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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 72 58
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 225 161 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.07% 4.18% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.65% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 150 69 94
10th Percentile £48,625 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,813 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £90,750 £94,100
South East median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% - -

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 5,202 3,466 4,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.08% 90.00% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 1,470 2,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,397 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 September 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 September 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
Oxfordshire +23 93 £60,000 -7.69% 91
Berkshire -6 67 £80,000 +12.28% 136
Buckinghamshire +19 65 £64,250 -12.88% 31
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 3 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.33%) CMS
1 3 (1.33%) Confluence
1 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) JBoss
3 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.78%) Simulink
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 119 (52.89%) Azure
2 112 (49.78%) AWS
3 34 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (12.44%) Serverless
5 25 (11.11%) GitHub
6 23 (10.22%) Power Platform
7 22 (9.78%) SaaS
8 21 (9.33%) GCP
9 20 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (8.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 17 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (5.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (5.33%) Amazon S3
16 10 (4.44%) OpenShift
17 9 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) MQTT
2 5 (2.22%) DNS
2 5 (2.22%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.22%) Internet
3 4 (1.78%) Wireless
4 3 (1.33%) DHCP
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
5 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
6 1 (0.44%) NGN
6 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.44%) SNMP
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
6 1 (0.44%) WAN
6 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.56%) Power BI
5 16 (7.11%) MongoDB
6 14 (6.22%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.89%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.44%) Metadata
9 9 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (4.00%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.11%) MySQL
11 6 (2.67%) Airbyte
11 6 (2.67%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.78%) Redis
13 1 (0.44%) Big Data
13 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (24.44%) Git
2 29 (12.89%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.00%) GitLab
4 16 (7.11%) JIRA
5 10 (4.44%) JUnit
6 9 (4.00%) JMeter
7 8 (3.56%) Mockito
8 7 (3.11%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.78%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.78%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (1.78%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.78%) PetaLinux
10 4 (1.78%) Yeoman
11 3 (1.33%) Mocha
11 3 (1.33%) Polyspace
11 3 (1.33%) Selenium
11 3 (1.33%) VectorCAST
General
1 53 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.11%) Finance
3 15 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.22%) Manufacturing
4 14 (6.22%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.56%) Advertising
6 6 (2.67%) Retail
7 5 (2.22%) Games
7 5 (2.22%) Marketing
8 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.78%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (20.00%) Senior
2 40 (17.78%) Developer
3 35 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 23 (10.22%) Lead
5 21 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Architect
6 19 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 17 (7.56%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.78%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.33%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Consultant
13 10 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 10 (4.44%) Embedded Engineer
14 9 (4.00%) Python Engineer
15 8 (3.56%) DevOps Consultant
15 8 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (24.44%) Terraform
2 46 (20.44%) .NET
3 35 (15.56%) REST
4 32 (14.22%) React
5 30 (13.33%) HTML
6 22 (9.78%) CSS
7 20 (8.89%) ASP.NET
7 20 (8.89%) JSON
7 20 (8.89%) Spring Boot
8 18 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (7.56%) Spring
10 16 (7.11%) Node.js
11 15 (6.67%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.78%) AngularJS
12 13 (5.78%) XML
13 11 (4.89%) Entity Framework
13 11 (4.89%) jQuery
13 11 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.89%) Web Services
14 10 (4.44%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 19 (8.44%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (8.44%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (6.22%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (4.89%) Life Science
7 9 (4.00%) Robotics
8 7 (3.11%) IoT
8 7 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (2.67%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.78%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.78%) FPGA
11 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.78%) Verilog
11 4 (1.78%) VHDL
12 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.78%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Windows
3 4 (1.78%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.33%) Debian
4 3 (1.33%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Rocky
5 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (56.44%) DevOps
2 108 (48.00%) Agile
3 68 (30.22%) Software Engineering
4 65 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (27.11%) AI
6 56 (24.89%) Test Automation
7 54 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (19.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (17.78%) Containerisation
10 39 (17.33%) Computer Science
11 37 (16.44%) Microservices
12 35 (15.56%) Machine Learning
13 34 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (14.22%) Analytics
15 30 (13.33%) Data Modelling
15 30 (13.33%) Mentoring
15 30 (13.33%) Observability
16 29 (12.89%) TDD
17 27 (12.00%) Scrum
18 26 (11.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 94 (41.78%) Python
2 56 (24.89%) C#
3 54 (24.00%) SQL
4 42 (18.67%) Java
5 34 (15.11%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.44%) Bash
8 17 (7.56%) C++
9 14 (6.22%) C
10 12 (5.33%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.11%) Go
11 7 (3.11%) Groovy
11 7 (3.11%) Rust
12 6 (2.67%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.78%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.78%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.78%) SOQL
14 3 (1.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.89%) Bicep
15 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (21.33%) Degree
2 32 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 28 (12.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.78%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.11%) PhD
7 6 (2.67%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.11%) QA
2 22 (9.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.44%) GDPR
4 9 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.78%) ECSS
7 3 (1.33%) IEC 61508
7 3 (1.33%) ISO 26262
7 3 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.33%) WCAG
8 2 (0.89%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.89%) MISRA
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (28.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.22%) Firmware
3 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.89%) Lustre
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.67%) Ansible
3 13 (5.78%) Grafana
4 12 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.44%) Argo
5 10 (4.44%) Kibana
6 6 (2.67%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.78%) Istio
7 4 (1.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.44%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 51 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) Splunk
3 9 (4.00%) Informatica
3 9 (4.00%) Talend
4 8 (3.56%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.11%) Facebook
5 7 (3.11%) IBM
5 7 (3.11%) YouTube
6 6 (2.67%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.67%) New Relic
6 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.78%) Databricks
7 4 (1.78%) Sage
7 4 (1.78%) VMware
7 4 (1.78%) Xilinx
8 3 (1.33%) Google
8 3 (1.33%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.33%) Sitecore