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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 52 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -51
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 187 134 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.39% 4.59% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 4.95% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 133 64 145
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,750 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -5.19%

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 4,005 2,707 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.58% 92.77% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,219 4,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 27 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 27 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 +1 79 £52,500 -16.67% 36
Buckinghamshire +23 78 £63,500 -9.29% 25
Oxfordshire +4 30 £63,750 -1.92% 29
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 7 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.14%) CMS
3 3 (1.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (47.59%) Azure
2 83 (44.39%) AWS
3 26 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.37%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.83%) Serverless
6 18 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.56%) SaaS
8 15 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (8.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.95%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.42%) GCP
11 12 (6.42%) OpenShift
12 10 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 6 (3.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.02%) Firewall
2 5 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (2.67%) DNS
3 4 (2.14%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) Modbus
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.16%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.02%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.21%) MySQL
6 5 (2.67%) Power BI
7 4 (2.14%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.60%) Airbyte
8 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.60%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.07%) Metadata
9 2 (1.07%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.53%) QGIS
10 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (26.20%) Git
2 23 (12.30%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.76%) GitLab
4 9 (4.81%) JIRA
5 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.21%) JUnit
6 5 (2.67%) Postman
6 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.14%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.14%) JMeter
7 4 (2.14%) Mockito
7 4 (2.14%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.60%) MLflow
8 3 (1.60%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.60%) Selenium
8 3 (1.60%) VectorCAST
9 2 (1.07%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.44%) Finance
4 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.95%) Games
6 12 (6.42%) Law
6 12 (6.42%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.28%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Automotive
10 3 (1.60%) Aviation
11 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.53%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (26.20%) Developer
2 40 (21.39%) Lead
3 21 (11.23%) Senior
4 20 (10.70%) Data Engineer
5 18 (9.63%) Team Leader
6 16 (8.56%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (8.02%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (6.95%) Architect
8 13 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.95%) Java Developer
8 13 (6.95%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
11 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 8 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Operations Team Leader
13 7 (3.74%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.99%) REST
2 27 (14.44%) .NET
3 24 (12.83%) JSON
4 16 (8.56%) React
5 15 (8.02%) Middleware
6 14 (7.49%) SOAP
6 14 (7.49%) Spring
6 14 (7.49%) Spring Boot
6 14 (7.49%) XML
6 14 (7.49%) YAML
7 13 (6.95%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (6.42%) Kafka
8 12 (6.42%) Web Services
9 11 (5.88%) Node.js
9 11 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (5.35%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.35%) Jinja
10 10 (5.35%) RESTful
11 8 (4.28%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.28%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 28 (14.97%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.63%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.21%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.67%) Life Science
7 4 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.07%) Robotics
9 2 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.53%) FPGA
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.70%) Linux
2 7 (3.74%) Unix
3 4 (2.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (60.43%) DevOps
2 91 (48.66%) Agile
3 67 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (22.99%) AI
6 35 (18.72%) Containerisation
6 35 (18.72%) Microservices
7 31 (16.58%) Data Modelling
7 31 (16.58%) Software Engineering
8 30 (16.04%) Data Governance
9 28 (14.97%) Test Automation
10 25 (13.37%) Analytics
10 25 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (12.83%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (11.76%) Scrum
13 21 (11.23%) Machine Learning
13 21 (11.23%) TDD
14 20 (10.70%) Decision-Making
15 18 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.73%) Python
2 49 (26.20%) JavaScript
3 38 (20.32%) Java
4 36 (19.25%) SQL
5 33 (17.65%) C#
6 14 (7.49%) C++
7 12 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.35%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.28%) Apex Code
10 7 (3.74%) Bash
11 5 (2.67%) C
11 5 (2.67%) Groovy
12 3 (1.60%) Perl
12 3 (1.60%) PHP
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 2 (1.07%) ABAP
13 2 (1.07%) Go
13 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.07%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (14.44%) Degree
1 27 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.60%) PhD
6 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.07%) ICAEW
6 2 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CISA
7 1 (0.53%) CISM
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.83%) QA
2 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.21%) ECSS
4 3 (1.60%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.60%) ISO 26262
4 3 (1.60%) WCAG
5 2 (1.07%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.07%) GDPR
5 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) MISRA
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (19.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 36 (19.25%) Terraform
3 11 (5.88%) Ansible
4 6 (3.21%) Kibana
5 4 (2.14%) Grafana
5 4 (2.14%) Packer
5 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.60%) Argo
7 2 (1.07%) Istio
7 2 (1.07%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.53%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.95%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.88%) Databricks
4 10 (5.35%) Cisco
5 9 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.28%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.74%) IBM
8 6 (3.21%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.67%) F5
9 5 (2.67%) Juniper
9 5 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.67%) Splunk
10 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.60%) SAP
11 3 (1.60%) Sitecore
11 3 (1.60%) Telerik
12 2 (1.07%) Adobe
12 2 (1.07%) Oracle
12 2 (1.07%) Workday
13 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA