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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 53 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 -52
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 188 134 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.39% 4.44% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.77% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 136 64 145
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,750 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -8.57%

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 4,016 2,810 5,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.43% 93.02% 84.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,606 1,218 4,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +30 81 £65,000 -7.14% 23
Berkshire +1 78 £52,500 -16.67% 26
Oxfordshire +4 29 £63,125 -2.88% 23
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 (3.72%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.66%) CMS
3 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (46.81%) Azure
2 82 (43.62%) AWS
3 26 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.30%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.77%) Serverless
6 18 (9.57%) SaaS
7 17 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (6.38%) GCP
11 12 (6.38%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (2.66%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.98%) Firewall
2 5 (2.66%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (2.66%) DNS
3 4 (2.13%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) Modbus
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.57%) Relational Database
2 15 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.98%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.19%) MySQL
5 5 (2.66%) Power BI
6 4 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.60%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.60%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.06%) Metadata
8 2 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.53%) QGIS
9 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (25.00%) Git
2 22 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.64%) GitLab
4 9 (4.79%) JIRA
5 6 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.66%) JUnit
6 5 (2.66%) Postman
6 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.13%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.60%) JMeter
8 3 (1.60%) MLflow
8 3 (1.60%) Mockito
8 3 (1.60%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.60%) Selenium
8 3 (1.60%) VectorCAST
9 2 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.06%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.89%) Finance
4 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.91%) Games
6 12 (6.38%) Law
7 11 (5.85%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.26%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.06%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) Aviation
12 1 (0.53%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (25.53%) Developer
2 42 (22.34%) Lead
3 20 (10.64%) Data Engineer
3 20 (10.64%) Senior
4 18 (9.57%) Team Leader
5 16 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (7.98%) Power Platform Developer
7 14 (7.45%) Architect
8 13 (6.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.91%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.38%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (4.79%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
11 9 (4.79%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 8 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.72%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (22.34%) REST
2 29 (15.43%) .NET
3 23 (12.23%) JSON
4 17 (9.04%) React
5 15 (7.98%) Middleware
6 14 (7.45%) SOAP
6 14 (7.45%) YAML
7 13 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (6.91%) Spring
7 13 (6.91%) Spring Boot
7 13 (6.91%) XML
8 12 (6.38%) Kafka
9 11 (5.85%) Node.js
9 11 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.85%) Web Services
10 10 (5.32%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.32%) Jinja
10 10 (5.32%) RESTful
11 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 27 (14.36%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.57%) Low-Code
4 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.19%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.19%) Life Science
5 6 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.06%) Robotics
8 2 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) FPGA
9 1 (0.53%) Tandem
9 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.64%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Unix
3 4 (2.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (60.64%) DevOps
2 92 (48.94%) Agile
3 67 (35.64%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (23.94%) AI
6 35 (18.62%) Containerisation
7 34 (18.09%) Microservices
8 32 (17.02%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.49%) Data Modelling
10 30 (15.96%) Data Governance
10 30 (15.96%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.30%) Analytics
11 25 (13.30%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (12.77%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (11.70%) Machine Learning
14 21 (11.17%) Decision-Making
14 21 (11.17%) TDD
15 20 (10.64%) Scrum
16 17 (9.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 90 (47.87%) Python
2 48 (25.53%) JavaScript
3 35 (18.62%) C#
3 35 (18.62%) Java
4 34 (18.09%) SQL
5 12 (6.38%) C++
5 12 (6.38%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.79%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.26%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.72%) Bash
9 5 (2.66%) C
9 5 (2.66%) Groovy
10 3 (1.60%) Perl
10 3 (1.60%) PHP
10 3 (1.60%) R
11 2 (1.06%) ABAP
11 2 (1.06%) Go
11 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.06%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.30%) Degree
3 17 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.60%) ICAEW
6 3 (1.60%) PhD
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CISA
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.77%) QA
2 10 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.13%) ECSS
4 4 (2.13%) WCAG
5 3 (1.60%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.60%) ISO 26262
6 2 (1.06%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.06%) GDPR
6 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) MISRA
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (18.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (19.15%) Terraform
2 34 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.85%) Ansible
4 5 (2.66%) Kibana
5 4 (2.13%) Grafana
5 4 (2.13%) Packer
5 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.60%) Argo
7 2 (1.06%) Istio
7 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.53%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.91%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.85%) Databricks
4 10 (5.32%) Cisco
5 9 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.26%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.72%) IBM
8 6 (3.19%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.66%) F5
9 5 (2.66%) Juniper
9 5 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.13%) Sitecore
10 4 (2.13%) Splunk
11 3 (1.60%) Adobe
11 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.60%) SAP
11 3 (1.60%) Telerik
12 2 (1.06%) Oracle
12 2 (1.06%) Workday
13 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA