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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 76
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -41
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 154 142 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.53% 4.37% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 4.68% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 101 64 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,391 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,850
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.82% -16.07%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,750 £85,625
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -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 3,411 3,032 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.22% 93.21% 87.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,964 1,277 3,449
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,400 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -3 82 £52,500 -16.33% 33
Buckinghamshire +27 44 £75,000 - 23
Oxfordshire +13 28 £70,000 -6.67% 19
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 (3.90%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (43.51%) AWS
2 61 (39.61%) Azure
3 30 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (15.58%) Serverless
5 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
6 19 (12.34%) GitHub
7 17 (11.04%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (11.04%) SaaS
8 15 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (9.74%) GCP
9 13 (8.44%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) Firewall
1 4 (2.60%) SpaceWire
2 3 (1.95%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.34%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.14%) MySQL
4 9 (5.84%) RDBMS
5 8 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.90%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.25%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.95%) Power BI
9 3 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (1.95%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.30%) Metadata
10 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.65%) Looker
11 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.65%) QGIS
11 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (25.32%) Git
2 24 (15.58%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.49%) JUnit
4 9 (5.84%) JMeter
4 9 (5.84%) Mockito
5 8 (5.19%) GitLab
6 7 (4.55%) Selenium
7 5 (3.25%) git-flow
8 3 (1.95%) JIRA
8 3 (1.95%) MLflow
9 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.30%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.65%) Appium
10 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.65%) Testinfra
General
1 45 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.23%) Finance
3 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.74%) Law
6 9 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.90%) Games
9 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.95%) Aviation
10 3 (1.95%) Retail
11 2 (1.30%) Automotive
11 2 (1.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.65%) Military
12 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
12 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (37.01%) Developer
2 35 (22.73%) Lead
3 29 (18.83%) Senior
4 24 (15.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (10.39%) Java Developer
6 15 (9.74%) Power Platform Developer
7 14 (9.09%) Team Leader
8 12 (7.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Architect
10 8 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
12 6 (3.90%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.25%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
13 5 (3.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 5 (3.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.83%) REST
2 25 (16.23%) .NET
3 19 (12.34%) React
4 18 (11.69%) Spring Boot
5 17 (11.04%) Spring
6 14 (9.09%) HTML
6 14 (9.09%) Web Services
7 12 (7.79%) JSON
7 12 (7.79%) Kafka
7 12 (7.79%) Middleware
8 11 (7.14%) Node.js
9 10 (6.49%) XML
10 9 (5.84%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (5.84%) Apache Camel
10 9 (5.84%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.84%) jQuery
10 9 (5.84%) SOAP
10 9 (5.84%) WireMock
11 8 (5.19%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (5.19%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (11.69%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.95%) Life Science
6 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.65%) FPGA
7 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.49%) Linux
2 5 (3.25%) VMS
3 4 (2.60%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.55%) DevOps
2 75 (48.70%) Agile
3 44 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (18.83%) Microservices
7 27 (17.53%) AI
8 25 (16.23%) SDLC
9 24 (15.58%) Software Engineering
10 21 (13.64%) TDD
11 20 (12.99%) Data Governance
11 20 (12.99%) Data Modelling
12 19 (12.34%) Containerisation
13 18 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (11.69%) Machine Learning
14 17 (11.04%) Deployment Automation
15 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (10.39%) Scrum
15 16 (10.39%) Test Automation
16 15 (9.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 69 (44.81%) Python
2 53 (34.42%) JavaScript
3 36 (23.38%) Java
4 31 (20.13%) C#
5 21 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 19 (12.34%) SQL
7 13 (8.44%) C++
7 13 (8.44%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.19%) Apex Code
8 8 (5.19%) Bash
9 5 (3.25%) C
9 5 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.95%) ABAP
10 3 (1.95%) Go
10 3 (1.95%) PHP
11 2 (1.30%) R
11 2 (1.30%) Ruby
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.64%) Degree
3 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.30%) PhD
7 2 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CISA
8 1 (0.65%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.69%) QA
2 11 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.90%) ECSS
4 5 (3.25%) GDPR
5 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) MISRA
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (25.32%) Docker
2 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 30 (19.48%) Terraform
3 9 (5.84%) Kibana
4 4 (2.60%) Ansible
5 3 (1.95%) Argo
5 3 (1.95%) Grafana
6 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.65%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.65%) Packer
7 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.84%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.84%) Splunk
3 8 (5.19%) Databricks
3 8 (5.19%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.55%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.60%) Telerik
6 3 (1.95%) SAP
6 3 (1.95%) Workday
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco
7 2 (1.30%) Google
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle
7 2 (1.30%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica
8 1 (0.65%) Juniper
8 1 (0.65%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.65%) VMware