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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 63 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -48
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 149 144 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.56% 4.24% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.60% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 97 69 131
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%

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 3,337 3,129 4,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.68% 92.16% 87.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 1,350 3,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,190 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -10 75 £55,000 -14.06% 160
Buckinghamshire +31 48 £72,500 -17.61% 48
Oxfordshire +9 26 £70,000 -6.67% 48
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 (4.03%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.62%) AWS
2 56 (37.58%) Azure
3 27 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (16.11%) Serverless
5 21 (14.09%) Power Platform
6 19 (12.75%) GitHub
7 17 (11.41%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (10.74%) SaaS
9 15 (10.07%) GCP
10 12 (8.05%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (7.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (5.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (4.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) SpaceWire
2 3 (2.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) Relational Database
2 20 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.72%) MySQL
4 10 (6.71%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.37%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.36%) Power BI
9 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.01%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.34%) Metadata
11 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.67%) Airbyte
12 1 (0.67%) Redis
12 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (26.17%) Git
2 26 (17.45%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.38%) JUnit
4 10 (6.71%) JMeter
4 10 (6.71%) Mockito
5 7 (4.70%) Selenium
6 6 (4.03%) GitLab
7 5 (3.36%) git-flow
8 3 (2.01%) MLflow
9 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.34%) Postman
10 1 (0.67%) Appium
10 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.67%) JIRA
10 1 (0.67%) NUnit
10 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.09%) Finance
4 17 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.07%) Law
6 9 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.03%) Games
8 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.68%) Marketing
10 3 (2.01%) Retail
11 2 (1.34%) Automotive
11 2 (1.34%) Aviation
11 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (36.91%) Developer
2 38 (25.50%) Lead
3 28 (18.79%) Senior
4 25 (16.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (11.41%) Java Developer
6 14 (9.40%) Team Leader
7 13 (8.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Power Platform Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.70%) Salesforce Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Quality Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 5 (3.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.46%) REST
2 25 (16.78%) .NET
3 19 (12.75%) Spring Boot
4 18 (12.08%) Spring
5 17 (11.41%) React
6 15 (10.07%) HTML
6 15 (10.07%) Web Services
7 13 (8.72%) Node.js
8 12 (8.05%) Kafka
8 12 (8.05%) Middleware
9 11 (7.38%) JSON
10 10 (6.71%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (6.71%) Apache Camel
10 10 (6.71%) Hibernate
10 10 (6.71%) jQuery
10 10 (6.71%) WireMock
10 10 (6.71%) XML
11 9 (6.04%) SOAP
12 8 (5.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (5.37%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (12.08%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.72%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.01%) Life Science
6 3 (2.01%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Linux
2 6 (4.03%) VMS
3 4 (2.68%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.02%) DevOps
2 71 (47.65%) Agile
3 37 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (18.79%) AI
5 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (18.79%) Microservices
6 26 (17.45%) SDLC
7 22 (14.77%) Software Engineering
8 21 (14.09%) TDD
9 19 (12.75%) Data Modelling
10 18 (12.08%) Containerisation
10 18 (12.08%) Machine Learning
11 17 (11.41%) Test Automation
12 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.74%) Workflow
13 15 (10.07%) Data Governance
14 13 (8.72%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.28%) Python
2 48 (32.21%) JavaScript
3 37 (24.83%) Java
4 26 (17.45%) C#
5 22 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 20 (13.42%) SQL
7 14 (9.40%) Shell Script
8 11 (7.38%) C++
9 9 (6.04%) Bash
10 8 (5.37%) Apex Code
10 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.68%) C
12 3 (2.01%) ABAP
12 3 (2.01%) Go
13 2 (1.34%) Ruby
13 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.67%) PHP
14 1 (0.67%) R
14 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.75%) Degree
3 13 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CISA
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.08%) QA
2 9 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.03%) ECSS
4 4 (2.68%) GDPR
5 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (27.52%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (24.83%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.13%) Terraform
3 10 (6.71%) Kibana
4 4 (2.68%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Argo
5 3 (2.01%) Grafana
6 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.67%) Packer
7 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.71%) Dynatrace
2 10 (6.71%) Splunk
3 8 (5.37%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.70%) Databricks
4 7 (4.70%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.68%) Telerik
6 3 (2.01%) SAP
6 3 (2.01%) Workday
7 2 (1.34%) Google
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle
7 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.67%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.67%) VMware