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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 63 82
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 -53
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 196 134 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.49% 4.00% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 4.26% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 137 57 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,084
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.41% -18.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,000 £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 4,042 3,149 5,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.96% 93.92% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,232 3,901
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 14 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 14 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 +36 81 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Berkshire +13 79 £52,500 -25.53% 52
Oxfordshire +11 36 £63,750 -1.92% 28
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 8 (4.08%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.55%) CMS
3 4 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (49.49%) Azure
2 92 (46.94%) AWS
3 29 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.80%) Serverless
4 27 (13.78%) Power Platform
5 22 (11.22%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (8.67%) SaaS
8 15 (7.65%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
12 11 (5.61%) GCP
13 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.06%) dbt
14 6 (3.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 5 (2.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.67%) Firewall
2 7 (3.57%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.53%) DHCP
5 2 (1.02%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.22%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.06%) Power BI
6 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.55%) MySQL
6 5 (2.55%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.04%) Airbyte
7 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.53%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.02%) Metadata
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.51%) QGIS
10 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (23.47%) Git
2 27 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.20%) GitLab
4 9 (4.59%) JIRA
4 9 (4.59%) JUnit
5 7 (3.57%) JMeter
5 7 (3.57%) Mockito
6 5 (2.55%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.04%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.04%) Postman
7 4 (2.04%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.04%) Yeoman
8 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.53%) MLflow
8 3 (1.53%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.53%) VectorCAST
9 2 (1.02%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.02%) Selenium
9 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.82%) Finance
4 18 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.63%) Games
6 11 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.10%) Law
7 10 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Advertising
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Aviation
11 1 (0.51%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (23.98%) Developer
2 42 (21.43%) Lead
3 23 (11.73%) Data Engineer
4 19 (9.69%) Senior
5 18 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (9.18%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Architect
7 15 (7.65%) Java Developer
7 15 (7.65%) Power Platform Developer
7 15 (7.65%) Team Leader
8 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Infrastructure Team Leader
10 9 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.43%) REST
2 31 (15.82%) .NET
3 26 (13.27%) JSON
4 18 (9.18%) React
5 17 (8.67%) Spring
5 17 (8.67%) Spring Boot
6 16 (8.16%) XML
6 16 (8.16%) YAML
7 14 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (7.14%) Web Services
8 13 (6.63%) Kafka
8 13 (6.63%) RESTful
9 12 (6.12%) HTML
9 12 (6.12%) SOAP
10 11 (5.61%) Middleware
10 11 (5.61%) Node.js
10 11 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.10%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.10%) Jinja
11 10 (5.10%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 33 (16.84%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.18%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.10%) Life Science
5 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.02%) Robotics
12 2 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (61.22%) DevOps
2 103 (52.55%) Agile
3 66 (33.67%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (27.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (24.49%) AI
6 44 (22.45%) Containerisation
7 40 (20.41%) Microservices
7 40 (20.41%) Software Engineering
8 34 (17.35%) Test Automation
9 32 (16.33%) Data Governance
10 29 (14.80%) Analytics
10 29 (14.80%) Data Modelling
10 29 (14.80%) TDD
11 28 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
12 26 (13.27%) Machine Learning
13 23 (11.73%) Scrum
14 22 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (11.22%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 91 (46.43%) Python
2 52 (26.53%) JavaScript
3 39 (19.90%) C#
4 37 (18.88%) SQL
5 36 (18.37%) Java
6 11 (5.61%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.59%) Bash
7 9 (4.59%) C++
7 9 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.06%) Apex Code
9 5 (2.55%) Groovy
10 3 (1.53%) C
10 3 (1.53%) Perl
10 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.53%) R
11 2 (1.02%) PHP
11 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) ABAP
12 1 (0.51%) Scala
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 26 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.04%) ICAEW
6 4 (2.04%) PhD
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.78%) QA
2 10 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.04%) WCAG
5 3 (1.53%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.53%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.02%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.02%) ECSS
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) MISRA
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (23.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.53%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (21.94%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.90%) Terraform
3 15 (7.65%) Ansible
4 9 (4.59%) Kibana
5 6 (3.06%) Grafana
5 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.04%) Packer
7 3 (1.53%) Argo
8 2 (1.02%) Istio
8 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.63%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.10%) Cisco
3 10 (5.10%) Databricks
4 9 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.08%) Splunk
6 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.57%) IBM
7 6 (3.06%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.06%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.55%) F5
8 5 (2.55%) Juniper
8 5 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.04%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.53%) Adobe
10 3 (1.53%) VMware
11 2 (1.02%) Facebook
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle
11 2 (1.02%) SAP
11 2 (1.02%) YouTube