CircleCI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CircleCI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 625 768
Rank change year-on-year -66 +143 -153
Permanent jobs citing CircleCI 57 49 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.100% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.32% 1.17% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 41 24 92
10th Percentile £72,500 £49,525 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £63,750 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -6.25% -15.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £73,750 £76,563
90th Percentile £150,000 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £67,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.44% +3.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,309 4,201 8,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.55% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 2,659 6,084
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,459 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -4.35%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CircleCI job vacancy trend in the UK

CircleCI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CircleCI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CircleCI within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 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 -74 44 £90,000 +38.46% 44
London -33 36 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Work from Home -11 13 £92,500 +54.17% 49
South West -60 6 £75,000 +87.50% 5
UK excluding London -75 6 £75,000 +25.00% 48

CircleCI
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 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 56 (98.25%) AWS
2 36 (63.16%) Datadog
3 26 (45.61%) GCP
4 24 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (42.11%) Serverless
5 20 (35.09%) GitHub
6 15 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (26.32%) Amazon S3
6 15 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (24.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (24.56%) Azure
7 14 (24.56%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (21.05%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (21.05%) Cloud Run
9 10 (17.54%) Pulumi
10 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (3.51%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (61.40%) NoSQL
2 14 (24.56%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (24.56%) DynamoDB
3 12 (21.05%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (56.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (45.61%) GitLab
3 12 (21.05%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.75%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 33 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Banking
3 20 (35.09%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Senior
2 20 (35.09%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (35.09%) Developer
3 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) Senior Developer
5 10 (17.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (12.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
6 7 (12.28%) Software Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Software Developer
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (38.60%) Kafka
2 14 (24.56%) gRPC
2 14 (24.56%) RabbitMQ
2 14 (24.56%) RESTful
3 13 (22.81%) React
3 13 (22.81%) web3js
4 12 (21.05%) Leaflet
4 12 (21.05%) Node.js
4 12 (21.05%) Playwright
5 10 (17.54%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.26%) CSS
6 3 (5.26%) HTML
7 2 (3.51%) Semantic HTML
8 1 (1.75%) JSON
8 1 (1.75%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 13 (22.81%) Blockchain
2 13 (22.81%) Web3
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Blog
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (98.25%) CI/CD
2 42 (73.68%) Containerisation
2 42 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (61.40%) Software Engineering
4 31 (54.39%) DevOps
5 24 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (42.11%) Microservices
5 24 (42.11%) Observability
6 23 (40.35%) Continuous Delivery
6 23 (40.35%) High Availability
7 19 (33.33%) Agile
8 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
9 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (24.56%) Event-Driven
10 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (24.56%) Investment Management
10 14 (24.56%) Low Latency
10 14 (24.56%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (24.56%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) Python
2 22 (38.60%) Go
3 15 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.56%) Bash
5 9 (15.79%) SQL
6 5 (8.77%) Java
7 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.75%) PHP
9 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) GDPR
1 9 (15.79%) PCI DSS
1 9 (15.79%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 44 (77.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (71.93%) Terraform
2 32 (56.14%) Kubernetes
3 24 (42.11%) Prometheus
4 13 (22.81%) Ansible
4 13 (22.81%) Grafana
5 12 (21.05%) Podman
6 1 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Google
2 1 (1.75%) Apple
2 1 (1.75%) New Relic