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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 52 80
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 -50
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 178 128 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.45% 4.62% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 4.94% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 131 66 144
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -2.33% -11.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £86,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 3,775 2,590 5,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.26% 93.43% 84.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 1,201 4,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,670 £50,001
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +15.34% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 April 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 April 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
Berkshire +3 79 £52,500 -16.33% 37
Buckinghamshire +11 68 £63,500 -9.29% 35
Oxfordshire +8 31 £67,500 - 33
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 (3.37%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.38%) Azure
2 77 (43.26%) AWS
3 25 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.48%) Serverless
5 23 (12.92%) Power Platform
6 18 (10.11%) SaaS
7 17 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.43%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (8.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.30%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (6.74%) GCP
12 11 (6.18%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.06%) GitHub
14 9 (5.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 8 (4.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 7 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.30%) Firewall
2 5 (2.81%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.25%) DNS
3 4 (2.25%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.49%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.49%) MySQL
5 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.25%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.69%) Power BI
7 3 (1.69%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.69%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) Metadata
9 1 (0.56%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.56%) Looker
9 1 (0.56%) QGIS
9 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (26.40%) Git
2 23 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.24%) GitLab
4 9 (5.06%) JIRA
5 6 (3.37%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.81%) JUnit
6 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.25%) JMeter
7 4 (2.25%) Mockito
7 4 (2.25%) Postman
8 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.69%) git-flow
8 3 (1.69%) MLflow
8 3 (1.69%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.69%) Selenium
8 3 (1.69%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.69%) VectorCAST
9 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.92%) Finance
4 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.30%) Games
5 13 (7.30%) Law
6 12 (6.74%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.06%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Automotive
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
11 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (30.90%) Developer
2 39 (21.91%) Lead
3 24 (13.48%) Senior
4 18 (10.11%) Data Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) Team Leader
5 16 (8.99%) Automation Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (8.43%) Power Platform Developer
7 14 (7.87%) Java Developer
8 13 (7.30%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Architect
10 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
11 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Salesforce Developer
13 7 (3.93%) Operations Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.47%) REST
2 29 (16.29%) .NET
3 21 (11.80%) JSON
4 18 (10.11%) React
5 14 (7.87%) Middleware
5 14 (7.87%) YAML
6 13 (7.30%) Spring
6 13 (7.30%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (6.18%) Kafka
8 11 (6.18%) Node.js
8 11 (6.18%) SOAP
8 11 (6.18%) Web Services
8 11 (6.18%) XML
9 10 (5.62%) .NET Framework
9 10 (5.62%) Jinja
9 10 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (5.06%) HTML
10 9 (5.06%) Lightning Web Components
10 9 (5.06%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.11%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.81%) Life Science
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Robotics
8 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Linux
2 7 (3.93%) Unix
3 4 (2.25%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.99%) DevOps
2 85 (47.75%) Agile
3 62 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (23.03%) AI
6 33 (18.54%) Microservices
7 31 (17.42%) Containerisation
8 29 (16.29%) Data Modelling
9 28 (15.73%) Data Governance
9 28 (15.73%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (14.04%) Test Automation
11 24 (13.48%) Analytics
12 23 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.92%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (12.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (12.36%) Scrum
14 20 (11.24%) Decision-Making
15 19 (10.67%) Machine Learning
15 19 (10.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.00%) Python
2 51 (28.65%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.22%) Java
4 35 (19.66%) C#
5 31 (17.42%) SQL
6 16 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.87%) C++
8 10 (5.62%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.06%) Apex Code
10 6 (3.37%) Bash
11 5 (2.81%) C
11 5 (2.81%) Groovy
12 3 (1.69%) ABAP
12 3 (1.69%) Perl
12 3 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.69%) R
13 2 (1.12%) Go
13 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.12%) Ruby
14 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.61%) Degree
3 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.69%) PhD
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISA
8 1 (0.56%) CISM
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.36%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.37%) ECSS
5 4 (2.25%) GDPR
6 3 (1.69%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.69%) ISO 26262
6 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.12%) Def Stans
7 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.56%) MISRA
8 1 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (19.66%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (20.79%) Terraform
2 32 (17.98%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) Ansible
4 6 (3.37%) Kibana
5 4 (2.25%) Packer
6 2 (1.12%) Argo
6 2 (1.12%) Grafana
6 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.74%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.18%) Databricks
4 10 (5.62%) Cisco
4 10 (5.62%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.06%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.93%) IBM
7 6 (3.37%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.81%) F5
8 5 (2.81%) Juniper
8 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.81%) Splunk
9 4 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.25%) Oracle
9 4 (2.25%) SAP
9 4 (2.25%) Telerik
10 3 (1.69%) Workday
11 2 (1.12%) VMware
12 1 (0.56%) Informatica
12 1 (0.56%) webMethods