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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 -49
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 194 135 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.41% 3.96% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.22% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 136 55 138
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,250 £86,000
South East median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +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 4,078 3,199 5,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.71% 93.92% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 1,226 3,857
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 £71,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +39 84 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Berkshire +7 76 £47,500 -36.67% 50
Oxfordshire +7 34 £62,500 -3.85% 28
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 (4.12%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.06%) CMS
2 4 (2.06%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (50.00%) Azure
2 92 (47.42%) AWS
3 30 (15.46%) Serverless
4 29 (14.95%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (13.40%) Power Platform
6 22 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (9.28%) SaaS
8 16 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (7.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (6.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (6.19%) OpenShift
12 10 (5.15%) GCP
13 7 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.58%) Apigee
14 5 (2.58%) Kong
15 4 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.76%) Firewall
2 7 (3.61%) DNS
3 5 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
5 2 (1.03%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) Modbus
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) Relational Database
2 19 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.06%) MySQL
6 4 (2.06%) Power BI
6 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.55%) Airbyte
7 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.03%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.52%) Looker
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
9 1 (0.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 42 (21.65%) Git
2 27 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.82%) GitLab
4 9 (4.64%) JIRA
4 9 (4.64%) JUnit
5 7 (3.61%) JMeter
5 7 (3.61%) Mockito
6 5 (2.58%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.58%) Yeoman
7 4 (2.06%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.06%) Postman
7 4 (2.06%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.55%) MLflow
8 3 (1.55%) Polyspace
8 3 (1.55%) VectorCAST
9 2 (1.03%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.03%) Selenium
9 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.46%) Finance
4 17 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.70%) Games
6 11 (5.67%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.12%) Law
9 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Advertising
11 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (1.03%) Aviation
11 2 (1.03%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.52%) Military
12 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (23.20%) Developer
2 41 (21.13%) Lead
3 21 (10.82%) Data Engineer
4 20 (10.31%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.25%) Architect
6 16 (8.25%) Automation Engineer
6 16 (8.25%) Senior
7 15 (7.73%) Java Developer
7 15 (7.73%) Power Platform Developer
8 14 (7.22%) Team Leader
9 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
11 9 (4.64%) Infrastructure Team Leader
12 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.62%) REST
2 32 (16.49%) .NET
3 26 (13.40%) JSON
4 18 (9.28%) React
5 17 (8.76%) Spring
5 17 (8.76%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.76%) YAML
6 16 (8.25%) XML
7 14 (7.22%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (7.22%) Web Services
8 13 (6.70%) Kafka
9 12 (6.19%) HTML
9 12 (6.19%) RESTful
10 11 (5.67%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.15%) Jinja
11 10 (5.15%) Mustache
11 10 (5.15%) Node.js
11 10 (5.15%) SOAP
12 9 (4.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 33 (17.01%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (9.28%) Low-Code
4 10 (5.15%) Life Science
5 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.03%) Robotics
12 2 (1.03%) Tandem
13 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.31%) Linux
2 7 (3.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.03%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (62.37%) DevOps
2 101 (52.06%) Agile
3 64 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (26.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (24.23%) AI
6 45 (23.20%) Containerisation
7 40 (20.62%) Microservices
7 40 (20.62%) Software Engineering
8 36 (18.56%) Test Automation
9 32 (16.49%) Data Governance
10 30 (15.46%) TDD
11 26 (13.40%) Analytics
11 26 (13.40%) Data Modelling
12 25 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (12.89%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (12.37%) Machine Learning
14 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
14 23 (11.86%) Scrum
15 22 (11.34%) Event-Driven
16 20 (10.31%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 86 (44.33%) Python
2 50 (25.77%) JavaScript
3 42 (21.65%) C#
4 35 (18.04%) Java
5 34 (17.53%) SQL
6 11 (5.67%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.64%) Bash
7 9 (4.64%) C++
7 9 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.58%) Groovy
9 4 (2.06%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.06%) C
10 3 (1.55%) Perl
10 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.03%) PHP
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) ABAP
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.43%) Degree
2 25 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.58%) ICAEW
7 4 (2.06%) PhD
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.92%) QA
2 10 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.06%) WCAG
5 3 (1.55%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.55%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.03%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.03%) ECSS
7 1 (0.52%) GDPR
7 1 (0.52%) MISRA
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (24.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 37 (19.07%) Terraform
3 16 (8.25%) Ansible
4 9 (4.64%) Kibana
5 6 (3.09%) Grafana
5 6 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.06%) Packer
7 3 (1.55%) Argo
8 2 (1.03%) Istio
8 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.70%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.15%) Cisco
4 9 (4.64%) Databricks
5 8 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.12%) Splunk
6 7 (3.61%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.61%) IBM
7 6 (3.09%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.58%) F5
8 5 (2.58%) Juniper
8 5 (2.58%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.06%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.55%) Adobe
10 3 (1.55%) VMware
11 2 (1.03%) Facebook
11 2 (1.03%) Oracle
11 2 (1.03%) SAP
11 2 (1.03%) YouTube