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 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 40 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,949 3,946 9,154
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.76% 9.76% 13.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 10.17% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,985 4,528
10th Percentile £43,246 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,919 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,880 £105,000 £101,250
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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 48 (2.46%) Apache
2 39 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 35 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.74%) Confluence
5 31 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (1.54%) OpenStack
7 27 (1.39%) nginx
8 22 (1.13%) CMS
8 22 (1.13%) IIS
9 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.67%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.51%) WordPress
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
12 3 (0.15%) Moodle
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.051%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.051%) Luigi
14 1 (0.051%) Mule
14 1 (0.051%) SAS
14 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Sketch
3 3 (0.15%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.051%) Blender
4 1 (0.051%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.051%) Notion
Business Applications
1 38 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
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
1 987 (50.64%) Azure
2 861 (44.18%) AWS
3 412 (21.14%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (11.54%) Serverless
5 208 (10.67%) GCP
6 202 (10.36%) SaaS
7 165 (8.47%) GitHub
8 133 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (5.34%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 78 (4.00%) PaaS
12 76 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 74 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
14 70 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 68 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
16 64 (3.28%) Snowflake
17 56 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
18 53 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.31%) Firewall
2 71 (3.64%) DNS
3 44 (2.26%) WAN
4 32 (1.64%) VPN
5 28 (1.44%) SD-WAN
6 27 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.18%) HTTP
8 21 (1.08%) DHCP
9 17 (0.87%) Network Security
10 16 (0.82%) Internet
11 14 (0.72%) LAN
12 11 (0.56%) NGFW
13 9 (0.46%) SNMP
13 9 (0.46%) tcpdump
14 8 (0.41%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.41%) MQTT
14 8 (0.41%) WLAN
15 6 (0.31%) SSL
16 5 (0.26%) AMQP
16 5 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (10.36%) SQL Server
2 147 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.10%) Relational Database
5 79 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (3.80%) MySQL
8 71 (3.64%) DynamoDB
9 70 (3.59%) Data Lake
10 66 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (2.77%) Power BI
12 49 (2.51%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 37 (1.90%) Redis
14 35 (1.80%) Star Schema
15 30 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 29 (1.49%) Big Data
17 27 (1.39%) RDBMS
18 22 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
19 17 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 344 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 330 (16.93%) Git
3 212 (10.88%) GitLab
4 140 (7.18%) JIRA
5 92 (4.72%) Selenium
6 88 (4.52%) Postman
7 87 (4.46%) Cucumber
8 61 (3.13%) TeamCity
9 51 (2.62%) Visual Studio
10 41 (2.10%) Bitbucket
11 33 (1.69%) JUnit
12 30 (1.54%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (1.18%) JMeter
16 20 (1.03%) SpecFlow
17 18 (0.92%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.77%) REST Assured
18 15 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
19 13 (0.67%) Appium
General
1 439 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 332 (17.03%) Finance
3 121 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (5.80%) Banking
5 98 (5.03%) Retail
6 78 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.28%) Law
9 52 (2.67%) Aerospace
10 42 (2.15%) Marketing
11 28 (1.44%) Games
11 28 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.23%) Legal
14 21 (1.08%) Tech for Good
15 17 (0.87%) Police
16 16 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.77%) Back Office
18 11 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 524 (26.89%) Developer
2 464 (23.81%) Senior
3 353 (18.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 295 (15.14%) Lead
5 188 (9.65%) Senior Developer
6 187 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 134 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 124 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
9 112 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 109 (5.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 108 (5.54%) Architect
12 95 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
13 81 (4.16%) Software Developer
14 76 (3.90%) .NET Developer
15 62 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
15 62 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 59 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 57 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
18 54 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
19 50 (2.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (18.52%) .NET
2 223 (11.44%) React
3 192 (9.85%) REST
4 163 (8.36%) Node.js
5 141 (7.23%) RESTful
6 120 (6.16%) CSS
7 117 (6.00%) Kafka
7 117 (6.00%) Web Services
8 116 (5.95%) AngularJS
9 108 (5.54%) HTML
10 102 (5.23%) .NET Framework
11 97 (4.98%) .NET Core
12 92 (4.72%) GraphQL
13 85 (4.36%) Django
14 77 (3.95%) Spring
15 76 (3.90%) JSON
16 71 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
17 64 (3.28%) ASP.NET
18 53 (2.72%) ARM Templates
19 47 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.28%) Product Ownership
2 97 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
3 86 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 82 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.49%) Data Structures
6 63 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 50 (2.57%) Private Cloud
8 49 (2.51%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 45 (2.31%) Data Centre
11 41 (2.10%) Onboarding
12 39 (2.00%) IoT
13 37 (1.90%) Client/Server
14 36 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 31 (1.59%) Mobile App
16 29 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
17 25 (1.28%) Algorithms
18 24 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
19 22 (1.13%) Blog
20 21 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 317 (16.26%) Linux
2 185 (9.49%) Windows
3 51 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.13%) Unix
6 20 (1.03%) Android
7 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.62%) VMS
10 10 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.51%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) 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 (0.051%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (60.03%) DevOps
2 913 (46.84%) Agile
3 523 (26.83%) Software Engineering
4 401 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 361 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
6 347 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
7 330 (16.93%) Microservices
8 308 (15.80%) TDD
9 307 (15.75%) Scrum
10 275 (14.11%) Test Automation
11 272 (13.96%) Containerisation
12 246 (12.62%) Full Stack Development
13 202 (10.36%) Continuous Deployment
14 196 (10.06%) Analytics
15 187 (9.59%) Mentoring
16 177 (9.08%) Continuous Delivery
17 175 (8.98%) SDLC
18 162 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 159 (8.16%) BDD
19 159 (8.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 545 (27.96%) Python
2 436 (22.37%) C#
3 389 (19.96%) Java
4 380 (19.50%) SQL
5 320 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 191 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 155 (7.95%) PowerShell
8 125 (6.41%) Bash
9 118 (6.05%) Go
10 54 (2.77%) PHP
11 44 (2.26%) C
12 39 (2.00%) Scala
13 37 (1.90%) Perl
14 36 (1.85%) C++
15 34 (1.74%) Bicep
16 30 (1.54%) T-SQL
17 29 (1.49%) Ruby
18 28 (1.44%) Shell Script
19 26 (1.33%) Groovy
20 15 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 279 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 193 (9.90%) Degree
3 171 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 105 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 72 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 67 (3.44%) DBS Check
8 65 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.44%) CISM
11 28 (1.44%) CISSP
12 27 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.39%) CCSK
12 27 (1.39%) CCSP
13 24 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.08%) QA
2 60 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.54%) NIST
5 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.36%) GDPR
7 6 (0.31%) WCAG
8 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.21%) NCSC
9 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.15%) PSD2
10 3 (0.15%) SLA
10 3 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.10%) EMIR
11 2 (0.10%) MiFID
11 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.051%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.051%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.051%) SEPA
System Software
1 613 (31.45%) Docker
2 57 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.56%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Firmware
10 2 (0.10%) Ceph
11 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.051%) KVM
11 1 (0.051%) Varnish
11 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 600 (30.79%) Kubernetes
2 536 (27.50%) Terraform
3 227 (11.65%) Ansible
4 68 (3.49%) Grafana
4 68 (3.49%) Puppet
5 32 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 25 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 21 (1.08%) SCCM
9 20 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.97%) Kibana
11 17 (0.87%) Packer
12 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.72%) SCOM
12 14 (0.72%) WSUS
13 13 (0.67%) Salt
14 12 (0.62%) vCenter Server
15 11 (0.56%) Nagios
16 10 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 366 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 63 (3.23%) Oracle
3 62 (3.18%) Google
4 58 (2.98%) Databricks
5 31 (1.59%) VMware
6 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 17 (0.87%) Splunk
8 15 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 15 (0.77%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.67%) Teradata
9 13 (0.67%) WSO2
10 11 (0.56%) Citrix
10 11 (0.56%) SAP
11 10 (0.51%) Serena
12 9 (0.46%) Cisco
12 9 (0.46%) Remedy
13 8 (0.41%) Meraki
13 8 (0.41%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.41%) TOWER Software