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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,428 1,963 4,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.45% 5.81% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 6.35% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1,661 3,043
10th Percentile £48,165 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,820 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -9.57% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,778 £84,919 £92,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £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 15,858 30,902 39,630
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.81% 91.40% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,902 23,451 27,583
10th Percentile £29,444 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 11 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
1 177 (12.39%) Confluence
2 86 (6.02%) Apache
3 85 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.95%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 14 (0.98%) nginx
6 13 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 13 (0.91%) CMS
7 8 (0.56%) SAS
8 5 (0.35%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.28%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.21%) Drupal
10 3 (0.21%) GemFire
10 3 (0.21%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.14%) Simulink
2 1 (0.070%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.070%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 833 (58.33%) Azure
2 818 (57.28%) AWS
3 395 (27.66%) GCP
4 207 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (14.08%) Serverless
6 161 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
7 137 (9.59%) GitHub
8 117 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 98 (6.86%) SaaS
11 93 (6.51%) dbt
12 91 (6.37%) Power Platform
13 80 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
14 74 (5.18%) OpenShift
15 72 (5.04%) Amazon S3
16 69 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
17 63 (4.41%) PaaS
18 52 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (3.08%) Power Automate
20 39 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.87%) TCP/IP
2 34 (2.38%) DNS
3 32 (2.24%) Firewall
4 30 (2.10%) VPN
5 22 (1.54%) WAN
6 17 (1.19%) Network Security
7 16 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.05%) Internet
9 11 (0.77%) HTTPS
10 10 (0.70%) HTTP
10 10 (0.70%) IPsec
11 9 (0.63%) Modbus
12 5 (0.35%) 3GPP
12 5 (0.35%) 5G
13 4 (0.28%) Multicast
14 3 (0.21%) MQTT
14 3 (0.21%) SAN
15 2 (0.14%) ADSL
15 2 (0.14%) DHCP
15 2 (0.14%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (23.11%) SQL Server
2 99 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 81 (5.67%) Amazon Athena
4 74 (5.18%) Apache Ignite
5 72 (5.04%) MySQL
5 72 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (4.97%) Apache Arrow
6 71 (4.97%) Apache Iceberg
6 71 (4.97%) Dremio
7 70 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (4.27%) Power BI
9 42 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
10 40 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 39 (2.73%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (2.31%) Relational Database
15 27 (1.89%) BigQuery
15 27 (1.89%) Redis
16 23 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 327 (22.90%) GitLab
2 300 (21.01%) SonarQube
3 293 (20.52%) JIRA
4 292 (20.45%) Maven
5 290 (20.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 281 (19.68%) Selenium
7 280 (19.61%) Cucumber
8 271 (18.98%) Git
9 252 (17.65%) Bitbucket
10 189 (13.24%) Jenkins
11 76 (5.32%) Artifactory
12 53 (3.71%) JUnit
13 29 (2.03%) Cypress.io
13 29 (2.03%) webpack
14 19 (1.33%) Mockito
15 18 (1.26%) Visual Studio
16 16 (1.12%) Gradle
16 16 (1.12%) TeamCity
17 15 (1.05%) IntelliJ
18 12 (0.84%) NUnit
General
1 634 (44.40%) Finance
2 421 (29.48%) Banking
3 352 (24.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 271 (18.98%) Social Skills
5 122 (8.54%) Retail
6 102 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 99 (6.93%) Front Office
8 95 (6.65%) Investment Banking
9 90 (6.30%) Corporate Banking
10 59 (4.13%) Law
11 33 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 32 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.96%) Games
13 28 (1.96%) Marketing
14 17 (1.19%) Tech for Good
15 16 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.12%) Legal
16 14 (0.98%) Automotive
17 13 (0.91%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 407 (28.50%) Software Engineer
2 322 (22.55%) Senior
3 309 (21.64%) Developer
4 192 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 156 (10.92%) Lead
6 134 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
7 127 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
8 119 (8.33%) Python Engineer
9 117 (8.19%) Data Engineer
10 113 (7.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 102 (7.14%) Senior Developer
12 80 (5.60%) Architect
13 74 (5.18%) Software Developer
14 68 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
15 59 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 47 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
17 46 (3.22%) .NET Developer
18 44 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
19 42 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
19 42 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (29.20%) React
2 384 (26.89%) Kafka
3 339 (23.74%) Spring Boot
4 334 (23.39%) Spring
5 292 (20.45%) HTML
6 289 (20.24%) CSS
7 256 (17.93%) Redux
8 249 (17.44%) JPA
9 229 (16.04%) .NET
10 212 (14.85%) RESTful
11 182 (12.75%) REST
12 174 (12.18%) Hibernate
13 145 (10.15%) Node.js
14 135 (9.45%) Jest
15 99 (6.93%) HTML5
16 98 (6.86%) CSS3
17 92 (6.44%) Sass
18 86 (6.02%) PySpark
19 71 (4.97%) J2EE
20 66 (4.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 332 (23.25%) Product Ownership
2 267 (18.70%) Enterprise Software
3 114 (7.98%) Cloud Native
4 74 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 59 (4.13%) Mobile App
6 58 (4.06%) Public Cloud
7 54 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
8 49 (3.43%) Cyberattack
9 29 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.33%) NHS
14 17 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
14 17 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.12%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.91%) IoT
17 12 (0.84%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 210 (14.71%) Linux
2 90 (6.30%) Android
3 64 (4.48%) Windows
4 41 (2.87%) Unix
5 35 (2.45%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.49%) CentOS
8 7 (0.49%) VMS
9 5 (0.35%) Solaris
9 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.21%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (70.73%) DevOps
2 817 (57.21%) Agile
3 719 (50.35%) Software Engineering
4 547 (38.31%) Containerisation
5 502 (35.15%) Microservices
6 440 (30.81%) Test Automation
7 351 (24.58%) SDLC
8 341 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 303 (21.22%) Mentoring
10 295 (20.66%) Front End Development
11 286 (20.03%) Performance Optimisation
12 282 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 281 (19.68%) TDD
14 266 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 234 (16.39%) Clean Code
16 215 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
17 183 (12.82%) Migration
18 161 (11.27%) User Experience
19 146 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
20 125 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 614 (43.00%) Java
2 544 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 511 (35.78%) Python
4 497 (34.80%) SQL
5 209 (14.64%) C#
6 207 (14.50%) TypeScript
7 186 (13.03%) Go
8 105 (7.35%) PowerShell
9 93 (6.51%) C++
10 69 (4.83%) Bash
11 59 (4.13%) Rust
12 44 (3.08%) PHP
13 36 (2.52%) Bicep
14 25 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.47%) Swift
16 20 (1.40%) C
17 17 (1.19%) Scala
17 17 (1.19%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 145 (10.15%) Security Cleared
2 143 (10.01%) Degree
3 77 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 56 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 32 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.26%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.70%) CISSP
13 9 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.56%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.28%) CCNP
18 4 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (23.11%) QA
2 132 (9.24%) Accessibility
3 64 (4.48%) GDPR
4 32 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.89%) HIPAA
7 25 (1.75%) NIST
8 13 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.56%) Basel III
10 8 (0.56%) IFRS
10 8 (0.56%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.49%) Basel II
11 7 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
11 7 (0.49%) NCSC
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) PMBOK
14 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.14%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 698 (48.88%) Docker
2 26 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.19%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.63%) Firmware
6 5 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.28%) HDFS
7 4 (0.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.21%) Postfix
9 2 (0.14%) KVM
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
9 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 721 (50.49%) Kubernetes
2 421 (29.48%) Terraform
3 196 (13.73%) Ansible
4 55 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 49 (3.43%) Grafana
6 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.12%) Istio
8 13 (0.91%) Puppet
9 11 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
10 10 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.49%) Argo
11 7 (0.49%) Nagios
11 7 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.28%) Kibana
12 4 (0.28%) Packer
13 3 (0.21%) CASB
13 3 (0.21%) linkerd
13 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.21%) SCCM
14 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 251 (17.58%) Solace
2 173 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 76 (5.32%) Google
4 62 (4.34%) Databricks
5 47 (3.29%) Oracle
6 25 (1.75%) IBM
7 24 (1.68%) VMware
8 16 (1.12%) Meraki
9 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 13 (0.91%) New Relic
10 13 (0.91%) SAP
11 12 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 11 (0.77%) Okta
12 11 (0.77%) Splunk
13 8 (0.56%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.56%) Xamarin
14 7 (0.49%) Teradata
15 6 (0.42%) EMC
15 6 (0.42%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.35%) Palantir