CI/CD Jobs in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 -17
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,871 4,377 3,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.75% 5.87% 6.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 7.13% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,919 2,074
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £54,813 £50,000 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £97,328
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England -10 539 £69,384 +11.01% 3,131
South East +9 421 £65,000 +1.56% 3,995
North West -23 347 £70,000 +12.00% 1,504
Scotland -22 256 £66,000 +1.54% 606
Midlands +10 229 £60,000 -4.00% 2,651
South West +4 203 £65,000 - 1,691
East of England +78 184 £65,000 +8.33% 2,105
Yorkshire +18 158 £70,000 +16.67% 1,268
West Midlands +6 151 £60,000 -7.69% 1,412
East Midlands +16 78 £65,000 +8.33% 1,056
Wales +7 39 £65,000 +18.18% 392
North East +7 34 £62,752 -1.18% 363
Northern Ireland +46 16 £55,000 -6.46% 215
Isle of Man +12 1 £52,500 - 2
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 235 (12.56%) Confluence
2 35 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.55%) Apache
4 23 (1.23%) nginx
5 20 (1.07%) CMS
6 17 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.86%) IIS
8 10 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.21%) Camunda
12 4 (0.21%) GemFire
12 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.11%) Simulink
2 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.053%) Elementor
3 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.053%) Magento
5 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.053%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 998 (53.34%) Azure
2 948 (50.67%) AWS
3 451 (24.10%) GCP
4 235 (12.56%) Serverless
5 200 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
6 168 (8.98%) GitHub
7 157 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 124 (6.63%) SaaS
9 83 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 78 (4.17%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 71 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (3.63%) PaaS
15 49 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
17 46 (2.46%) IaaS
18 43 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
19 42 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 42 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 150 (8.02%) Broadband
2 48 (2.57%) Firewall
3 39 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.98%) DNS
5 33 (1.76%) VPN
6 21 (1.12%) WAN
7 18 (0.96%) Internet
8 17 (0.91%) Network Security
9 16 (0.86%) HTTP
10 14 (0.75%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.64%) Modbus
12 10 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (0.48%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.43%) IPsec
15 7 (0.37%) MQTT
15 7 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
16 6 (0.32%) SAN
17 5 (0.27%) LAN
18 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
18 4 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (19.88%) SQL Server
2 154 (8.23%) NoSQL
3 145 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (6.63%) MySQL
5 110 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 99 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
7 88 (4.70%) MongoDB
8 52 (2.78%) Power BI
9 51 (2.73%) Big Data
10 42 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (2.08%) DynamoDB
12 37 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 37 (1.98%) Redis
13 35 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
13 35 (1.87%) RDBMS
14 24 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 22 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.07%) Hadoop
17 17 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.86%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 448 (23.94%) JIRA
2 351 (18.76%) GitLab
3 313 (16.73%) Selenium
4 305 (16.30%) Git
5 294 (15.71%) Bitbucket
6 280 (14.97%) Maven
7 277 (14.80%) Cucumber
8 276 (14.75%) SonarQube
9 270 (14.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 222 (11.87%) Jenkins
11 63 (3.37%) JUnit
12 35 (1.87%) Cypress.io
13 34 (1.82%) TeamCity
14 31 (1.66%) Visual Studio
15 30 (1.60%) Postman
16 28 (1.50%) JMeter
17 24 (1.28%) Mockito
18 23 (1.23%) NUnit
18 23 (1.23%) webpack
19 20 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 633 (33.83%) Finance
2 408 (21.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 406 (21.70%) Banking
4 382 (20.42%) Social Skills
5 217 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
6 162 (8.66%) Law
7 131 (7.00%) Retail
8 98 (5.24%) Investment Banking
9 90 (4.81%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (4.44%) Marketing
11 72 (3.85%) Public Sector
12 23 (1.23%) Advertising
12 23 (1.23%) Automotive
13 20 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.02%) Tech for Good
14 19 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.86%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.75%) Legal
17 13 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 570 (30.46%) Software Engineer
2 483 (25.82%) Senior
3 393 (21.00%) Developer
4 236 (12.61%) Lead
5 126 (6.73%) Senior Developer
6 124 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 116 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 88 (4.70%) Java Engineer
9 87 (4.65%) Architect
10 78 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
11 74 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 72 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 68 (3.63%) .NET Developer
13 68 (3.63%) Release Engineer
14 66 (3.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 65 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
16 60 (3.21%) Java Software Engineer
17 55 (2.94%) Java Developer
18 54 (2.89%) Data Engineer
19 53 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (28.92%) React
2 401 (21.43%) Spring
3 396 (21.17%) Spring Boot
4 371 (19.83%) Kafka
5 349 (18.65%) HTML
6 342 (18.28%) CSS
7 337 (18.01%) .NET
8 261 (13.95%) Redux
8 261 (13.95%) RESTful
9 254 (13.58%) JPA
9 254 (13.58%) REST
10 199 (10.64%) Hibernate
11 176 (9.41%) Node.js
12 145 (7.75%) Jest
13 136 (7.27%) Middleware
14 124 (6.63%) HTML5
15 117 (6.25%) AngularJS
16 114 (6.09%) CSS3
17 98 (5.24%) Sass
18 88 (4.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 341 (18.23%) Product Ownership
2 273 (14.59%) Enterprise Software
3 131 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 81 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 77 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 73 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 72 (3.85%) Algorithms
8 67 (3.58%) Embedded Systems
9 59 (3.15%) Mobile App
10 47 (2.51%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.92%) Cyberattack
12 33 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.71%) Private Cloud
14 31 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.34%) Data Centre
16 23 (1.23%) IoT
17 20 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (1.07%) Onboarding
18 19 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
19 18 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 238 (12.72%) Linux
2 111 (5.93%) Windows
3 63 (3.37%) Android
4 48 (2.57%) Unix
5 26 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.32%) VMS
10 5 (0.27%) CentOS
10 5 (0.27%) zOS
11 4 (0.21%) Debian
11 4 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (67.18%) Agile
2 1,008 (53.87%) DevOps
3 791 (42.28%) Software Engineering
4 585 (31.27%) Microservices
5 533 (28.49%) Test Automation
6 531 (28.38%) Containerisation
7 457 (24.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 448 (23.94%) SDLC
9 438 (23.41%) Mentoring
10 385 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
11 376 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 324 (17.32%) TDD
13 323 (17.26%) Clean Code
14 301 (16.09%) Front End Development
15 281 (15.02%) Performance Optimisation
16 250 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 248 (13.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 222 (11.87%) Continuous Integration
19 210 (11.22%) Roadmaps
20 200 (10.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 682 (36.45%) Java
2 635 (33.94%) JavaScript
3 581 (31.05%) SQL
4 559 (29.88%) Python
5 379 (20.26%) TypeScript
6 330 (17.64%) C#
7 125 (6.68%) PowerShell
8 84 (4.49%) Go
9 82 (4.38%) Rust
10 80 (4.28%) C++
11 70 (3.74%) Bash
12 42 (2.24%) Bicep
13 40 (2.14%) PHP
14 27 (1.44%) C
15 23 (1.23%) Apex Code
16 21 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 20 (1.07%) Ruby
18 16 (0.86%) Scala
19 15 (0.80%) Groovy
20 14 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 272 (14.54%) Degree
2 160 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 93 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 83 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 79 (4.22%) SC Cleared
6 74 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.53%) PhD
8 58 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 53 (2.83%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.32%) CISSP
16 5 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (18.28%) QA
2 129 (6.89%) Accessibility
3 46 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.35%) GDPR
5 41 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.34%) NIST
7 20 (1.07%) NCSC
7 20 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.64%) COBIT
10 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.21%) Basel II
13 4 (0.21%) Basel III
13 4 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS
13 4 (0.21%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 676 (36.13%) Docker
2 32 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.64%) Firmware
6 8 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) vSphere
8 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.27%) Dovecot
9 5 (0.27%) Postfix
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Squid
11 3 (0.16%) RACF
11 3 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) SRDF
12 2 (0.11%) Xen
13 1 (0.053%) NDS
Systems Management
1 704 (37.63%) Kubernetes
2 326 (17.42%) Terraform
3 178 (9.51%) Ansible
4 55 (2.94%) Grafana
5 38 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.39%) Kibana
7 19 (1.02%) Puppet
8 16 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.48%) Argo
10 9 (0.48%) Istio
10 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.43%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.21%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.21%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.16%) Rancher
14 3 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 250 (13.36%) Solace
2 203 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 85 (4.54%) Google
4 78 (4.17%) Databricks
4 78 (4.17%) Oracle
5 53 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 52 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.24%) VMware
8 41 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.92%) Splunk
10 26 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 20 (1.07%) IBM
13 19 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.86%) Informatica
15 15 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.75%) Meraki
17 12 (0.64%) Cisco
18 10 (0.53%) Rollbar
19 8 (0.43%) OpenAI