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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,884 4,376 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.75% 5.84% 6.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 7.10% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 959 1,916 2,072
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £54,625 £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 £96,250
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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 31 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 31 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 -9 543 £69,384 +11.01% 601
South East +6 422 £65,000 +1.56% 365
North West -22 350 £70,000 +12.00% 379
Scotland -22 261 £66,000 +1.54% 145
Midlands 0 232 £60,000 -4.00% 231
South West +7 203 £65,000 - 216
East of England +83 184 £65,000 +6.12% 129
Yorkshire +15 159 £70,000 +16.67% 169
West Midlands +9 152 £60,000 -7.69% 152
East Midlands +18 80 £60,000 - 78
Wales +2 39 £65,000 +18.18% 44
North East +7 34 £62,752 -1.95% 56
Northern Ireland +44 16 £55,000 -14.60% 87
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
1 236 (12.53%) Confluence
2 36 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.54%) Apache
4 24 (1.27%) nginx
5 20 (1.06%) CMS
6 18 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.90%) IIS
7 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.42%) 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 3 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.11%) Simulink
3 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.053%) Elementor
4 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.16%) 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 1,001 (53.13%) Azure
2 953 (50.58%) AWS
3 451 (23.94%) GCP
4 235 (12.47%) Serverless
5 201 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 170 (9.02%) GitHub
7 157 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 123 (6.53%) SaaS
9 83 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
10 79 (4.19%) Amazon S3
11 75 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (3.87%) Power Platform
13 72 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (3.61%) PaaS
15 50 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (2.44%) IaaS
17 43 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
18 42 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 41 (2.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 150 (7.96%) Broadband
2 49 (2.60%) Firewall
3 39 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.02%) DNS
5 33 (1.75%) VPN
6 21 (1.11%) WAN
7 18 (0.96%) Internet
8 17 (0.90%) HTTP
8 17 (0.90%) Network Security
9 14 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.64%) Modbus
11 10 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (0.48%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.42%) IPsec
14 7 (0.37%) MQTT
14 7 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
15 6 (0.32%) SAN
16 5 (0.27%) FTP
16 5 (0.27%) LAN
17 4 (0.21%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (19.80%) SQL Server
2 155 (8.23%) NoSQL
3 146 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (6.63%) MySQL
5 111 (5.89%) Relational Database
6 100 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
7 88 (4.67%) MongoDB
8 52 (2.76%) Big Data
8 52 (2.76%) Power BI
9 43 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (2.07%) DynamoDB
11 38 (2.02%) Data Lake
12 37 (1.96%) Redis
13 36 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (1.86%) RDBMS
15 24 (1.27%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.11%) Hadoop
18 18 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
19 16 (0.85%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 449 (23.83%) JIRA
2 352 (18.68%) GitLab
3 313 (16.61%) Selenium
4 310 (16.45%) Git
5 294 (15.61%) Bitbucket
6 281 (14.92%) Maven
7 277 (14.70%) Cucumber
8 276 (14.65%) SonarQube
9 270 (14.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 226 (12.00%) Jenkins
11 63 (3.34%) JUnit
12 35 (1.86%) Cypress.io
12 35 (1.86%) TeamCity
13 31 (1.65%) Visual Studio
14 30 (1.59%) Postman
15 28 (1.49%) JMeter
16 24 (1.27%) Mockito
16 24 (1.27%) NUnit
17 23 (1.22%) webpack
18 20 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 638 (33.86%) Finance
2 413 (21.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 408 (21.66%) Banking
4 387 (20.54%) Social Skills
5 219 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 167 (8.86%) Law
7 131 (6.95%) Retail
8 98 (5.20%) Investment Banking
9 90 (4.78%) Corporate Banking
10 85 (4.51%) Marketing
11 72 (3.82%) Public Sector
12 23 (1.22%) Advertising
12 23 (1.22%) Automotive
13 20 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 19 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.90%) Games
16 16 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.74%) Legal
17 14 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 575 (30.52%) Software Engineer
2 487 (25.85%) Senior
3 399 (21.18%) Developer
4 237 (12.58%) Lead
5 130 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 124 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 118 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 90 (4.78%) Java Engineer
9 87 (4.62%) Architect
10 78 (4.14%) Embedded Engineer
11 75 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 72 (3.82%) Software Developer
13 69 (3.66%) .NET Developer
14 68 (3.61%) Release Engineer
15 66 (3.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 64 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
17 62 (3.29%) Java Software Engineer
18 55 (2.92%) Java Developer
19 54 (2.87%) Data Engineer
19 54 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (28.93%) React
2 404 (21.44%) Spring
3 398 (21.13%) Spring Boot
4 373 (19.80%) Kafka
5 352 (18.68%) HTML
6 345 (18.31%) CSS
7 340 (18.05%) .NET
8 263 (13.96%) RESTful
9 261 (13.85%) Redux
10 255 (13.54%) JPA
11 254 (13.48%) REST
12 200 (10.62%) Hibernate
13 176 (9.34%) Node.js
14 146 (7.75%) Jest
15 136 (7.22%) Middleware
16 125 (6.63%) HTML5
17 119 (6.32%) AngularJS
18 115 (6.10%) CSS3
19 98 (5.20%) Sass
20 88 (4.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 341 (18.10%) Product Ownership
2 273 (14.49%) Enterprise Software
3 133 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 81 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 77 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 73 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 73 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
7 67 (3.56%) Embedded Systems
8 60 (3.18%) Mobile App
9 47 (2.49%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.91%) Cyberattack
11 33 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 32 (1.70%) Private Cloud
13 31 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.33%) Data Centre
15 23 (1.22%) IoT
16 20 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.06%) Onboarding
17 19 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
18 18 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 240 (12.74%) Linux
2 112 (5.94%) Windows
3 64 (3.40%) Android
4 48 (2.55%) Unix
5 27 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.37%) VMS
10 5 (0.27%) CentOS
10 5 (0.27%) Debian
10 5 (0.27%) zOS
11 4 (0.21%) Solaris
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (67.20%) Agile
2 1,011 (53.66%) DevOps
3 796 (42.25%) Software Engineering
4 585 (31.05%) Microservices
5 534 (28.34%) Containerisation
6 533 (28.29%) Test Automation
7 460 (24.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 454 (24.10%) SDLC
9 439 (23.30%) Mentoring
10 386 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
11 377 (20.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 325 (17.25%) Clean Code
13 324 (17.20%) TDD
14 301 (15.98%) Front End Development
15 281 (14.92%) Performance Optimisation
16 251 (13.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 250 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
18 222 (11.78%) Continuous Integration
19 211 (11.20%) Roadmaps
20 202 (10.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 686 (36.41%) Java
2 638 (33.86%) JavaScript
3 587 (31.16%) SQL
4 564 (29.94%) Python
5 381 (20.22%) TypeScript
6 333 (17.68%) C#
7 126 (6.69%) PowerShell
8 84 (4.46%) Go
9 82 (4.35%) Rust
10 80 (4.25%) C++
11 71 (3.77%) Bash
12 42 (2.23%) Bicep
13 40 (2.12%) PHP
14 27 (1.43%) C
15 23 (1.22%) Apex Code
16 21 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 20 (1.06%) Ruby
18 16 (0.85%) Groovy
18 16 (0.85%) Scala
19 15 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 274 (14.54%) Degree
2 161 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 94 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 80 (4.25%) SC Cleared
6 75 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.50%) PhD
8 58 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 53 (2.81%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.86%) 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 (18.15%) QA
2 131 (6.95%) Accessibility
3 46 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.34%) GDPR
5 41 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.33%) NIST
7 20 (1.06%) NCSC
7 20 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.64%) COBIT
10 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.42%) 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%) GxP
System Software
1 678 (35.99%) Docker
2 32 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 21 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.64%) Firmware
6 8 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) vSphere
8 6 (0.32%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.32%) Postfix
9 5 (0.27%) Squid
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.16%) RACF
11 3 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) NFS
12 2 (0.11%) SRDF
12 2 (0.11%) Xen
13 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 705 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 329 (17.46%) Terraform
3 179 (9.50%) Ansible
4 57 (3.03%) Grafana
5 40 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.38%) Kibana
7 19 (1.01%) Puppet
8 16 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.48%) Argo
10 9 (0.48%) Istio
10 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.42%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.27%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.16%) Nessus
14 3 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 250 (13.27%) Solace
2 205 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 86 (4.56%) Google
4 79 (4.19%) Databricks
5 78 (4.14%) Oracle
6 53 (2.81%) Atlassian
7 52 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.23%) VMware
9 38 (2.02%) Splunk
10 26 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 21 (1.11%) IBM
13 19 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.85%) Informatica
15 15 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.74%) Meraki
17 12 (0.64%) Cisco
18 11 (0.58%) Rollbar
19 9 (0.48%) Bloomberg