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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 68 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 -17
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 220 148 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.95% 3.93% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.38% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 144 65 88
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,625 £71,000 £68,125
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +4.22% -0.91%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,675 £90,000 £96,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 5,289 3,379 4,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.98% 89.72% 83.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,750 1,466 1,992
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 26 September 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 26 September 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
Oxfordshire +23 89 £60,000 -7.69% 103
Berkshire +3 74 £82,500 +15.79% 124
Buckinghamshire +13 57 £65,000 -13.33% 31
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 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.36%) CMS
1 3 (1.36%) Confluence
1 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.45%) JBoss
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Lightworks
2 4 (1.82%) Simulink
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 112 (50.91%) Azure
2 108 (49.09%) AWS
3 33 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (13.64%) Serverless
5 26 (11.82%) GitHub
6 24 (10.91%) Power Platform
7 22 (10.00%) GCP
7 22 (10.00%) SaaS
8 20 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 19 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.36%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.00%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (3.64%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) MQTT
2 5 (2.27%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.27%) Internet
3 4 (1.82%) DNS
3 4 (1.82%) Firewall
3 4 (1.82%) Wireless
4 2 (0.91%) DHCP
4 2 (0.91%) HTTP
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) NGN
5 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.45%) SNMP
5 1 (0.45%) VLAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 20 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 18 (8.18%) Power BI
6 16 (7.27%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.82%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.91%) DynamoDB
9 11 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.55%) Metadata
10 10 (4.55%) Star Schema
11 9 (4.09%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (4.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (3.64%) MySQL
13 6 (2.73%) Airbyte
13 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.82%) Redis
15 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
16 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
16 1 (0.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 54 (24.55%) Git
2 27 (12.27%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.18%) GitLab
4 15 (6.82%) JIRA
5 10 (4.55%) JUnit
6 9 (4.09%) JMeter
7 8 (3.64%) Mockito
8 7 (3.18%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.82%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.82%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (1.82%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.82%) PetaLinux
10 4 (1.82%) Yeoman
11 3 (1.36%) Mocha
11 3 (1.36%) Selenium
12 2 (0.91%) Maven
12 2 (0.91%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.27%) Finance
3 14 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.45%) Manufacturing
5 8 (3.64%) Advertising
6 6 (2.73%) Retail
7 5 (2.27%) Marketing
8 4 (1.82%) Legal
9 3 (1.36%) Games
10 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (21.36%) Senior
2 40 (18.18%) Developer
3 34 (15.45%) Software Engineer
4 23 (10.45%) Lead
5 20 (9.09%) Architect
6 19 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.73%) .NET Developer
7 17 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.45%) Java Engineer
12 11 (5.00%) Consultant
13 10 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 9 (4.09%) Embedded Engineer
15 8 (3.64%) DevOps Consultant
15 8 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.64%) Support Engineer
16 7 (3.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.55%) Terraform
2 47 (21.36%) .NET
3 36 (16.36%) REST
4 34 (15.45%) React
5 29 (13.18%) HTML
6 21 (9.55%) CSS
6 21 (9.55%) JSON
7 20 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 19 (8.64%) ASP.NET
9 17 (7.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (7.73%) Spring
10 15 (6.82%) Node.js
11 14 (6.36%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.36%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.36%) XML
12 11 (5.00%) jQuery
12 11 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.00%) Web Services
13 10 (4.55%) Hibernate
13 10 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.36%) Product Ownership
4 19 (8.64%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.91%) Embedded Systems
6 10 (4.55%) Life Science
7 7 (3.18%) IoT
7 7 (3.18%) Robotics
8 6 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.82%) FPGA
10 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.82%) Verilog
10 4 (1.82%) VHDL
11 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.55%) Linux
2 14 (6.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.82%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.36%) Debian
4 3 (1.36%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Rocky
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (54.55%) DevOps
2 101 (45.91%) Agile
3 66 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 63 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (25.91%) AI
6 53 (24.09%) Test Automation
7 48 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (17.73%) Containerisation
9 39 (17.73%) Microservices
10 37 (16.82%) Computer Science
11 33 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (15.00%) Mentoring
12 32 (14.55%) Machine Learning
13 31 (14.09%) Analytics
14 29 (13.18%) Observability
15 28 (12.73%) Data Modelling
16 27 (12.27%) Code Quality
16 27 (12.27%) TDD
17 25 (11.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (40.91%) Python
2 56 (25.45%) C#
3 55 (25.00%) SQL
4 42 (19.09%) Java
5 33 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.73%) C++
8 16 (7.27%) Bash
9 15 (6.82%) C
10 13 (5.91%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.64%) Rust
12 7 (3.18%) Go
12 7 (3.18%) Groovy
13 5 (2.27%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.82%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.82%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.82%) SOQL
15 3 (1.36%) Perl
16 2 (0.91%) Bicep
16 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (20.45%) Degree
2 34 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 28 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.45%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.73%) ICAEW
7 6 (2.73%) PhD
8 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.18%) QA
2 22 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.55%) GDPR
4 9 (4.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.82%) ECSS
7 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.36%) MISRA
7 3 (1.36%) WCAG
8 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.45%) IASME
9 1 (0.45%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (28.18%) Docker
2 6 (2.73%) Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.91%) Lustre
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.36%) Ansible
3 12 (5.45%) Grafana
4 11 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.55%) Argo
5 10 (4.55%) Kibana
6 6 (2.73%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.82%) Istio
7 4 (1.82%) Packer
8 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.55%) Splunk
3 9 (4.09%) Informatica
3 9 (4.09%) Talend
4 8 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.18%) Facebook
5 7 (3.18%) IBM
5 7 (3.18%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.18%) YouTube
6 6 (2.73%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.73%) New Relic
7 5 (2.27%) Databricks
8 4 (1.82%) Sage
8 4 (1.82%) Xilinx
9 3 (1.36%) Adobe
9 3 (1.36%) Google
9 3 (1.36%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.36%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.36%) VMware