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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 169 156
Rank change year-on-year -214 -13 -46
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 282 910 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.70% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.88% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 175 486 851
10th Percentile £49,001 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%

All Process & 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
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 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 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 -206 244 £75,000 +7.14% 238
UK excluding London -186 136 £60,000 -11.11% 197
London -105 126 £95,000 +23.78% 76
Work from Home -116 111 £70,000 +1.00% 132
North of England -66 48 £60,000 -7.69% 38
Midlands -9 28 £67,250 +3.46% 19
South East -118 28 £85,000 +30.77% 78
Yorkshire -29 25 £60,000 +20.00% 20
West Midlands 0 24 £69,000 -0.44% 4
Scotland -38 20 £85,000 +22.64% 4
North West -30 17 £61,250 -5.77% 12
North East +1 6 £60,000 -13.43% 7
Wales +2 5 £55,000 -9.76% 7
South West -25 5 £55,575 -18.90% 27
East of England +7 4 £40,000 -42.86% 29
East Midlands -17 4 £65,500 +0.77% 14

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 21 (7.45%) Confluence
2 6 (2.13%) IIS
3 5 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.42%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.77%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.06%) Shopify
4 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (48.58%) AWS
2 92 (32.62%) Azure
3 50 (17.73%) Serverless
4 44 (15.60%) GitHub
5 43 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (14.89%) Amazon S3
7 38 (13.48%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.74%) GCP
12 16 (5.67%) PaaS
13 15 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (5.32%) Power Platform
14 14 (4.96%) Datadog
14 14 (4.96%) OpenShift
15 13 (4.61%) Pulumi
16 12 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.06%) Broadband
2 15 (5.32%) Multicast
3 11 (3.90%) DNS
4 9 (3.19%) HTTP
5 8 (2.84%) Firewall
6 7 (2.48%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.13%) Network Security
7 6 (2.13%) VPN
8 4 (1.42%) WAN
9 2 (0.71%) SAN
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) DSL
10 1 (0.35%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.54%) NoSQL
2 32 (11.35%) DynamoDB
3 28 (9.93%) SQL Server
4 27 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.32%) RDBMS
7 13 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.90%) DB2
9 8 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.84%) MySQL
10 6 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.77%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.77%) Redis
12 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.42%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (29.08%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.28%) Git
3 52 (18.44%) JIRA
4 51 (18.09%) GitLab
5 24 (8.51%) Selenium
6 22 (7.80%) SonarQube
7 21 (7.45%) Bitbucket
8 17 (6.03%) Cucumber
9 14 (4.96%) TeamCity
10 13 (4.61%) Jaeger
11 11 (3.90%) JUnit
12 8 (2.84%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.48%) JMeter
14 6 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.13%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.77%) LoadRunner
16 4 (1.42%) Maven
16 4 (1.42%) Mockito
16 4 (1.42%) TestRail
16 4 (1.42%) Vite
General
1 88 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.82%) Finance
3 34 (12.06%) Banking
3 34 (12.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (7.80%) Games
5 19 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.38%) Tech for Good
7 17 (6.03%) Marketing
7 17 (6.03%) Publishing
8 15 (5.32%) Health Technology
8 15 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.55%) Law
11 9 (3.19%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.48%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.06%) Retail
15 2 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 88 (31.21%) Developer
2 62 (21.99%) Senior
3 45 (15.96%) Lead
4 38 (13.48%) Software Engineer
5 33 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (8.16%) AWS Developer
6 23 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 23 (8.16%) Senior Developer
7 22 (7.80%) Lead Developer
8 21 (7.45%) Architect
9 19 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (6.38%) C++ Software Engineer
10 18 (6.38%) Python Developer
10 18 (6.38%) React Developer
11 17 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (6.03%) Python Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 15 (5.32%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.31%) React
2 43 (15.25%) Elastic Stack
3 38 (13.48%) REST
4 36 (12.77%) RESTful
5 27 (9.57%) Node.js
6 26 (9.22%) CSS
6 26 (9.22%) HTML
7 22 (7.80%) .NET
7 22 (7.80%) Kafka
8 18 (6.38%) pytest
9 17 (6.03%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (6.03%) SOAP
10 15 (5.32%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 15 (5.32%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (5.32%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (5.32%) Visualforce
11 14 (4.96%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.96%) Spring
12 11 (3.90%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.90%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.93%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.45%) Algorithms
3 17 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.32%) Derivative
4 15 (5.32%) Equities
4 15 (5.32%) Fixed Income
5 13 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.84%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.48%) 3D Graphics
10 7 (2.48%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.48%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.77%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.77%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.40%) Linux
2 18 (6.38%) Windows
3 15 (5.32%) Unix
4 9 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.13%) Android
6 6 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.77%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.42%) VMS
8 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.06%) Debian
10 2 (0.71%) CentOS
10 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (70.21%) Agile
2 187 (66.31%) CI/CD
3 154 (54.61%) DevOps
4 75 (26.60%) Containerisation
5 74 (26.24%) Software Engineering
6 71 (25.18%) Scrum
7 70 (24.82%) Mentoring
8 68 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 64 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (21.63%) Microservices
11 60 (21.28%) Test Automation
12 48 (17.02%) TDD
13 44 (15.60%) Continuous Delivery
14 41 (14.54%) Coaching
15 40 (14.18%) Computer Science
15 40 (14.18%) Design Patterns
16 38 (13.48%) SDLC
17 37 (13.12%) Process Improvement
18 35 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (12.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 107 (37.94%) Python
2 72 (25.53%) Java
3 66 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 47 (16.67%) SQL
5 43 (15.25%) Bash
6 41 (14.54%) TypeScript
7 33 (11.70%) Go
8 27 (9.57%) C#
9 25 (8.87%) C++
10 20 (7.09%) PowerShell
11 15 (5.32%) Apex Code
11 15 (5.32%) SOQL
11 15 (5.32%) SOSL
12 11 (3.90%) Kotlin
13 10 (3.55%) Scala
14 9 (3.19%) C
15 8 (2.84%) PHP
16 6 (2.13%) Bicep
17 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
18 4 (1.42%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.22%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.51%) Degree
4 20 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.26%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.77%) CRISC
10 3 (1.06%) PhD
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (17.02%) QA
2 14 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (31.56%) Docker
2 15 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
7 1 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 84 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 78 (27.66%) Terraform
3 49 (17.38%) Ansible
4 35 (12.41%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.38%) Grafana
6 13 (4.61%) Argo
6 13 (4.61%) Kustomize
7 7 (2.48%) Puppet
8 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.42%) Rancher
8 4 (1.42%) vRealize
9 3 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.71%) Control-M
10 2 (0.71%) Nessus
11 1 (0.35%) Ambari
11 1 (0.35%) Packer
11 1 (0.35%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.09%) Splunk
3 19 (6.74%) Google
4 18 (6.38%) Oracle
5 16 (5.67%) Atlassian
5 16 (5.67%) VMware
6 15 (5.32%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.13%) SAP
8 5 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.42%) Foundry
9 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.42%) Palantir
9 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.42%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.06%) Apple
10 3 (1.06%) IBM
10 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.06%) Software AG
10 3 (1.06%) WooCommerce