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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 64 64
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -28
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 213 163 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.11% 4.30% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.78% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 147 64 111
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £55,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,813 £80,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,250 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4,817 3,411 4,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.33% 90.00% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,394 1,466 2,559
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,397 £41,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £81,454
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 22 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 22 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
Buckinghamshire +20 76 £65,000 -8.45% 25
Oxfordshire +20 74 £57,500 -11.54% 44
Berkshire -10 63 £75,000 -3.23% 65
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 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.41%) CMS
1 3 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 114 (53.52%) Azure
2 109 (51.17%) AWS
3 27 (12.68%) Serverless
4 25 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.86%) GitHub
5 21 (9.86%) SaaS
6 20 (9.39%) GCP
7 17 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (7.51%) Power Platform
9 15 (7.04%) OpenShift
10 14 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (6.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 13 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.16%) Amazon S3
14 10 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (3.76%) Azure AI
15 8 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) DNS
2 5 (2.35%) Internet
2 5 (2.35%) MQTT
3 3 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.41%) DHCP
3 3 (1.41%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.41%) Wireless
4 2 (0.94%) HTTP
4 2 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) Modbus
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (7.98%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.69%) Power BI
5 9 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.82%) Airbyte
7 6 (2.82%) MySQL
8 5 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.88%) Metadata
9 4 (1.88%) Redis
10 3 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.41%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 40 (18.78%) Git
2 26 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.33%) GitLab
4 12 (5.63%) JIRA
5 9 (4.23%) JUnit
6 7 (3.29%) JMeter
6 7 (3.29%) Mockito
6 7 (3.29%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.35%) Yeoman
8 4 (1.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.88%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.88%) Eclipse RCP
8 4 (1.88%) Postman
8 4 (1.88%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.41%) PetaLinux
9 3 (1.41%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.41%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.94%) Mocha
General
1 56 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.80%) Finance
3 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.04%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.76%) Games
7 7 (3.29%) Advertising
7 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.35%) Marketing
8 5 (2.35%) Retail
9 4 (1.88%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 36 (16.90%) Senior
2 34 (15.96%) Developer
3 32 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.21%) Lead
5 19 (8.92%) Architect
5 19 (8.92%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Consultant
11 10 (4.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (26.76%) Terraform
2 47 (22.07%) .NET
3 33 (15.49%) REST
4 27 (12.68%) HTML
5 25 (11.74%) React
6 24 (11.27%) JSON
7 20 (9.39%) CSS
8 19 (8.92%) ASP.NET
9 18 (8.45%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.51%) .NET Core
10 16 (7.51%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (7.04%) Spring
12 14 (6.57%) AngularJS
12 14 (6.57%) XML
13 13 (6.10%) YAML
14 12 (5.63%) Node.js
15 11 (5.16%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (4.69%) Entity Framework
16 10 (4.69%) RESTful
17 9 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (8.92%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (5.63%) Life Science
5 11 (5.16%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.29%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.29%) Robotics
8 6 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.82%) IoT
9 5 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.35%) Windows
3 3 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Debian
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.47%) Rocky
4 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (58.69%) DevOps
2 101 (47.42%) Agile
3 67 (31.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (27.23%) Software Engineering
5 56 (26.29%) AI
5 56 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (24.41%) Test Automation
7 46 (21.60%) Containerisation
8 37 (17.37%) Microservices
9 36 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (15.49%) Machine Learning
11 32 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (15.02%) Mentoring
12 30 (14.08%) Analytics
13 29 (13.62%) TDD
14 28 (13.15%) Observability
15 26 (12.21%) Computer Science
15 26 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (11.74%) Data Modelling
16 25 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (38.50%) Python
2 51 (23.94%) C#
3 49 (23.00%) SQL
4 32 (15.02%) Java
5 26 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.57%) Bash
8 11 (5.16%) C++
9 10 (4.69%) C
10 9 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.29%) Groovy
12 6 (2.82%) Go
12 6 (2.82%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.41%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.41%) Perl
13 3 (1.41%) Rust
14 2 (0.94%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.94%) Bicep
14 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.94%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (15.49%) Degree
2 27 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (10.80%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.82%) ICAEW
8 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.41%) PhD
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.02%) QA
2 14 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.88%) GDPR
5 3 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.41%) ECSS
5 3 (1.41%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.41%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.41%) WCAG
6 2 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.94%) 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 59 (27.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.41%) Firmware
2 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) Lustre
4 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (28.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.04%) Ansible
3 12 (5.63%) Grafana
4 11 (5.16%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.23%) Argo
5 9 (4.23%) Kibana
6 5 (2.35%) Kustomize
7 4 (1.88%) Packer
8 3 (1.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 49 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.16%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.76%) Splunk
4 7 (3.29%) Cisco
4 7 (3.29%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.29%) Facebook
4 7 (3.29%) IBM
4 7 (3.29%) YouTube
5 6 (2.82%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.35%) New Relic
7 4 (1.88%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) VMware
8 3 (1.41%) Adobe
8 3 (1.41%) Google
8 3 (1.41%) Informatica
8 3 (1.41%) Juniper
8 3 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.41%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.41%) Xilinx