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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,036 8,536 19,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.13% 8.40% 12.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 8.79% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,228 5,447 8,234
10th Percentile £44,250 £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 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 7 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 7 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 +13 4,335 £62,500 -3.85% 725
England -27 3,614 £70,000 -6.67% 1,213
Scotland +32 2,112 £65,000 -3.70% 76
Work from Home -15 1,959 £69,447 -7.40% 694
London -18 1,413 £85,000 +5.59% 556
North of England -16 639 £62,500 -3.85% 191
South East -33 609 £64,000 -8.57% 143
South West 0 433 £65,000 - 123
North West -6 374 £62,500 -7.41% 113
Midlands -19 354 £62,500 -3.85% 96
West Midlands 0 251 £65,000 - 74
Yorkshire -29 194 £65,000 - 64
East Midlands -35 103 £60,000 -11.11% 21
East of England -66 94 £62,500 -13.19% 64
Wales +11 84 £55,000 +4.76% 28
North East -2 71 £63,000 +11.50% 15
Northern Ireland -36 11 £61,250 +25.64% 19
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
1 612 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 252 (4.17%) Apache
3 191 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) Confluence
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 60 (0.99%) IIS
6 58 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 57 (0.94%) nginx
8 43 (0.71%) CMS
9 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 21 (0.35%) GemFire
12 20 (0.33%) Camunda
13 18 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
14 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 17 (0.28%) WordPress
15 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
16 11 (0.18%) CICS
17 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
18 8 (0.13%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.050%) Simulink
5 3 (0.050%) Sketch
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.017%) Blender
7 1 (0.017%) Notion
7 1 (0.017%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 64 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.066%) Magento
6 4 (0.066%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.066%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,826 (46.82%) AWS
2 2,119 (35.11%) Azure
3 899 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 569 (9.43%) GCP
5 537 (8.90%) Serverless
6 411 (6.81%) GitHub
7 324 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 298 (4.94%) SaaS
9 297 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 231 (3.83%) Power Platform
11 224 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
12 221 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 202 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 193 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 182 (3.02%) PaaS
16 174 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
17 169 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
18 151 (2.50%) Datadog
18 151 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
19 131 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.47%) Firewall
2 112 (1.86%) DNS
3 81 (1.34%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 64 (1.06%) VPN
6 52 (0.86%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 27 (0.45%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) BGP
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
13 17 (0.28%) MQTT
14 15 (0.25%) PBX
14 15 (0.25%) SSL
15 12 (0.20%) NGFW
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 879 (14.56%) NoSQL
2 546 (9.05%) Big Data
3 405 (6.71%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.85%) Hadoop
5 255 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 254 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 253 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
8 234 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 196 (3.25%) MySQL
10 191 (3.16%) MongoDB
11 185 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
12 179 (2.97%) Data Lake
13 169 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.58%) Apache Hive
15 132 (2.19%) BigQuery
16 116 (1.92%) Power BI
17 113 (1.87%) Looker
18 109 (1.81%) DynamoDB
19 104 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
20 103 (1.71%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,028 (17.03%) Jenkins
2 850 (14.08%) Git
3 416 (6.89%) GitLab
4 314 (5.20%) JIRA
5 295 (4.89%) JUnit
6 215 (3.56%) Selenium
7 167 (2.77%) Cucumber
8 152 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 143 (2.37%) Cypress.io
10 142 (2.35%) Postman
11 128 (2.12%) Artifactory
12 119 (1.97%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.76%) Jasmine
14 95 (1.57%) TeamCity
15 94 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.36%) WebDriver
17 75 (1.24%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.21%) Maven
19 66 (1.09%) JMeter
20 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,730 (45.23%) Finance
2 2,187 (36.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,094 (34.69%) Law
4 1,057 (17.51%) Social Skills
5 1,033 (17.11%) Marketing
6 740 (12.26%) Legal
7 587 (9.72%) Banking
8 336 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
9 314 (5.20%) Investment Banking
10 263 (4.36%) Financial Institution
11 261 (4.32%) Public Sector
12 172 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 151 (2.50%) Retail
14 77 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.23%) Billing
16 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 61 (1.01%) Front Office
18 60 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 59 (0.98%) Retail Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,077 (34.41%) Software Engineer
2 1,161 (19.23%) Developer
3 1,130 (18.72%) Lead
4 967 (16.02%) Senior
5 710 (11.76%) Java Engineer
6 692 (11.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 681 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 586 (9.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 506 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
10 487 (8.07%) Data Engineer
11 379 (6.28%) Python Engineer
12 356 (5.90%) Big Data Engineer
13 354 (5.86%) Senior Developer
14 344 (5.70%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 317 (5.25%) Full Stack Engineer
17 316 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
18 305 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
19 285 (4.72%) Architect
20 282 (4.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 899 (14.89%) React
2 794 (13.15%) Spring
3 744 (12.33%) .NET
4 545 (9.03%) AngularJS
5 527 (8.73%) Kafka
6 491 (8.13%) HTML
7 459 (7.60%) Node.js
8 451 (7.47%) CSS
9 442 (7.32%) Spring Boot
10 423 (7.01%) REST
11 392 (6.49%) RESTful
12 371 (6.15%) JSON
13 294 (4.87%) J2EE
14 289 (4.79%) Web Services
15 217 (3.60%) GraphQL
16 213 (3.53%) .NET Core
17 210 (3.48%) PySpark
18 209 (3.46%) Hibernate
19 203 (3.36%) .NET Framework
20 191 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 902 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 845 (14.00%) Algorithms
3 373 (6.18%) Public Cloud
4 331 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 220 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
8 195 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 131 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 118 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 117 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 102 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 88 (1.46%) Private Cloud
14 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
15 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
16 80 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
17 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
18 71 (1.18%) IoT
19 68 (1.13%) Blockchain
20 61 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 724 (11.99%) Linux
2 290 (4.80%) Windows
3 184 (3.05%) Unix
4 85 (1.41%) Android
5 77 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.98%) CentOS
7 51 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 48 (0.80%) Debian
9 47 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 20 (0.33%) VMS
12 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
14 11 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,803 (63.01%) Agile
2 2,948 (48.84%) Software Engineering
3 2,517 (41.70%) DevOps
4 2,185 (36.20%) SDLC
5 1,607 (26.62%) Operational Stability
6 1,495 (24.77%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,452 (24.06%) Machine Learning
8 1,305 (21.62%) Community of Practice
9 1,094 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,060 (17.56%) Microservices
11 971 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 876 (14.51%) Visualisation
13 868 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 848 (14.05%) Test Automation
15 827 (13.70%) Continuous Delivery
16 775 (12.84%) TDD
17 730 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 724 (11.99%) Risk Management
19 719 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
20 678 (11.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,235 (37.03%) Java
2 1,890 (31.31%) Python
3 1,708 (28.30%) SQL
4 958 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 874 (14.48%) C#
6 560 (9.28%) TypeScript
7 364 (6.03%) Scala
8 343 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 324 (5.37%) Go
10 306 (5.07%) Bash
11 159 (2.63%) PL/SQL
12 125 (2.07%) PHP
13 123 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 99 (1.64%) Ruby
15 96 (1.59%) Bicep
15 96 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 86 (1.42%) C++
17 81 (1.34%) C
18 65 (1.08%) Prolog
18 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 517 (8.57%) Degree
2 481 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 289 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 279 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 172 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 153 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 114 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 113 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 53 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (0.76%) CISSP
13 46 (0.76%) MCSE
14 42 (0.70%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 407 (6.74%) QA
2 156 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 83 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 73 (1.21%) SLA
5 51 (0.84%) GDPR
6 36 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.17%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.099%) NCSC
15 5 (0.083%) GRC
15 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.050%) WAI
17 2 (0.033%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.033%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,253 (20.76%) Docker
2 166 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 94 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 45 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 18 (0.30%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 7 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.083%) Ceph
15 3 (0.050%) Varnish
15 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.050%) Xen
16 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,572 (26.04%) Kubernetes
2 1,352 (22.40%) Terraform
3 438 (7.26%) Ansible
4 300 (4.97%) Grafana
5 179 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 120 (1.99%) Puppet
7 70 (1.16%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.09%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) Consul
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Salt
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 742 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.86%) Oracle
3 381 (6.31%) Databricks
4 290 (4.80%) Google
5 230 (3.81%) Splunk
6 196 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 108 (1.79%) VMware
8 99 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.44%) Informatica
10 82 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.26%) IBM
12 71 (1.18%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 59 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 38 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 31 (0.51%) Cisco
15 31 (0.51%) Sybase
16 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
17 24 (0.40%) Facebook
18 22 (0.36%) Pega