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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 79 63
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 224 137 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.92% 3.62% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.00% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 144 60 80
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,063 £84,063
90th Percentile £99,250 £94,125 £100,000
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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,483 3,422 3,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.56% 90.36% 83.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,896 1,489 1,786
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,960 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +20 95 £60,000 -7.69% 75
Berkshire +4 80 £82,500 +22.22% 114
Buckinghamshire +1 49 £65,000 -13.33% 37
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps51.3%115
2Agile42.9%96
3Software Engineering31.7%71
4Infrastructure as Code26.8%60
5AI24.6%55
6Full-Stack Development21.9%49
7Problem-Solving20.5%46
8Test Automation20.1%45
9Computer Science19.2%43
10Continuous Improvement17.0%38
11Microservices15.2%34
12Containerisation14.7%33
13Analytics14.3%32
13Machine Learning14.3%32
15Mentoring13.4%30
16Observability12.9%29
17Code Quality12.5%28
17Data Modelling12.5%28
19DevSecOps11.6%26
20Roadmaps11.2%25
224 CI/CD jobs in the Thames Valley