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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 54 77
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 -46
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 167 125 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.43% 4.54% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.85% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 123 64 146
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +0.40% -14.24%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 3,609 2,577 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 74.06% 93.64% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,307 1,203 3,978
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,800 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £59,272 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +17.37% -3.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 30 March 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 30 March 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
Berkshire +3 76 £50,000 -20.00% 37
Buckinghamshire +17 61 £63,500 -10.56% 35
Oxfordshire +13 30 £67,500 -10.00% 33
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 6 (3.59%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.31%) Azure
2 70 (41.92%) AWS
3 26 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (13.77%) Power Platform
5 19 (11.38%) SaaS
5 19 (11.38%) Serverless
6 15 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (8.98%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (8.38%) GCP
8 12 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (7.19%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.19%) GitHub
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (6.59%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) Firewall
2 5 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.40%) DNS
3 4 (2.40%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.60%) DHCP
4 1 (0.60%) Modbus
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.18%) Relational Database
2 16 (9.58%) SQL Server
3 14 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.99%) MySQL
5 8 (4.79%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.80%) Power BI
10 3 (1.80%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (1.80%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.20%) Metadata
12 1 (0.60%) Looker
12 1 (0.60%) Redis
12 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.60%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Git
2 17 (10.18%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.98%) GitLab
4 6 (3.59%) JUnit
5 5 (2.99%) git-flow
5 5 (2.99%) JIRA
5 5 (2.99%) JMeter
5 5 (2.99%) Mockito
6 3 (1.80%) MLflow
6 3 (1.80%) Postman
6 3 (1.80%) Selenium
7 2 (1.20%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.20%) Polyspace
7 2 (1.20%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.20%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.60%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.37%) Finance
4 18 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.38%) Law
6 12 (7.19%) Games
6 12 (7.19%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.39%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Automotive
10 3 (1.80%) Aviation
11 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.60%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.60%) Marketing
12 1 (0.60%) Military
12 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
12 1 (0.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (32.34%) Developer
2 37 (22.16%) Lead
3 25 (14.97%) Senior
4 20 (11.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (10.78%) Data Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Team Leader
7 15 (8.98%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (8.98%) Power Platform Developer
8 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.99%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.99%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) Architect
11 9 (5.39%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.79%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 8 (4.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.79%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 8 (4.79%) Salesforce Developer
13 7 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.16%) REST
2 30 (17.96%) .NET
3 18 (10.78%) React
4 15 (8.98%) JSON
5 13 (7.78%) Middleware
6 12 (7.19%) Kafka
6 12 (7.19%) Spring
6 12 (7.19%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.59%) HTML
7 11 (6.59%) Node.js
8 10 (5.99%) Jinja
8 10 (5.99%) SOAP
8 10 (5.99%) Web Services
8 10 (5.99%) XML
8 10 (5.99%) YAML
9 9 (5.39%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.39%) CSS
9 9 (5.39%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (5.39%) Visualforce
10 7 (4.19%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.78%) Low-Code
3 17 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.99%) Life Science
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Robotics
9 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.60%) FPGA
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.19%) Unix
3 4 (2.40%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (57.49%) DevOps
2 79 (47.31%) Agile
3 57 (34.13%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (22.16%) AI
6 30 (17.96%) Data Modelling
7 28 (16.77%) Containerisation
7 28 (16.77%) Data Governance
7 28 (16.77%) Microservices
8 27 (16.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (16.17%) Software Engineering
9 24 (14.37%) Analytics
10 23 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.98%) Decision-Making
12 20 (11.98%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (11.98%) Scrum
13 18 (10.78%) Machine Learning
13 18 (10.78%) SDLC
14 17 (10.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 84 (50.30%) Python
2 51 (30.54%) JavaScript
3 36 (21.56%) C#
4 29 (17.37%) Java
4 29 (17.37%) SQL
5 18 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.38%) C++
7 10 (5.99%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.39%) Apex Code
9 5 (2.99%) Bash
9 5 (2.99%) C
10 3 (1.80%) ABAP
10 3 (1.80%) PHP
10 3 (1.80%) R
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) Degree
2 22 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.80%) PhD
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CISA
8 1 (0.60%) CISM
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.18%) QA
2 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.59%) ECSS
5 5 (2.99%) GDPR
6 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.20%) Def Stans
7 2 (1.20%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.20%) ISO 26262
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.20%) WCAG
8 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.60%) MISRA
8 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (18.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (17.37%) Terraform
2 26 (15.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.99%) Kibana
4 4 (2.40%) Ansible
5 3 (1.80%) Grafana
5 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.19%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.59%) Databricks
4 10 (5.99%) Cisco
4 10 (5.99%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.79%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.99%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.99%) F5
6 5 (2.99%) Juniper
6 5 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
7 4 (2.40%) SAP
7 4 (2.40%) Telerik
8 3 (1.80%) Workday
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle
9 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.20%) VMware
10 1 (0.60%) Informatica
10 1 (0.60%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA