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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,085 8,748 19,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.18% 8.45% 12.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 8.83% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,270 5,572 8,334
10th Percentile £44,200 £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 £93,750 £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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 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 4 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 +10 4,350 £62,500 -3.85% 679
England -27 3,659 £70,000 -6.67% 1,125
Scotland +32 2,114 £65,000 -3.70% 67
Work from Home -15 1,989 £70,000 -6.67% 638
London -19 1,445 £85,000 +5.59% 503
North of England -17 641 £62,500 -3.85% 194
South East -34 615 £64,000 -8.57% 136
South West 0 434 £65,000 - 115
North West -8 375 £62,500 -7.41% 116
Midlands -10 357 £65,000 - 81
West Midlands +1 255 £65,000 - 57
Yorkshire -29 194 £65,000 - 61
East Midlands -37 104 £60,000 -11.11% 23
East of England -62 96 £62,500 -13.19% 58
Wales +9 85 £55,000 +2.33% 25
North East -1 72 £62,783 +10.14% 18
Northern Ireland -38 11 £61,250 +25.64% 18
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
1 616 (10.12%) Apache Spark
2 256 (4.21%) Apache
3 191 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (1.68%) Confluence
5 98 (1.61%) FileNet
6 60 (0.99%) IIS
7 59 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 57 (0.94%) nginx
9 45 (0.74%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.35%) GemFire
13 20 (0.33%) Camunda
14 18 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
14 18 (0.30%) WordPress
15 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
16 14 (0.23%) Umbraco
17 11 (0.18%) CICS
18 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
19 8 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) 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
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.033%) S-PLUS
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 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) 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 2,844 (46.74%) AWS
2 2,131 (35.02%) Azure
3 907 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
4 575 (9.45%) GCP
5 544 (8.94%) Serverless
6 421 (6.92%) GitHub
7 328 (5.39%) Amazon S3
8 305 (5.01%) SaaS
9 302 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (3.88%) Power Platform
11 227 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 225 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
13 206 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
14 197 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 185 (3.04%) PaaS
16 176 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
17 175 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
18 153 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
19 151 (2.48%) Datadog
20 133 (2.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.45%) Firewall
2 112 (1.84%) DNS
3 80 (1.31%) WAN
4 66 (1.08%) Kerberos
5 65 (1.07%) VPN
6 51 (0.84%) Network Security
7 48 (0.79%) HTTP
8 35 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 27 (0.44%) DHCP
10 23 (0.38%) Internet
11 18 (0.30%) BGP
11 18 (0.30%) DSL
12 17 (0.28%) LAN
12 17 (0.28%) MQTT
13 16 (0.26%) PBX
14 15 (0.25%) SSL
15 13 (0.21%) NGFW
16 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 885 (14.54%) NoSQL
2 551 (9.06%) Big Data
3 405 (6.66%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.82%) Hadoop
5 262 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 258 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 252 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
8 236 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 206 (3.39%) MySQL
10 191 (3.14%) MongoDB
11 189 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
12 182 (2.99%) Data Lake
13 171 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.56%) Apache Hive
15 137 (2.25%) BigQuery
16 121 (1.99%) Power BI
17 117 (1.92%) Looker
18 110 (1.81%) DynamoDB
19 107 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
20 103 (1.69%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,052 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 853 (14.02%) Git
3 422 (6.94%) GitLab
4 319 (5.24%) JIRA
5 295 (4.85%) JUnit
6 221 (3.63%) Selenium
7 175 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 154 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 147 (2.42%) Postman
10 145 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 132 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 119 (1.96%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
14 96 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 95 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 74 (1.22%) Maven
17 74 (1.22%) Visual Studio
18 68 (1.12%) JMeter
19 64 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,743 (45.08%) Finance
2 2,189 (35.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,094 (34.41%) Law
4 1,062 (17.45%) Social Skills
5 1,035 (17.01%) Marketing
6 743 (12.21%) Legal
7 595 (9.78%) Banking
8 340 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
9 315 (5.18%) Investment Banking
10 266 (4.37%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.32%) Financial Institution
12 177 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (2.51%) Retail
14 75 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 64 (1.05%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.04%) Front Office
18 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 57 (0.94%) Aerospace
20 51 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,077 (34.13%) Software Engineer
2 1,170 (19.23%) Developer
3 1,141 (18.75%) Lead
4 976 (16.04%) Senior
5 709 (11.65%) Java Engineer
6 691 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 687 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 585 (9.61%) Lead Software Engineer
9 510 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
10 488 (8.02%) Data Engineer
11 381 (6.26%) Python Engineer
12 358 (5.88%) Senior Developer
13 356 (5.85%) Big Data Engineer
14 344 (5.65%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 319 (5.24%) Full Stack Engineer
17 315 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
18 304 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
19 291 (4.78%) Architect
20 282 (4.63%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 903 (14.84%) React
2 797 (13.10%) Spring
3 755 (12.41%) .NET
4 551 (9.06%) AngularJS
5 533 (8.76%) Kafka
6 494 (8.12%) HTML
7 458 (7.53%) Node.js
8 456 (7.49%) CSS
9 445 (7.31%) Spring Boot
10 435 (7.15%) REST
11 394 (6.47%) RESTful
12 378 (6.21%) JSON
13 296 (4.86%) J2EE
14 287 (4.72%) Web Services
15 218 (3.58%) GraphQL
16 215 (3.53%) .NET Core
17 212 (3.48%) PySpark
18 211 (3.47%) Hibernate
19 205 (3.37%) .NET Framework
20 192 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 905 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 845 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 375 (6.16%) Public Cloud
4 334 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 242 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 220 (3.62%) Onboarding
8 195 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 133 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 118 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 103 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 89 (1.46%) Private Cloud
14 87 (1.43%) Market Risk
15 80 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
15 80 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
17 71 (1.17%) IoT
18 70 (1.15%) Blockchain
19 61 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 731 (12.01%) Linux
2 293 (4.82%) Windows
3 185 (3.04%) Unix
4 87 (1.43%) Android
5 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 53 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 48 (0.79%) Debian
9 47 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 18 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,820 (62.78%) Agile
2 2,953 (48.53%) Software Engineering
3 2,540 (41.74%) DevOps
4 2,187 (35.94%) SDLC
5 1,607 (26.41%) Operational Stability
6 1,502 (24.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,457 (23.94%) Machine Learning
8 1,302 (21.40%) Community of Practice
9 1,095 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,062 (17.45%) Microservices
11 974 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
12 880 (14.46%) Visualisation
13 877 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 855 (14.05%) Test Automation
15 831 (13.66%) Continuous Delivery
16 776 (12.75%) TDD
17 735 (12.08%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (11.91%) Risk Management
19 723 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
20 684 (11.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,251 (36.99%) Java
2 1,908 (31.36%) Python
3 1,723 (28.32%) SQL
4 972 (15.97%) JavaScript
5 883 (14.51%) C#
6 565 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 365 (6.00%) Scala
8 349 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 328 (5.39%) Go
10 311 (5.11%) Bash
11 159 (2.61%) PL/SQL
12 130 (2.14%) PHP
13 123 (2.02%) Kotlin
14 102 (1.68%) Ruby
15 97 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 95 (1.56%) Bicep
17 88 (1.45%) C++
18 82 (1.35%) C
19 66 (1.08%) T-SQL
20 65 (1.07%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 525 (8.63%) Degree
2 485 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 294 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 283 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 170 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 154 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 113 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 112 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 56 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 54 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.76%) CISSP
13 46 (0.76%) MCSE
14 42 (0.69%) MCSA
15 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.51%) CCSK
15 31 (0.51%) CCSP
16 30 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (6.90%) QA
2 160 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 83 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 72 (1.18%) SLA
5 51 (0.84%) GDPR
6 37 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (0.49%) NIST
8 20 (0.33%) PMO
9 16 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.18%) PSD2
11 10 (0.16%) WCAG
12 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 5 (0.082%) GRC
14 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.033%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,268 (20.84%) Docker
2 166 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.94%) HDFS
4 96 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 47 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 19 (0.31%) vSphere
11 12 (0.20%) Firmware
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 7 (0.12%) KVM
14 5 (0.082%) Ceph
15 3 (0.049%) Varnish
15 3 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.049%) Xen
16 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,587 (26.08%) Kubernetes
2 1,361 (22.37%) Terraform
3 439 (7.21%) Ansible
4 300 (4.93%) Grafana
5 178 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 123 (2.02%) Puppet
7 71 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.08%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 42 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.54%) Istio
12 29 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 27 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 27 (0.44%) Packer
14 22 (0.36%) SCCM
15 21 (0.35%) Consul
15 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.33%) Salt
16 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 745 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.80%) Oracle
3 383 (6.29%) Databricks
4 299 (4.91%) Google
5 230 (3.78%) Splunk
6 196 (3.22%) Dynatrace
7 110 (1.81%) VMware
8 101 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.43%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 77 (1.27%) IBM
12 75 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 60 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
15 36 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
16 31 (0.51%) Sybase
17 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
18 24 (0.39%) Facebook
19 22 (0.36%) Pega