CI/CD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,038 9,148 18,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.18% 8.65% 12.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 9.05% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 5,791 8,283
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,891 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +10 4,281 £62,891 -3.24% 692
England -27 3,670 £70,000 -6.67% 1,110
Scotland +27 2,051 £65,000 -3.70% 84
Work from Home -14 2,017 £70,000 -6.67% 663
London -16 1,464 £85,000 +3.03% 511
North of England -20 632 £62,783 -3.41% 189
South East -28 617 £64,000 -8.57% 150
South West +2 426 £60,000 -7.69% 96
North West -3 369 £62,500 -3.85% 118
Midlands -14 361 £65,000 - 76
West Midlands +9 260 £65,000 - 50
Yorkshire -30 193 £65,000 - 54
East Midlands -41 103 £60,000 -11.11% 26
East of England -56 100 £62,500 -16.67% 61
Wales +3 88 £55,000 - 28
North East -3 70 £62,783 +9.19% 19
Northern Ireland -43 11 £61,250 +28.95% 22
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 612 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 263 (4.36%) Apache
3 186 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (1.74%) Confluence
5 93 (1.54%) FileNet
6 62 (1.03%) IIS
7 58 (0.96%) nginx
8 55 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 50 (0.83%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 18 (0.30%) Jupyter
14 18 (0.30%) WordPress
15 16 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 10 (0.17%) CICS
17 10 (0.17%) Drupal
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.050%) Simulink
6 3 (0.050%) Sketch
7 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Blender
8 1 (0.017%) Notion
8 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Magento
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,814 (46.60%) AWS
2 2,121 (35.13%) Azure
3 913 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
4 575 (9.52%) GCP
5 551 (9.13%) Serverless
6 433 (7.17%) GitHub
7 327 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 311 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
9 305 (5.05%) SaaS
10 232 (3.84%) Power Platform
11 231 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
11 231 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
12 209 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 207 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
14 187 (3.10%) PaaS
15 181 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
16 175 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
17 148 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
18 142 (2.35%) Datadog
19 134 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 153 (2.53%) Firewall
2 112 (1.85%) DNS
3 81 (1.34%) WAN
4 67 (1.11%) VPN
5 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 55 (0.91%) Network Security
7 46 (0.76%) HTTP
8 36 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 34 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.45%) DHCP
11 25 (0.41%) Internet
12 19 (0.31%) BGP
13 18 (0.30%) DSL
14 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 17 (0.28%) PBX
15 16 (0.26%) MQTT
16 14 (0.23%) NGFW
16 14 (0.23%) SSL
17 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 873 (14.46%) NoSQL
2 550 (9.11%) Big Data
3 405 (6.71%) SQL Server
4 290 (4.80%) Hadoop
5 264 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 263 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
7 250 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
8 236 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 222 (3.68%) MySQL
10 193 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 185 (3.06%) Data Lake
12 182 (3.01%) MongoDB
13 163 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 154 (2.55%) Apache Hive
15 142 (2.35%) BigQuery
16 124 (2.05%) Looker
17 121 (2.00%) Power BI
18 111 (1.84%) DynamoDB
19 107 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
20 101 (1.67%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,080 (17.89%) Jenkins
2 850 (14.08%) Git
3 422 (6.99%) GitLab
4 330 (5.47%) JIRA
5 286 (4.74%) JUnit
6 227 (3.76%) Selenium
7 182 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 158 (2.62%) Bitbucket
9 156 (2.58%) Postman
10 144 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 141 (2.34%) Artifactory
12 116 (1.92%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.76%) Jasmine
14 100 (1.66%) TeamCity
15 95 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
16 81 (1.34%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.26%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.21%) Maven
19 65 (1.08%) JMeter
19 65 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 2,702 (44.75%) Finance
2 2,113 (35.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,025 (33.54%) Law
4 1,046 (17.32%) Social Skills
5 1,004 (16.63%) Marketing
6 721 (11.94%) Legal
7 605 (10.02%) Banking
8 345 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
9 310 (5.13%) Investment Banking
10 261 (4.32%) Financial Institution
11 252 (4.17%) Public Sector
12 179 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 163 (2.70%) Retail
14 74 (1.23%) Billing
14 74 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 64 (1.06%) Front Office
15 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
16 56 (0.93%) Aerospace
17 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
18 51 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,014 (33.36%) Software Engineer
2 1,164 (19.28%) Developer
3 1,120 (18.55%) Lead
4 970 (16.06%) Senior
5 705 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 681 (11.28%) Java Engineer
7 665 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 566 (9.37%) Lead Software Engineer
9 505 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
10 475 (7.87%) Data Engineer
11 373 (6.18%) Python Engineer
12 349 (5.78%) Big Data Engineer
13 347 (5.75%) Senior Developer
14 333 (5.52%) Python Software Engineer
15 331 (5.48%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 309 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
17 307 (5.08%) Full Stack Engineer
18 295 (4.89%) AWS Software Engineer
19 282 (4.67%) Architect
20 271 (4.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 874 (14.47%) React
2 771 (12.77%) Spring
3 753 (12.47%) .NET
4 554 (9.18%) AngularJS
5 520 (8.61%) Kafka
6 485 (8.03%) HTML
7 446 (7.39%) CSS
8 441 (7.30%) Node.js
9 438 (7.25%) REST
10 432 (7.15%) Spring Boot
11 387 (6.41%) RESTful
12 383 (6.34%) JSON
13 292 (4.84%) J2EE
14 276 (4.57%) Web Services
15 222 (3.68%) .NET Core
16 209 (3.46%) Hibernate
17 208 (3.44%) .NET Framework
18 207 (3.43%) GraphQL
19 203 (3.36%) PySpark
20 192 (3.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 884 (14.64%) Cloud Native
2 824 (13.65%) Algorithms
3 365 (6.05%) Public Cloud
4 331 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 239 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 217 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 214 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 193 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 132 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 120 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 114 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 99 (1.64%) Mobile App
13 86 (1.42%) Private Cloud
14 80 (1.32%) Market Risk
15 79 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 78 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
17 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
18 68 (1.13%) IoT
19 63 (1.04%) Blockchain
20 62 (1.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 745 (12.34%) Linux
2 290 (4.80%) Windows
3 185 (3.06%) Unix
4 85 (1.41%) Android
5 77 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.98%) CentOS
7 53 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 49 (0.81%) Debian
8 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 20 (0.33%) VMS
11 19 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.17%) Solaris
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.066%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,778 (62.57%) Agile
2 2,892 (47.90%) Software Engineering
3 2,550 (42.23%) DevOps
4 2,123 (35.16%) SDLC
5 1,552 (25.70%) Operational Stability
6 1,449 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,417 (23.47%) Machine Learning
8 1,263 (20.92%) Community of Practice
9 1,060 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,035 (17.14%) Microservices
11 979 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
12 875 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 860 (14.24%) Visualisation
14 850 (14.08%) Test Automation
15 842 (13.95%) Continuous Delivery
16 772 (12.79%) TDD
17 724 (11.99%) Full Stack Development
18 721 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
19 700 (11.59%) Risk Management
20 680 (11.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,210 (36.60%) Java
2 1,909 (31.62%) Python
3 1,726 (28.59%) SQL
4 971 (16.08%) JavaScript
5 885 (14.66%) C#
6 560 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 361 (5.98%) Scala
8 349 (5.78%) PowerShell
9 328 (5.43%) Go
10 318 (5.27%) Bash
11 155 (2.57%) PL/SQL
12 132 (2.19%) PHP
13 119 (1.97%) Kotlin
14 106 (1.76%) Ruby
15 104 (1.72%) Shell Script
16 97 (1.61%) Bicep
17 86 (1.42%) C++
18 78 (1.29%) C
19 74 (1.23%) T-SQL
20 65 (1.08%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 518 (8.58%) Degree
2 478 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 291 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 284 (4.70%) SC Cleared
5 165 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 155 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 125 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 111 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 59 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 59 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 55 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.76%) MCSE
13 45 (0.75%) CISSP
14 42 (0.70%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (7.11%) QA
2 159 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 81 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 72 (1.19%) SLA
5 50 (0.83%) GDPR
6 33 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 9 (0.15%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 5 (0.083%) GRC
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 3 (0.050%) IFRS
16 3 (0.050%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.050%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,262 (20.90%) Docker
2 169 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 116 (1.92%) HDFS
4 90 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 50 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 35 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 23 (0.38%) Hyper-V
10 20 (0.33%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 10 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.083%) KVM
14 3 (0.050%) Ceph
14 3 (0.050%) Varnish
14 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.017%) LXC
16 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,574 (26.07%) Kubernetes
2 1,368 (22.66%) Terraform
3 451 (7.47%) Ansible
4 304 (5.03%) Grafana
5 177 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 129 (2.14%) Puppet
7 75 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 67 (1.11%) Kibana
9 50 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 32 (0.53%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.45%) Packer
14 24 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Nagios
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Consul
17 20 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 740 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 401 (6.64%) Oracle
3 375 (6.21%) Databricks
4 300 (4.97%) Google
5 229 (3.79%) Splunk
6 192 (3.18%) Dynatrace
7 118 (1.95%) VMware
8 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 85 (1.41%) Informatica
10 81 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 79 (1.31%) Atlassian
12 74 (1.23%) IBM
13 60 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 57 (0.94%) Alteryx
15 37 (0.61%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
17 29 (0.48%) Xamarin
18 27 (0.45%) Sybase
19 24 (0.40%) Facebook
19 24 (0.40%) TOWER Software