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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 58 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -18
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 157 161 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.97% 4.52% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.96% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86 83 120
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,750 £51,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,438 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 3,251 3,245 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.14% 91.10% 92.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 1,551 2,117
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -4 86 £60,000 -11.11% 28
Buckinghamshire +29 48 £72,500 -17.61% 21
Oxfordshire +2 23 £70,000 -6.67% 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 6 (3.82%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (52.23%) AWS
2 68 (43.31%) Azure
3 28 (17.83%) GCP
3 28 (17.83%) Serverless
4 24 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (14.01%) GitHub
6 21 (13.38%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (12.74%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (9.55%) SaaS
9 14 (8.92%) Power Platform
10 13 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (7.64%) Amazon S3
12 11 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.82%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DNS
1 2 (1.27%) Firewall
1 2 (1.27%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.64%) LAN
2 1 (0.64%) VPN
2 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (15.92%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.92%) RDBMS
3 13 (8.28%) MySQL
4 10 (6.37%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.18%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.18%) Power BI
8 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.27%) Metadata
9 2 (1.27%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (1.27%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.64%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.64%) Looker
10 1 (0.64%) QGIS
10 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (34.39%) Git
2 34 (21.66%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.55%) JUnit
4 14 (8.92%) JMeter
4 14 (8.92%) Mockito
5 7 (4.46%) GitLab
6 5 (3.18%) git-flow
6 5 (3.18%) Selenium
7 3 (1.91%) JIRA
7 3 (1.91%) MLflow
7 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.27%) Postman
9 1 (0.64%) Appium
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.64%) Testinfra
General
1 59 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Law
3 23 (14.65%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.46%) Marketing
5 13 (8.28%) Finance
6 11 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Games
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Automotive
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (41.40%) Developer
2 43 (27.39%) Senior
3 42 (26.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 34 (21.66%) Lead
5 22 (14.01%) Java Developer
6 20 (12.74%) Senior Developer
7 19 (12.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (10.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (8.92%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 14 (8.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (8.92%) Senior Web Developer
9 14 (8.92%) Web Developer
10 10 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Team Leader
11 7 (4.46%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.46%) Quality Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Architect
12 5 (3.18%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.02%) HTML
2 31 (19.75%) React
2 31 (19.75%) REST
3 26 (16.56%) Node.js
4 24 (15.29%) .NET
4 24 (15.29%) Spring Boot
5 23 (14.65%) Spring
6 21 (13.38%) CSS
7 19 (12.10%) RESTful
7 19 (12.10%) Web Services
8 15 (9.55%) JSON
9 14 (8.92%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (8.92%) Apache Camel
9 14 (8.92%) Hibernate
9 14 (8.92%) jQuery
9 14 (8.92%) WireMock
9 14 (8.92%) XML
10 13 (8.28%) Kafka
11 10 (6.37%) Middleware
12 7 (4.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.65%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (10.83%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.82%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.91%) Life Science
5 3 (1.91%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.64%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Linux
2 6 (3.82%) VMS
3 3 (1.91%) Windows
4 2 (1.27%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (57.32%) Agile
2 84 (53.50%) DevOps
3 53 (33.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 47 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (22.29%) Containerisation
6 33 (21.02%) Microservices
7 30 (19.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (18.47%) Test Automation
9 27 (17.20%) SDLC
10 26 (16.56%) TDD
11 23 (14.65%) AI
12 22 (14.01%) Software Engineering
13 20 (12.74%) Workflow
14 17 (10.83%) Data Modelling
15 16 (10.19%) BDD
15 16 (10.19%) Machine Learning
15 16 (10.19%) Scrum
15 16 (10.19%) User Experience
16 15 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (9.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.94%) Python
2 57 (36.31%) JavaScript
3 37 (23.57%) Java
4 22 (14.01%) TypeScript
5 21 (13.38%) C#
6 19 (12.10%) SQL
7 16 (10.19%) Shell Script
8 11 (7.01%) Bash
9 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.10%) C++
11 6 (3.82%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.91%) Go
13 2 (1.27%) ABAP
13 2 (1.27%) C
13 2 (1.27%) Ruby
13 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.64%) Bicep
14 1 (0.64%) PHP
14 1 (0.64%) R
14 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.19%) Degree
3 10 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CCNP
6 1 (0.64%) CISA
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CISM
6 1 (0.64%) CISSP
6 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.64%) MCSE
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.38%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.18%) GDPR
5 4 (2.55%) ECSS
5 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (40.76%) Docker
2 6 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) vCloud
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 32 (20.38%) Terraform
3 14 (8.92%) Kibana
4 7 (4.46%) Ansible
5 3 (1.91%) Argo
5 3 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.91%) Grafana
5 3 (1.91%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.64%) Packer
7 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.92%) Dynatrace
2 14 (8.92%) Splunk
3 6 (3.82%) Databricks
3 6 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.18%) MuleSoft
4 5 (3.18%) VMware
5 4 (2.55%) Telerik
6 3 (1.91%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
7 2 (1.27%) Workday
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco
8 1 (0.64%) Informatica
8 1 (0.64%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.64%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.64%) Sitecore