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 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 32 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,098 8,766 19,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.18% 8.45% 12.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 8.83% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,284 5,586 8,318
10th Percentile £43,900 £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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
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 £81,750 £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 3 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 3 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 +12 4,354 £62,500 -3.85% 688
England -27 3,671 £70,000 -6.67% 1,131
Scotland +30 2,114 £65,000 -3.70% 62
Work from Home -15 1,998 £70,000 -6.67% 645
London -19 1,450 £85,000 +3.03% 496
North of England -18 643 £62,500 -3.85% 198
South East -30 616 £64,000 -8.57% 137
South West 0 433 £65,000 - 115
North West -7 375 £62,500 -7.41% 119
Midlands -13 358 £65,000 - 86
West Midlands 0 256 £65,000 - 61
Yorkshire -30 195 £65,000 - 61
East Midlands -34 104 £60,000 -11.11% 24
East of England -63 97 £62,500 -13.19% 61
Wales +6 85 £55,000 +2.33% 25
North East +1 73 £62,891 +11.31% 19
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
1 616 (10.10%) Apache Spark
2 256 (4.20%) Apache
3 191 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (1.67%) Confluence
5 98 (1.61%) FileNet
6 60 (0.98%) IIS
7 59 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 57 (0.93%) nginx
9 46 (0.75%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (0.34%) 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 (0.098%) 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 67 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
4 7 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.082%) Magento
5 5 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
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 2,852 (46.77%) AWS
2 2,137 (35.04%) Azure
3 911 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
4 576 (9.45%) GCP
5 551 (9.04%) Serverless
6 423 (6.94%) GitHub
7 328 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 306 (5.02%) SaaS
9 304 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (3.87%) Power Platform
11 228 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
12 226 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
13 206 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
14 200 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 185 (3.03%) PaaS
16 176 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
17 175 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
18 153 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
19 151 (2.48%) Datadog
20 133 (2.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.44%) 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 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.57%) 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
1 886 (14.53%) NoSQL
2 551 (9.04%) Big Data
3 404 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.80%) Hadoop
5 263 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
6 257 (4.21%) Relational Database
7 252 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 238 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
9 207 (3.39%) MySQL
10 192 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 189 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
12 182 (2.98%) Data Lake
13 171 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
14 156 (2.56%) Apache Hive
15 137 (2.25%) BigQuery
16 122 (2.00%) Power BI
17 117 (1.92%) Looker
18 111 (1.82%) DynamoDB
19 107 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
20 103 (1.69%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1,052 (17.25%) Jenkins
2 854 (14.00%) Git
3 423 (6.94%) GitLab
4 319 (5.23%) JIRA
5 295 (4.84%) JUnit
6 221 (3.62%) Selenium
7 175 (2.87%) Cucumber
8 154 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 148 (2.43%) Postman
10 145 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 132 (2.16%) Artifactory
12 120 (1.97%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.74%) Jasmine
14 96 (1.57%) TeamCity
15 95 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.34%) WebDriver
17 74 (1.21%) Maven
17 74 (1.21%) Visual Studio
18 68 (1.12%) JMeter
19 64 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,747 (45.05%) Finance
2 2,188 (35.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,094 (34.34%) Law
4 1,067 (17.50%) Social Skills
5 1,036 (16.99%) Marketing
6 743 (12.18%) Legal
7 597 (9.79%) Banking
8 341 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
9 316 (5.18%) Investment Banking
10 265 (4.35%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.31%) Financial Institution
12 178 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (2.51%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.21%) Billing
16 64 (1.05%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.03%) Front Office
18 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 57 (0.93%) Aerospace
20 51 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,079 (34.09%) Software Engineer
2 1,176 (19.29%) Developer
3 1,141 (18.71%) Lead
4 980 (16.07%) Senior
5 709 (11.63%) Java Engineer
6 691 (11.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 690 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 585 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 510 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
10 488 (8.00%) Data Engineer
11 382 (6.26%) Python Engineer
12 357 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 356 (5.84%) Big Data Engineer
14 345 (5.66%) Python Software Engineer
15 339 (5.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 319 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
17 315 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
18 304 (4.99%) AWS Software Engineer
19 290 (4.76%) Architect
20 282 (4.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (14.82%) React
2 796 (13.05%) Spring
3 760 (12.46%) .NET
4 552 (9.05%) AngularJS
5 535 (8.77%) Kafka
6 495 (8.12%) HTML
7 458 (7.51%) CSS
7 458 (7.51%) Node.js
8 445 (7.30%) Spring Boot
9 436 (7.15%) REST
10 394 (6.46%) RESTful
11 378 (6.20%) JSON
12 296 (4.85%) J2EE
13 287 (4.71%) Web Services
14 219 (3.59%) GraphQL
15 217 (3.56%) .NET Core
16 212 (3.48%) PySpark
17 211 (3.46%) Hibernate
18 205 (3.36%) .NET Framework
19 192 (3.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 908 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 845 (13.86%) Algorithms
3 375 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 335 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 242 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 220 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 195 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 133 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 117 (1.92%) 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 (1.16%) IoT
18 69 (1.13%) Blockchain
19 61 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 733 (12.02%) Linux
2 294 (4.82%) Windows
3 185 (3.03%) Unix
4 87 (1.43%) Android
5 78 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 53 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 48 (0.79%) Debian
8 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 21 (0.34%) VMS
11 18 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,826 (62.74%) Agile
2 2,955 (48.46%) Software Engineering
3 2,551 (41.83%) DevOps
4 2,189 (35.90%) SDLC
5 1,607 (26.35%) Operational Stability
6 1,501 (24.61%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,458 (23.91%) Machine Learning
8 1,302 (21.35%) Community of Practice
9 1,095 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,066 (17.48%) Microservices
11 978 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
12 881 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 880 (14.43%) Visualisation
14 857 (14.05%) Test Automation
15 831 (13.63%) Continuous Delivery
16 781 (12.81%) TDD
17 737 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (11.89%) Risk Management
19 723 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
20 686 (11.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,253 (36.95%) Java
2 1,915 (31.40%) Python
3 1,728 (28.34%) SQL
4 976 (16.01%) JavaScript
5 889 (14.58%) C#
6 567 (9.30%) TypeScript
7 365 (5.99%) Scala
8 350 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 328 (5.38%) Go
10 312 (5.12%) Bash
11 159 (2.61%) PL/SQL
12 131 (2.15%) PHP
13 123 (2.02%) Kotlin
14 102 (1.67%) Ruby
15 97 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 95 (1.56%) Bicep
17 88 (1.44%) C++
18 82 (1.34%) C
19 67 (1.10%) T-SQL
20 65 (1.07%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 527 (8.64%) Degree
2 485 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 296 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 283 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 170 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 156 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 126 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 113 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 112 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (0.98%) DBS Check
11 56 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 54 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.75%) CISSP
13 46 (0.75%) 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
1 423 (6.94%) QA
2 161 (2.64%) 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 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.11%) NCSC
14 5 (0.082%) GRC
14 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.066%) WAI
16 3 (0.049%) IFRS
16 3 (0.049%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,273 (20.88%) Docker
2 166 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.94%) HDFS
4 96 (1.57%) 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 (0.11%) 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 1,592 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 1,365 (22.38%) Terraform
3 441 (7.23%) Ansible
4 300 (4.92%) Grafana
5 177 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 124 (2.03%) Puppet
7 71 (1.16%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.08%) Kibana
9 49 (0.80%) 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 (0.34%) Consul
15 21 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.34%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.33%) Salt
16 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 747 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 413 (6.77%) Oracle
3 383 (6.28%) Databricks
4 301 (4.94%) Google
5 230 (3.77%) Splunk
6 195 (3.20%) Dynatrace
7 110 (1.80%) VMware
8 101 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.43%) Informatica
10 82 (1.34%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.25%) IBM
12 75 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 60 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
15 36 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 31 (0.51%) Cisco
17 30 (0.49%) Sybase
18 28 (0.46%) Xamarin
19 24 (0.39%) Facebook
20 23 (0.38%) TOWER Software