Continuous Integration Job Trends

Continuous Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 166 149
Rank change year-on-year -199 -17 -62
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 324 1,098 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.63% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.97% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 165 570 847
10th Percentile £50,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -0.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,404 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.98% +14.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Integration 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 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Integration
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 12 November 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 -198 275 £70,000 -3.45% 282
London -77 162 £77,500 +1.97% 121
UK excluding London -205 143 £65,000 -4.98% 176
Work from Home -144 100 £67,500 -3.57% 153
North of England -111 46 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Midlands +24 34 £69,000 +6.15% 20
Scotland -20 33 £85,000 +22.64% 4
North West -66 30 £63,750 -1.92% 28
West Midlands +17 29 £69,500 +0.28% 15
South East -136 26 £75,000 -6.25% 56
Yorkshire -20 12 £60,000 +9.09% 11
East Midlands +23 5 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East -8 4 £60,000 -13.43% 3
East of England -12 3 £64,500 -14.00% 32
South West -30 2 £49,875 -23.85% 23
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 4

Continuous Integration
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 16 (4.94%) Confluence
2 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.54%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (41.67%) AWS
2 114 (35.19%) Azure
3 42 (12.96%) Serverless
4 41 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 34 (10.49%) GCP
7 31 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
7 31 (9.57%) Power Platform
8 30 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (8.64%) GitHub
10 27 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (7.10%) Power Automate
13 22 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (5.25%) PaaS
16 15 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (4.63%) PowerApps
17 14 (4.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.41%) Broadband
2 10 (3.09%) Multicast
2 10 (3.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.78%) Firewall
4 6 (1.85%) BGP
4 6 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (1.85%) DNS
4 6 (1.85%) NX-OS
4 6 (1.85%) OSPF
4 6 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (1.85%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.23%) HTTP
5 4 (1.23%) VPN
6 3 (0.93%) SAN
6 3 (0.93%) WAN
7 2 (0.62%) LAN
7 2 (0.62%) Network Security
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.73%) DynamoDB
2 21 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 18 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.78%) MySQL
9 7 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.23%) DB2
12 4 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.93%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.93%) Redis
14 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
15 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 82 (25.31%) Jenkins
2 73 (22.53%) Git
3 48 (14.81%) GitLab
4 40 (12.35%) JIRA
5 32 (9.88%) SonarQube
6 21 (6.48%) Selenium
7 14 (4.32%) Bitbucket
7 14 (4.32%) JUnit
8 12 (3.70%) Maven
9 10 (3.09%) CircleCI
10 9 (2.78%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.16%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (2.16%) DbUnit
11 7 (2.16%) JMeter
11 7 (2.16%) jMock
11 7 (2.16%) Mockito
11 7 (2.16%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.85%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.85%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 121 (37.35%) Finance
2 105 (32.41%) Social Skills
3 81 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (18.52%) Marketing
5 54 (16.67%) Law
6 42 (12.96%) Banking
7 27 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (8.33%) Games
8 22 (6.79%) Public Sector
9 16 (4.94%) Front Office
10 13 (4.01%) Investment Banking
10 13 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (3.40%) Health Technology
12 10 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (3.09%) Retail
12 10 (3.09%) Tech for Good
13 9 (2.78%) Legal
14 8 (2.47%) Publishing
15 7 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 82 (25.31%) Developer
2 74 (22.84%) Senior
3 64 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 60 (18.52%) Lead
5 25 (7.72%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (7.10%) Java Developer
8 22 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (5.86%) Python Engineer
11 18 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 18 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 18 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (5.25%) Architect
13 14 (4.32%) C++ Software Engineer
13 14 (4.32%) Consultant
13 14 (4.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 14 (4.32%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (4.32%) Salesforce Architect
14 13 (4.01%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (17.90%) React
2 49 (15.12%) REST
3 35 (10.80%) RESTful
4 29 (8.95%) CSS
4 29 (8.95%) HTML
5 28 (8.64%) .NET
6 26 (8.02%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (7.72%) Kafka
7 25 (7.72%) Spring
8 23 (7.10%) SOAP
9 17 (5.25%) Node.js
10 16 (4.94%) .NET Framework
10 16 (4.94%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (4.63%) Visualforce
11 15 (4.63%) Web Services
12 14 (4.32%) Middleware
13 12 (3.70%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.70%) ARM Templates
13 12 (3.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 30 (9.26%) Management Information System
3 23 (7.10%) Algorithms
3 23 (7.10%) Data Structures
4 20 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.86%) Derivative
6 16 (4.94%) Cloud Native
7 15 (4.63%) Private Cloud
7 15 (4.63%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.70%) Equities
9 11 (3.40%) Distributed Architecture
10 10 (3.09%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.09%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.47%) e-Learning
12 8 (2.47%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.85%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.52%) Linux
2 25 (7.72%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Unix
4 13 (4.01%) Ubuntu
4 13 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.16%) Debian
7 5 (1.54%) Android
7 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.62%) CentOS
9 2 (0.62%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (68.52%) Agile
2 212 (65.43%) CI/CD
3 148 (45.68%) DevOps
4 105 (32.41%) Software Engineering
5 87 (26.85%) Test Automation
6 77 (23.77%) TDD
7 75 (23.15%) Scrum
8 69 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (20.99%) Continuous Delivery
9 68 (20.99%) Mentoring
9 68 (20.99%) Microservices
10 60 (18.52%) SDLC
11 59 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (16.98%) Containerisation
14 54 (16.67%) Computer Science
15 48 (14.81%) Design Patterns
16 40 (12.35%) AI
16 40 (12.35%) Code Quality
16 40 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (34.57%) Python
2 83 (25.62%) Java
3 56 (17.28%) TypeScript
4 55 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 49 (15.12%) SQL
6 32 (9.88%) C#
7 29 (8.95%) Bash
8 24 (7.41%) Go
8 24 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 21 (6.48%) C++
10 15 (4.63%) Apex Code
10 15 (4.63%) Shell Script
10 15 (4.63%) SOQL
10 15 (4.63%) SOSL
11 10 (3.09%) Scala
12 8 (2.47%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.54%) Bicep
13 5 (1.54%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.23%) Swift
15 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (14.81%) Degree
2 33 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (7.10%) Master's Degree
3 23 (7.10%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 15 (4.63%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.01%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.78%) PhD
9 8 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.54%) CRISC
11 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.93%) MCSE
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.31%) CCNP
14 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.90%) QA
2 24 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.23%) GDPR
3 4 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.62%) SEPA
5 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (26.85%) Docker
2 14 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.93%) vCloud
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.93%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Postfix
6 1 (0.31%) RACF
Systems Management
1 74 (22.84%) Kubernetes
2 70 (21.60%) Terraform
3 43 (13.27%) Ansible
4 42 (12.96%) Grafana
5 36 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.23%) Puppet
7 4 (1.23%) Rancher
7 4 (1.23%) vRealize
8 3 (0.93%) Control-M
8 3 (0.93%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.62%) Nessus
10 1 (0.31%) Ambari
10 1 (0.31%) Argo
10 1 (0.31%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.31%) Nagios
10 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.11%) Splunk
3 19 (5.86%) Google
3 19 (5.86%) Salesforce
3 19 (5.86%) VMware
4 18 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.32%) Oracle
6 9 (2.78%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.16%) Cisco
7 7 (2.16%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.23%) Foundry
9 4 (1.23%) Hitachi
9 4 (1.23%) Palantir
10 3 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.93%) SAP
10 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.93%) Software AG
10 3 (0.93%) webMethods