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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 -18
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 140 177 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.83% 4.12% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.79% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 76 86 128
10th Percentile £48,375 £47,500 £49,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,125 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +7.71% -9.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 3,111 3,698 3,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.14% 86.06% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,810 2,182
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,106 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,701 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +2.28% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -27 68 £62,500 -7.41% 37
Buckinghamshire +33 46 £75,000 -14.77% 26
Oxfordshire +20 26 £71,250 +1.79% 44
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 4 (2.86%) IIS
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.43%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (57.14%) AWS
2 62 (44.29%) Azure
3 28 (20.00%) Serverless
4 26 (18.57%) GCP
5 22 (15.71%) GitHub
6 21 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (13.57%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (9.29%) SaaS
11 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.29%) Entra ID
13 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Firewall
1 2 (1.43%) LAN
1 2 (1.43%) SpaceWire
1 2 (1.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.57%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.86%) MySQL
3 18 (12.86%) RDBMS
4 15 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.57%) Power BI
7 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.43%) Metadata
8 2 (1.43%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.71%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.71%) Looker
9 1 (0.71%) QGIS
9 1 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 49 (35.00%) Git
2 34 (24.29%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.86%) JMeter
3 18 (12.86%) JUnit
3 18 (12.86%) Mockito
4 6 (4.29%) NUnit
5 5 (3.57%) git-flow
5 5 (3.57%) GitLab
5 5 (3.57%) Selenium
5 5 (3.57%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.86%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.86%) JIRA
7 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.43%) Postman
9 1 (0.71%) Appium
9 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.71%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 22 (15.71%) Law
4 18 (12.86%) Marketing
5 7 (5.00%) Finance
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Games
6 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Publishing
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (45.71%) Developer
2 46 (32.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 43 (30.71%) Senior
4 25 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 23 (16.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (15.71%) Java Developer
6 22 (15.71%) Lead
7 17 (12.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (10.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 14 (10.00%) Senior Web Developer
9 14 (10.00%) Web Developer
10 12 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (7.86%) .NET Developer
12 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 8 (5.71%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) Architect
14 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.00%) HTML
2 34 (24.29%) React
3 30 (21.43%) REST
4 26 (18.57%) .NET
4 26 (18.57%) CSS
5 25 (17.86%) Spring Boot
6 24 (17.14%) Node.js
6 24 (17.14%) Spring
7 22 (15.71%) RESTful
8 20 (14.29%) JSON
8 20 (14.29%) Web Services
9 19 (13.57%) XML
10 18 (12.86%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (12.86%) Apache Camel
10 18 (12.86%) Hibernate
10 18 (12.86%) jQuery
10 18 (12.86%) WireMock
11 10 (7.14%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Online Games
6 3 (2.14%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.71%) Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) VMS
3 3 (2.14%) Windows
4 2 (1.43%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (57.14%) Agile
2 68 (48.57%) DevOps
3 59 (42.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 42 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (24.29%) Microservices
6 33 (23.57%) Containerisation
7 30 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 29 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (18.57%) TDD
10 24 (17.14%) SDLC
11 20 (14.29%) BDD
12 19 (13.57%) Workflow
13 18 (12.86%) Process Management
13 18 (12.86%) Scrum
14 17 (12.14%) AI
14 17 (12.14%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.14%) User Experience
15 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
16 15 (10.71%) Machine Learning
16 15 (10.71%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 48 (34.29%) Python
3 37 (26.43%) Java
4 25 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 20 (14.29%) C#
5 20 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 18 (12.86%) SQL
7 13 (9.29%) Bash
7 13 (9.29%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.29%) C++
9 5 (3.57%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.14%) Go
11 2 (1.43%) ABAP
11 2 (1.43%) C
11 2 (1.43%) Ruby
11 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.71%) Bicep
12 1 (0.71%) PHP
12 1 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) Degree
3 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) MCSE
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.71%) CCNP
6 1 (0.71%) CISA
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CISM
6 1 (0.71%) CISSP
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.43%) QA
2 9 (6.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.29%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.86%) ECSS
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (45.71%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.14%) vCloud
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (43.57%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.00%) Terraform
3 18 (12.86%) Kibana
4 5 (3.57%) Ansible
5 3 (2.14%) Argo
5 3 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.14%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.43%) Grafana
7 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.86%) Dynatrace
2 18 (12.86%) Splunk
3 6 (4.29%) VMware
4 5 (3.57%) Rollbar
4 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.86%) Telerik
6 3 (2.14%) Databricks
6 3 (2.14%) Google
6 3 (2.14%) Oracle
7 2 (1.43%) SAP
7 2 (1.43%) Workday
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Informatica
8 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.71%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.71%) Sitecore