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

6 months to
26 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 6,075 9,024 18,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.19% 8.61% 12.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 9.00% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,276 5,740 8,297
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 £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 26 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 26 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 +12 4,326 £62,500 -3.85% 684
England -28 3,661 £70,000 -6.67% 1,128
Scotland +29 2,098 £65,000 -2.67% 73
Work from Home -15 2,016 £70,000 -6.67% 688
London -18 1,459 £85,000 +3.03% 514
North of England -17 638 £62,500 -3.85% 187
South East -28 615 £64,000 -5.19% 139
South West -4 424 £61,250 -5.77% 114
North West -4 369 £62,500 -6.42% 115
Midlands -20 358 £65,000 - 80
West Midlands +2 257 £65,000 - 52
Yorkshire -23 198 £65,000 - 56
East Midlands -38 103 £60,000 -12.73% 28
East of England -68 97 £62,500 -16.67% 62
Wales +7 88 £55,000 - 23
North East +1 71 £62,891 +9.38% 18
Northern Ireland -39 11 £61,250 +31.02% 22
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
1 621 (10.22%) Apache Spark
2 266 (4.38%) Apache
3 190 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 106 (1.74%) Confluence
5 96 (1.58%) FileNet
6 60 (0.99%) IIS
7 59 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 57 (0.94%) nginx
9 48 (0.79%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 18 (0.30%) WordPress
15 17 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
15 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Drupal
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.082%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.049%) Simulink
5 3 (0.049%) Sketch
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.016%) Blender
7 1 (0.016%) Notion
7 1 (0.016%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.016%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Magento
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,836 (46.68%) AWS
2 2,110 (34.73%) Azure
3 911 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 572 (9.42%) GCP
5 553 (9.10%) Serverless
6 429 (7.06%) GitHub
7 330 (5.43%) Amazon S3
8 312 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
9 306 (5.04%) SaaS
10 236 (3.88%) Power Platform
11 232 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
12 231 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
13 209 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 208 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
15 186 (3.06%) PaaS
16 178 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
17 173 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
18 149 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
19 145 (2.39%) Datadog
20 135 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.47%) Firewall
2 110 (1.81%) DNS
3 79 (1.30%) WAN
4 67 (1.10%) VPN
5 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 55 (0.91%) Network Security
7 46 (0.76%) HTTP
8 35 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 34 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.44%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 19 (0.31%) BGP
13 18 (0.30%) DSL
14 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 17 (0.28%) PBX
15 15 (0.25%) MQTT
16 14 (0.23%) NGFW
16 14 (0.23%) SSL
17 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 882 (14.52%) NoSQL
2 557 (9.17%) Big Data
3 403 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 292 (4.81%) Hadoop
5 268 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 263 (4.33%) Relational Database
7 249 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
8 236 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 221 (3.64%) MySQL
10 195 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 187 (3.08%) Data Lake
12 184 (3.03%) MongoDB
13 167 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.57%) Apache Hive
15 141 (2.32%) BigQuery
16 125 (2.06%) Power BI
17 124 (2.04%) Looker
18 112 (1.84%) DynamoDB
19 107 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
20 103 (1.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,076 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 847 (13.94%) Git
3 419 (6.90%) GitLab
4 327 (5.38%) JIRA
5 292 (4.81%) JUnit
6 227 (3.74%) Selenium
7 181 (2.98%) Cucumber
8 155 (2.55%) Bitbucket
9 154 (2.53%) Postman
10 145 (2.39%) Cypress.io
11 137 (2.26%) Artifactory
12 116 (1.91%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
14 99 (1.63%) TeamCity
15 96 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 78 (1.28%) Maven
18 75 (1.23%) Visual Studio
19 69 (1.14%) JMeter
20 63 (1.04%) Protractor
General
1 2,740 (45.10%) Finance
2 2,163 (35.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,073 (34.12%) Law
4 1,052 (17.32%) Social Skills
5 1,028 (16.92%) Marketing
6 735 (12.10%) Legal
7 603 (9.93%) Banking
8 350 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
9 315 (5.19%) Investment Banking
10 262 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 254 (4.18%) Public Sector
12 183 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 161 (2.65%) Retail
14 75 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 64 (1.05%) Front Office
16 64 (1.05%) Private Banking
17 55 (0.91%) Aerospace
18 53 (0.87%) Retail Banking
19 51 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,055 (33.83%) Software Engineer
2 1,167 (19.21%) Developer
3 1,130 (18.60%) Lead
4 970 (15.97%) Senior
5 701 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 701 (11.54%) Java Engineer
6 685 (11.28%) Java Software Engineer
7 574 (9.45%) Lead Software Engineer
8 512 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
9 479 (7.88%) Data Engineer
10 378 (6.22%) Python Engineer
11 355 (5.84%) Big Data Engineer
12 350 (5.76%) Senior Developer
13 340 (5.60%) Python Software Engineer
14 338 (5.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 315 (5.19%) Full Stack Engineer
16 308 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
17 301 (4.95%) AWS Software Engineer
18 280 (4.61%) Architect
19 278 (4.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 888 (14.62%) React
2 789 (12.99%) Spring
3 744 (12.25%) .NET
4 554 (9.12%) AngularJS
5 534 (8.79%) Kafka
6 485 (7.98%) HTML
7 448 (7.37%) Node.js
8 447 (7.36%) CSS
9 444 (7.31%) Spring Boot
10 440 (7.24%) REST
11 390 (6.42%) RESTful
12 382 (6.29%) JSON
13 296 (4.87%) J2EE
14 282 (4.64%) Web Services
15 215 (3.54%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.51%) .NET Core
17 210 (3.46%) Hibernate
18 209 (3.44%) PySpark
19 205 (3.37%) .NET Framework
20 193 (3.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 898 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 839 (13.81%) Algorithms
3 368 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 334 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 215 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 215 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 194 (3.19%) Data Structures
8 132 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 120 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 115 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 101 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 87 (1.43%) Private Cloud
13 84 (1.38%) Market Risk
14 79 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 78 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
16 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
17 68 (1.12%) IoT
18 64 (1.05%) Blockchain
19 62 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 741 (12.20%) Linux
2 293 (4.82%) Windows
3 186 (3.06%) Unix
4 85 (1.40%) Android
5 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 52 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 49 (0.81%) Debian
8 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 20 (0.33%) VMS
11 19 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.066%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,816 (62.81%) Agile
2 2,932 (48.26%) Software Engineering
3 2,549 (41.96%) DevOps
4 2,173 (35.77%) SDLC
5 1,592 (26.21%) Operational Stability
6 1,483 (24.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,447 (23.82%) Machine Learning
8 1,290 (21.23%) Community of Practice
9 1,081 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,051 (17.30%) Microservices
11 980 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 878 (14.45%) Visualisation
13 872 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 854 (14.06%) Test Automation
15 844 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
16 775 (12.76%) TDD
17 731 (12.03%) Full Stack Development
18 719 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
19 715 (11.77%) Risk Management
20 679 (11.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,240 (36.87%) Java
2 1,914 (31.51%) Python
3 1,731 (28.49%) SQL
4 967 (15.92%) JavaScript
5 881 (14.50%) C#
6 561 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 366 (6.02%) Scala
8 347 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 327 (5.38%) Go
10 317 (5.22%) Bash
11 158 (2.60%) PL/SQL
12 132 (2.17%) PHP
13 119 (1.96%) Kotlin
14 105 (1.73%) Ruby
15 101 (1.66%) Shell Script
16 96 (1.58%) Bicep
17 84 (1.38%) C++
18 77 (1.27%) C
19 69 (1.14%) T-SQL
20 65 (1.07%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 518 (8.53%) Degree
2 480 (7.90%) Security Cleared
3 292 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 285 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 166 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 154 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 127 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 111 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 59 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 57 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.76%) MCSE
14 45 (0.74%) CISSP
15 42 (0.69%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
18 27 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 425 (7.00%) QA
2 159 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 80 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 72 (1.19%) SLA
5 50 (0.82%) GDPR
6 35 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.49%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.16%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 5 (0.082%) GRC
15 4 (0.066%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 3 (0.049%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.049%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,265 (20.82%) Docker
2 169 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.94%) HDFS
4 90 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 49 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 23 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 20 (0.33%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.082%) KVM
14 3 (0.049%) Ceph
14 3 (0.049%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.016%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.016%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,584 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 1,367 (22.50%) Terraform
3 446 (7.34%) Ansible
4 303 (4.99%) Grafana
5 176 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 126 (2.07%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 67 (1.10%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.54%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (0.43%) Packer
14 24 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Consul
17 20 (0.33%) Salt
17 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 734 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 410 (6.75%) Oracle
3 383 (6.30%) Databricks
4 301 (4.95%) Google
5 231 (3.80%) Splunk
6 194 (3.19%) Dynatrace
7 115 (1.89%) VMware
8 101 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.43%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 77 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 74 (1.22%) IBM
13 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 58 (0.95%) Alteryx
15 38 (0.63%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
17 28 (0.46%) Sybase
17 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
18 25 (0.41%) TOWER Software
19 24 (0.40%) Facebook