CI/CD Job Trends in Wales

CI/CD
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 18 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 -9
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 130 51 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.47% 7.29% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.48% 8.67% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 124 46 55
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,875 £33,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £41,914
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £76,535
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,533 588 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.49% 84.00% 68.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 422 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,170 £26,900
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,272 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Wales

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Wales over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Wales -8 77 £66,000 +14.78% 29
West Wales +3 52 £69,986 +85.48% 5
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 6 (4.62%) CMS
1 6 (4.62%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (66.92%) Azure
2 81 (62.31%) AWS
3 55 (42.31%) GCP
4 26 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (20.00%) Serverless
5 23 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (15.38%) GitHub
7 20 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (9.23%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.38%) dbt
10 7 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.62%) CloudFront
11 6 (4.62%) PaaS
11 6 (4.62%) SaaS
12 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) LAN
1 6 (4.62%) Unified Communications
1 6 (4.62%) WAN
1 6 (4.62%) WLAN
2 5 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.54%) SSL
3 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.00%) MySQL
3 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.92%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.62%) Redis
6 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.31%) Ataccama
8 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.31%) IBM InfoSphere
8 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.31%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.54%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.54%) Looker
9 2 (1.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (25.38%) Git
2 21 (16.15%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.00%) Selenium
4 12 (9.23%) JIRA
5 10 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 8 (6.15%) GitLab
7 7 (5.38%) JUnit
7 7 (5.38%) Postman
8 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.85%) RSpec
9 4 (3.08%) JMeter
9 4 (3.08%) minitest
9 4 (3.08%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.31%) Newman
10 3 (2.31%) TestRail
11 2 (1.54%) Bugzilla
12 1 (0.77%) Gradle
12 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 47 (36.15%) Public Sector
2 35 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.46%) Retail
6 10 (7.69%) Finance
7 5 (3.85%) Banking
8 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 40 (30.77%) Senior
2 37 (28.46%) Lead
3 24 (18.46%) Developer
4 18 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.08%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Architect
7 12 (9.23%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Technical Leader
9 9 (6.92%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Lead Architect
12 6 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) Node.js
1 38 (29.23%) React
2 37 (28.46%) Spring Boot
3 30 (23.08%) Spring
4 28 (21.54%) Ruby on Rails
5 22 (16.92%) REST
6 19 (14.62%) AngularJS
7 18 (13.85%) Kafka
8 17 (13.08%) RESTful
9 12 (9.23%) AWS CDK
9 12 (9.23%) GraphQL
10 11 (8.46%) Playwright
11 10 (7.69%) CSS
12 9 (6.92%) JPA
12 9 (6.92%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (6.15%) Hibernate
13 8 (6.15%) HTML
13 8 (6.15%) Jest
14 7 (5.38%) SAML
14 7 (5.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.62%) Mainframe
3 18 (13.85%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (13.85%) Product Ownership
4 13 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.92%) Management Information System
5 9 (6.92%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.62%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.31%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.31%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Linux
2 5 (3.85%) Unix
2 5 (3.85%) Windows
3 4 (3.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (62.31%) DevOps
2 79 (60.77%) Agile
3 53 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (37.69%) Software Engineering
5 40 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 39 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 38 (29.23%) Mentoring
7 38 (29.23%) Observability
7 38 (29.23%) Technical Leadership
8 36 (27.69%) Microservices
9 34 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (24.62%) Test Automation
11 31 (23.85%) AI
11 31 (23.85%) Scrum
12 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (19.23%) Event-Driven
13 25 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (16.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 21 (16.15%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 53 (40.77%) Java
2 30 (23.08%) Ruby
3 29 (22.31%) Python
4 28 (21.54%) SQL
5 27 (20.77%) JavaScript
6 15 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.92%) C#
8 8 (6.15%) Bash
9 6 (4.62%) COBOL
9 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.08%) Bicep
11 3 (2.31%) Go
12 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.77%) Dart
13 1 (0.77%) Natural
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.62%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 18 (13.85%) QA
3 16 (12.31%) WCAG
4 7 (5.38%) Data Quality
5 6 (4.62%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (4.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (41.54%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (52.31%) Terraform
2 45 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.15%) Ansible
4 6 (4.62%) Grafana
5 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 17 (13.08%) Google
2 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.15%) Informatica
4 7 (5.38%) OneLogin
5 6 (4.62%) Sitecore
6 5 (3.85%) ForgeRock
6 5 (3.85%) Okta
6 5 (3.85%) Ping Identity
7 4 (3.08%) Oracle
7 4 (3.08%) Splunk
8 3 (2.31%) Databricks
8 3 (2.31%) IBM
8 3 (2.31%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.77%) Adobe
10 1 (0.77%) Cisco