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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 63 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -29
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 141 142 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.50% 4.20% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.57% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 85 68 121
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,875 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -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 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Berkshire -14 73 £57,500 -8.73% 165
Buckinghamshire +34 45 £71,250 -19.03% 36
Oxfordshire +12 23 £72,500 -4.92% 42
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 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (46.81%) AWS
2 53 (37.59%) Azure
3 25 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (17.73%) Serverless
4 19 (13.48%) GitHub
5 18 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (12.06%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (12.06%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.64%) SaaS
8 14 (9.93%) GCP
9 12 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.42%) Firewall
2 2 (1.42%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) Relational Database
2 21 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.22%) MySQL
4 11 (7.80%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.38%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.55%) Power BI
8 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.42%) Metadata
10 2 (1.42%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (1.42%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.71%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.71%) Looker
11 1 (0.71%) QGIS
11 1 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (26.95%) Git
2 28 (19.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.51%) JUnit
4 11 (7.80%) JMeter
4 11 (7.80%) Mockito
5 6 (4.26%) GitLab
6 5 (3.55%) git-flow
6 5 (3.55%) Selenium
7 3 (2.13%) MLflow
8 2 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.42%) JIRA
8 2 (1.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.71%) Appium
9 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.71%) NUnit
9 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.89%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.06%) Finance
4 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Law
6 8 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.55%) Games
8 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.84%) Marketing
9 3 (2.13%) Retail
10 2 (1.42%) Automotive
10 2 (1.42%) Aviation
10 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (36.17%) Developer
2 34 (24.11%) Lead
3 29 (20.57%) Senior
4 26 (18.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (12.77%) Java Developer
6 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Team Leader
8 11 (7.80%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 10 (7.09%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Power Platform Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Operations Team Leader
11 7 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.26%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Salesforce Developer
13 5 (3.55%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.55%) Architect
13 5 (3.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (2.84%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
14 4 (2.84%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.57%) REST
2 24 (17.02%) .NET
3 20 (14.18%) Spring Boot
4 19 (13.48%) Spring
5 17 (12.06%) React
6 16 (11.35%) HTML
6 16 (11.35%) Web Services
7 12 (8.51%) JSON
7 12 (8.51%) Kafka
7 12 (8.51%) Node.js
8 11 (7.80%) ActiveMQ
8 11 (7.80%) Apache Camel
8 11 (7.80%) Hibernate
8 11 (7.80%) jQuery
8 11 (7.80%) Middleware
8 11 (7.80%) WireMock
8 11 (7.80%) XML
9 8 (5.67%) SOAP
10 7 (4.96%) CSS
10 7 (4.96%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.38%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.13%) Life Science
6 3 (2.13%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.71%) Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) VMS
3 2 (1.42%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (51.77%) DevOps
2 72 (51.06%) Agile
3 35 (24.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (19.86%) Microservices
6 26 (18.44%) SDLC
7 25 (17.73%) AI
8 22 (15.60%) TDD
9 21 (14.89%) Software Engineering
10 19 (13.48%) Containerisation
11 18 (12.77%) Data Modelling
12 17 (12.06%) Workflow
13 16 (11.35%) Machine Learning
14 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (9.93%) Test Automation
16 13 (9.22%) BDD
16 13 (9.22%) Observability
16 13 (9.22%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (9.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.84%) Python
2 44 (31.21%) JavaScript
3 35 (24.82%) Java
4 23 (16.31%) C#
5 21 (14.89%) TypeScript
6 19 (13.48%) SQL
7 13 (9.22%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.38%) Bash
8 9 (6.38%) C++
9 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.96%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.13%) Go
12 2 (1.42%) ABAP
12 2 (1.42%) C
12 2 (1.42%) Ruby
12 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.71%) Bicep
13 1 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.71%) R
13 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.06%) Degree
3 11 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CISA
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) PhD
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.06%) QA
2 9 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.84%) ECSS
4 4 (2.84%) GDPR
5 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (30.50%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) vCloud
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 30 (21.28%) Terraform
3 11 (7.80%) Kibana
4 5 (3.55%) Ansible
5 3 (2.13%) Argo
5 3 (2.13%) Grafana
6 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.80%) Dynatrace
2 11 (7.80%) Splunk
3 7 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.26%) Databricks
4 6 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.84%) Telerik
6 2 (1.42%) Google
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.42%) SAP
6 2 (1.42%) VMware
6 2 (1.42%) Workday
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.71%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.71%) Sitecore