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

6 months to
18 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 6,059 8,377 20,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.06% 8.45% 12.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 8.84% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 5,323 8,130
10th Percentile £44,869 £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 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 +11 4,351 £62,500 -3.85% 821
England -27 3,635 £70,000 -6.67% 1,276
Scotland +31 2,114 £65,000 -3.89% 74
Work from Home -17 1,949 £67,500 -10.00% 790
London -17 1,419 £85,000 +5.86% 636
North of England -14 655 £62,500 -4.36% 217
South East -37 612 £64,000 -5.19% 229
South West +2 438 £65,000 -0.54% 119
North West -7 379 £62,500 -10.00% 130
Midlands -18 345 £65,000 - 93
West Midlands -7 245 £65,000 - 67
Yorkshire -24 201 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East Midlands -34 99 £60,000 -7.69% 25
East of England -64 94 £61,250 -12.50% 62
Wales +1 82 £55,000 - 26
North East +2 75 £63,000 +9.57% 27
Northern Ireland -44 10 £61,250 +28.95% 13
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
1 618 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 255 (4.21%) Apache
3 193 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 96 (1.58%) Confluence
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
7 56 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 50 (0.83%) IIS
9 41 (0.68%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
13 20 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
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%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 21 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.21%) 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
5 3 (0.050%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
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 63 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.12%) 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 (0.050%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,847 (46.99%) AWS
2 2,114 (34.89%) Azure
3 884 (14.59%) Azure DevOps
4 577 (9.52%) GCP
5 540 (8.91%) Serverless
6 408 (6.73%) GitHub
7 321 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 302 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
9 290 (4.79%) SaaS
10 230 (3.80%) Power Platform
11 222 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 219 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
13 200 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
14 180 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 176 (2.90%) PaaS
16 173 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
17 172 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
18 153 (2.53%) Datadog
19 146 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
20 134 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.48%) Firewall
2 108 (1.78%) DNS
3 75 (1.24%) WAN
4 66 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 62 (1.02%) VPN
6 51 (0.84%) Network Security
7 47 (0.78%) HTTP
8 36 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 33 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 25 (0.41%) DHCP
11 22 (0.36%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) BGP
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
13 17 (0.28%) SSL
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
15 14 (0.23%) PBX
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
16 11 (0.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 880 (14.52%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.06%) Big Data
3 411 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.84%) Hadoop
5 261 (4.31%) Relational Database
6 255 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
7 251 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
8 232 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 193 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 193 (3.19%) MySQL
10 191 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 181 (2.99%) Data Lake
12 168 (2.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 158 (2.61%) Apache Hive
14 132 (2.18%) BigQuery
15 120 (1.98%) DynamoDB
16 118 (1.95%) Power BI
17 112 (1.85%) Looker
18 107 (1.77%) Metadata
19 102 (1.68%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,018 (16.80%) Jenkins
2 861 (14.21%) Git
3 425 (7.01%) GitLab
4 309 (5.10%) JIRA
5 294 (4.85%) JUnit
6 213 (3.52%) Selenium
7 159 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 150 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 145 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 139 (2.29%) Postman
11 125 (2.06%) Artifactory
12 120 (1.98%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 97 (1.60%) TeamCity
15 91 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 78 (1.29%) Visual Studio
18 74 (1.22%) Maven
19 65 (1.07%) JMeter
20 63 (1.04%) Protractor
General
1 2,721 (44.91%) Finance
2 2,188 (36.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,095 (34.58%) Law
4 1,081 (17.84%) Social Skills
5 1,036 (17.10%) Marketing
6 743 (12.26%) Legal
7 585 (9.66%) Banking
8 335 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
9 309 (5.10%) Investment Banking
10 271 (4.47%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.34%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (2.53%) Retail
14 77 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 70 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
18 59 (0.97%) Front Office
18 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,103 (34.71%) Software Engineer
2 1,172 (19.34%) Developer
3 1,127 (18.60%) Lead
4 984 (16.24%) Senior
5 713 (11.77%) Java Engineer
6 695 (11.47%) Java Software Engineer
7 674 (11.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 593 (9.79%) Lead Software Engineer
9 505 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
10 486 (8.02%) Data Engineer
11 385 (6.35%) Python Engineer
12 364 (6.01%) Senior Developer
13 356 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
14 349 (5.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 321 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 319 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
18 310 (5.12%) AWS Software Engineer
19 283 (4.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 279 (4.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 918 (15.15%) React
2 800 (13.20%) Spring
3 762 (12.58%) .NET
4 552 (9.11%) AngularJS
5 528 (8.71%) Kafka
6 498 (8.22%) HTML
7 474 (7.82%) Node.js
8 455 (7.51%) CSS
9 444 (7.33%) Spring Boot
10 423 (6.98%) REST
11 405 (6.68%) RESTful
12 368 (6.07%) JSON
13 292 (4.82%) J2EE
14 287 (4.74%) Web Services
15 228 (3.76%) GraphQL
16 211 (3.48%) .NET Core
16 211 (3.48%) PySpark
17 207 (3.42%) Hibernate
18 203 (3.35%) .NET Framework
19 192 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 907 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 847 (13.98%) Algorithms
3 360 (5.94%) Public Cloud
4 341 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 226 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 208 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 194 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 131 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 120 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 111 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
13 87 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 82 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
15 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
16 70 (1.16%) IoT
17 69 (1.14%) Blockchain
18 60 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 704 (11.62%) Linux
2 275 (4.54%) Windows
3 188 (3.10%) Unix
4 89 (1.47%) Android
5 74 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 54 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 46 (0.76%) Debian
9 42 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,818 (63.01%) Agile
2 2,963 (48.90%) Software Engineering
3 2,520 (41.59%) DevOps
4 2,188 (36.11%) SDLC
5 1,609 (26.56%) Operational Stability
6 1,500 (24.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,458 (24.06%) Machine Learning
8 1,314 (21.69%) Community of Practice
9 1,102 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,053 (17.38%) Microservices
11 1,002 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
12 877 (14.47%) Visualisation
13 875 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 842 (13.90%) Test Automation
15 819 (13.52%) Continuous Delivery
16 789 (13.02%) TDD
17 758 (12.51%) Full Stack Development
18 726 (11.98%) Risk Management
19 715 (11.80%) Continuous Integration
20 665 (10.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,236 (36.90%) Java
2 1,900 (31.36%) Python
3 1,696 (27.99%) SQL
4 963 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 883 (14.57%) C#
6 565 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 366 (6.04%) Scala
8 331 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 327 (5.40%) Go
10 295 (4.87%) Bash
11 156 (2.57%) PL/SQL
12 134 (2.21%) Kotlin
13 121 (2.00%) PHP
14 98 (1.62%) Ruby
15 93 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 92 (1.52%) Bicep
17 90 (1.49%) C++
18 85 (1.40%) C
19 65 (1.07%) Prolog
19 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 530 (8.75%) Degree
2 475 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 299 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 279 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 175 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 161 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 116 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 113 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 71 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 52 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.78%) CISSP
13 44 (0.73%) MCSE
14 42 (0.69%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (6.92%) QA
2 159 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 87 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.22%) SLA
5 53 (0.87%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.50%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 18 (0.30%) 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 5 (0.083%) GRC
14 5 (0.083%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.083%) NCSC
15 3 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.050%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,249 (20.61%) Docker
2 163 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 101 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 42 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 21 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.26%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 8 (0.13%) Ceph
13 7 (0.12%) KVM
14 4 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.050%) Varnish
15 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.050%) Xen
16 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,572 (25.94%) Kubernetes
2 1,351 (22.30%) Terraform
3 426 (7.03%) Ansible
4 291 (4.80%) Grafana
5 173 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 117 (1.93%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 65 (1.07%) Kibana
9 48 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 45 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 31 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.46%) 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%) Nagios
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 748 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 416 (6.87%) Oracle
3 385 (6.35%) Databricks
4 295 (4.87%) Google
5 232 (3.83%) Splunk
6 197 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 98 (1.62%) VMware
8 97 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 90 (1.49%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 76 (1.25%) IBM
12 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
12 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
13 41 (0.68%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.51%) Cisco
14 31 (0.51%) Sybase
15 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
16 24 (0.40%) Facebook
17 23 (0.38%) SAP