CI/CD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 26 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 4,091 12,624 14,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.67% 10.07% 10.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 10.52% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,302 7,387 8,974
10th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,647 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +3.78% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year - +7.88% +9.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
England -8 3,571 £75,000 - 1,403
Work from Home -3 2,145 £72,500 +3.57% 899
UK excluding London -4 2,051 £65,000 - 875
London -6 1,701 £82,500 - 693
North of England 0 665 £67,500 +3.85% 235
South East -12 376 £65,000 - 262
South West 0 372 £62,500 - 133
North West -2 334 £70,000 +12.00% 135
Yorkshire +4 294 £65,000 - 66
Midlands +5 264 £60,000 -11.11% 83
Scotland -13 224 £65,000 - 49
West Midlands +3 155 £57,250 -15.19% 62
East Midlands +13 112 £65,000 - 21
East of England -20 74 £72,500 -3.33% 53
Wales +3 73 £60,000 - 56
North East +4 37 £62,500 -9.09% 36
Northern Ireland -14 23 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 172 (4.20%) Confluence
2 142 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 109 (2.66%) Apache
4 73 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 58 (1.42%) IIS
6 36 (0.88%) CMS
7 31 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.64%) nginx
9 18 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 17 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 15 (0.37%) Drupal
12 14 (0.34%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.29%) MS Exchange
14 10 (0.24%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.24%) Umbraco
14 10 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.22%) NServiceBus
16 7 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 7 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
17 6 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 9 (0.22%) PTC Creo
3 9 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.073%) Magento
4 3 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.049%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.024%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.024%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,842 (45.03%) Azure
2 1,812 (44.29%) AWS
3 808 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
4 786 (19.21%) GCP
5 580 (14.18%) Serverless
6 512 (12.52%) GitHub
7 377 (9.22%) SaaS
8 317 (7.75%) PaaS
9 268 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 257 (6.28%) OpenShift
11 197 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
12 191 (4.67%) IaaS
13 190 (4.64%) Power Platform
14 189 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
15 151 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
16 139 (3.40%) Amazon S3
17 129 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
18 122 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
19 112 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
19 112 (2.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.42%) Firewall
2 105 (2.57%) DNS
3 75 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.61%) VPN
5 41 (1.00%) Network Security
6 39 (0.95%) Internet
7 36 (0.88%) HTTP
8 29 (0.71%) WAN
9 28 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 28 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 23 (0.56%) NGFW
11 18 (0.44%) DHCP
12 15 (0.37%) BGP
13 13 (0.32%) MPLS
13 13 (0.32%) SSL
14 12 (0.29%) IOS XR
15 11 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
16 8 (0.20%) PBX
17 7 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
18 5 (0.12%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (9.83%) SQL Server
2 279 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 230 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 195 (4.77%) Big Data
5 187 (4.57%) Relational Database
6 183 (4.47%) MySQL
7 162 (3.96%) Data Lake
8 141 (3.45%) Power BI
9 122 (2.98%) MongoDB
10 121 (2.96%) BigQuery
11 111 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
12 102 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (2.30%) DynamoDB
14 93 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
15 88 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
16 78 (1.91%) Tableau
17 69 (1.69%) Redis
18 63 (1.54%) Hadoop
19 58 (1.42%) Looker
19 58 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,005 (24.57%) Jenkins
2 663 (16.21%) Git
3 343 (8.38%) JIRA
4 331 (8.09%) GitLab
5 199 (4.86%) Selenium
6 191 (4.67%) Cucumber
7 131 (3.20%) Postman
8 116 (2.84%) SonarQube
9 110 (2.69%) Maven
10 101 (2.47%) Artifactory
11 94 (2.30%) Bitbucket
12 92 (2.25%) TeamCity
13 90 (2.20%) Gradle
14 82 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 81 (1.98%) CircleCI
16 72 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
17 61 (1.49%) Cypress.io
17 61 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
18 55 (1.34%) Spinnaker
19 51 (1.25%) JUnit
General
1 980 (23.96%) Finance
2 827 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 445 (10.88%) Banking
4 268 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 259 (6.33%) Retail
6 147 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 115 (2.81%) Law
8 105 (2.57%) Marketing
9 71 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 65 (1.59%) Front Office
11 64 (1.56%) Legal
12 53 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.25%) Financial Institution
14 50 (1.22%) Games
15 43 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 40 (0.98%) Tech for Good
18 33 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 958 (23.42%) Developer
2 935 (22.86%) Senior
3 824 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 558 (13.64%) Lead
5 417 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 295 (7.21%) Architect
7 283 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 263 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 237 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
10 212 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
11 210 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
12 198 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 194 (4.74%) Data Engineer
14 193 (4.72%) .NET Developer
15 176 (4.30%) Java Developer
16 164 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
17 161 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
18 151 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 142 (3.47%) Software Developer
20 135 (3.30%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (19.12%) .NET
2 422 (10.32%) React
3 383 (9.36%) REST
4 314 (7.68%) AngularJS
5 290 (7.09%) .NET Core
6 283 (6.92%) Kafka
7 244 (5.96%) HTML
8 233 (5.70%) CSS
9 222 (5.43%) Node.js
10 209 (5.11%) RESTful
11 202 (4.94%) Spring
12 179 (4.38%) Spring Boot
13 171 (4.18%) .NET Framework
14 152 (3.72%) Web Services
15 139 (3.40%) ASP.NET
16 134 (3.28%) YAML
17 129 (3.15%) JSON
18 123 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
19 112 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
20 109 (2.66%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 319 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 289 (7.06%) Public Cloud
3 214 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 142 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 133 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
6 114 (2.79%) Private Cloud
7 104 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 92 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 79 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 78 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 78 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 47 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 44 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 37 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 37 (0.90%) PKI
15 35 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
16 33 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
16 33 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 788 (19.26%) Linux
2 267 (6.53%) Windows
3 151 (3.69%) Unix
4 84 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.49%) Android
7 20 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.46%) Solaris
9 16 (0.39%) Debian
10 14 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.32%) VMS
11 13 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.27%) AIX
12 11 (0.27%) Fedora
12 11 (0.27%) HPUX
13 9 (0.22%) CentOS
13 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,360 (57.69%) DevOps
2 1,881 (45.98%) Agile
3 1,015 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 890 (21.76%) Software Engineering
5 790 (19.31%) Microservices
6 640 (15.64%) Containerisation
7 604 (14.76%) Test Automation
8 569 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
9 544 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
10 507 (12.39%) Scrum
11 502 (12.27%) TDD
12 465 (11.37%) SDLC
13 449 (10.98%) Mentoring
14 389 (9.51%) Continuous Delivery
15 376 (9.19%) Configuration Management
16 318 (7.77%) Full Stack Development
17 315 (7.70%) Design Patterns
18 314 (7.68%) Analytics
19 276 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 269 (6.58%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,414 (34.56%) Python
2 1,154 (28.21%) Java
3 854 (20.88%) C#
4 850 (20.78%) SQL
5 670 (16.38%) JavaScript
6 507 (12.39%) PowerShell
7 476 (11.64%) Bash
8 336 (8.21%) TypeScript
9 229 (5.60%) Go
10 125 (3.06%) Ruby
11 119 (2.91%) C++
12 109 (2.66%) Bicep
12 109 (2.66%) Shell Script
13 100 (2.44%) T-SQL
14 90 (2.20%) Scala
15 81 (1.98%) PHP
16 80 (1.96%) Groovy
17 65 (1.59%) Perl
18 58 (1.42%) Kotlin
19 36 (0.88%) C
Qualifications
1 509 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 346 (8.46%) Degree
3 309 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 166 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 131 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 120 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 97 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 68 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 62 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 59 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (0.44%) CCNA
15 18 (0.44%) MCSA
16 16 (0.39%) MCSE
17 14 (0.34%) CISSP
18 13 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 12 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.65%) QA
2 52 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 38 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (0.71%) NCSC
6 26 (0.64%) NIST
7 21 (0.51%) SLA
8 19 (0.46%) GDPR
9 18 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.15%) GAAP
11 6 (0.15%) WCAG
12 5 (0.12%) AUTOSAR
12 5 (0.12%) DO-178B
12 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.073%) COBIT
14 3 (0.073%) GMP
14 3 (0.073%) PSD2
System Software
1 1,297 (31.70%) Docker
2 129 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 80 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 51 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (0.71%) vSphere
8 24 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.29%) Firmware
10 11 (0.27%) IAG
11 8 (0.20%) Ceph
11 8 (0.20%) HDFS
11 8 (0.20%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.098%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.073%) LXC
15 2 (0.049%) NFS
15 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.024%) Gluster
16 1 (0.024%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,386 (33.88%) Kubernetes
2 1,351 (33.02%) Terraform
3 566 (13.84%) Ansible
4 164 (4.01%) Grafana
5 138 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 135 (3.30%) Puppet
7 87 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 52 (1.27%) Argo
9 47 (1.15%) Istio
10 45 (1.10%) Rancher
11 38 (0.93%) Packer
12 35 (0.86%) Kibana
13 29 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
14 28 (0.68%) Nagios
15 26 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.56%) SCCM
16 23 (0.56%) SCOM
17 15 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
17 15 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
18 14 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 591 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 293 (7.16%) Google
3 125 (3.06%) Splunk
4 121 (2.96%) Oracle
5 115 (2.81%) VMware
6 100 (2.44%) Databricks
7 85 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 79 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 72 (1.76%) Atlassian
10 57 (1.39%) IBM
11 43 (1.05%) New Relic
11 43 (1.05%) TOWER Software
12 42 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 36 (0.88%) Veracode
14 35 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 35 (0.86%) F5
15 34 (0.83%) Cisco
15 34 (0.83%) CyberArk
15 34 (0.83%) SAP
16 33 (0.81%) Fortinet