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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 65 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 -18
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 152 147 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.82% 4.28% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 4.67% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 82 72 117
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,734 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +13.45% -11.86%
75th Percentile £78,438 £82,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,625 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%

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 3,230 3,148 3,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.12% 91.56% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 1,445 2,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -8 86 £57,500 -8.73% 184
Buckinghamshire +27 43 £70,000 -20.45% 66
Oxfordshire +14 23 £72,500 -6.45% 49
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 (3.95%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (51.32%) AWS
2 64 (42.11%) Azure
3 27 (17.76%) GCP
4 26 (17.11%) Serverless
5 23 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (12.50%) GitHub
7 18 (11.84%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.87%) Power Platform
8 15 (9.87%) SaaS
9 13 (8.55%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.24%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) DNS
1 2 (1.32%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.13%) Relational Database
2 22 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.55%) MySQL
4 12 (7.89%) RDBMS
5 9 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.29%) Power BI
8 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.32%) Metadata
10 2 (1.32%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (1.32%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.66%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.66%) Looker
11 1 (0.66%) QGIS
11 1 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 52 (34.21%) Git
2 29 (19.08%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.55%) JUnit
4 12 (7.89%) JMeter
4 12 (7.89%) Mockito
5 5 (3.29%) git-flow
5 5 (3.29%) GitLab
5 5 (3.29%) Selenium
6 3 (1.97%) MLflow
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) JIRA
7 2 (1.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.66%) Appium
8 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.66%) NUnit
8 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.11%) Law
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.84%) Marketing
5 14 (9.21%) Finance
6 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.97%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Automotive
10 2 (1.32%) Aviation
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (42.11%) Developer
2 43 (28.29%) Senior
3 41 (26.97%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (21.05%) Lead
5 21 (13.82%) Senior Developer
6 19 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 19 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (9.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (9.21%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 14 (9.21%) Senior Web Developer
8 14 (9.21%) Web Developer
9 12 (7.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Team Leader
11 8 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Operations Team Leader
12 7 (4.61%) Quality Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Power Platform Developer
13 6 (3.95%) Salesforce Developer
14 5 (3.29%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.39%) HTML
1 31 (20.39%) React
2 30 (19.74%) REST
3 26 (17.11%) Node.js
4 24 (15.79%) .NET
5 21 (13.82%) CSS
5 21 (13.82%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.16%) Spring
7 18 (11.84%) RESTful
8 17 (11.18%) Web Services
9 13 (8.55%) JSON
10 12 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (7.89%) Apache Camel
10 12 (7.89%) Hibernate
10 12 (7.89%) jQuery
10 12 (7.89%) Kafka
10 12 (7.89%) WireMock
10 12 (7.89%) XML
11 11 (7.24%) Middleware
12 8 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.61%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.97%) Life Science
6 3 (1.97%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) VMS
3 2 (1.32%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (57.24%) Agile
2 82 (53.95%) DevOps
3 50 (32.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 29 (19.08%) Microservices
6 29 (19.08%) Test Automation
7 27 (17.76%) SDLC
8 26 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (15.13%) AI
9 23 (15.13%) TDD
10 21 (13.82%) Software Engineering
11 18 (11.84%) Data Modelling
11 18 (11.84%) Workflow
12 16 (10.53%) Machine Learning
12 16 (10.53%) User Experience
13 15 (9.87%) Web Development
14 14 (9.21%) BDD
14 14 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (9.21%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 57 (37.50%) Python
2 36 (23.68%) Java
3 21 (13.82%) C#
3 21 (13.82%) TypeScript
4 19 (12.50%) SQL
5 14 (9.21%) Shell Script
6 9 (5.92%) Bash
6 9 (5.92%) C++
7 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.61%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.97%) Go
10 2 (1.32%) ABAP
10 2 (1.32%) C
10 2 (1.32%) Ruby
10 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.66%) Bicep
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
11 1 (0.66%) R
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.18%) Degree
3 11 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CISA
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) PhD
7 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.05%) QA
2 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.63%) ECSS
4 4 (2.63%) GDPR
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (38.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) vCloud
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (34.87%) Kubernetes
2 30 (19.74%) Terraform
3 12 (7.89%) Kibana
4 5 (3.29%) Ansible
5 3 (1.97%) Argo
5 3 (1.97%) Grafana
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.66%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.66%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Dynatrace
2 12 (7.89%) Splunk
3 7 (4.61%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.95%) Databricks
4 6 (3.95%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.63%) Telerik
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.32%) SAP
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
6 2 (1.32%) Workday
7 1 (0.66%) Informatica
7 1 (0.66%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.66%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.66%) Sitecore