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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,033 9,244 18,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.21% 8.68% 11.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 9.07% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 5,863 8,338
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - +13.04%

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 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 19 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 19 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +10 4,275 £63,000 -3.08% 676
England -27 3,669 £70,000 -6.67% 1,062
Scotland +27 2,048 £65,000 -2.67% 92
Work from Home -14 2,031 £70,000 -6.67% 674
London -17 1,465 £85,000 +3.03% 486
North of England -20 633 £62,641 -3.63% 184
South East -31 616 £64,500 -6.18% 141
South West -2 421 £60,000 -7.69% 91
North West -2 368 £62,500 -3.85% 119
Midlands -13 365 £65,000 - 82
West Midlands +11 261 £65,000 - 53
Yorkshire -25 193 £65,000 - 48
East Midlands -41 106 £60,000 -11.11% 29
East of England -60 100 £62,500 -16.67% 49
Wales +8 88 £55,000 - 31
North East -3 72 £62,783 +9.19% 19
Northern Ireland -38 11 £61,250 +33.15% 19
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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
1 609 (10.09%) Apache Spark
2 260 (4.31%) Apache
3 184 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 109 (1.81%) Confluence
5 93 (1.54%) FileNet
6 63 (1.04%) IIS
7 57 (0.94%) nginx
8 56 (0.93%) SharePoint
9 50 (0.83%) CMS
10 36 (0.60%) OpenStack
11 28 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 17 (0.28%) WordPress
15 16 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 10 (0.17%) CICS
17 10 (0.17%) Drupal
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.050%) Simulink
6 3 (0.050%) Sketch
7 2 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.017%) Blender
8 1 (0.017%) Notion
8 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 64 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Magento
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,809 (46.56%) AWS
2 2,117 (35.09%) Azure
3 922 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
4 579 (9.60%) GCP
5 554 (9.18%) Serverless
6 434 (7.19%) GitHub
7 324 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 313 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
9 310 (5.14%) SaaS
10 232 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
10 232 (3.85%) Power Platform
11 228 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
12 210 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 204 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
14 190 (3.15%) PaaS
15 181 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
16 173 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
17 148 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
18 140 (2.32%) Datadog
19 138 (2.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 154 (2.55%) Firewall
2 112 (1.86%) DNS
3 80 (1.33%) WAN
4 67 (1.11%) VPN
5 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 54 (0.90%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 38 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 33 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.45%) DHCP
11 26 (0.43%) Internet
12 19 (0.31%) BGP
13 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 18 (0.30%) PBX
14 17 (0.28%) LAN
15 16 (0.27%) MQTT
16 15 (0.25%) NGFW
17 14 (0.23%) SSL
18 11 (0.18%) MPLS
18 11 (0.18%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 871 (14.44%) NoSQL
2 551 (9.13%) Big Data
3 404 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 289 (4.79%) Hadoop
5 265 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 262 (4.34%) Relational Database
7 251 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
8 236 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 223 (3.70%) MySQL
10 193 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 188 (3.12%) Data Lake
12 180 (2.98%) MongoDB
13 164 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
14 152 (2.52%) Apache Hive
15 143 (2.37%) BigQuery
16 124 (2.06%) Looker
17 121 (2.01%) Power BI
18 114 (1.89%) DynamoDB
19 107 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
20 101 (1.67%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,086 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 849 (14.07%) Git
3 425 (7.04%) GitLab
4 330 (5.47%) JIRA
5 286 (4.74%) JUnit
6 228 (3.78%) Selenium
7 183 (3.03%) Cucumber
8 160 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 160 (2.65%) Postman
9 144 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 141 (2.34%) Artifactory
11 114 (1.89%) CircleCI
12 106 (1.76%) Jasmine
13 103 (1.71%) TeamCity
14 95 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
15 81 (1.34%) WebDriver
16 76 (1.26%) Visual Studio
17 73 (1.21%) Maven
18 66 (1.09%) JMeter
19 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,704 (44.82%) Finance
2 2,112 (35.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,026 (33.58%) Law
4 1,039 (17.22%) Social Skills
5 1,004 (16.64%) Marketing
6 721 (11.95%) Legal
7 608 (10.08%) Banking
8 342 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
9 312 (5.17%) Investment Banking
10 261 (4.33%) Financial Institution
11 253 (4.19%) Public Sector
12 179 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
13 164 (2.72%) Retail
14 74 (1.23%) Billing
14 74 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 64 (1.06%) Front Office
15 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
16 53 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 53 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 50 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,008 (33.28%) Software Engineer
2 1,162 (19.26%) Developer
3 1,117 (18.51%) Lead
4 972 (16.11%) Senior
5 705 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 680 (11.27%) Java Engineer
7 665 (11.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 563 (9.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 504 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
10 474 (7.86%) Data Engineer
11 373 (6.18%) Python Engineer
12 348 (5.77%) Big Data Engineer
13 347 (5.75%) Senior Developer
14 333 (5.52%) Python Software Engineer
15 331 (5.49%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 307 (5.09%) Full Stack Engineer
17 306 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
18 296 (4.91%) AWS Software Engineer
19 283 (4.69%) Architect
20 271 (4.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 872 (14.45%) React
2 771 (12.78%) Spring
3 750 (12.43%) .NET
4 553 (9.17%) AngularJS
5 518 (8.59%) Kafka
6 479 (7.94%) HTML
7 440 (7.29%) CSS
7 440 (7.29%) Node.js
8 438 (7.26%) REST
9 433 (7.18%) Spring Boot
10 387 (6.41%) JSON
11 386 (6.40%) RESTful
12 292 (4.84%) J2EE
13 273 (4.53%) Web Services
14 218 (3.61%) .NET Core
15 210 (3.48%) Hibernate
16 207 (3.43%) .NET Framework
16 207 (3.43%) GraphQL
17 203 (3.36%) PySpark
18 191 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 885 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 824 (13.66%) Algorithms
3 367 (6.08%) Public Cloud
4 330 (5.47%) Product Ownership
5 240 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 216 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
7 213 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 194 (3.22%) Data Structures
9 132 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 121 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 112 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 101 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 80 (1.33%) Market Risk
16 77 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
17 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
18 68 (1.13%) IoT
19 64 (1.06%) Data Centre
20 62 (1.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 744 (12.33%) Linux
2 295 (4.89%) Windows
3 184 (3.05%) Unix
4 84 (1.39%) Android
5 78 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.98%) CentOS
7 52 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 51 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (0.80%) Debian
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 20 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (0.17%) Solaris
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.066%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,771 (62.51%) Agile
2 2,884 (47.80%) Software Engineering
3 2,553 (42.32%) DevOps
4 2,120 (35.14%) SDLC
5 1,552 (25.73%) Operational Stability
6 1,448 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,414 (23.44%) Machine Learning
8 1,263 (20.93%) Community of Practice
9 1,056 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,027 (17.02%) Microservices
11 973 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 875 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 861 (14.27%) Visualisation
14 850 (14.09%) Test Automation
15 840 (13.92%) Continuous Delivery
16 768 (12.73%) TDD
17 724 (12.00%) Full Stack Development
18 714 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
19 701 (11.62%) Risk Management
20 670 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,209 (36.62%) Java
2 1,905 (31.58%) Python
3 1,723 (28.56%) SQL
4 969 (16.06%) JavaScript
5 882 (14.62%) C#
6 563 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 357 (5.92%) Scala
8 355 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 327 (5.42%) Go
10 325 (5.39%) Bash
11 155 (2.57%) PL/SQL
12 132 (2.19%) PHP
13 114 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 114 (1.89%) Ruby
14 103 (1.71%) Shell Script
15 95 (1.57%) Bicep
16 87 (1.44%) C++
17 78 (1.29%) C
18 74 (1.23%) T-SQL
19 65 (1.08%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 514 (8.52%) Degree
2 478 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 288 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 288 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 167 (2.77%) Azure Certification
5 155 (2.57%) AWS Certification
6 125 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 113 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 105 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 60 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 58 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 56 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (0.80%) MCSE
13 45 (0.75%) CISSP
14 43 (0.71%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (7.08%) QA
2 159 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 81 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 73 (1.21%) SLA
5 50 (0.83%) GDPR
6 31 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 9 (0.15%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.13%) NCSC
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.083%) GRC
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 3 (0.050%) IFRS
16 3 (0.050%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.050%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,256 (20.82%) Docker
2 170 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 116 (1.92%) HDFS
4 85 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 52 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 35 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 23 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 21 (0.35%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 10 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.083%) KVM
14 3 (0.050%) Ceph
14 3 (0.050%) Varnish
14 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.017%) LXC
16 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,566 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 1,364 (22.61%) Terraform
3 451 (7.48%) Ansible
4 305 (5.06%) Grafana
5 175 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 134 (2.22%) Puppet
7 76 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 67 (1.11%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 41 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 32 (0.53%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.45%) Packer
14 24 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 23 (0.38%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
17 20 (0.33%) Salt
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 739 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 403 (6.68%) Oracle
3 374 (6.20%) Databricks
4 302 (5.01%) Google
5 229 (3.80%) Splunk
6 191 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 121 (2.01%) VMware
8 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 85 (1.41%) Informatica
10 81 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 80 (1.33%) Atlassian
12 74 (1.23%) IBM
13 60 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 57 (0.94%) Alteryx
15 36 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
17 29 (0.48%) Xamarin
18 27 (0.45%) TOWER Software
19 26 (0.43%) Sybase
20 24 (0.40%) Facebook