CI/CD Job Trends

CI/CD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 3,196 3,180 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.71% 6.46% 6.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 7.00% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,125 2,041 3,320
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.31% +7.56% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 17 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 18 February 2026. 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 -12 2,685 £72,500 -3.33% 1,519
UK excluding London -21 1,572 £65,000 -3.31% 1,154
Work from Home +4 1,400 £70,000 -3.45% 922
London 0 1,308 £82,500 -8.33% 628
North of England -4 516 £67,500 - 322
South East -27 346 £68,750 +5.77% 376
North West -9 239 £70,000 +3.70% 185
Yorkshire +10 231 £70,000 +3.70% 107
Scotland +6 221 £73,801 +13.54% 64
South West -20 185 £60,000 -11.11% 162
Midlands -17 181 £65,000 - 155
West Midlands -21 124 £62,500 -3.85% 109
East of England -16 68 £62,500 - 65
East Midlands +9 56 £67,500 +3.85% 46
Wales +1 48 £60,000 -7.69% 20
North East +2 46 £59,500 -8.46% 31
Northern Ireland -21 17 £73,801 +6.48% 9

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 116 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 71 (2.22%) Apache
4 67 (2.10%) Confluence
5 32 (1.00%) CMS
6 30 (0.94%) IIS
7 20 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 19 (0.59%) Appian
8 19 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 8 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 8 (0.25%) nginx
13 6 (0.19%) SAS
13 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.13%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.13%) WordPress
15 3 (0.094%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 12 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 12 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.34%) Maya
2 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.063%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.53%) Endur
4 14 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.22%) Markit EDM
5 7 (0.22%) SAP CX
5 7 (0.22%) Shopify
6 6 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.063%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.031%) Actimize
9 1 (0.031%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.031%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle CRM
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.031%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.031%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,641 (51.35%) Azure
2 1,506 (47.12%) AWS
3 662 (20.71%) GitHub
4 647 (20.24%) Azure DevOps
5 572 (17.90%) GCP
6 431 (13.49%) Serverless
7 355 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 261 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
9 250 (7.82%) SaaS
10 249 (7.79%) Amazon S3
11 241 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 226 (7.07%) Power Platform
13 204 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
14 158 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 150 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 145 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
17 140 (4.38%) dbt
18 128 (4.01%) PaaS
19 122 (3.82%) Snowflake
20 120 (3.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.25%) Firewall
2 81 (2.53%) Broadband
3 65 (2.03%) DNS
4 61 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 61 (1.91%) VPN
5 40 (1.25%) HTTP
6 37 (1.16%) WAN
7 30 (0.94%) Network Security
8 15 (0.47%) LAN
9 14 (0.44%) DHCP
10 13 (0.41%) BGP
11 12 (0.38%) VLAN
12 11 (0.34%) DSL
13 9 (0.28%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.28%) SSL
14 8 (0.25%) AMQP
14 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.22%) SAN
16 6 (0.19%) Internet
16 6 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 235 (7.35%) NoSQL
3 219 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 164 (5.13%) Power BI
5 159 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (3.75%) DynamoDB
7 117 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
8 111 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 99 (3.10%) MySQL
10 98 (3.07%) MongoDB
11 89 (2.78%) Data Lake
12 72 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 71 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 69 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
15 67 (2.10%) Tableau
16 63 (1.97%) Metadata
17 59 (1.85%) BigQuery
17 59 (1.85%) Redis
18 58 (1.81%) Big Data
19 51 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 525 (16.43%) Git
2 448 (14.02%) Jenkins
3 302 (9.45%) GitLab
4 201 (6.29%) JIRA
5 115 (3.60%) Selenium
6 97 (3.04%) TeamCity
7 84 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 70 (2.19%) SonarQube
9 64 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 59 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 51 (1.60%) MLflow
12 47 (1.47%) JUnit
13 42 (1.31%) JMeter
14 38 (1.19%) Maven
15 35 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
16 33 (1.03%) CircleCI
16 33 (1.03%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.97%) Postman
18 29 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
19 28 (0.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 925 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 829 (25.94%) Finance
3 297 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (6.32%) Banking
5 182 (5.69%) Law
6 174 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 173 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 140 (4.38%) Retail
9 130 (4.07%) Marketing
10 96 (3.00%) Financial Institution
10 96 (3.00%) Games
11 71 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 53 (1.66%) Back Office
13 52 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (1.19%) Legal
14 38 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 33 (1.03%) Advertising
16 33 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (0.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 770 (24.09%) Senior
2 717 (22.43%) Developer
3 498 (15.58%) Lead
4 315 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 274 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 220 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 211 (6.60%) Data Engineer
8 186 (5.82%) Senior Developer
9 179 (5.60%) Architect
10 149 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 147 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 128 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 128 (4.01%) Java Developer
13 107 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
14 104 (3.25%) Software Developer
15 98 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 92 (2.88%) .NET Developer
17 83 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 79 (2.47%) Java Engineer
18 79 (2.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (14.86%) React
2 454 (14.21%) .NET
3 345 (10.79%) REST
4 339 (10.61%) RESTful
5 278 (8.70%) Node.js
6 207 (6.48%) Spring
7 203 (6.35%) Kafka
8 197 (6.16%) Spring Boot
9 175 (5.48%) CSS
10 174 (5.44%) HTML
11 164 (5.13%) AngularJS
12 151 (4.72%) SOAP
13 116 (3.63%) .NET Core
14 112 (3.50%) OAuth
15 104 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
16 103 (3.22%) Django
17 98 (3.07%) Vue
18 96 (3.00%) .NET Framework
18 96 (3.00%) JSON
19 93 (2.91%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 628 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 241 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 216 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 82 (2.57%) Mobile App
8 76 (2.38%) Low-Code
9 73 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 54 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 53 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 52 (1.63%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.38%) Security Posture
15 43 (1.35%) Data Structures
16 42 (1.31%) AI Agents
16 42 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 39 (1.22%) Data Centre
18 36 (1.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 310 (9.70%) Linux
2 169 (5.29%) Windows
3 85 (2.66%) Android
4 63 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 58 (1.81%) Unix
6 54 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 30 (0.94%) VMS
8 15 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.34%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.19%) Debian
15 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.13%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.094%) SUSE
17 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.063%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,910 (59.76%) DevOps
2 1,331 (41.65%) Agile
3 906 (28.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 753 (23.56%) Test Automation
5 734 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 710 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 704 (22.03%) Software Engineering
8 648 (20.28%) Mentoring
9 634 (19.84%) Containerisation
10 619 (19.37%) Microservices
11 605 (18.93%) AI
12 485 (15.18%) Observability
13 422 (13.20%) Analytics
14 406 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 390 (12.20%) Clean Code
16 376 (11.76%) Coaching
17 343 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
18 331 (10.36%) Data Modelling
19 328 (10.26%) Scrum
20 280 (8.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,214 (37.98%) Python
2 754 (23.59%) SQL
3 680 (21.28%) Java
4 519 (16.24%) JavaScript
5 439 (13.74%) TypeScript
6 413 (12.92%) C#
7 291 (9.11%) Bash
8 262 (8.20%) PowerShell
9 181 (5.66%) Go
10 117 (3.66%) Bicep
11 102 (3.19%) Apex Code
12 69 (2.16%) Scala
13 66 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 58 (1.81%) PHP
15 57 (1.78%) Kotlin
16 56 (1.75%) C++
17 44 (1.38%) SOQL
18 40 (1.25%) PL/SQL
19 37 (1.16%) Rust
20 34 (1.06%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 365 (11.42%) Security Cleared
2 360 (11.26%) Degree
3 224 (7.01%) SC Cleared
4 177 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 89 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 84 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 73 (2.28%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (1.00%) ISTQB
11 27 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
14 22 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.63%) PhD
16 18 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 17 (0.53%) OSCP
18 14 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
18 14 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (10.45%) QA
2 172 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 162 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 110 (3.44%) GDPR
5 101 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.81%) NIST
7 46 (1.44%) SOC 2
8 42 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 36 (1.13%) SLA
10 30 (0.94%) WCAG
11 20 (0.63%) NCSC
12 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 13 (0.41%) GRC
14 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.19%) ECSS
16 6 (0.19%) MiFID
17 5 (0.16%) PERC
18 4 (0.13%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 852 (26.66%) Docker
2 96 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.47%) vSphere
6 14 (0.44%) Firmware
7 9 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.25%) HDFS
9 6 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.094%) iptables
11 3 (0.094%) Kamailio
11 3 (0.094%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) QEMU
12 2 (0.063%) NFS
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.031%) RACF
13 1 (0.031%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,014 (31.73%) Terraform
2 874 (27.35%) Kubernetes
3 323 (10.11%) Ansible
4 294 (9.20%) Grafana
5 196 (6.13%) Prometheus
6 59 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.35%) Argo
8 36 (1.13%) Kibana
9 30 (0.94%) Puppet
10 27 (0.84%) HP Fortify
11 19 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 17 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
13 11 (0.34%) logstash
13 11 (0.34%) Nagios
14 9 (0.28%) Control-M
15 8 (0.25%) Cilium
16 7 (0.22%) Rancher
17 6 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 415 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 167 (5.23%) Databricks
3 158 (4.94%) Salesforce
4 119 (3.72%) Google
5 116 (3.63%) Oracle
6 88 (2.75%) Splunk
7 66 (2.07%) VMware
8 59 (1.85%) SAP
9 52 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 46 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 36 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 32 (1.00%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.94%) Okta
15 26 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.75%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.75%) Palantir
17 22 (0.69%) Informatica
18 20 (0.63%) Adobe