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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 56 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 -50
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 161 115 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.35% 4.18% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.45% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 116 61 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £56,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £86,025
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 3,591 2,584 5,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 74.75% 93.93% 85.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,240 1,209 3,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,020
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.60% -3.74%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £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 23 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 23 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 0 78 £50,000 -20.00% 35
Buckinghamshire +17 57 £63,500 -9.93% 35
Oxfordshire +9 26 £70,000 -6.67% 30
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 63 (39.13%) AWS
3 27 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 20 (12.42%) Serverless
6 18 (11.18%) SaaS
7 15 (9.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (8.70%) GCP
9 13 (8.07%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (8.07%) GitHub
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon S3
11 11 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (6.83%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 8 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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
2 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.21%) MySQL
4 9 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.97%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.73%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.86%) Power BI
9 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.24%) Metadata
11 1 (0.62%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.62%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (23.60%) Git
2 17 (10.56%) 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%) Postman
7 4 (2.48%) Selenium
8 3 (1.86%) MLflow
9 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.24%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.62%) NUnit
10 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.62%) Yeoman
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 14 (8.70%) Law
6 12 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.21%) Games
7 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.86%) Aviation
11 2 (1.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.62%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.62%) Marketing
12 1 (0.62%) Military
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.62%) Publishing
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) Developer
2 35 (21.74%) Lead
3 25 (15.53%) Senior
4 21 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (10.56%) Data Engineer
6 16 (9.94%) Team Leader
7 15 (9.32%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (8.07%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (7.45%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.83%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (6.21%) Network Engineer
11 10 (6.21%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (5.59%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.97%) Architect
13 8 (4.97%) Salesforce Developer
14 7 (4.35%) Infrastructure Team Leader
14 7 (4.35%) Operations Team Leader
14 7 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.50%) REST
2 30 (18.63%) .NET
3 18 (11.18%) React
4 16 (9.94%) JSON
5 13 (8.07%) Middleware
5 13 (8.07%) Spring
5 13 (8.07%) Spring Boot
6 12 (7.45%) HTML
6 12 (7.45%) Kafka
7 11 (6.83%) Node.js
7 11 (6.83%) Web Services
7 11 (6.83%) XML
8 10 (6.21%) Jinja
8 10 (6.21%) SOAP
8 10 (6.21%) YAML
9 9 (5.59%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.59%) CSS
9 9 (5.59%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (5.59%) Visualforce
10 7 (4.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.18%) Low-Code
3 16 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.48%) Life Science
7 3 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
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%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.70%) Linux
2 7 (4.35%) Unix
3 4 (2.48%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (55.90%) DevOps
2 76 (47.20%) Agile
3 54 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (19.25%) AI
6 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 28 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 28 (17.39%) Microservices
7 27 (16.77%) Data Governance
7 27 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (14.29%) Analytics
8 23 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 22 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (12.42%) SDLC
11 19 (11.80%) Decision-Making
12 18 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (11.18%) Scrum
13 17 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (9.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (49.07%) Python
2 51 (31.68%) JavaScript
3 35 (21.74%) C#
4 30 (18.63%) Java
5 28 (17.39%) SQL
6 17 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.07%) C++
8 11 (6.83%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.59%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.11%) C
11 3 (1.86%) ABAP
11 3 (1.86%) Bash
11 3 (1.86%) PHP
11 3 (1.86%) R
12 2 (1.24%) Go
12 2 (1.24%) Ruby
13 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.62%) Scala
13 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.04%) Degree
3 11 (6.83%) 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 14 (8.70%) 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 32 (19.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (17.39%) Terraform
2 27 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.73%) Kibana
4 3 (1.86%) Ansible
5 2 (1.24%) Argo
5 2 (1.24%) Grafana
5 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (19.25%) 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%) Oracle
10 2 (1.24%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.62%) Informatica
11 1 (0.62%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.62%) VMware