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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 70 80
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 -53
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 196 136 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.45% 4.00% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.26% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 137 56 138
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,125 £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 4,074 3,191 5,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.70% 93.91% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 1,223 3,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -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 19 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 19 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 +38 83 £67,500 +3.85% 23
Berkshire +7 76 £47,500 -35.59% 52
Oxfordshire +8 37 £63,125 -2.88% 30
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 4 (2.04%) CMS
2 4 (2.04%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (49.49%) Azure
2 92 (46.94%) AWS
3 30 (15.31%) Serverless
4 29 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 22 (11.22%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (8.67%) SaaS
9 16 (8.16%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
14 10 (5.10%) GCP
15 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (3.06%) dbt
17 5 (2.55%) Kong
17 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
6 1 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 19 (9.69%) 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%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.04%) Airbyte
7 4 (2.04%) MySQL
7 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.53%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.51%) QGIS
10 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 44 (22.45%) Git
2 27 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.71%) 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 32 (16.33%) 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
10 2 (1.02%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (23.47%) Developer
2 40 (20.41%) Lead
3 23 (11.73%) Data Engineer
4 19 (9.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (9.69%) Senior
4 19 (9.69%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.16%) Architect
5 16 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (7.65%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.65%) Power Platform Developer
7 14 (7.14%) Team Leader
8 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.10%) Telecoms Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
10 9 (4.59%) Infrastructure Team Leader
10 9 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.92%) REST
2 32 (16.33%) .NET
3 26 (13.27%) JSON
4 18 (9.18%) React
5 17 (8.67%) Spring
5 17 (8.67%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.67%) YAML
6 16 (8.16%) XML
7 14 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (7.14%) Web Services
8 13 (6.63%) Kafka
9 12 (6.12%) HTML
9 12 (6.12%) RESTful
10 11 (5.61%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.61%) SOAP
11 10 (5.10%) Jinja
11 10 (5.10%) Middleware
11 10 (5.10%) Mustache
11 10 (5.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.41%) 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%) Robotics
12 2 (1.02%) Tandem
13 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.73%) DevOps
2 102 (52.04%) Agile
3 65 (33.16%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (27.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (24.49%) AI
6 44 (22.45%) Containerisation
7 40 (20.41%) Microservices
8 39 (19.90%) Software Engineering
9 35 (17.86%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.33%) Data Governance
11 30 (15.31%) TDD
12 29 (14.80%) Data Modelling
13 28 (14.29%) Analytics
14 27 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (13.27%) Machine Learning
16 25 (12.76%) Deployment Automation
17 23 (11.73%) Mentoring
17 23 (11.73%) Scrum
18 21 (10.71%) Decision-Making
18 21 (10.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 90 (45.92%) Python
2 51 (26.02%) JavaScript
3 41 (20.92%) 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 5 (2.55%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.55%) Groovy
9 4 (2.04%) 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 29 (14.80%) Degree
2 26 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.55%) 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 11 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.06%) 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 44 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 39 (19.90%) Terraform
3 16 (8.16%) Ansible
4 9 (4.59%) Kibana
5 6 (3.06%) Grafana
5 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.04%) Argo
6 4 (2.04%) Packer
7 2 (1.02%) Istio
7 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 43 (21.94%) 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