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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 67 80
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 -51
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 196 137 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.44% 4.11% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.39% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 144 55 142
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,125 £76,250
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% -5.19%

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 4,103 3,118 5,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.01% 93.61% 83.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,821 1,157 3,916
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,800 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 29 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 29 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 +33 85 £68,750 -1.79% 13
Berkshire +2 71 £50,000 -32.20% 28
Oxfordshire +3 40 £63,125 -2.88% 17
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 (3.06%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.04%) CMS
2 4 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (52.04%) Azure
2 92 (46.94%) AWS
3 31 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (14.29%) Serverless
5 27 (13.78%) Power Platform
6 20 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (9.18%) SaaS
8 16 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.59%) GCP
14 6 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.55%) dbt
15 5 (2.55%) Fivetran
15 5 (2.55%) Kong
15 5 (2.55%) Snowflake
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
5 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.55%) Airbyte
5 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.55%) Power BI
5 5 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.53%) MySQL
6 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.02%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.51%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (20.41%) Git
2 24 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.20%) GitLab
4 9 (4.59%) JIRA
5 8 (4.08%) JUnit
6 7 (3.57%) JMeter
6 7 (3.57%) Mockito
7 5 (2.55%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.55%) Yeoman
8 4 (2.04%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.04%) Postman
8 4 (2.04%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.53%) MLflow
9 3 (1.53%) Polyspace
9 3 (1.53%) VectorCAST
10 2 (1.02%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.02%) Selenium
10 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (15.82%) Finance
3 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.12%) Games
5 11 (5.61%) Manufacturing
5 11 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.08%) Law
7 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.53%) Advertising
9 3 (1.53%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Aviation
10 2 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.96%) Developer
2 37 (18.88%) Lead
3 22 (11.22%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (9.69%) Senior
7 18 (9.18%) Architect
8 15 (7.65%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Power Platform Developer
9 13 (6.63%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.63%) Team Leader
10 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Network Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Telecoms Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
13 8 (4.08%) Consultant
13 8 (4.08%) Infrastructure Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.39%) REST
2 36 (18.37%) .NET
3 27 (13.78%) JSON
4 17 (8.67%) React
4 17 (8.67%) YAML
5 16 (8.16%) XML
6 15 (7.65%) Spring
6 15 (7.65%) Spring Boot
7 13 (6.63%) HTML
7 13 (6.63%) RESTful
7 13 (6.63%) Web Services
8 12 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (5.61%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.61%) Kafka
9 11 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (5.10%) Jinja
10 10 (5.10%) SOAP
11 9 (4.59%) Middleware
11 9 (4.59%) Node.js
12 8 (4.08%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 32 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.18%) Low-Code
4 11 (5.61%) 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
8 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
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%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.02%) Robotics
12 2 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 6 (3.06%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (62.76%) DevOps
2 100 (51.02%) Agile
3 66 (33.67%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (27.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (23.98%) AI
6 46 (23.47%) Containerisation
7 42 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 38 (19.39%) Microservices
9 37 (18.88%) Test Automation
10 35 (17.86%) Data Governance
11 29 (14.80%) TDD
12 27 (13.78%) Analytics
12 27 (13.78%) Data Modelling
12 27 (13.78%) Machine Learning
13 26 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (11.73%) Mentoring
15 22 (11.22%) Event-Driven
16 21 (10.71%) Scrum
17 20 (10.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.90%) Python
2 49 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 46 (23.47%) C#
4 36 (18.37%) SQL
5 33 (16.84%) Java
6 11 (5.61%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.59%) C++
9 8 (4.08%) Bash
10 5 (2.55%) Groovy
11 4 (2.04%) Apex Code
11 4 (2.04%) C
12 3 (1.53%) Perl
12 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.02%) PHP
13 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) R
14 1 (0.51%) ABAP
14 1 (0.51%) Go
14 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 24 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.59%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.06%) ICAEW
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.55%) PhD
7 4 (2.04%) 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
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.29%) QA
2 11 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.55%) 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%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) MISRA
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (23.47%) 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 42 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 38 (19.39%) Terraform
3 15 (7.65%) Ansible
4 9 (4.59%) Kibana
5 5 (2.55%) Grafana
5 5 (2.55%) 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 45 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.12%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.10%) Cisco
4 9 (4.59%) Databricks
5 8 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.08%) Splunk
6 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.57%) IBM
7 6 (3.06%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.55%) F5
8 5 (2.55%) Juniper
8 5 (2.55%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.04%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.53%) Adobe
10 3 (1.53%) Facebook
10 3 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.53%) YouTube
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle
11 2 (1.02%) SAP