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Architect
13 8 (4.57%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
13 8 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 8 (4.57%) Salesforce Developer
13 8 (4.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.29%) REST
2 30 (17.14%) .NET
3 20 (11.43%) JSON
4 19 (10.86%) React
5 14 (8.00%) YAML
6 13 (7.43%) Middleware
6 13 (7.43%) Spring
6 13 (7.43%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.86%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (6.29%) Kafka
8 11 (6.29%) Node.js
8 11 (6.29%) Web Services
9 10 (5.71%) .NET Framework
9 10 (5.71%) HTML
9 10 (5.71%) Jinja
9 10 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (5.71%) SOAP
9 10 (5.71%) XML
10 9 (5.14%) Lightning Web Components
10 9 (5.14%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.29%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.86%) Life Science
6 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Robotics
8 2 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.86%) Linux
2 7 (4.00%) Unix
3 4 (2.29%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.29%) DevOps
2 86 (49.14%) Agile
3 59 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (22.29%) AI
6 33 (18.86%) Microservices
7 30 (17.14%) Containerisation
8 29 (16.57%) Data Modelling
9 28 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 27 (15.43%) Software Engineering
11 25 (14.29%) Analytics
11 25 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
11 25 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (13.71%) Test Automation
13 23 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (12.57%) Scrum
15 20 (11.43%) Decision-Making
16 19 (10.86%) TDD
17 18 (10.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.29%) Python
2 51 (29.14%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.57%) C#
4 35 (20.00%) Java
5 30 (17.14%) SQL
6 17 (9.71%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.00%) C++
8 10 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.14%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.86%) Bash
10 5 (2.86%) C
10 5 (2.86%) Groovy
11 3 (1.71%) ABAP
11 3 (1.71%) Perl
11 3 (1.71%) PHP
11 3 (1.71%) R
12 2 (1.14%) Go
12 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.14%) Ruby
13 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.29%) Degree
3 17 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.43%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.71%) PhD
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISA
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) QA
2 9 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.43%) ECSS
5 5 (2.86%) GDPR
6 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.14%) Def Stans
7 2 (1.14%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.14%) ISO 26262
7 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.14%) WCAG
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.57%) MISRA
8 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (19.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (20.00%) Terraform
2 31 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.29%) Ansible
4 6 (3.43%) Kibana
5 4 (2.29%) Packer
6 2 (1.14%) Argo
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.86%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.29%) Databricks
4 10 (5.71%) Cisco
4 10 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.14%) MuleSoft
6 7 (4.00%) IBM
7 6 (3.43%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.86%) F5
8 5 (2.86%) Juniper
8 5 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.86%) Splunk
9 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.29%) Oracle
9 4 (2.29%) SAP
9 4 (2.29%) Telerik
10 3 (1.71%) Workday
11 2 (1.14%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.14%) VMware
12 1 (0.57%) Atlassian