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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 38 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,251 1,989 4,096
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 5.89% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 6.43% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,675 3,112
10th Percentile £48,165 £43,243 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,919 £91,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £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 14,384 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.29% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,737 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 5 May 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 85 (6.79%) Apache Spark
2 84 (6.71%) Apache
2 84 (6.71%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (6.47%) Confluence
4 18 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.12%) nginx
6 13 (1.04%) Apache Solr
7 12 (0.96%) CMS
8 8 (0.64%) SAS
9 5 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.32%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.24%) GemFire
11 3 (0.24%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) Simulink
3 1 (0.080%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 16 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.080%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 650 (51.96%) Azure
2 637 (50.92%) AWS
3 296 (23.66%) GCP
4 205 (16.39%) Serverless
5 192 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
6 164 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
7 137 (10.95%) GitHub
8 120 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
9 116 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (7.35%) dbt
11 78 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
11 78 (6.24%) Power Platform
11 78 (6.24%) SaaS
12 75 (6.00%) Amazon S3
13 74 (5.92%) OpenShift
14 68 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
16 46 (3.68%) PaaS
17 40 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
18 39 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.20%) TCP/IP
2 18 (1.44%) DNS
3 17 (1.36%) Network Security
4 15 (1.20%) Internet
5 14 (1.12%) Firewall
6 13 (1.04%) VPN
7 12 (0.96%) HTTPS
8 10 (0.80%) HTTP
8 10 (0.80%) IPsec
9 9 (0.72%) Modbus
10 7 (0.56%) WAN
11 5 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 5 (0.40%) 5G
12 4 (0.32%) MQTT
12 4 (0.32%) Multicast
13 3 (0.24%) SAN
14 2 (0.16%) ADSL
14 2 (0.16%) iSCSI
14 2 (0.16%) LAN
14 2 (0.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 101 (8.07%) NoSQL
3 81 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (5.92%) Apache Ignite
6 71 (5.68%) Apache Arrow
6 71 (5.68%) Apache Iceberg
6 71 (5.68%) Dremio
7 70 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
8 57 (4.56%) MySQL
9 46 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
9 46 (3.68%) Power BI
10 44 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (3.28%) MongoDB
12 35 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (2.64%) Relational Database
14 28 (2.24%) Redis
15 27 (2.16%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 260 (20.78%) Git
2 186 (14.87%) Jenkins
3 163 (13.03%) GitLab
4 134 (10.71%) SonarQube
5 127 (10.15%) JIRA
6 126 (10.07%) Maven
7 124 (9.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 116 (9.27%) Selenium
9 114 (9.11%) Cucumber
10 88 (7.03%) Bitbucket
11 75 (6.00%) Artifactory
12 51 (4.08%) JUnit
13 28 (2.24%) webpack
14 27 (2.16%) Cypress.io
15 18 (1.44%) Gradle
16 17 (1.36%) Mockito
16 17 (1.36%) TeamCity
16 17 (1.36%) Visual Studio
17 13 (1.04%) IntelliJ
18 12 (0.96%) NUnit
General
1 469 (37.49%) Finance
2 280 (22.38%) Social Skills
3 262 (20.94%) Banking
4 188 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (8.47%) Front Office
6 100 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (4.56%) Law
8 53 (4.24%) Retail
9 32 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 31 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.40%) Games
12 27 (2.16%) Marketing
13 26 (2.08%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
15 18 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.44%) Tech for Good
16 17 (1.36%) Legal
17 16 (1.28%) Automotive
18 13 (1.04%) Health Technology
19 12 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 326 (26.06%) Senior
2 314 (25.10%) Developer
3 244 (19.50%) Software Engineer
4 196 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 159 (12.71%) Lead
6 133 (10.63%) AWS DevOps
7 128 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
8 125 (9.99%) Python Engineer
9 116 (9.27%) Data Engineer
10 114 (9.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 105 (8.39%) Senior Developer
12 77 (6.16%) Software Developer
13 66 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 65 (5.20%) Architect
15 60 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 49 (3.92%) .NET Developer
17 47 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
18 46 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
19 41 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
20 36 (2.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (19.74%) React
2 230 (18.39%) .NET
3 220 (17.59%) Kafka
4 170 (13.59%) Spring Boot
5 165 (13.19%) Spring
6 148 (11.83%) RESTful
7 145 (11.59%) Node.js
8 130 (10.39%) HTML
9 127 (10.15%) CSS
10 112 (8.95%) REST
11 91 (7.27%) Redux
12 85 (6.79%) PySpark
13 82 (6.55%) JPA
14 78 (6.24%) Hibernate
15 71 (5.68%) J2EE
16 68 (5.44%) AngularJS
17 66 (5.28%) Jest
18 57 (4.56%) .NET Core
19 53 (4.24%) .NET Framework
20 50 (4.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 167 (13.35%) Product Ownership
2 111 (8.87%) Cloud Native
3 101 (8.07%) Enterprise Software
4 71 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 61 (4.88%) Mobile App
6 58 (4.64%) Public Cloud
7 54 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 49 (3.92%) Cyberattack
9 29 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 29 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.28%) Credit Derivative
14 14 (1.12%) IoT
14 14 (1.12%) Mobile Games
15 12 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.96%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 204 (16.31%) Linux
2 92 (7.35%) Android
3 60 (4.80%) Windows
4 40 (3.20%) Unix
5 36 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.28%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.56%) CentOS
8 7 (0.56%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) Solaris
9 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.24%) Debian
11 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.16%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.16%) Rocky
12 2 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (66.19%) DevOps
2 638 (51.00%) Agile
3 561 (44.84%) Software Engineering
4 378 (30.22%) Containerisation
5 328 (26.22%) Microservices
6 273 (21.82%) Test Automation
7 243 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 235 (18.78%) Mentoring
9 221 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
10 187 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 185 (14.79%) TDD
12 181 (14.47%) SDLC
13 178 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 150 (11.99%) Continuous Integration
15 140 (11.19%) Clean Code
16 131 (10.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 129 (10.31%) Front End Development
18 122 (9.75%) Data Engineering
18 122 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
19 120 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 514 (41.09%) Python
2 444 (35.49%) Java
3 382 (30.54%) JavaScript
4 317 (25.34%) SQL
5 211 (16.87%) C#
6 185 (14.79%) Go
7 137 (10.95%) TypeScript
8 94 (7.51%) C++
9 87 (6.95%) PowerShell
10 67 (5.36%) Bash
11 61 (4.88%) Rust
12 42 (3.36%) PHP
13 27 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.76%) Bicep
14 22 (1.76%) Swift
15 20 (1.60%) C
16 18 (1.44%) Scala
16 18 (1.44%) T-SQL
17 13 (1.04%) PL/SQL
17 13 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (11.67%) Degree
2 141 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 73 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 73 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 51 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (0.72%) CISSP
12 8 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.24%) CCSP
17 3 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (13.35%) QA
2 64 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 62 (4.96%) GDPR
4 29 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.08%) HIPAA
6 23 (1.84%) NIST
7 13 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.64%) Basel III
9 8 (0.64%) IFRS
9 8 (0.64%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.56%) Basel II
10 7 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
11 6 (0.48%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.24%) PMBOK
14 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.16%) SLA
15 1 (0.080%) ECSS
System Software
1 531 (42.45%) Docker
2 17 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.72%) Firmware
6 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.32%) HDFS
7 4 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.24%) Postfix
9 2 (0.16%) KVM
9 2 (0.16%) NFS
9 2 (0.16%) SRDF
9 2 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.16%) Xen
10 1 (0.080%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 555 (44.36%) Kubernetes
2 424 (33.89%) Terraform
3 190 (15.19%) Ansible
4 54 (4.32%) Prometheus
5 44 (3.52%) Grafana
6 16 (1.28%) Istio
7 14 (1.12%) Puppet
8 11 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.64%) Argo
10 7 (0.56%) Nagios
11 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.32%) Kibana
12 4 (0.32%) Packer
13 3 (0.24%) CASB
13 3 (0.24%) linkerd
13 3 (0.24%) SCCM
14 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.16%) CA Endevor
14 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 175 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 86 (6.87%) Solace
3 76 (6.08%) Google
4 48 (3.84%) Databricks
5 46 (3.68%) Oracle
6 24 (1.92%) IBM
7 21 (1.68%) VMware
8 15 (1.20%) New Relic
9 14 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 12 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 12 (0.96%) SAP
11 11 (0.88%) Okta
11 11 (0.88%) Splunk
12 8 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.64%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.56%) Teradata
14 6 (0.48%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.40%) EMC
15 5 (0.40%) Foundry
15 5 (0.40%) Palantir