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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 26 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,095 8,336 20,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.09% 8.45% 12.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 8.84% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,248 5,285 8,130
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
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 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £104,125 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%

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 85,138 94,311 156,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 95.58% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,815 55,545 82,618
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +14 4,385 £62,500 -3.85% 699
England -26 3,660 £70,000 -6.67% 1,151
Scotland +34 2,117 £65,000 -3.89% 76
Work from Home -16 1,963 £67,500 -10.00% 713
London -16 1,417 £85,000 +5.86% 525
North of England -16 668 £62,500 -4.58% 234
South East -35 618 £64,000 -5.19% 107
South West +2 444 £65,000 -0.54% 112
North West -11 385 £62,500 -10.00% 144
Midlands -20 346 £63,750 -1.92% 102
West Midlands -8 243 £65,000 - 71
Yorkshire -26 207 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East Midlands -33 102 £60,000 -7.69% 31
East of England -62 95 £60,000 -14.29% 46
Wales +3 84 £55,000 +2.33% 21
North East +2 76 £62,891 +9.38% 30
Northern Ireland -41 12 £58,800 +23.79% 14
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

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
1 621 (10.19%) Apache Spark
2 258 (4.23%) Apache
3 193 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.61%) FileNet
5 97 (1.59%) Confluence
6 58 (0.95%) nginx
7 56 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 51 (0.84%) IIS
9 41 (0.67%) CMS
10 38 (0.62%) OpenStack
11 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 21 (0.34%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.26%) WordPress
16 13 (0.21%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.098%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.082%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.049%) Simulink
5 3 (0.049%) Sketch
5 3 (0.049%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.016%) Blender
7 1 (0.016%) Notion
7 1 (0.016%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.016%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.049%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,869 (47.07%) AWS
2 2,140 (35.11%) Azure
3 880 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
4 599 (9.83%) GCP
5 529 (8.68%) Serverless
6 413 (6.78%) GitHub
7 320 (5.25%) Amazon S3
8 298 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
9 285 (4.68%) SaaS
10 233 (3.82%) Power Platform
11 218 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
12 216 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
13 200 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
14 188 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 184 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
16 176 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
17 169 (2.77%) PaaS
18 153 (2.51%) Datadog
19 147 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
20 136 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.44%) Firewall
2 110 (1.80%) DNS
3 75 (1.23%) WAN
4 65 (1.07%) Kerberos
5 60 (0.98%) VPN
6 51 (0.84%) Network Security
7 47 (0.77%) HTTP
8 36 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 33 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.43%) DHCP
11 22 (0.36%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
13 17 (0.28%) SSL
14 16 (0.26%) BGP
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
15 12 (0.20%) PBX
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
17 9 (0.15%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (14.52%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.01%) Big Data
3 413 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 292 (4.79%) Hadoop
5 264 (4.33%) Relational Database
6 259 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 251 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
8 234 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
9 194 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 191 (3.13%) MongoDB
11 189 (3.10%) MySQL
12 181 (2.97%) Data Lake
13 170 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
14 157 (2.58%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
16 121 (1.99%) DynamoDB
17 120 (1.97%) Power BI
18 113 (1.85%) Looker
19 108 (1.77%) Metadata
20 102 (1.67%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,021 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 867 (14.22%) Git
3 433 (7.10%) GitLab
4 320 (5.25%) JIRA
5 293 (4.81%) JUnit
6 209 (3.43%) Selenium
7 151 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 149 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 142 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 134 (2.20%) Postman
11 124 (2.03%) CircleCI
12 123 (2.02%) Artifactory
13 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
14 94 (1.54%) TeamCity
15 90 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.20%) Maven
19 64 (1.05%) JMeter
20 63 (1.03%) Protractor
General
1 2,722 (44.66%) Finance
2 2,194 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,094 (34.36%) Law
4 1,109 (18.20%) Social Skills
5 1,035 (16.98%) Marketing
6 743 (12.19%) Legal
7 584 (9.58%) Banking
8 333 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
9 308 (5.05%) Investment Banking
10 280 (4.59%) Public Sector
11 265 (4.35%) Financial Institution
12 172 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 151 (2.48%) Retail
14 77 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.21%) Billing
16 72 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 64 (1.05%) Private Banking
18 61 (1.00%) Retail Banking
19 57 (0.94%) Front Office
20 52 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,114 (34.68%) Software Engineer
2 1,179 (19.34%) Developer
3 1,130 (18.54%) Lead
4 1,004 (16.47%) Senior
5 714 (11.71%) Java Engineer
6 696 (11.42%) Java Software Engineer
7 683 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
8 597 (9.79%) Lead Software Engineer
9 502 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
10 488 (8.01%) Data Engineer
11 387 (6.35%) Python Engineer
12 368 (6.04%) Senior Developer
13 356 (5.84%) Big Data Engineer
14 351 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 322 (5.28%) Full Stack Engineer
17 321 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
18 310 (5.09%) AWS Software Engineer
19 283 (4.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 276 (4.53%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 922 (15.13%) React
2 798 (13.09%) Spring
3 767 (12.58%) .NET
4 554 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 530 (8.70%) Kafka
6 500 (8.20%) HTML
7 493 (8.09%) Node.js
8 459 (7.53%) CSS
9 444 (7.28%) Spring Boot
10 424 (6.96%) REST
11 407 (6.68%) RESTful
12 365 (5.99%) JSON
13 290 (4.76%) Web Services
14 289 (4.74%) J2EE
15 234 (3.84%) GraphQL
16 211 (3.46%) .NET Core
17 210 (3.45%) PySpark
18 207 (3.40%) Hibernate
19 203 (3.33%) .NET Framework
20 194 (3.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 917 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 848 (13.91%) Algorithms
3 359 (5.89%) Public Cloud
4 357 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 243 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 227 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 218 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.18%) Data Structures
9 128 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 123 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 109 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 103 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.43%) Market Risk
13 87 (1.43%) Private Cloud
14 84 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
15 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
16 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
17 70 (1.15%) IoT
18 69 (1.13%) Blockchain
19 58 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 705 (11.57%) Linux
2 270 (4.43%) Windows
3 189 (3.10%) Unix
4 88 (1.44%) Android
5 74 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 53 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.77%) Debian
9 42 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 19 (0.31%) VMS
12 17 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (0.21%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
14 11 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,847 (63.12%) Agile
2 2,974 (48.79%) Software Engineering
3 2,532 (41.54%) DevOps
4 2,192 (35.96%) SDLC
5 1,609 (26.40%) Operational Stability
6 1,503 (24.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,466 (24.05%) Machine Learning
8 1,320 (21.66%) Community of Practice
9 1,128 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,058 (17.36%) Microservices
11 1,004 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 895 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 879 (14.42%) Visualisation
14 862 (14.14%) Test Automation
15 826 (13.55%) Continuous Delivery
16 793 (13.01%) TDD
17 769 (12.62%) Full Stack Development
18 726 (11.91%) Risk Management
19 722 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
20 684 (11.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,236 (36.69%) Java
2 1,918 (31.47%) Python
3 1,692 (27.76%) SQL
4 980 (16.08%) JavaScript
5 893 (14.65%) C#
6 572 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 373 (6.12%) Scala
8 333 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 328 (5.38%) Go
10 290 (4.76%) Bash
11 155 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 140 (2.30%) Kotlin
13 119 (1.95%) PHP
14 97 (1.59%) Ruby
15 94 (1.54%) Shell Script
16 92 (1.51%) Bicep
17 89 (1.46%) C++
18 84 (1.38%) C
19 65 (1.07%) Prolog
19 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 532 (8.73%) Degree
2 499 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 302 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 301 (4.94%) SC Cleared
5 188 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 175 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 116 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 115 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 50 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.77%) CISSP
14 43 (0.71%) MCSE
15 42 (0.69%) MCSA
16 32 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.51%) CCSK
17 31 (0.51%) CCSP
18 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (6.91%) QA
2 160 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 90 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.21%) SLA
5 55 (0.90%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.51%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 12 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.16%) WCAG
12 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.082%) GRC
13 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.082%) NCSC
14 3 (0.049%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.049%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.049%) WAI
System Software
1 1,273 (20.89%) Docker
2 162 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 117 (1.92%) HDFS
4 105 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 38 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 21 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.23%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 9 (0.15%) Ceph
13 7 (0.11%) KVM
14 5 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.049%) Varnish
15 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.049%) Xen
16 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 1 (0.016%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,593 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 1,371 (22.49%) Terraform
3 448 (7.35%) Ansible
4 292 (4.79%) Grafana
5 174 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 116 (1.90%) Puppet
7 73 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 65 (1.07%) Kibana
9 48 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 44 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.56%) Istio
12 32 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 23 (0.38%) SCCM
16 21 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.34%) Nagios
16 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
18 19 (0.31%) Consul
Vendors
1 753 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 415 (6.81%) Oracle
3 390 (6.40%) Databricks
4 298 (4.89%) Google
5 233 (3.82%) Splunk
6 197 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 99 (1.62%) Red Hat
8 95 (1.56%) VMware
9 90 (1.48%) Informatica
10 83 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 75 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 74 (1.21%) IBM
13 60 (0.98%) Alteryx
14 58 (0.95%) Salesforce
15 54 (0.89%) ServiceNow
16 32 (0.53%) Cisco
17 31 (0.51%) Sybase
18 27 (0.44%) Xamarin
19 23 (0.38%) Facebook
20 22 (0.36%) Pega