Continuous Integration Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 135 112
Rank change year-on-year -39 -23 +23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 9 61 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 1.41% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 1.67% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 27
10th Percentile £55,875 £44,150 £42,550
25th Percentile £60,938 £50,000 £55,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £75,000 £81,500
South East median annual salary £73,750 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +23.08% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Integration 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 3,094 3,656 3,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.55% 84.45% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,769 2,224
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,106 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Integration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Continuous Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
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 Continuous Integration within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Buckinghamshire +6 7 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Berkshire -23 2 £72,500 +49.48% 10
Continuous Integration
South East

Continuous Integration
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (22.22%) DbUnit
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) jMock
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
2 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 2 (22.22%) JPA
2 2 (22.22%) PowerMock
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Batch
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) GraalVM
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Runbook
5 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Validation
6 2 (22.22%) Change Advisory Board
6 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) MCSE
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft