Hybrid/Remote CI/CD Job Trends

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -22
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,966 1,342 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.22% 8.15% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.14% 8.72% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 851 1,401
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,738
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% -11.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,644 15,382 28,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 93.39% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,905 9,093 21,741
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

CI/CD
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

CI/CD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 33 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (1.12%) Apache
3 22 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.61%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.61%) Confluence
4 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.46%) Mule
5 9 (0.46%) nginx
5 9 (0.46%) SAS
6 8 (0.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.36%) WordPress
8 6 (0.31%) IIS
8 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.15%) Camunda
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.20%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.15%) Blender
3 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Maya
3 3 (0.15%) Simulink
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.10%) Trello
5 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.15%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.051%) Magento
5 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 917 (46.64%) Azure
2 879 (44.71%) AWS
3 331 (16.84%) GCP
4 310 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
5 288 (14.65%) GitHub
6 197 (10.02%) Serverless
7 162 (8.24%) SaaS
8 127 (6.46%) Power Platform
9 120 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
10 110 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (4.68%) GitHub Copilot
12 86 (4.37%) Azure AI
13 84 (4.27%) Amazon S3
14 78 (3.97%) PaaS
15 72 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 72 (3.66%) Azure AKS
16 69 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
17 58 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 56 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (2.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 199 (10.12%) Broadband
2 42 (2.14%) VPN
3 38 (1.93%) Firewall
4 23 (1.17%) DNS
5 20 (1.02%) Internet
6 18 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.61%) SSL
8 10 (0.51%) Network Security
9 9 (0.46%) BGP
9 9 (0.46%) MQTT
9 9 (0.46%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.41%) Wireless
11 7 (0.36%) WAN
12 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.31%) HTTP
12 6 (0.31%) LAN
12 6 (0.31%) WLAN
13 5 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.25%) OSPF
13 5 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (11.75%) MongoDB
2 197 (10.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 163 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
4 105 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 86 (4.37%) NoSQL
6 72 (3.66%) Power BI
7 64 (3.26%) Metadata
7 64 (3.26%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.59%) MySQL
9 48 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 44 (2.24%) Redis
11 41 (2.09%) Big Data
12 39 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
13 35 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (1.58%) Data Lake
15 30 (1.53%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.48%) BigQuery
17 27 (1.37%) DynamoDB
18 23 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
19 21 (1.07%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 245 (12.46%) Git
2 141 (7.17%) GitLab
3 134 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.26%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.29%) JIRA
6 42 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 42 (2.14%) SonarQube
7 37 (1.88%) Selenium
8 26 (1.32%) Snyk
9 19 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.86%) JMeter
10 17 (0.86%) Maven
11 16 (0.81%) JUnit
12 15 (0.76%) Postman
13 14 (0.71%) Claude Code
13 14 (0.71%) Crashlytics
13 14 (0.71%) XCTest
14 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (0.61%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.61%) Mockito
General
1 423 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 336 (17.09%) Finance
3 235 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 183 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.78%) Law
6 120 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (5.54%) Games
8 108 (5.49%) Banking
9 104 (5.29%) Retail
10 78 (3.97%) Marketing
11 72 (3.66%) Legal
12 69 (3.51%) Advertising
13 50 (2.54%) Back Office
14 49 (2.49%) Financial Institution
15 41 (2.09%) Legal Technology
16 22 (1.12%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 20 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
20 12 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 526 (26.75%) Developer
2 470 (23.91%) Senior
3 354 (18.01%) Lead
4 266 (13.53%) Software Engineer
5 180 (9.16%) Architect
6 170 (8.65%) .NET Developer
7 121 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (5.90%) Senior Developer
9 113 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 97 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
11 92 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 83 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
14 76 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
15 72 (3.66%) Lead Developer
16 66 (3.36%) Engineering Manager
17 55 (2.80%) Java Developer
18 53 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
18 53 (2.70%) Senior Architect
18 53 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (19.02%) .NET
2 235 (11.95%) React
3 223 (11.34%) CSS
4 211 (10.73%) HTML
5 203 (10.33%) Node.js
6 184 (9.36%) .NET Core
7 183 (9.31%) ASP.NET
8 176 (8.95%) REST
9 173 (8.80%) ASP.NET Core
10 122 (6.21%) Spring
11 112 (5.70%) RESTful
12 99 (5.04%) Entity Framework
13 79 (4.02%) Spring Boot
14 73 (3.71%) ML.NET
14 73 (3.71%) Vue
15 63 (3.20%) Kafka
15 63 (3.20%) Playwright
16 60 (3.05%) AngularJS
17 59 (3.00%) SOAP
18 57 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 421 (21.41%) Cloud Native
2 186 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 180 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (4.43%) Video\Live Streaming
5 81 (4.12%) Mobile App
6 79 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
7 76 (3.87%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.95%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (2.29%) Over-the-Top Content
12 42 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 42 (2.14%) Low-Code
13 38 (1.93%) Data Centre
14 32 (1.63%) Security Posture
15 31 (1.58%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.58%) Blog
15 31 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.42%) Virtual Team
17 25 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 178 (9.05%) Linux
2 87 (4.43%) Windows
3 66 (3.36%) Apple iOS
4 59 (3.00%) Android
5 42 (2.14%) Unix
6 20 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.86%) VMS
8 8 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.20%) CentOS
11 4 (0.20%) Debian
12 3 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (47.81%) DevOps
2 797 (40.54%) Agile
3 594 (30.21%) Software Engineering
4 541 (27.52%) AI
5 536 (27.26%) Mentoring
6 534 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 485 (24.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 474 (24.11%) Test Automation
9 439 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
10 424 (21.57%) Microservices
11 415 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 379 (19.28%) Observability
13 346 (17.60%) Containerisation
14 328 (16.68%) Technical Leadership
15 285 (14.50%) Roadmaps
16 276 (14.04%) Machine Learning
17 258 (13.12%) Clean Code
18 256 (13.02%) Coaching
19 214 (10.89%) Scrum
20 207 (10.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 587 (29.86%) Python
2 478 (24.31%) SQL
3 396 (20.14%) C#
4 354 (18.01%) Java
5 274 (13.94%) JavaScript
6 224 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 134 (6.82%) Go
8 125 (6.36%) Bash
9 111 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 82 (4.17%) Bicep
11 73 (3.71%) Scala
12 60 (3.05%) Apex Code
13 51 (2.59%) C++
14 38 (1.93%) Kotlin
14 38 (1.93%) SOQL
14 38 (1.93%) SOSL
15 31 (1.58%) PHP
16 28 (1.42%) Rust
17 25 (1.27%) Ruby
18 21 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 168 (8.55%) Degree
3 155 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 71 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 25 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.66%) CISSP
12 10 (0.51%) CISM
13 9 (0.46%) PhD
13 9 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 7 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.31%) CREST Certified
15 6 (0.31%) OSCP
16 5 (0.25%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (9.92%) QA
2 98 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 89 (4.53%) Accessibility
4 38 (1.93%) GRC
5 36 (1.83%) GDPR
6 31 (1.58%) SLA
7 20 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.92%) NIST
9 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.76%) WCAG
10 10 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.25%) IFRS
11 5 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.15%) ECSS
12 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 469 (23.86%) Docker
2 50 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.76%) vSphere
6 12 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.051%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.051%) Xen
Systems Management
1 486 (24.72%) Kubernetes
2 459 (23.35%) Terraform
3 133 (6.77%) Grafana
4 98 (4.98%) Ansible
5 59 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.98%) Argo
7 21 (1.07%) Puppet
8 15 (0.76%) Packer
9 13 (0.66%) Istio
9 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.61%) Podman
11 10 (0.51%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.46%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.20%) Kibana
16 3 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 412 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.44%) Databricks
3 82 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 56 (2.85%) Google
5 45 (2.29%) Oracle
5 45 (2.29%) Splunk
5 45 (2.29%) Typelevel
6 43 (2.19%) Facebook
7 42 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 40 (2.03%) VMware
9 33 (1.68%) MuleSoft
10 27 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.32%) Tenable
12 25 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (1.12%) Red Hat
14 21 (1.07%) YouTube
15 20 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.97%) Cisco
17 17 (0.86%) F5
18 14 (0.71%) SAP