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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 55 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -41
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 200 171 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.17% 4.78% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 5.27% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 139 66 119
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +12.80% -16.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,438 £76,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,050
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 4,494 3,245 4,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.12% 90.62% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 1,409 3,134
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +18 78 £65,000 -8.45% 22
Oxfordshire +16 61 £57,500 -11.54% 34
Berkshire -14 61 £62,500 -18.03% 50
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 4 (2.00%) CMS
1 4 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.00%) Azure
2 103 (51.50%) AWS
3 28 (14.00%) Serverless
4 21 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (8.50%) OpenShift
5 17 (8.50%) SaaS
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (7.50%) GCP
7 15 (7.50%) GitHub
7 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.00%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.50%) Apigee
14 7 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.50%) Firewall
2 5 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (2.50%) DNS
2 5 (2.50%) Internet
2 5 (2.50%) MQTT
3 3 (1.50%) DHCP
3 3 (1.50%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.50%) Wireless
4 2 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) Modbus
5 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.00%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.50%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.50%) MySQL
6 7 (3.50%) Power BI
7 6 (3.00%) Airbyte
7 6 (3.00%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.50%) Redis
9 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.50%) GIS
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (18.50%) Git
2 26 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.00%) GitLab
4 12 (6.00%) JIRA
5 9 (4.50%) JUnit
6 7 (3.50%) JMeter
6 7 (3.50%) Mockito
6 7 (3.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.50%) Yeoman
8 4 (2.00%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.00%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.00%) Eclipse RCP
8 4 (2.00%) Postman
8 4 (2.00%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.50%) PetaLinux
9 3 (1.50%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.50%) Selenium
9 3 (1.50%) VectorCAST
General
1 55 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.50%) Finance
4 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.50%) Games
8 7 (3.50%) Advertising
9 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.00%) Marketing
11 3 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.00%) Legal
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
13 1 (0.50%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Aviation
13 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.50%) Law
13 1 (0.50%) Military
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (18.00%) Developer
2 30 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 26 (13.00%) Lead
4 22 (11.00%) Senior
5 21 (10.50%) Data Engineer
6 19 (9.50%) Architect
7 18 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.50%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Consultant
11 10 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Network Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.00%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.50%) .NET
2 34 (17.00%) REST
3 28 (14.00%) JSON
4 25 (12.50%) HTML
5 19 (9.50%) CSS
5 19 (9.50%) React
6 17 (8.50%) ASP.NET
6 17 (8.50%) Spring Boot
6 17 (8.50%) YAML
7 16 (8.00%) .NET Core
7 16 (8.00%) XML
8 14 (7.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (7.00%) Spring
9 13 (6.50%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.50%) RESTful
11 10 (5.00%) Jinja
12 9 (4.50%) Entity Framework
12 9 (4.50%) Hibernate
12 9 (4.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.00%) Life Science
5 11 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.50%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.50%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.50%) IoT
9 5 (2.50%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.00%) FPGA
10 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.00%) Robotics
11 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.50%) Verilog
11 3 (1.50%) VHDL
11 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.50%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (59.50%) DevOps
2 98 (49.00%) Agile
3 62 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (30.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (25.50%) Software Engineering
6 49 (24.50%) AI
7 47 (23.50%) Containerisation
7 47 (23.50%) Test Automation
8 39 (19.50%) Microservices
9 32 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 29 (14.50%) Analytics
11 27 (13.50%) TDD
12 26 (13.00%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (12.00%) Data Modelling
15 23 (11.50%) Data Governance
16 22 (11.00%) Integration Testing
17 21 (10.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 80 (40.00%) Python
2 46 (23.00%) C#
3 45 (22.50%) SQL
4 32 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.50%) Java
6 15 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.00%) C++
8 11 (5.50%) Bash
9 10 (5.00%) C
10 9 (4.50%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.50%) Groovy
12 4 (2.00%) Go
12 4 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.50%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.50%) Perl
13 3 (1.50%) Rust
14 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.00%) PHP
14 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.00%) Degree
2 24 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.00%) ICAEW
8 4 (2.00%) PhD
9 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.00%) QA
2 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.00%) WCAG
5 3 (1.50%) ECSS
5 3 (1.50%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.50%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.50%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.00%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.00%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) MISRA
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (28.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.50%) Terraform
3 14 (7.00%) Ansible
4 9 (4.50%) Grafana
4 9 (4.50%) Kibana
5 8 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.00%) Argo
7 4 (2.00%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.00%) Packer
8 3 (1.50%) Istio
9 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.50%) Cisco
4 8 (4.00%) Splunk
5 7 (3.50%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.50%) Facebook
5 7 (3.50%) IBM
5 7 (3.50%) YouTube
6 6 (3.00%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.50%) Databricks
7 5 (2.50%) F5
7 5 (2.50%) Juniper
7 5 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.00%) New Relic
8 4 (2.00%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.50%) Adobe
9 3 (1.50%) Google
9 3 (1.50%) VMware
9 3 (1.50%) Xilinx