CI/CD Jobs with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,998 4,112 8,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.91% 9.67% 12.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 10.06% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 3,127 4,595
10th Percentile £43,240 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £84,919 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,001 40,855 65,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.62% 96.09% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,546 28,388 41,415
10th Percentile £33,759 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 54 (2.70%) Apache
2 44 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 38 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.70%) Confluence
5 31 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (1.50%) OpenStack
7 28 (1.40%) nginx
8 26 (1.30%) IIS
9 25 (1.25%) CMS
10 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.70%) Umbraco
12 12 (0.60%) WordPress
13 5 (0.25%) Drupal
14 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.10%) Moodle
15 1 (0.050%) Anypoint
15 1 (0.050%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.050%) JBoss
15 1 (0.050%) Mule
15 1 (0.050%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.25%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Sketch
4 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.050%) Blender
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.050%) Notion
Business Applications
1 40 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.20%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.10%) Magento
5 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 998 (49.95%) Azure
2 878 (43.94%) AWS
3 429 (21.47%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (11.46%) Serverless
5 225 (11.26%) GCP
6 213 (10.66%) SaaS
7 184 (9.21%) GitHub
8 130 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (5.76%) Power Platform
10 85 (4.25%) PaaS
11 82 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (3.95%) Amazon S3
13 75 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
14 74 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 73 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
16 67 (3.35%) Snowflake
17 58 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
18 54 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.25%) Firewall
2 76 (3.80%) DNS
3 44 (2.20%) WAN
4 35 (1.75%) VPN
5 28 (1.40%) SD-WAN
5 28 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.25%) HTTP
7 23 (1.15%) DHCP
8 17 (0.85%) Internet
8 17 (0.85%) Network Security
9 14 (0.70%) LAN
10 13 (0.65%) NGFW
11 10 (0.50%) SNMP
11 10 (0.50%) tcpdump
12 8 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.40%) MQTT
12 8 (0.40%) WLAN
13 6 (0.30%) SSL
14 5 (0.25%) AMQP
14 5 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 155 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 82 (4.10%) MySQL
5 81 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 78 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 71 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
8 71 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
9 62 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 60 (3.00%) Power BI
11 53 (2.65%) MongoDB
12 42 (2.10%) BigQuery
13 38 (1.90%) Redis
14 37 (1.85%) Big Data
15 35 (1.75%) Star Schema
16 29 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 29 (1.45%) RDBMS
17 22 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 365 (18.27%) Jenkins
2 323 (16.17%) Git
3 206 (10.31%) GitLab
4 143 (7.16%) JIRA
5 103 (5.16%) Selenium
6 101 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 96 (4.80%) Postman
8 62 (3.10%) TeamCity
9 51 (2.55%) Visual Studio
10 43 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 34 (1.70%) JUnit
12 32 (1.60%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
14 27 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
15 25 (1.25%) JMeter
16 21 (1.05%) CircleCI
17 20 (1.00%) SpecFlow
18 15 (0.75%) SoapUI
18 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
19 14 (0.70%) REST Assured
General
1 436 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 349 (17.47%) Finance
3 127 (6.36%) Banking
4 125 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (4.85%) Retail
6 81 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 63 (3.15%) Law
9 47 (2.35%) Aerospace
10 44 (2.20%) Marketing
11 27 (1.35%) Games
11 27 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.20%) Legal
13 24 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 16 (0.80%) Police
15 15 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 534 (26.73%) Developer
2 478 (23.92%) Senior
3 357 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 313 (15.67%) Lead
5 188 (9.41%) Senior Developer
6 180 (9.01%) Software Engineer
7 135 (6.76%) Data Engineer
8 126 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (5.81%) Architect
10 110 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 108 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
12 96 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
13 79 (3.95%) Software Developer
14 78 (3.90%) .NET Developer
15 62 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 60 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
16 60 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 60 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
17 56 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
18 55 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (18.32%) .NET
2 213 (10.66%) React
3 204 (10.21%) REST
4 156 (7.81%) Node.js
5 131 (6.56%) RESTful
6 125 (6.26%) Kafka
7 123 (6.16%) CSS
8 114 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 114 (5.71%) Web Services
9 109 (5.46%) HTML
10 102 (5.11%) .NET Framework
11 98 (4.90%) .NET Core
12 83 (4.15%) GraphQL
12 83 (4.15%) JSON
13 78 (3.90%) Spring
14 76 (3.80%) Django
15 71 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
16 70 (3.50%) ASP.NET
17 52 (2.60%) ARM Templates
18 47 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.31%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
3 88 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.40%) Data Structures
6 64 (3.20%) Public Cloud
7 52 (2.60%) Private Cloud
8 51 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (2.30%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.00%) IoT
12 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.85%) Client/Server
14 36 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 32 (1.60%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.25%) Algorithms
19 23 (1.15%) Blog
20 21 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 340 (17.02%) Linux
2 191 (9.56%) Windows
3 56 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.10%) Unix
6 20 (1.00%) Android
7 18 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.60%) VMS
10 9 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
10 9 (0.45%) Solaris
11 6 (0.30%) CentOS
12 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.050%) Debian
14 1 (0.050%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (60.06%) DevOps
2 931 (46.60%) Agile
3 516 (25.83%) Software Engineering
4 409 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 366 (18.32%) Continuous Integration
6 338 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 334 (16.72%) Microservices
8 319 (15.97%) Scrum
9 295 (14.76%) TDD
10 288 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 275 (13.76%) Containerisation
12 230 (11.51%) Full Stack Development
13 200 (10.01%) Continuous Deployment
14 194 (9.71%) Analytics
15 189 (9.46%) Mentoring
16 178 (8.91%) Continuous Delivery
17 176 (8.81%) SDLC
18 164 (8.21%) BDD
19 157 (7.86%) Roadmaps
20 156 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 564 (28.23%) Python
2 441 (22.07%) C#
3 411 (20.57%) Java
4 395 (19.77%) SQL
5 339 (16.97%) JavaScript
6 192 (9.61%) TypeScript
7 164 (8.21%) PowerShell
8 133 (6.66%) Bash
9 119 (5.96%) Go
10 63 (3.15%) PHP
11 46 (2.30%) Perl
12 45 (2.25%) C
13 43 (2.15%) Scala
14 37 (1.85%) C++
15 36 (1.80%) Ruby
16 34 (1.70%) Bicep
16 34 (1.70%) T-SQL
17 31 (1.55%) Shell Script
18 25 (1.25%) Groovy
19 15 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 288 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 193 (9.66%) Degree
3 180 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 103 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 70 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 56 (2.80%) DBS Check
9 45 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.40%) CISM
11 28 (1.40%) CISSP
12 27 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.35%) CCSK
12 27 (1.35%) CCSP
13 24 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (9.56%) QA
2 64 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.50%) NIST
5 13 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.35%) GDPR
7 6 (0.30%) WCAG
8 5 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.25%) NCSC
9 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.15%) PSD2
11 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.10%) IFRS
11 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.10%) SLA
11 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.050%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.050%) MiFID
System Software
1 629 (31.48%) Docker
2 58 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 47 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.65%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Varnish
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 618 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 546 (27.33%) Terraform
3 236 (11.81%) Ansible
4 76 (3.80%) Puppet
5 70 (3.50%) Grafana
6 32 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.50%) Prometheus
8 29 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
10 21 (1.05%) SCCM
11 20 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (0.95%) Kibana
13 17 (0.85%) Packer
14 16 (0.80%) Salt
15 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.70%) SCOM
15 14 (0.70%) WSUS
16 13 (0.65%) vCenter Server
17 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
18 11 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 371 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 77 (3.85%) Google
3 65 (3.25%) Oracle
4 59 (2.95%) Databricks
5 33 (1.65%) VMware
6 21 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 18 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 15 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 15 (0.75%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.70%) Splunk
10 13 (0.65%) Citrix
10 13 (0.65%) Teradata
10 13 (0.65%) TOWER Software
10 13 (0.65%) WSO2
11 12 (0.60%) Sun
12 10 (0.50%) SAP
13 9 (0.45%) Cisco
13 9 (0.45%) Remedy
13 9 (0.45%) Serena
14 8 (0.40%) Meraki