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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 56 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -32
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 213 164 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.22% 4.56% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 5.06% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 145 65 112
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4,694 3,239 4,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.92% 90.07% 81.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,270 1,436 2,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,466 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 August 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 8 August 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
Buckinghamshire +18 78 £63,500 -10.56% 26
Oxfordshire +22 69 £57,500 -11.54% 41
Berkshire -9 66 £67,500 -12.90% 84
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 3 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.41%) CMS
1 3 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 112 (52.58%) Azure
2 110 (51.64%) AWS
3 28 (13.15%) Serverless
4 23 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.39%) SaaS
6 18 (8.45%) GCP
6 18 (8.45%) GitHub
7 17 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.98%) OpenShift
8 15 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.57%) Power Platform
10 13 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (5.63%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.29%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.04%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (2.35%) DNS
2 5 (2.35%) Internet
2 5 (2.35%) MQTT
3 3 (1.41%) DHCP
3 3 (1.41%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.41%) Wireless
4 2 (0.94%) HTTP
4 2 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) Modbus
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.98%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.76%) Power BI
7 7 (3.29%) MySQL
7 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.82%) Airbyte
9 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.88%) Redis
11 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.94%) Metadata
12 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.47%) Big Data
13 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (18.31%) Git
2 26 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.74%) GitLab
4 14 (6.57%) JIRA
5 9 (4.23%) JUnit
6 7 (3.29%) JMeter
6 7 (3.29%) Mockito
6 7 (3.29%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.35%) Yeoman
8 4 (1.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.88%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.88%) Eclipse RCP
8 4 (1.88%) Postman
8 4 (1.88%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.41%) PetaLinux
9 3 (1.41%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.41%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.94%) Mocha
General
1 58 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.74%) Finance
3 24 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.04%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.16%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.76%) Games
8 7 (3.29%) Advertising
9 5 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.35%) Marketing
10 4 (1.88%) Legal
11 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.41%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (16.43%) Developer
2 31 (14.55%) Software Engineer
3 30 (14.08%) Senior
4 25 (11.74%) Lead
5 20 (9.39%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.45%) Architect
6 18 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) .NET Developer
9 14 (6.57%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Engineer
11 11 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (5.16%) Consultant
12 10 (4.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Network Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Telecoms Engineer
13 9 (4.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.13%) .NET
2 35 (16.43%) REST
3 28 (13.15%) JSON
4 25 (11.74%) HTML
5 24 (11.27%) React
6 19 (8.92%) CSS
7 18 (8.45%) ASP.NET
8 17 (7.98%) Spring Boot
8 17 (7.98%) YAML
9 16 (7.51%) .NET Core
9 16 (7.51%) XML
10 15 (7.04%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (6.57%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.57%) Spring
12 11 (5.16%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.16%) RESTful
13 10 (4.69%) Jinja
14 9 (4.23%) Entity Framework
14 9 (4.23%) Node.js
14 9 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.98%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.63%) Life Science
5 11 (5.16%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.29%) IoT
8 7 (3.29%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.82%) Robotics
10 5 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.41%) FPGA
12 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.41%) Verilog
12 3 (1.41%) VHDL
12 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.15%) Linux
2 6 (2.82%) Unix
3 3 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (59.15%) DevOps
2 102 (47.89%) Agile
3 66 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (26.76%) Software Engineering
6 54 (25.35%) AI
7 50 (23.47%) Test Automation
8 49 (23.00%) Containerisation
9 40 (18.78%) Microservices
10 32 (15.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (15.02%) Machine Learning
11 31 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (14.08%) Analytics
13 29 (13.62%) Mentoring
13 29 (13.62%) TDD
14 27 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (12.21%) Observability
16 25 (11.74%) Data Modelling
17 24 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (10.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 85 (39.91%) Python
2 48 (22.54%) C#
2 48 (22.54%) SQL
3 32 (15.02%) Java
4 31 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.10%) Bash
7 12 (5.63%) C++
8 10 (4.69%) C
8 10 (4.69%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.29%) Groovy
10 6 (2.82%) Go
10 6 (2.82%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.41%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.41%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.41%) Perl
11 3 (1.41%) Rust
12 2 (0.94%) PHP
12 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.94%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.55%) Degree
2 25 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.82%) ICAEW
8 3 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.41%) PhD
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.55%) QA
2 12 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.41%) ECSS
4 3 (1.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.41%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.41%) ISO 26262
4 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.41%) WCAG
5 2 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (27.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.41%) Firmware
2 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Lustre
3 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 55 (25.82%) Terraform
3 15 (7.04%) Ansible
4 11 (5.16%) Grafana
5 10 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.23%) Kibana
7 7 (3.29%) Argo
8 4 (1.88%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.88%) Packer
9 3 (1.41%) Istio
10 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 48 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.57%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.16%) Cisco
4 8 (3.76%) Splunk
5 7 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.29%) Facebook
5 7 (3.29%) IBM
5 7 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.29%) YouTube
6 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.35%) Databricks
7 5 (2.35%) F5
7 5 (2.35%) Juniper
7 5 (2.35%) New Relic
7 5 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.88%) VMware
9 3 (1.41%) Adobe
9 3 (1.41%) Google
9 3 (1.41%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.41%) Xilinx