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 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,546 3,612 4,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.23% 5.84% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 6.77% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,775 2,427
10th Percentile £47,231 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,715 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £88,750 £95,000
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 33,970 53,355 62,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 86.20% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,774 38,045 32,029
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,928 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -8.90% +4.63%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% -11.29% +3.33%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -1 406 £68,000 +4.62% 248
South East +18 403 £65,000 - 191
South West +11 232 £67,500 +12.50% 108
North West -19 225 £69,384 +11.01% 175
Midlands -12 220 £65,000 - 99
West Midlands -1 179 £65,000 +4.00% 59
Scotland -45 164 £65,000 +4.00% 73
Yorkshire +26 148 £68,000 +0.74% 49
East of England +39 93 £62,500 -1.96% 73
Wales +13 52 £65,000 +6.12% 16
East Midlands -10 41 £65,000 - 38
North East +1 33 £65,000 +3.53% 24
Northern Ireland +36 11 £69,308 -7.59% 14
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 77 (4.98%) Confluence
2 27 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.42%) Apache
4 21 (1.36%) nginx
5 20 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.65%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.45%) SAS
11 4 (0.26%) GemFire
11 4 (0.26%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.26%) Luigi
12 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.13%) Sketch
3 2 (0.13%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.13%) Trello
4 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.065%) Revit
4 1 (0.065%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.13%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.065%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.065%) Shopify
5 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 759 (49.09%) Azure
2 540 (34.93%) AWS
3 277 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (16.30%) GCP
5 186 (12.03%) GitHub
6 148 (9.57%) Serverless
7 110 (7.12%) SaaS
8 82 (5.30%) PaaS
9 79 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
10 72 (4.66%) Power Platform
11 71 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 64 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 57 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
15 52 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
16 50 (3.23%) IaaS
17 49 (3.17%) Amazon S3
18 44 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
19 42 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
19 42 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.98%) Firewall
1 46 (2.98%) TCP/IP
2 32 (2.07%) DNS
3 28 (1.81%) Internet
4 24 (1.55%) Network Security
5 21 (1.36%) VPN
6 14 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (0.84%) HTTPS
8 11 (0.71%) Modbus
9 10 (0.65%) HTTP
9 10 (0.65%) IPsec
9 10 (0.65%) MQTT
10 8 (0.52%) SSL
11 5 (0.32%) WAN
12 4 (0.26%) 3GPP
12 4 (0.26%) FTP
12 4 (0.26%) LAN
12 4 (0.26%) Multicast
12 4 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 139 (8.99%) NoSQL
4 117 (7.57%) Relational Database
5 89 (5.76%) MongoDB
6 86 (5.56%) MySQL
7 60 (3.88%) Redis
8 55 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (2.91%) Power BI
11 43 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
12 35 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
13 32 (2.07%) RDBMS
14 31 (2.01%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.94%) Big Data
16 29 (1.88%) Data Lake
17 24 (1.55%) DynamoDB
18 19 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 15 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 334 (21.60%) Git
2 220 (14.23%) Jenkins
3 121 (7.83%) JIRA
4 99 (6.40%) GitLab
5 48 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 47 (3.04%) Selenium
7 39 (2.52%) JUnit
7 39 (2.52%) TeamCity
8 36 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 35 (2.26%) webpack
10 33 (2.13%) Visual Studio
11 32 (2.07%) Cypress.io
12 28 (1.81%) SonarQube
13 24 (1.55%) CircleCI
13 24 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
15 17 (1.10%) JMeter
16 16 (1.03%) Artifactory
16 16 (1.03%) Postman
16 16 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 379 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 361 (23.35%) Finance
3 155 (10.03%) Banking
4 114 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (4.53%) Law
6 68 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 66 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (2.46%) Retail
9 32 (2.07%) Automotive
10 27 (1.75%) Games
11 24 (1.55%) Marketing
11 24 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 21 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.23%) Advertising
15 16 (1.03%) Legal
15 16 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.71%) Front Office
18 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 476 (30.79%) Senior
2 393 (25.42%) Developer
3 293 (18.95%) Software Engineer
4 264 (17.08%) Lead
5 145 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 140 (9.06%) Senior Developer
7 137 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 85 (5.50%) .NET Developer
9 84 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 83 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 66 (4.27%) Architect
12 59 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
13 52 (3.36%) Software Developer
14 51 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (2.65%) C# Developer
16 41 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
17 39 (2.52%) Java Developer
17 39 (2.52%) Lead Software Engineer
18 34 (2.20%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (24.19%) .NET
2 271 (17.53%) React
3 146 (9.44%) RESTful
4 138 (8.93%) Node.js
5 125 (8.09%) REST
6 118 (7.63%) AngularJS
7 115 (7.44%) CSS
8 113 (7.31%) Spring Boot
9 108 (6.99%) HTML
10 97 (6.27%) .NET Framework
11 89 (5.76%) Kafka
12 83 (5.37%) Spring
13 82 (5.30%) .NET Core
14 80 (5.17%) Web Services
15 78 (5.05%) ASP.NET
16 58 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
17 56 (3.62%) Jest
18 53 (3.43%) Entity Framework
19 47 (3.04%) Django
20 46 (2.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
2 93 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.76%) Public Cloud
4 80 (5.17%) Mobile App
5 54 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 50 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 44 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (2.72%) Virtual Team
9 30 (1.94%) IoT
9 30 (1.94%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (0.71%) Device Driver
17 11 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 232 (15.01%) Linux
2 117 (7.57%) Windows
3 67 (4.33%) Android
4 60 (3.88%) Apple iOS
4 60 (3.88%) Unix
5 13 (0.84%) VMS
5 13 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.58%) zOS
7 8 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.45%) Solaris
9 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.19%) CentOS
11 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.065%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (56.86%) DevOps
2 781 (50.52%) Agile
3 517 (33.44%) Software Engineering
4 345 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 332 (21.47%) Test Automation
6 308 (19.92%) Microservices
7 306 (19.79%) Containerisation
8 297 (19.21%) Mentoring
9 294 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 265 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
11 214 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 190 (12.29%) TDD
13 185 (11.97%) Scrum
14 181 (11.71%) Computer Science
15 171 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 167 (10.80%) SDLC
17 162 (10.48%) Coaching
18 151 (9.77%) Continuous Delivery
19 148 (9.57%) Roadmaps
20 143 (9.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 511 (33.05%) Python
2 393 (25.42%) C#
3 333 (21.54%) SQL
4 329 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 319 (20.63%) Java
6 198 (12.81%) TypeScript
7 122 (7.89%) PowerShell
8 85 (5.50%) Bash
9 76 (4.92%) Rust
10 68 (4.40%) C++
11 54 (3.49%) PHP
12 49 (3.17%) Go
13 44 (2.85%) Bicep
14 26 (1.68%) Scala
15 24 (1.55%) Ruby
16 22 (1.42%) C
17 18 (1.16%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.16%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.16%) Swift
18 13 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 231 (14.94%) Degree
2 146 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 79 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 79 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 39 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.58%) OCP
8 9 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
9 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.19%) PMP
12 3 (0.19%) RHCE
12 3 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.17%) QA
2 68 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 48 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 41 (2.65%) GDPR
6 27 (1.75%) NIST
7 26 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (0.97%) NCSC
9 12 (0.78%) COBIT
9 12 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.52%) Basel III
10 8 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.52%) IFRS
10 8 (0.52%) IFRS 9
10 8 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.45%) Basel II
11 7 (0.45%) Dodd-Frank
12 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.19%) WCAG
13 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 428 (27.68%) Docker
2 28 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.78%) Firmware
5 10 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.45%) vSphere
7 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.19%) Postfix
8 3 (0.19%) RACF
8 3 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.13%) HDFS
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
9 2 (0.13%) Xen
10 1 (0.065%) NDS
10 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 467 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 321 (20.76%) Terraform
3 159 (10.28%) Ansible
4 37 (2.39%) Puppet
5 35 (2.26%) Grafana
6 28 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.68%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.36%) Kibana
9 20 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
10 9 (0.58%) Argo
11 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) Packer
14 3 (0.19%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.13%) CA Endevor
15 2 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
15 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.82%) Google
3 82 (5.30%) Databricks
4 59 (3.82%) Atlassian
5 51 (3.30%) VMware
6 50 (3.23%) Oracle
7 25 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.62%) Xamarin
8 17 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.03%) Splunk
10 13 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 12 (0.78%) IBM
12 9 (0.58%) Adobe
12 9 (0.58%) Cisco
12 9 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.52%) Okta
14 7 (0.45%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.45%) Ping Identity
15 5 (0.32%) F5