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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 63 46
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 -9
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 136 170 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.86% 3.95% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.70% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 64 84 143
10th Percentile £48,225 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £54,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,500 £99,500
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 3,090 3,615 3,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.78% 83.97% 93.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 1,746 2,184
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,911 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,525 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £67,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 8 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 8 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 -21 70 £62,500 -10.71% 480
Buckinghamshire +23 42 £75,000 -14.77% 53
Oxfordshire +16 24 £66,250 +1.92% 68
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 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.41%) IIS
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.50%) AWS
2 66 (48.53%) Azure
3 31 (22.79%) GCP
4 28 (20.59%) Serverless
5 22 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (15.44%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (15.44%) GitHub
7 20 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (8.82%) SaaS
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (5.88%) Entra ID
11 7 (5.15%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (5.15%) Cloudflare
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) WAN
2 3 (2.21%) DNS
2 3 (2.21%) VPN
3 2 (1.47%) LAN
3 2 (1.47%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.47%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 19 (13.97%) MySQL
3 19 (13.97%) RDBMS
4 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
4 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
5 13 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (7.35%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.15%) Big Data
7 7 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.15%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.94%) Power BI
10 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.47%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (33.82%) Git
2 34 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.97%) JMeter
3 19 (13.97%) JUnit
3 19 (13.97%) Mockito
4 8 (5.88%) NUnit
5 7 (5.15%) TeamCity
6 6 (4.41%) Jasmine
7 5 (3.68%) GitLab
7 5 (3.68%) JIRA
8 4 (2.94%) git-flow
8 4 (2.94%) Selenium
9 3 (2.21%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.74%) Appium
10 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.74%) MLflow
10 1 (0.74%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.74%) Postman
10 1 (0.74%) Testinfra
General
1 55 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Law
3 23 (16.91%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.24%) Marketing
5 6 (4.41%) Games
6 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.21%) Finance
6 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.47%) Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Automotive
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Publishing
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (44.12%) Developer
2 45 (33.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (29.41%) Senior
4 26 (19.12%) Senior Developer
5 24 (17.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (16.91%) Java Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Lead
8 15 (11.03%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (10.29%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 14 (10.29%) Senior Web Developer
9 14 (10.29%) Web Developer
10 12 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (8.09%) .NET Developer
12 8 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (5.15%) Architect
13 7 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (5.15%) Data Analytics Director
13 7 (5.15%) Software Engineer
14 6 (4.41%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.35%) HTML
2 33 (24.26%) React
3 28 (20.59%) REST
4 26 (19.12%) CSS
5 25 (18.38%) Spring Boot
6 24 (17.65%) Spring
7 23 (16.91%) .NET
7 23 (16.91%) Node.js
7 23 (16.91%) RESTful
8 21 (15.44%) Web Services
9 20 (14.71%) JSON
10 19 (13.97%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (13.97%) Apache Camel
10 19 (13.97%) Hibernate
10 19 (13.97%) jQuery
10 19 (13.97%) WireMock
10 19 (13.97%) XML
11 16 (11.76%) Kafka
12 11 (8.09%) ASP.NET
12 11 (8.09%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.91%) Cloud Native
1 23 (16.91%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.68%) Online Games
5 5 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.21%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.47%) NHS
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.74%) Clustering
8 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.15%) Linux
2 6 (4.41%) VMS
3 3 (2.21%) Windows
4 2 (1.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (60.29%) Agile
2 74 (54.41%) DevOps
3 57 (41.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (25.00%) Microservices
7 33 (24.26%) Containerisation
8 28 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 26 (19.12%) TDD
10 23 (16.91%) SDLC
11 22 (16.18%) AI
11 22 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (15.44%) BDD
13 20 (14.71%) Workflow
14 19 (13.97%) Machine Learning
14 19 (13.97%) Process Management
14 19 (13.97%) Scrum
15 18 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (12.50%) Mentoring
16 17 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (40.44%) JavaScript
2 38 (27.94%) Python
3 34 (25.00%) Java
4 23 (16.91%) TypeScript
5 21 (15.44%) Shell Script
5 21 (15.44%) SQL
6 20 (14.71%) C#
7 15 (11.03%) PowerShell
8 13 (9.56%) Bash
9 5 (3.68%) C++
10 3 (2.21%) Bicep
11 2 (1.47%) ABAP
11 2 (1.47%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.47%) C
11 2 (1.47%) Go
11 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.29%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.62%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.47%) MCSE
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.74%) CCNP
7 1 (0.74%) CISA
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CISM
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.32%) QA
2 13 (9.56%) GDPR
3 7 (5.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.94%) ECSS
5 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (46.32%) Docker
2 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) vCloud
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (24.26%) Terraform
3 19 (13.97%) Kibana
4 5 (3.68%) Ansible
5 3 (2.21%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.21%) Grafana
5 3 (2.21%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.47%) Argo
6 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.74%) Packer
7 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.97%) Dynatrace
2 19 (13.97%) Splunk
3 11 (8.09%) Google
4 7 (5.15%) Rollbar
5 6 (4.41%) VMware
6 3 (2.21%) Databricks
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle
6 3 (2.21%) Telerik
7 2 (1.47%) Meraki
7 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.47%) SAP
7 2 (1.47%) Workday
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco
8 1 (0.74%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Sitecore