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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 2,917 3,185 4,144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.84% 5.94% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 6.55% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 2,004 3,095
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,750 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -1.54%

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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -11 2,458 £73,000 +0.69% 2,336
UK excluding London -12 1,484 £65,000 - 2,109
Work from Home +5 1,223 £71,000 +1.43% 1,329
London +2 1,197 £80,250 -8.29% 527
North of England +6 489 £67,500 +3.85% 472
South East -30 300 £68,750 +5.77% 664
North West +10 237 £67,500 +3.85% 224
Scotland +18 219 £73,801 +13.54% 87
Yorkshire +15 211 £68,000 +1.49% 184
Midlands -13 180 £65,000 - 254
South West -16 173 £60,000 -11.11% 257
West Midlands -19 126 £63,500 -4.15% 110
East of England -7 64 £65,000 +4.00% 269
Wales +6 60 £57,500 -11.54% 100
East Midlands -2 52 £67,500 +3.85% 139
North East +8 43 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Northern Ireland -11 13 £95,000 +37.07% 50

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 92 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 67 (2.30%) Confluence
4 64 (2.19%) Apache
5 30 (1.03%) CMS
6 23 (0.79%) IIS
7 21 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 17 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.55%) Appian
10 11 (0.38%) nginx
10 11 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.24%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.14%) Apache Superset
15 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (0.48%) Maya
2 13 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.069%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.034%) Doxygen
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
4 12 (0.41%) Endur
5 11 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.24%) SAP CX
6 7 (0.24%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.034%) Actimize
9 1 (0.034%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.034%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.034%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle CRM
9 1 (0.034%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.034%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.034%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.034%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,583 (54.27%) Azure
2 1,321 (45.29%) AWS
3 644 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
4 609 (20.88%) GitHub
5 472 (16.18%) GCP
6 402 (13.78%) Serverless
7 310 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
8 232 (7.95%) SaaS
9 230 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
10 218 (7.47%) Power Platform
11 217 (7.44%) Amazon S3
12 197 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 147 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
14 145 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 133 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 133 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
16 126 (4.32%) dbt
17 119 (4.08%) Snowflake
18 116 (3.98%) PaaS
19 100 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.88%) Firewall
2 62 (2.13%) DNS
3 46 (1.58%) VPN
4 45 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 36 (1.23%) WAN
6 30 (1.03%) HTTP
7 27 (0.93%) Broadband
8 23 (0.79%) Network Security
9 17 (0.58%) LAN
10 13 (0.45%) DHCP
11 12 (0.41%) BGP
12 10 (0.34%) AMQP
12 10 (0.34%) VLAN
13 9 (0.31%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.31%) SSH
13 9 (0.31%) SSL
14 8 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.21%) Internet
15 6 (0.21%) SAN
15 6 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 225 (7.71%) NoSQL
3 215 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
4 173 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
5 158 (5.42%) Power BI
6 125 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 111 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 106 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 99 (3.39%) MongoDB
10 95 (3.26%) MySQL
11 89 (3.05%) Data Lake
12 69 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 64 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 62 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
15 61 (2.09%) Tableau
16 58 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 57 (1.95%) Big Data
18 56 (1.92%) BigQuery
19 54 (1.85%) Metadata
20 50 (1.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 500 (17.14%) Git
2 425 (14.57%) Jenkins
3 250 (8.57%) GitLab
4 207 (7.10%) JIRA
5 111 (3.81%) Selenium
6 76 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 70 (2.40%) TeamCity
8 59 (2.02%) Bitbucket
8 59 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 53 (1.82%) JUnit
10 48 (1.65%) SonarQube
11 46 (1.58%) JMeter
12 43 (1.47%) MLflow
13 37 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
13 37 (1.27%) Postman
13 37 (1.27%) Visual Studio
14 34 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
15 30 (1.03%) Maven
16 26 (0.89%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.86%) Robot Framework
General
1 859 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 771 (26.43%) Finance
3 264 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (5.55%) Law
5 153 (5.25%) Banking
6 140 (4.80%) Public Sector
7 128 (4.39%) Retail
8 117 (4.01%) Marketing
9 107 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 75 (2.57%) Financial Institution
11 68 (2.33%) Games
11 68 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 48 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.61%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.30%) Legal
15 37 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.17%) Electronics
17 32 (1.10%) Back Office
17 32 (1.10%) Tech for Good
18 26 (0.89%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 701 (24.03%) Senior
2 670 (22.97%) Developer
3 475 (16.28%) Lead
4 270 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 258 (8.84%) Software Engineer
6 199 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 197 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 168 (5.76%) Senior Developer
9 159 (5.45%) Architect
10 148 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
11 138 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
12 124 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
13 111 (3.81%) Java Developer
14 104 (3.57%) .NET Developer
15 93 (3.19%) Software Developer
16 92 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
17 81 (2.78%) Lead Developer
17 81 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
18 77 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 74 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (15.94%) .NET
2 448 (15.36%) React
3 329 (11.28%) RESTful
4 320 (10.97%) REST
5 250 (8.57%) Node.js
6 185 (6.34%) Spring
7 181 (6.21%) Kafka
8 171 (5.86%) HTML
9 168 (5.76%) Spring Boot
10 166 (5.69%) CSS
11 155 (5.31%) AngularJS
12 126 (4.32%) SOAP
13 118 (4.05%) .NET Core
14 101 (3.46%) .NET Framework
15 97 (3.33%) Vue
16 96 (3.29%) Django
16 96 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
17 95 (3.26%) OAuth
18 93 (3.19%) JSON
19 86 (2.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 552 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 206 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 176 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 99 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 59 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 58 (1.99%) Low-Code
10 57 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.92%) Virtual Team
12 49 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 44 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.44%) Security Posture
15 38 (1.30%) AI Agents
16 33 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 32 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 284 (9.74%) Linux
2 173 (5.93%) Windows
3 51 (1.75%) Android
4 50 (1.71%) Unix
4 50 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 32 (1.10%) VMS
6 13 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.17%) CentOS
10 5 (0.17%) Debian
11 4 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.069%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.069%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,799 (61.67%) DevOps
2 1,256 (43.06%) Agile
3 789 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 678 (23.24%) Test Automation
5 659 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
6 615 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 592 (20.29%) Software Engineering
8 584 (20.02%) Mentoring
9 560 (19.20%) Containerisation
10 545 (18.68%) AI
11 537 (18.41%) Microservices
12 427 (14.64%) Observability
13 380 (13.03%) Analytics
14 370 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 328 (11.24%) Clean Code
16 323 (11.07%) Coaching
17 314 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
18 311 (10.66%) Scrum
19 302 (10.35%) Data Modelling
20 248 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,109 (38.02%) Python
2 743 (25.47%) SQL
3 586 (20.09%) Java
4 498 (17.07%) JavaScript
5 431 (14.78%) C#
6 410 (14.06%) TypeScript
7 281 (9.63%) PowerShell
8 260 (8.91%) Bash
9 121 (4.15%) Bicep
10 120 (4.11%) Go
11 72 (2.47%) Apex Code
12 70 (2.40%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 46 (1.58%) PHP
15 45 (1.54%) Scala
16 42 (1.44%) PL/SQL
17 40 (1.37%) C++
18 31 (1.06%) T-SQL
19 28 (0.96%) Groovy
20 25 (0.86%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 331 (11.35%) Degree
2 320 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 193 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 168 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (4.25%) AWS Certification
6 102 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 88 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 74 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.62%) PhD
14 17 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.55%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 12 (0.41%) CISSP
19 10 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (11.18%) QA
2 154 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 133 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 110 (3.77%) GDPR
5 97 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (2.02%) NIST
7 31 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 30 (1.03%) WCAG
9 29 (0.99%) SLA
10 26 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.86%) NCSC
12 17 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.27%) GRC
17 6 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
18 5 (0.17%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.17%) PERC
19 4 (0.14%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 789 (27.05%) Docker
2 92 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.51%) Firmware
6 14 (0.48%) vSphere
7 10 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) HDFS
9 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.17%) Squid
11 4 (0.14%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.10%) KVM
12 3 (0.10%) QEMU
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.069%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 898 (30.79%) Terraform
2 801 (27.46%) Kubernetes
3 296 (10.15%) Ansible
4 246 (8.43%) Grafana
5 183 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 56 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.47%) Argo
8 37 (1.27%) Kibana
9 26 (0.89%) Puppet
10 20 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.55%) HP Fortify
12 12 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.31%) Control-M
13 9 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.31%) logstash
14 8 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.21%) Nessus
15 6 (0.21%) Rancher
16 5 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 398 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.18%) Databricks
3 130 (4.46%) Oracle
4 126 (4.32%) Salesforce
5 106 (3.63%) Google
6 77 (2.64%) Splunk
7 69 (2.37%) SAP
8 59 (2.02%) VMware
9 48 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 40 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 37 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 33 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 31 (1.06%) Okta
14 30 (1.03%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 25 (0.86%) Adobe
17 22 (0.75%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.75%) Informatica
18 20 (0.69%) Cisco
18 20 (0.69%) Guidewire