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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 71 58
Rank change year-on-year +29 -13 -23
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 215 165 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.11% 4.24% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.73% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 149 67 109
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £90,000 £86,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.35%

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 4,859 3,490 4,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.22% 89.69% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,450 1,503 2,397
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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 29 August 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 August 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 +22 78 £57,500 -11.54% 67
Buckinghamshire +14 73 £65,000 -8.45% 29
Berkshire -1 64 £75,000 -3.23% 85
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 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.40%) CMS
1 3 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.93%) Confluence
2 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.40%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 116 (53.95%) Azure
2 111 (51.63%) AWS
3 28 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (12.56%) Serverless
5 23 (10.70%) GitHub
6 21 (9.77%) GCP
6 21 (9.77%) SaaS
7 18 (8.37%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (6.98%) OpenShift
11 14 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (5.12%) Amazon S3
14 11 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (4.19%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (3.72%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.12%) Firewall
2 5 (2.33%) DNS
2 5 (2.33%) Internet
2 5 (2.33%) MQTT
3 3 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.40%) DHCP
3 3 (1.40%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.40%) Wireless
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) Modbus
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (8.37%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.91%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.58%) Power BI
6 10 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.26%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.79%) Airbyte
9 6 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.79%) Metadata
9 6 (2.79%) MySQL
10 5 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.33%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.86%) Redis
12 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 45 (20.93%) Git
2 27 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 23 (10.70%) GitLab
4 13 (6.05%) JIRA
5 9 (4.19%) JUnit
6 7 (3.26%) JMeter
6 7 (3.26%) Mockito
6 7 (3.26%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.33%) Yeoman
8 4 (1.86%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.86%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.86%) Eclipse RCP
8 4 (1.86%) Postman
8 4 (1.86%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.40%) PetaLinux
9 3 (1.40%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.40%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.93%) Mocha
General
1 56 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.70%) Finance
3 19 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.26%) Advertising
7 7 (3.26%) Games
8 5 (2.33%) Marketing
8 5 (2.33%) Retail
9 4 (1.86%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 39 (18.14%) Senior
2 34 (15.81%) Developer
3 33 (15.35%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.63%) Lead
5 19 (8.84%) Architect
5 19 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (8.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.44%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.58%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.12%) Consultant
10 11 (5.12%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) DevOps Consultant
13 8 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.05%) Terraform
2 47 (21.86%) .NET
3 33 (15.35%) REST
4 27 (12.56%) HTML
4 27 (12.56%) React
5 24 (11.16%) JSON
6 20 (9.30%) CSS
7 19 (8.84%) ASP.NET
8 18 (8.37%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.44%) .NET Core
9 16 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (6.98%) Spring
11 14 (6.51%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.51%) XML
12 13 (6.05%) Node.js
12 13 (6.05%) YAML
13 11 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.65%) Entity Framework
14 10 (4.65%) RESTful
15 9 (4.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.02%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.77%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (6.51%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.58%) Life Science
6 11 (5.12%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.72%) Robotics
9 7 (3.26%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.79%) IoT
10 6 (2.79%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.86%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.02%) Linux
2 7 (3.26%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Debian
4 2 (0.93%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (58.60%) DevOps
2 103 (47.91%) Agile
3 66 (30.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (28.37%) Software Engineering
5 57 (26.51%) AI
6 55 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (24.19%) Test Automation
8 48 (22.33%) Containerisation
9 37 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (17.21%) Microservices
10 33 (15.35%) Machine Learning
11 32 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (14.88%) Mentoring
12 30 (13.95%) Analytics
12 30 (13.95%) Computer Science
13 29 (13.49%) Observability
13 29 (13.49%) TDD
14 26 (12.09%) Data Modelling
15 25 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (11.16%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 85 (39.53%) Python
2 53 (24.65%) C#
3 51 (23.72%) SQL
4 33 (15.35%) Java
5 27 (12.56%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.84%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.98%) Bash
8 12 (5.58%) C++
9 10 (4.65%) C
10 9 (4.19%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.26%) Groovy
12 6 (2.79%) Go
12 6 (2.79%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.40%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.40%) Perl
13 3 (1.40%) Rust
14 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.93%) Bicep
14 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.93%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.67%) Degree
2 27 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (10.70%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.12%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.79%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.86%) PhD
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.35%) QA
2 16 (7.44%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.79%) GDPR
4 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.40%) ECSS
5 3 (1.40%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.40%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.40%) WCAG
6 2 (0.93%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (28.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) Firmware
2 3 (1.40%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.93%) Lustre
4 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (28.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.98%) Ansible
3 12 (5.58%) Grafana
4 11 (5.12%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.19%) Argo
5 9 (4.19%) Kibana
6 5 (2.33%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.86%) Packer
8 3 (1.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.93%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 49 (22.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.12%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.72%) Splunk
4 7 (3.26%) Cisco
4 7 (3.26%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.26%) Facebook
4 7 (3.26%) IBM
4 7 (3.26%) YouTube
5 6 (2.79%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.33%) Informatica
6 5 (2.33%) New Relic
6 5 (2.33%) Talend
7 4 (1.86%) Databricks
7 4 (1.86%) VMware
8 3 (1.40%) Adobe
8 3 (1.40%) F5
8 3 (1.40%) Google
8 3 (1.40%) Juniper
8 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto