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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 64 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 141 175 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.92% 4.04% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.76% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 75 88 137
10th Percentile £48,300 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 3,099 3,676 3,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.13% 84.94% 93.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 1,771 2,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,520 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.14% +1.82% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -23 70 £62,500 -3.85% 46
Buckinghamshire +36 48 £75,000 -14.77% 35
Oxfordshire +17 23 £70,000 +7.69% 58
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 5 (3.55%) IIS
2 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (58.87%) AWS
2 64 (45.39%) Azure
3 29 (20.57%) Serverless
4 28 (19.86%) GCP
5 22 (15.60%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (15.60%) GitHub
6 21 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (14.18%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (9.22%) SaaS
10 8 (5.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (4.26%) Cloudflare
12 6 (4.26%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
1 2 (1.42%) LAN
1 2 (1.42%) SpaceWire
1 2 (1.42%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.44%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.73%) Relational Database
3 19 (13.48%) RDBMS
4 18 (12.77%) MySQL
5 15 (10.64%) SQL Server
6 12 (8.51%) NoSQL
7 10 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.13%) Big Data
10 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.42%) Power BI
11 2 (1.42%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.71%) Metadata
12 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (32.62%) Git
2 35 (24.82%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.48%) JMeter
3 19 (13.48%) JUnit
3 19 (13.48%) Mockito
4 7 (4.96%) NUnit
5 6 (4.26%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.55%) git-flow
6 5 (3.55%) GitLab
6 5 (3.55%) Jasmine
6 5 (3.55%) Selenium
7 4 (2.84%) JIRA
8 3 (2.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.42%) Postman
10 1 (0.71%) Appium
10 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.71%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.71%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.71%) Testinfra
General
1 55 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 23 (16.31%) Law
4 18 (12.77%) Marketing
5 6 (4.26%) Games
6 5 (3.55%) Finance
7 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Retail
9 2 (1.42%) Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.71%) Publishing
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (45.39%) Developer
2 47 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (29.08%) Senior
4 26 (18.44%) Senior Developer
5 24 (17.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (16.31%) Java Developer
7 22 (15.60%) Lead
8 17 (12.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 15 (10.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 14 (9.93%) Senior Web Developer
10 14 (9.93%) Web Developer
11 12 (8.51%) .NET Developer
11 12 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Quality Engineer
15 6 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
16 5 (3.55%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.21%) HTML
2 35 (24.82%) React
3 30 (21.28%) REST
4 27 (19.15%) CSS
5 26 (18.44%) .NET
5 26 (18.44%) Spring Boot
6 25 (17.73%) Spring
7 24 (17.02%) Node.js
8 23 (16.31%) RESTful
9 21 (14.89%) Web Services
10 20 (14.18%) JSON
11 19 (13.48%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (13.48%) Apache Camel
11 19 (13.48%) Hibernate
11 19 (13.48%) jQuery
11 19 (13.48%) WireMock
11 19 (13.48%) XML
12 13 (9.22%) Kafka
13 11 (7.80%) ASP.NET
13 11 (7.80%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (14.18%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.09%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.55%) Online Games
6 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.13%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.71%) Clustering
9 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.96%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) VMS
3 3 (2.13%) Windows
4 2 (1.42%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.16%) Agile
2 72 (51.06%) DevOps
3 60 (42.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (24.82%) Microservices
6 33 (23.40%) Containerisation
7 32 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 27 (19.15%) TDD
10 24 (17.02%) SDLC
11 21 (14.89%) BDD
12 20 (14.18%) Scrum
12 20 (14.18%) Workflow
13 19 (13.48%) Process Management
14 18 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (12.06%) AI
15 17 (12.06%) User Experience
16 16 (11.35%) Mentoring
16 16 (11.35%) Software Engineering
17 15 (10.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.43%) JavaScript
2 43 (30.50%) Python
3 37 (26.24%) Java
4 26 (18.44%) TypeScript
5 21 (14.89%) C#
5 21 (14.89%) Shell Script
6 16 (11.35%) SQL
7 13 (9.22%) Bash
7 13 (9.22%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.26%) C++
9 4 (2.84%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.13%) Go
11 2 (1.42%) ABAP
11 2 (1.42%) C
11 2 (1.42%) Ruby
11 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.71%) Bicep
12 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.80%) Degree
3 8 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.42%) MCSE
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) CISA
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CISM
7 1 (0.71%) CISSP
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.28%) QA
2 9 (6.38%) GDPR
3 8 (5.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.84%) ECSS
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (46.10%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.13%) vCloud
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (43.97%) Kubernetes
2 36 (25.53%) Terraform
3 19 (13.48%) Kibana
4 5 (3.55%) Ansible
5 3 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (2.13%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
6 2 (1.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.48%) Dynatrace
2 19 (13.48%) Splunk
3 6 (4.26%) Google
3 6 (4.26%) Rollbar
3 6 (4.26%) VMware
4 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.84%) Telerik
5 3 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.13%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) SAP
6 2 (1.42%) Workday
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.71%) Sitecore