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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 63 77
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 -46
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 199 159 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.26% 4.44% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 4.88% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 143 68 136
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,250 £62,334
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +12.70% -16.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,250 £86,125
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 4,383 3,255 5,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.81% 90.97% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,026 1,393 3,736
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +14 80 £66,000 -7.04% 12
Berkshire -11 61 £62,500 -16.67% 35
Oxfordshire +16 58 £57,500 -11.54% 29
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 4 (2.01%) CMS
1 4 (2.01%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Lightworks
2 3 (1.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (52.76%) Azure
2 98 (49.25%) AWS
3 28 (14.07%) Serverless
4 23 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.55%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.54%) OpenShift
7 16 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.04%) SaaS
8 14 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.03%) GCP
10 12 (6.03%) GitHub
11 9 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.52%) Apigee
13 7 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.02%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.04%) Firewall
2 6 (3.02%) DNS
3 5 (2.51%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (2.51%) Internet
3 5 (2.51%) MQTT
4 3 (1.51%) DHCP
4 3 (1.51%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.51%) Wireless
5 2 (1.01%) HTTP
5 2 (1.01%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.50%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.54%) SQL Server
4 13 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.52%) Power BI
7 6 (3.02%) Airbyte
7 6 (3.02%) MySQL
7 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.51%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.51%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.01%) Redis
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.50%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.50%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (18.59%) Git
2 25 (12.56%) GitLab
2 25 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.53%) JIRA
4 9 (4.52%) JUnit
5 7 (3.52%) JMeter
5 7 (3.52%) Mockito
5 7 (3.52%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.51%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.51%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.51%) Yeoman
7 4 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.01%) Postman
7 4 (2.01%) Selenium
7 4 (2.01%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.51%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.51%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.51%) PetaLinux
8 3 (1.51%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.51%) VectorCAST
General
1 54 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.06%) Finance
4 15 (7.54%) Manufacturing
4 15 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.03%) Games
5 10 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.52%) Advertising
7 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.01%) Law
8 4 (2.01%) Marketing
9 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.10%) Developer
2 28 (14.07%) Lead
2 28 (14.07%) Software Engineer
3 22 (11.06%) Data Engineer
4 20 (10.05%) Architect
5 19 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.54%) Senior
7 15 (7.54%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.54%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.03%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Engineer
9 11 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.03%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Consultant
11 9 (4.52%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.11%) .NET
2 34 (17.09%) REST
3 28 (14.07%) JSON
4 24 (12.06%) HTML
5 18 (9.05%) CSS
6 17 (8.54%) ASP.NET
6 17 (8.54%) YAML
7 16 (8.04%) .NET Core
7 16 (8.04%) React
7 16 (8.04%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.04%) XML
8 14 (7.04%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (6.53%) Spring
10 12 (6.03%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.03%) RESTful
11 11 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (5.03%) Jinja
13 9 (4.52%) Entity Framework
13 9 (4.52%) Hibernate
13 9 (4.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.60%) Cloud Native
2 27 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.53%) Life Science
5 10 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (4.52%) Low-Code
7 8 (4.02%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (3.02%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (2.01%) FPGA
9 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.01%) IoT
9 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.51%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.51%) VHDL
10 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.06%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Unix
3 3 (1.51%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.01%) VxWorks
4 2 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (59.80%) DevOps
2 98 (49.25%) Agile
3 64 (32.16%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (29.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (24.62%) Software Engineering
6 47 (23.62%) AI
6 47 (23.62%) Containerisation
7 46 (23.12%) Test Automation
8 40 (20.10%) Microservices
9 32 (16.08%) Machine Learning
10 31 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (15.08%) Analytics
12 27 (13.57%) TDD
13 26 (13.07%) Data Governance
14 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
14 25 (12.56%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (12.06%) Mentoring
16 21 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (10.55%) Deployment Automation
16 21 (10.55%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 83 (41.71%) Python
2 48 (24.12%) C#
3 44 (22.11%) SQL
4 35 (17.59%) JavaScript
5 32 (16.08%) Java
6 13 (6.53%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.03%) C++
8 11 (5.53%) Bash
8 11 (5.53%) Shell Script
9 10 (5.03%) C
10 7 (3.52%) Groovy
11 3 (1.51%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.51%) Perl
11 3 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.51%) Rust
12 2 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.01%) Go
12 2 (1.01%) PHP
12 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (15.08%) Degree
2 26 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.52%) Master's Degree
6 8 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.02%) ICAEW
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.01%) PhD
9 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.57%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.51%) ECSS
5 4 (2.01%) WCAG
6 3 (1.51%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.51%) ISO 26262
6 3 (1.51%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.01%) Def Stans
7 2 (1.01%) GDPR
8 1 (0.50%) MISRA
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (26.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (25.63%) Kubernetes
2 40 (20.10%) Terraform
3 14 (7.04%) Ansible
4 9 (4.52%) Kibana
5 7 (3.52%) Grafana
5 7 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.02%) Argo
7 4 (2.01%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.01%) Packer
8 3 (1.51%) Istio
9 2 (1.01%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 45 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.03%) Cisco
4 8 (4.02%) Splunk
5 7 (3.52%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.52%) Facebook
5 7 (3.52%) IBM
5 7 (3.52%) YouTube
6 6 (3.02%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.02%) Databricks
6 6 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.51%) F5
7 5 (2.51%) Juniper
7 5 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.01%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.51%) Adobe
9 3 (1.51%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.51%) New Relic
9 3 (1.51%) VMware
9 3 (1.51%) Xilinx