CI/CD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 2,881 6,087 8,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 6.19% 8.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 7.20% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,069 3,280 5,635
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £94,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -

All Process and 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +8 2,588 £75,000 +7.14% 2,334
UK excluding London -27 1,480 £67,500 +8.00% 1,347
London +15 1,262 £85,000 - 1,132
Work from Home +12 1,194 £72,500 +3.57% 1,611
North of England -22 419 £68,000 +8.80% 494
South East +14 389 £65,000 +1.56% 224
North West -45 232 £70,000 +12.00% 313
South West +9 201 £68,525 +7.49% 182
Midlands -23 173 £65,000 - 189
Scotland -37 160 £66,000 +1.54% 99
Yorkshire +25 157 £68,000 +4.62% 127
West Midlands -12 140 £62,500 -3.85% 111
East of England +56 104 £65,000 +4.00% 94
Wales +2 39 £66,313 +20.57% 47
East Midlands -16 33 £65,000 +8.33% 76
North East +8 30 £65,000 +3.35% 54
Northern Ireland +40 15 £55,000 -10.20% 37

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
1 140 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 107 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (3.68%) Apache
4 99 (3.44%) Confluence
5 37 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 35 (1.21%) nginx
7 28 (0.97%) CMS
8 15 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 14 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 14 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.28%) SAS
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.17%) Luigi
15 4 (0.14%) CICS
15 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.14%) GemFire
15 4 (0.14%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.38%) Maya
3 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.069%) Simulink
6 2 (0.069%) Sketch
6 2 (0.069%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.035%) Revit
7 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.10%) Endur
5 3 (0.10%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.10%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.069%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.069%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.035%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.035%) Magento
7 1 (0.035%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.035%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.035%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.035%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.035%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,397 (48.49%) Azure
2 1,271 (44.12%) AWS
3 516 (17.91%) GCP
4 452 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
5 430 (14.93%) Serverless
6 327 (11.35%) GitHub
7 266 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
8 214 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 193 (6.70%) SaaS
10 182 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
11 172 (5.97%) Amazon S3
12 162 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
13 154 (5.35%) Power Platform
14 147 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
15 133 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
16 130 (4.51%) PaaS
17 121 (4.20%) dbt
18 110 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
19 101 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 97 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.67%) Firewall
2 67 (2.33%) Network Security
3 50 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 49 (1.70%) DNS
5 44 (1.53%) VPN
6 32 (1.11%) HTTP
7 20 (0.69%) Internet
8 14 (0.49%) HTTPS
8 14 (0.49%) Modbus
8 14 (0.49%) MQTT
9 12 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (0.42%) IPsec
10 11 (0.38%) WAN
11 10 (0.35%) SSL
12 8 (0.28%) SAN
13 7 (0.24%) 3GPP
13 7 (0.24%) 5G
13 7 (0.24%) Multicast
14 5 (0.17%) SMS
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (8.54%) NoSQL
2 226 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 204 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 161 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 143 (4.96%) MySQL
6 123 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 107 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
8 102 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
9 101 (3.51%) Power BI
10 96 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 93 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
11 93 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 85 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 78 (2.71%) Big Data
14 75 (2.60%) Apache Ignite
15 72 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 71 (2.46%) Apache Arrow
16 71 (2.46%) Apache Iceberg
16 71 (2.46%) Dremio
17 60 (2.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 529 (18.36%) Git
2 424 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 228 (7.91%) GitLab
4 199 (6.91%) JIRA
5 112 (3.89%) JUnit
6 107 (3.71%) Artifactory
7 104 (3.61%) Selenium
8 73 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 68 (2.36%) SonarQube
10 66 (2.29%) Cucumber
11 65 (2.26%) Maven
12 61 (2.12%) Postman
13 53 (1.84%) JMeter
13 53 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 50 (1.74%) Cypress.io
15 48 (1.67%) TeamCity
16 46 (1.60%) Mockito
17 44 (1.53%) Visual Studio
18 42 (1.46%) CircleCI
19 39 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 866 (30.06%) Finance
2 773 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 302 (10.48%) Banking
4 298 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (5.45%) Front Office
6 153 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 142 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.89%) Law
9 102 (3.54%) Marketing
10 86 (2.99%) Retail
11 54 (1.87%) Games
12 48 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.53%) Legal
15 38 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.04%) Advertising
17 29 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (1.01%) Tech for Good
18 27 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 756 (26.24%) Senior
2 650 (22.56%) Developer
3 414 (14.37%) Lead
4 391 (13.57%) Software Engineer
5 369 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 226 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 196 (6.80%) Architect
7 196 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
8 186 (6.46%) Senior Developer
9 178 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
10 173 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 169 (5.87%) AWS DevOps
12 150 (5.21%) Python Engineer
13 147 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
14 145 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 116 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
16 104 (3.61%) Software Developer
17 97 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
18 95 (3.30%) .NET Developer
19 94 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (17.70%) .NET
2 427 (14.82%) React
3 286 (9.93%) RESTful
4 270 (9.37%) REST
5 267 (9.27%) Node.js
6 265 (9.20%) Kafka
7 193 (6.70%) Spring Boot
8 184 (6.39%) Spring
9 177 (6.14%) AngularJS
10 157 (5.45%) CSS
10 157 (5.45%) HTML
11 116 (4.03%) .NET Core
12 115 (3.99%) PySpark
13 113 (3.92%) .NET Framework
14 97 (3.37%) Web Services
15 88 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
16 85 (2.95%) GraphQL
16 85 (2.95%) J2EE
16 85 (2.95%) Middleware
17 83 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 279 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 166 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 153 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 135 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 133 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 104 (3.61%) Mobile App
7 74 (2.57%) Algorithms
8 62 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 55 (1.91%) Security Posture
11 53 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 49 (1.70%) Cyberattack
12 49 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
15 35 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 30 (1.04%) IoT
17 29 (1.01%) Onboarding
18 25 (0.87%) Data Centre
19 24 (0.83%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 432 (14.99%) Linux
2 189 (6.56%) Windows
3 121 (4.20%) Android
4 81 (2.81%) Unix
5 62 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 45 (1.56%) Windows Server
7 32 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.66%) CentOS
9 18 (0.62%) VMS
10 17 (0.59%) zOS
11 14 (0.49%) Solaris
12 10 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.21%) Debian
14 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.10%) Rocky
16 2 (0.069%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,698 (58.94%) DevOps
2 1,399 (48.56%) Agile
3 888 (30.82%) Software Engineering
4 633 (21.97%) Containerisation
5 622 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 609 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
7 563 (19.54%) Microservices
8 490 (17.01%) Mentoring
9 486 (16.87%) Test Automation
10 387 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
11 316 (10.97%) Analytics
12 310 (10.76%) Computer Science
13 307 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 289 (10.03%) TDD
15 286 (9.93%) Scrum
16 271 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 258 (8.96%) SDLC
18 257 (8.92%) Data Engineering
18 257 (8.92%) Roadmaps
19 227 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,122 (38.94%) Python
2 726 (25.20%) Java
3 607 (21.07%) SQL
4 579 (20.10%) JavaScript
5 518 (17.98%) C#
6 339 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 256 (8.89%) Go
8 251 (8.71%) PowerShell
9 193 (6.70%) Bash
10 133 (4.62%) C++
11 119 (4.13%) Rust
12 86 (2.99%) Bicep
13 66 (2.29%) PHP
14 51 (1.77%) Scala
15 46 (1.60%) Ruby
16 38 (1.32%) C
16 38 (1.32%) Kotlin
17 35 (1.21%) T-SQL
18 34 (1.18%) Shell Script
19 33 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 424 (14.72%) Degree
2 297 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 193 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 177 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 118 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 114 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 92 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 89 (3.09%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 42 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 24 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.69%) CISSP
14 20 (0.69%) PhD
15 18 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.49%) CCSP
17 14 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
18 13 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (7.25%) QA
2 126 (4.37%) GDPR
3 89 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 84 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.46%) Accessibility
6 65 (2.26%) NIST
7 59 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 47 (1.63%) HIPAA
9 37 (1.28%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.80%) NCSC
10 23 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.28%) Basel III
12 8 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.28%) IFRS
12 8 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.28%) SLA
13 7 (0.24%) Basel II
13 7 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
14 6 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 938 (32.56%) Docker
2 52 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.49%) Firmware
5 14 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.35%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.21%) HDFS
10 5 (0.17%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.10%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.10%) Postfix
11 3 (0.10%) RACF
11 3 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.069%) KVM
12 2 (0.069%) NFS
12 2 (0.069%) SRDF
12 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1,045 (36.27%) Kubernetes
2 881 (30.58%) Terraform
3 415 (14.40%) Ansible
4 118 (4.10%) Grafana
5 113 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 67 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 64 (2.22%) Puppet
8 34 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.15%) Argo
10 31 (1.08%) Kibana
11 29 (1.01%) Istio
12 20 (0.69%) Podman
13 17 (0.59%) Packer
13 17 (0.59%) SCCM
14 15 (0.52%) CASB
15 14 (0.49%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
16 11 (0.38%) Nagios
17 7 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
18 6 (0.21%) linkerd
Vendors
1 437 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 190 (6.59%) Google
3 172 (5.97%) Databricks
4 114 (3.96%) Oracle
5 71 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 71 (2.46%) VMware
6 63 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 62 (2.15%) Atlassian
8 57 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 55 (1.91%) Splunk
10 43 (1.49%) IBM
11 38 (1.32%) SAP
12 31 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.01%) Dynatrace
14 27 (0.94%) Informatica
15 22 (0.76%) Adobe
15 22 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 21 (0.73%) New Relic
17 18 (0.62%) Palo Alto
18 15 (0.52%) OpenAI