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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 -46
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 192 130 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.42% 4.18% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 4.49% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 138 62 144
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,438 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -8.57%

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 4,070 2,894 5,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.41% 92.99% 84.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 1,228 3,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +14.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +32 83 £67,000 -0.74% 29
Berkshire -5 77 £52,500 -16.67% 45
Oxfordshire +12 32 £62,500 -3.85% 34
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 7 (3.65%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.60%) CMS
3 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.40%) Azure
2 85 (44.27%) AWS
3 26 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.02%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.50%) Serverless
6 18 (9.38%) SaaS
7 17 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (7.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.29%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (6.25%) GCP
11 12 (6.25%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (2.60%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) DNS
3 5 (2.60%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.08%) SpaceWire
5 2 (1.04%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) Modbus
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 15 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.13%) MySQL
5 5 (2.60%) Power BI
6 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.56%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.56%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.04%) Metadata
8 2 (1.04%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.52%) QGIS
9 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (24.48%) Git
2 22 (11.46%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.42%) GitLab
4 9 (4.69%) JIRA
5 6 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.60%) JUnit
6 5 (2.60%) Postman
6 5 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.08%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.56%) JMeter
8 3 (1.56%) MLflow
8 3 (1.56%) Mockito
8 3 (1.56%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.56%) Selenium
8 3 (1.56%) VectorCAST
8 3 (1.56%) Yeoman
9 2 (1.04%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.58%) Finance
4 15 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.77%) Games
6 11 (5.73%) Law
6 11 (5.73%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.21%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.04%) Automotive
10 2 (1.04%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.52%) Military
11 1 (0.52%) Publishing
11 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (23.96%) Developer
2 43 (22.40%) Lead
3 21 (10.94%) Data Engineer
4 20 (10.42%) Senior
5 18 (9.38%) Team Leader
6 16 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
6 16 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) Architect
7 15 (7.81%) Power Platform Developer
8 14 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (5.21%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.21%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.69%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 9 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.69%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 8 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.65%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.35%) REST
2 29 (15.10%) .NET
3 24 (12.50%) JSON
4 17 (8.85%) React
5 14 (7.29%) Middleware
5 14 (7.29%) SOAP
5 14 (7.29%) XML
5 14 (7.29%) YAML
6 13 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (6.77%) Kafka
6 13 (6.77%) Spring
6 13 (6.77%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (5.73%) Node.js
8 11 (5.73%) RESTful
8 11 (5.73%) Web Services
9 10 (5.21%) Jinja
10 9 (4.69%) .NET Framework
10 9 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.65%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 29 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.38%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.17%) Life Science
6 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Robotics
11 2 (1.04%) Tandem
11 2 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.42%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) Unix
3 4 (2.08%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (60.42%) DevOps
2 95 (49.48%) Agile
3 69 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (23.96%) AI
6 38 (19.79%) Containerisation
7 37 (19.27%) Software Engineering
8 35 (18.23%) Microservices
9 33 (17.19%) Test Automation
10 31 (16.15%) Data Modelling
11 30 (15.63%) Data Governance
12 26 (13.54%) Analytics
12 26 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (13.02%) Deployment Automation
14 24 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 23 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (11.46%) Decision-Making
16 22 (11.46%) TDD
17 20 (10.42%) Scrum
18 19 (9.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 90 (46.88%) Python
2 48 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 36 (18.75%) C#
4 35 (18.23%) Java
4 35 (18.23%) SQL
5 12 (6.25%) C++
5 12 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.17%) Bash
8 7 (3.65%) Apex Code
9 5 (2.60%) C
9 5 (2.60%) Groovy
10 3 (1.56%) Perl
10 3 (1.56%) PHP
10 3 (1.56%) R
11 2 (1.04%) ABAP
11 2 (1.04%) Go
11 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Degree
2 25 (13.02%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.08%) PhD
7 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.56%) ICAEW
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.06%) QA
2 9 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.08%) ECSS
3 4 (2.08%) WCAG
4 3 (1.56%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.56%) ISO 26262
5 2 (1.04%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (19.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (20.31%) Terraform
2 36 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.25%) Ansible
4 5 (2.60%) Grafana
4 5 (2.60%) Kibana
4 5 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.08%) Packer
6 3 (1.56%) Argo
7 2 (1.04%) Istio
7 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.77%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.73%) Databricks
4 10 (5.21%) Cisco
5 8 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.65%) IBM
6 7 (3.65%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.13%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.60%) F5
8 5 (2.60%) Juniper
8 5 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.08%) Sitecore
9 4 (2.08%) Splunk
10 3 (1.56%) Adobe
10 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.56%) SAP
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle
11 2 (1.04%) Telerik
11 2 (1.04%) VMware
11 2 (1.04%) Workday