CI/CD Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 40 22
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,806 1,979 3,656
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.31% 5.57% 9.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.92% 6.21% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,612 2,784
10th Percentile £47,900 £43,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -12.75% +6.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and 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 18,206 31,847 35,991
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.84% 89.59% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,521 23,766 25,695
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CI/CD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

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
1 172 (9.52%) Confluence
2 68 (3.77%) Apache
3 64 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 62 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.00%) CMS
7 12 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 11 (0.61%) IIS
9 10 (0.55%) nginx
10 5 (0.28%) SAS
11 4 (0.22%) Drupal
11 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.22%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.17%) GemFire
12 3 (0.17%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.11%) Elementor
1 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.11%) Simulink
2 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.055%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (58.36%) AWS
2 1,019 (56.42%) Azure
3 574 (31.78%) GCP
4 438 (24.25%) Serverless
5 405 (22.43%) AWS Lambda
6 190 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
7 144 (7.97%) GitHub
8 121 (6.70%) Amazon S3
9 94 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 89 (4.93%) Power Platform
11 81 (4.49%) SaaS
12 80 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
12 80 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (4.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 75 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (4.04%) dbt
15 54 (2.99%) OpenShift
16 48 (2.66%) Power Automate
17 46 (2.55%) PaaS
18 38 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 506 (28.02%) Broadband
2 38 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.72%) Firewall
4 29 (1.61%) DNS
5 26 (1.44%) VPN
6 20 (1.11%) WAN
7 16 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.72%) Internet
9 12 (0.66%) HTTP
10 11 (0.61%) Network Security
11 7 (0.39%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.39%) Modbus
12 6 (0.33%) IPsec
13 5 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 5 (0.28%) 5G
14 4 (0.22%) Multicast
15 3 (0.17%) SAN
16 2 (0.11%) BGP
16 2 (0.11%) DHCP
16 2 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (18.83%) SQL Server
2 151 (8.36%) Elasticsearch
3 86 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 81 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.26%) MySQL
6 60 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
6 60 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (3.32%) Power BI
7 54 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
8 51 (2.82%) Apache Arrow
8 51 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 51 (2.82%) Dremio
9 40 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 36 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.94%) Data Lake
12 29 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 26 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.22%) Redis
14 22 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 503 (27.85%) JIRA
2 318 (17.61%) GitLab
3 301 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 289 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 287 (15.89%) Maven
6 275 (15.23%) Cucumber
7 272 (15.06%) Selenium
8 252 (13.95%) Bitbucket
9 226 (12.51%) Git
10 152 (8.42%) Jenkins
11 58 (3.21%) Artifactory
12 43 (2.38%) JUnit
13 23 (1.27%) Cypress.io
14 20 (1.11%) TeamCity
15 18 (1.00%) NUnit
16 17 (0.94%) Mockito
16 17 (0.94%) Visual Studio
16 17 (0.94%) webpack
17 13 (0.72%) Gradle
17 13 (0.72%) IntelliJ
General
1 566 (31.34%) Finance
2 380 (21.04%) Banking
3 346 (19.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 319 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (14.34%) Social Skills
6 119 (6.59%) Retail
7 95 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.98%) Corporate Banking
9 65 (3.60%) Front Office
10 36 (1.99%) Law
11 31 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 27 (1.50%) Games
12 27 (1.50%) Marketing
13 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.78%) Tech for Good
15 12 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.55%) Automotive
17 9 (0.50%) Advertising
17 9 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 569 (31.51%) Senior
2 379 (20.99%) Software Engineer
3 374 (20.71%) Developer
4 226 (12.51%) Embedded Engineer
5 218 (12.07%) Release Engineer
6 216 (11.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 168 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 155 (8.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 135 (7.48%) Lead
10 103 (5.70%) AWS DevOps
11 93 (5.15%) Data Engineer
12 90 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
13 88 (4.87%) AWS Developer
14 81 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 75 (4.15%) Python Engineer
16 74 (4.10%) Architect
17 72 (3.99%) Software Developer
18 55 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
19 47 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
20 43 (2.38%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (27.35%) React
2 360 (19.93%) Kafka
3 324 (17.94%) Spring Boot
4 323 (17.88%) Spring
5 294 (16.28%) CSS
5 294 (16.28%) HTML
6 258 (14.29%) Redux
7 249 (13.79%) JPA
8 236 (13.07%) .NET
9 235 (13.01%) Middleware
10 203 (11.24%) RESTful
11 182 (10.08%) REST
12 173 (9.58%) Hibernate
13 132 (7.31%) Jest
13 132 (7.31%) Node.js
14 106 (5.87%) HTML5
15 104 (5.76%) CSS3
16 95 (5.26%) GraphQL
17 93 (5.15%) Sass
18 73 (4.04%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 324 (17.94%) Product Ownership
2 265 (14.67%) Enterprise Software
3 230 (12.74%) Self-Motivation
4 216 (11.96%) Embedded Systems
5 117 (6.48%) Cloud Native
6 49 (2.71%) Cyberattack
6 49 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.66%) Mobile App
8 45 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 35 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.05%) NHS
14 15 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
14 15 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.66%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.69%) Linux
2 80 (4.43%) Android
3 48 (2.66%) Windows
4 40 (2.21%) Unix
5 28 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.28%) CentOS
9 5 (0.28%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.17%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (69.49%) Agile
2 909 (50.33%) DevOps
3 627 (34.72%) Software Engineering
4 571 (31.62%) Mentoring
5 526 (29.13%) Clean Code
6 519 (28.74%) Containerisation
7 482 (26.69%) Microservices
8 420 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 414 (22.92%) Test Automation
10 354 (19.60%) Artificial Intelligence
11 337 (18.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 332 (18.38%) SDLC
13 320 (17.72%) Strategic Thinking
14 317 (17.55%) Roadmaps
15 290 (16.06%) Front End Development
16 288 (15.95%) Performance Optimisation
17 266 (14.73%) Software Delivery
18 264 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 264 (14.62%) TDD
19 259 (14.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 726 (40.20%) Python
2 597 (33.06%) JavaScript
3 571 (31.62%) Java
4 490 (27.13%) TypeScript
5 474 (26.25%) SQL
6 208 (11.52%) C#
7 150 (8.31%) Go
8 96 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 85 (4.71%) C++
10 72 (3.99%) Bash
11 52 (2.88%) Rust
12 40 (2.21%) PHP
13 31 (1.72%) Bicep
14 22 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.16%) Swift
16 20 (1.11%) C
16 20 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.83%) Perl
18 10 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 333 (18.44%) Degree
2 216 (11.96%) PhD
3 132 (7.31%) Security Cleared
4 129 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 69 (3.82%) SC Cleared
6 65 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 64 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.39%) CISSP
15 6 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.22%) CISM
16 4 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (18.11%) QA
2 116 (6.42%) Accessibility
3 53 (2.93%) GDPR
4 30 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.66%) HIPAA
5 25 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.83%) NIST
7 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.39%) NCSC
9 6 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.22%) Basel II
10 4 (0.22%) Basel III
10 4 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.22%) IFRS
10 4 (0.22%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.17%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.055%) ECSS
13 1 (0.055%) GRC
System Software
1 641 (35.49%) Docker
2 22 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.66%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.39%) Firmware
6 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.28%) vSphere
7 4 (0.22%) HDFS
7 4 (0.22%) KVM
7 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 3 (0.17%) Xen
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
9 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.055%) Corosync
10 1 (0.055%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 636 (35.22%) Kubernetes
2 357 (19.77%) Terraform
3 177 (9.80%) Ansible
4 61 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 55 (3.05%) Grafana
6 16 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (0.61%) Istio
8 9 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (0.44%) Argo
9 8 (0.44%) Puppet
10 6 (0.33%) Kibana
10 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.28%) Nagios
12 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.17%) Packer
12 3 (0.17%) SCCM
13 2 (0.11%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.055%) logstash
Vendors
1 251 (13.90%) Solace
2 188 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 77 (4.26%) Google
4 69 (3.82%) Databricks
5 44 (2.44%) Oracle
6 25 (1.38%) VMware
7 23 (1.27%) IBM
8 16 (0.89%) Meraki
8 16 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 15 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 14 (0.78%) SAP
11 11 (0.61%) New Relic
11 11 (0.61%) Okta
12 10 (0.55%) Splunk
13 9 (0.50%) Rollbar
14 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.33%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.33%) Cisco
15 6 (0.33%) DevExpress
15 6 (0.33%) EMC