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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 67 45
Rank change year-on-year -14 -22 -2
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 135 163 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.56% 3.60% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 4.32% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 58 81 155
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £83,438 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,125 £100,000 £112,500
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 3,419 3,776 3,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.23% 83.43% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,483 1,819 2,224
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,263 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,625
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -18 70 £65,000 -7.14% 60
Buckinghamshire +18 41 £75,000 -14.77% 18
Oxfordshire +4 24 £65,000 - 17
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 10 (7.41%) IIS
2 8 (5.93%) Confluence
3 7 (5.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 95 (70.37%) AWS
2 70 (51.85%) Azure
3 38 (28.15%) GCP
4 28 (20.74%) Serverless
5 23 (17.04%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (17.04%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (11.85%) GitHub
8 15 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.15%) Cloudflare
11 8 (5.93%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.93%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.19%) SaaS
13 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Firewall
1 4 (2.96%) WAN
2 3 (2.22%) VPN
3 2 (1.48%) DNS
3 2 (1.48%) LAN
3 2 (1.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.48%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 23 (17.04%) SQL Server
4 21 (15.56%) MySQL
5 20 (14.81%) RDBMS
6 13 (9.63%) NoSQL
7 12 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (7.41%) Data Lake
10 7 (5.19%) Big Data
10 7 (5.19%) Hadoop
10 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.96%) Power BI
12 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (34.81%) Git
2 36 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 22 (16.30%) JUnit
3 22 (16.30%) Mockito
4 20 (14.81%) JMeter
5 12 (8.89%) NUnit
6 11 (8.15%) JIRA
6 11 (8.15%) TeamCity
7 10 (7.41%) GitLab
7 10 (7.41%) Jasmine
7 10 (7.41%) Selenium
7 10 (7.41%) SonarQube
8 8 (5.93%) Maven
9 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
10 6 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 6 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.48%) git-flow
12 1 (0.74%) MLflow
12 1 (0.74%) Postman
12 1 (0.74%) Testinfra
General
1 49 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.78%) Law
2 24 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.33%) Marketing
4 13 (9.63%) Finance
5 9 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.93%) Banking
7 7 (5.19%) Games
8 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (43.70%) Developer
2 41 (30.37%) Full-Stack Developer
2 41 (30.37%) Senior
3 28 (20.74%) Senior Developer
4 26 (19.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (18.52%) Java Developer
6 16 (11.85%) Lead
7 14 (10.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 14 (10.37%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 14 (10.37%) Senior Web Developer
7 14 (10.37%) Web Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 11 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Data Analytics Director
13 6 (4.44%) Architect
13 6 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (40.00%) HTML
2 42 (31.11%) React
3 35 (25.93%) CSS
4 34 (25.19%) Spring Boot
5 33 (24.44%) Spring
6 29 (21.48%) RESTful
7 27 (20.00%) Hibernate
8 25 (18.52%) REST
9 22 (16.30%) .NET
9 22 (16.30%) Kafka
9 22 (16.30%) Node.js
9 22 (16.30%) Web Services
10 21 (15.56%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (14.81%) Apache Camel
11 20 (14.81%) jQuery
11 20 (14.81%) WireMock
12 18 (13.33%) JSON
13 17 (12.59%) XML
14 16 (11.85%) AngularJS
15 14 (10.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.78%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (17.04%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.93%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.70%) Online Games
7 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.22%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.48%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.48%) Clustering
9 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.48%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.48%) NHS
9 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) VMS
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 3 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (65.19%) Agile
2 75 (55.56%) DevOps
3 57 (42.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (31.85%) Microservices
5 40 (29.63%) Containerisation
6 37 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (25.19%) TDD
9 33 (24.44%) Test Automation
10 25 (18.52%) SDLC
11 22 (16.30%) BDD
12 21 (15.56%) AI
12 21 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (15.56%) Software Engineering
13 20 (14.81%) Mentoring
13 20 (14.81%) Process Management
13 20 (14.81%) Workflow
14 19 (14.07%) Machine Learning
14 19 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 39 (28.89%) Java
3 34 (25.19%) Python
4 28 (20.74%) SQL
5 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 20 (14.81%) Shell Script
7 19 (14.07%) C#
8 15 (11.11%) PowerShell
9 12 (8.89%) Bash
10 4 (2.96%) Go
11 3 (2.22%) Bicep
12 2 (1.48%) C++
12 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) Degree
3 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.93%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) MCSE
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.44%) QA
2 11 (8.15%) GDPR
3 7 (5.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (51.11%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.22%) vCloud
4 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (50.37%) Kubernetes
2 35 (25.93%) Terraform
3 20 (14.81%) Kibana
4 6 (4.44%) Grafana
5 5 (3.70%) Ansible
5 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.22%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Argo
8 1 (0.74%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) Dynatrace
2 20 (14.81%) Splunk
3 12 (8.89%) Google
4 11 (8.15%) Rollbar
5 6 (4.44%) Solace
6 5 (3.70%) VMware
7 3 (2.22%) Databricks
8 2 (1.48%) Meraki
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco
9 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.74%) Sitecore