CI/CD Jobs with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 23 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 2,151 6,163 6,088
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.49% 11.31% 12.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.95% 11.77% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 4,204 4,599
10th Percentile £47,250 £46,826 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% +5.00% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,624 52,355 48,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.42% 96.11% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,831 36,601 36,140
10th Percentile £36,270 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,070 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% +9.09%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

CI/CD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 84 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.30%) Confluence
3 69 (3.21%) Apache
4 20 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 19 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.84%) CMS
6 18 (0.84%) IIS
7 9 (0.42%) Drupal
7 9 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.33%) nginx
9 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) MS Exchange
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.14%) Tornado
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.093%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.093%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.093%) Magento
3 2 (0.093%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 962 (44.72%) AWS
2 930 (43.24%) Azure
3 506 (23.52%) GCP
4 416 (19.34%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (15.81%) Serverless
6 273 (12.69%) GitHub
7 226 (10.51%) SaaS
8 184 (8.55%) PaaS
9 134 (6.23%) OpenShift
10 127 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 110 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
12 109 (5.07%) IaaS
12 109 (5.07%) Power Platform
13 88 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
14 80 (3.72%) Cloud Computing
15 79 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
16 70 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
19 55 (2.56%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.28%) Firewall
2 58 (2.70%) DNS
3 37 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.67%) VPN
5 32 (1.49%) Internet
6 28 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 28 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 26 (1.21%) Network Security
8 23 (1.07%) NGFW
9 20 (0.93%) HTTP
10 14 (0.65%) DHCP
11 7 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.23%) SMTP
13 4 (0.19%) BGP
13 4 (0.19%) WAN
14 3 (0.14%) ATM
14 3 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.14%) RTP
14 3 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 154 (7.16%) NoSQL
3 152 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (6.23%) MySQL
5 130 (6.04%) Relational Database
6 122 (5.67%) Big Data
7 112 (5.21%) Data Lake
8 89 (4.14%) BigQuery
9 86 (4.00%) Power BI
10 75 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
11 70 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
12 57 (2.65%) Tableau
13 54 (2.51%) Looker
14 53 (2.46%) MongoDB
15 50 (2.32%) Redis
16 48 (2.23%) Bigtable
17 38 (1.77%) RDBMS
18 36 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
20 30 (1.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 555 (25.80%) Jenkins
2 332 (15.43%) Git
3 164 (7.62%) JIRA
4 162 (7.53%) GitLab
5 138 (6.42%) Cucumber
6 121 (5.63%) Selenium
7 94 (4.37%) Postman
8 65 (3.02%) Gradle
9 64 (2.98%) Maven
10 60 (2.79%) TeamCity
11 59 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 48 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
13 45 (2.09%) Bitbucket
13 45 (2.09%) Cypress.io
14 37 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
14 37 (1.72%) Spinnaker
15 32 (1.49%) Artifactory
16 29 (1.35%) CircleCI
16 29 (1.35%) IBM UrbanCode
17 22 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 468 (21.76%) Finance
2 420 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 275 (12.78%) Banking
4 169 (7.86%) Retail
5 128 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 115 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 38 (1.77%) Marketing
9 30 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (1.07%) Tech for Good
12 20 (0.93%) Law
13 18 (0.84%) Electronics
14 17 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.79%) Retail Banking
15 15 (0.70%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.60%) Automotive
17 13 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 554 (25.76%) Senior
2 489 (22.73%) Developer
3 422 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 274 (12.74%) Lead
5 262 (12.18%) Software Engineer
6 208 (9.67%) Architect
7 143 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 136 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
9 133 (6.18%) Senior Developer
10 126 (5.86%) Senior DevOps
10 126 (5.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 114 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
12 96 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
13 94 (4.37%) .NET Developer
14 92 (4.28%) Java Developer
15 85 (3.95%) Software Developer
16 84 (3.91%) Data Engineer
17 77 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
18 74 (3.44%) AWS DevOps
18 74 (3.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (19.34%) .NET
2 213 (9.90%) React
3 205 (9.53%) REST
4 175 (8.14%) Kafka
5 159 (7.39%) AngularJS
6 149 (6.93%) .NET Core
7 126 (5.86%) Node.js
8 119 (5.53%) CSS
9 117 (5.44%) Spring
9 117 (5.44%) Spring Boot
10 116 (5.39%) HTML
11 111 (5.16%) .NET Framework
12 91 (4.23%) Web Services
13 90 (4.18%) ASP.NET
14 86 (4.00%) JSON
15 85 (3.95%) RESTful
16 67 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
17 65 (3.02%) ARM Templates
18 63 (2.93%) YAML
19 58 (2.70%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.35%) Public Cloud
2 138 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 134 (6.23%) Cloud Native
4 85 (3.95%) Private Cloud
5 79 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 64 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
7 63 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 48 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (1.86%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
11 24 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.98%) Online Banking
13 21 (0.98%) Robotics
14 20 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.88%) PKI
16 16 (0.74%) Blog
17 14 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 465 (21.62%) Linux
2 138 (6.42%) Windows
3 81 (3.77%) Unix
4 52 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.56%) VMS
6 12 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.28%) CentOS
10 5 (0.23%) Solaris
11 4 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.14%) Debian
13 2 (0.093%) Android
13 2 (0.093%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,242 (57.74%) DevOps
2 994 (46.21%) Agile
3 551 (25.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 519 (24.13%) Software Engineering
5 395 (18.36%) Microservices
6 366 (17.02%) Containerisation
7 286 (13.30%) TDD
8 279 (12.97%) Continuous Integration
9 276 (12.83%) Test Automation
10 275 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
11 246 (11.44%) Mentoring
12 243 (11.30%) Scrum
13 238 (11.06%) SDLC
14 213 (9.90%) Configuration Management
15 195 (9.07%) Continuous Delivery
16 188 (8.74%) Cloud Security
17 184 (8.55%) Design Patterns
18 182 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
19 168 (7.81%) Analytics
20 157 (7.30%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 716 (33.29%) Python
2 657 (30.54%) Java
3 432 (20.08%) C#
4 406 (18.87%) SQL
5 364 (16.92%) JavaScript
6 236 (10.97%) PowerShell
7 225 (10.46%) Bash
8 179 (8.32%) TypeScript
9 100 (4.65%) Go
10 87 (4.04%) Ruby
11 54 (2.51%) Bicep
11 54 (2.51%) T-SQL
12 51 (2.37%) Perl
13 48 (2.23%) C++
13 48 (2.23%) PHP
14 45 (2.09%) Scala
15 36 (1.67%) Groovy
16 30 (1.39%) Shell Script
17 25 (1.16%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.93%) C
Qualifications
1 367 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 241 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 140 (6.51%) Degree
4 90 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 80 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 11 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
14 9 (0.42%) HND
15 8 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 6 (0.28%) MCSA
18 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 4 (0.19%) CISSP
19 4 (0.19%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (9.48%) QA
2 37 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.79%) NCSC
5 14 (0.65%) NIST
6 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.56%) GDPR
8 6 (0.28%) GAAP
9 5 (0.23%) DO-178B
9 5 (0.23%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.19%) SLA
10 4 (0.19%) WCAG
11 3 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.14%) GMP
11 3 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.093%) IFRS
12 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 734 (34.12%) Docker
2 72 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 46 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 33 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 28 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (1.12%) vSphere
8 10 (0.46%) Firmware
9 6 (0.28%) Ceph
10 3 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.14%) LXC
11 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 724 (33.66%) Terraform
2 698 (32.45%) Kubernetes
3 255 (11.85%) Ansible
4 83 (3.86%) Puppet
5 78 (3.63%) Grafana
6 59 (2.74%) Prometheus
7 46 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.98%) Kibana
8 21 (0.98%) Nagios
9 18 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.65%) Istio
12 14 (0.65%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.65%) Packer
13 12 (0.56%) Salt
13 12 (0.56%) SCCM
13 12 (0.56%) SCOM
14 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 304 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 195 (9.07%) Google
3 66 (3.07%) Oracle
4 55 (2.56%) Splunk
5 52 (2.42%) VMware
6 51 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.91%) Databricks
8 34 (1.58%) F5
8 34 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 33 (1.53%) New Relic
10 32 (1.49%) Cisco
10 32 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 32 (1.49%) Veracode
11 31 (1.44%) CheckPoint
11 31 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.12%) IBM
13 23 (1.07%) Citrix
13 23 (1.07%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.02%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.84%) Xamarin