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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 60 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -25 +8
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 164 183 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.16% 3.78% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.63% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 67 96 205
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £56,525 £55,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,125 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £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 3,555 3,955 3,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.07% 81.65% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,486 2,134 2,544
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,325
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD 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 September 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 September 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 -7 95 £76,250 +8.93% 82
Buckinghamshire +4 45 £72,500 +11.54% 16
Oxfordshire +8 24 £65,000 - 20
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.10%) IIS
2 7 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 103 (62.80%) AWS
2 75 (45.73%) Azure
3 44 (26.83%) GCP
4 30 (18.29%) Serverless
5 29 (17.68%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (15.85%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (10.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 16 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (9.76%) GitHub
10 11 (6.71%) Cloudflare
11 10 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.66%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) WAN
2 4 (2.44%) Firewall
3 3 (1.83%) LAN
3 3 (1.83%) VPN
4 2 (1.22%) DNS
4 2 (1.22%) MQTT
4 2 (1.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.56%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (18.29%) Relational Database
3 25 (15.24%) SQL Server
4 24 (14.63%) RDBMS
5 20 (12.20%) MySQL
6 13 (7.93%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (7.32%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.10%) Data Lake
8 10 (6.10%) MongoDB
9 9 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (4.27%) Big Data
10 7 (4.27%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.44%) Power BI
12 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (28.66%) Git
2 41 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 28 (17.07%) JUnit
3 28 (17.07%) Mockito
4 24 (14.63%) JMeter
5 13 (7.93%) GitLab
6 11 (6.71%) NUnit
6 11 (6.71%) TeamCity
7 10 (6.10%) Jasmine
7 10 (6.10%) JIRA
7 10 (6.10%) SonarQube
8 9 (5.49%) Selenium
9 8 (4.88%) Maven
10 7 (4.27%) Bitbucket
11 6 (3.66%) Cucumber
11 6 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.61%) Appium
12 1 (0.61%) MLflow
12 1 (0.61%) MSBuild
12 1 (0.61%) Testinfra
General
1 71 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (26.22%) Law
3 37 (22.56%) Marketing
4 29 (17.68%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.32%) Finance
5 12 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.88%) Banking
7 7 (4.27%) Games
8 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (40.85%) Developer
2 41 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 41 (25.00%) Senior
3 30 (18.29%) Java Developer
4 28 (17.07%) Senior Developer
5 24 (14.63%) Architect
5 24 (14.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Enterprise Architect
6 18 (10.98%) Salesforce Architect
7 15 (9.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (8.54%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 14 (8.54%) Lead
8 14 (8.54%) Senior Web Developer
8 14 (8.54%) Web Developer
9 12 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) .NET Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Data Analytics Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (34.76%) HTML
2 48 (29.27%) REST
3 47 (28.66%) React
4 40 (24.39%) Spring
4 40 (24.39%) Spring Boot
5 33 (20.12%) CSS
5 33 (20.12%) Hibernate
6 31 (18.90%) RESTful
7 27 (16.46%) Web Services
8 25 (15.24%) ActiveMQ
8 25 (15.24%) Node.js
9 24 (14.63%) Apache Camel
9 24 (14.63%) jQuery
9 24 (14.63%) WireMock
10 22 (13.41%) .NET
10 22 (13.41%) Kafka
11 19 (11.59%) AngularJS
11 19 (11.59%) JSON
11 19 (11.59%) SOAP
12 18 (10.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.68%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (15.24%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (12.80%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.05%) Online Games
7 4 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.83%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.83%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.22%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.22%) Clustering
9 2 (1.22%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.22%) IoT
9 2 (1.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.44%) VMS
3 3 (1.83%) Android
3 3 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (71.95%) Agile
2 92 (56.10%) DevOps
3 66 (40.24%) Microservices
4 57 (34.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (25.61%) Containerisation
6 41 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (23.78%) TDD
8 38 (23.17%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (20.73%) Design Patterns
10 33 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (19.51%) Computer Science
12 31 (18.90%) Test Automation
13 30 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (15.85%) BDD
14 26 (15.85%) Data Modelling
15 24 (14.63%) Process Management
15 24 (14.63%) Software Engineering
15 24 (14.63%) Workflow
16 23 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.90%) JavaScript
2 46 (28.05%) Java
3 40 (24.39%) Python
4 31 (18.90%) SQL
5 24 (14.63%) Shell Script
6 20 (12.20%) TypeScript
7 18 (10.98%) Apex Code
7 18 (10.98%) C#
8 16 (9.76%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.10%) Bash
10 6 (3.66%) Go
11 3 (1.83%) Bicep
11 3 (1.83%) C++
12 2 (1.22%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.22%) Rust
12 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Degree
2 28 (17.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 28 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 26 (15.85%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.54%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.49%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.88%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.22%) MCSE
8 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.61%) CCNP
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.90%) QA
2 21 (12.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (6.10%) GDPR
4 7 (4.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (48.78%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) vCloud
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (47.56%) Kubernetes
2 37 (22.56%) Terraform
3 24 (14.63%) Kibana
4 9 (5.49%) Ansible
5 6 (3.66%) Grafana
5 6 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.83%) Puppet
6 3 (1.83%) Rundeck
7 2 (1.22%) Argo
7 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.63%) Dynatrace
2 24 (14.63%) Splunk
3 20 (12.20%) Salesforce
4 18 (10.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 11 (6.71%) Google
5 11 (6.71%) Rollbar
6 6 (3.66%) Solace
6 6 (3.66%) VMware
7 3 (1.83%) Databricks
8 2 (1.22%) Meraki
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco
9 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle