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

6 months to
11 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 6,061 8,439 19,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 8.36% 12.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 8.75% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 5,406 8,199
10th Percentile £44,738 £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 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 11 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 11 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 4,351 £62,500 -3.85% 637
England -27 3,639 £70,000 -6.67% 1,077
Scotland +34 2,115 £65,000 -3.80% 73
Work from Home -15 1,962 £67,820 -9.57% 635
London -18 1,423 £85,000 +5.86% 497
North of England -13 650 £62,500 -3.85% 187
South East -33 613 £64,000 -8.57% 122
South West -1 431 £65,000 -0.54% 109
North West -6 381 £62,500 -7.41% 114
Midlands -16 355 £62,500 -3.85% 78
West Midlands -1 253 £65,000 - 60
Yorkshire -25 197 £65,000 - 55
East Midlands -35 102 £60,000 -11.11% 17
East of England -61 95 £62,500 -10.71% 47
Wales +6 83 £55,000 +4.76% 22
North East +2 72 £63,000 +9.57% 19
Northern Ireland -39 10 £61,250 +25.64% 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
1 614 (10.13%) Apache Spark
2 252 (4.16%) Apache
3 192 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) Confluence
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 59 (0.97%) IIS
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
6 57 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 42 (0.69%) CMS
8 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.35%) GemFire
11 20 (0.33%) Camunda
12 18 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
13 17 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 16 (0.26%) 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 (0.21%) 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 63 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.36%) 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 (0.049%) Magento
7 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,844 (46.92%) AWS
2 2,117 (34.93%) Azure
3 888 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
4 572 (9.44%) GCP
5 534 (8.81%) Serverless
6 412 (6.80%) GitHub
7 325 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 300 (4.95%) SaaS
9 298 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 232 (3.83%) Power Platform
11 226 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
12 221 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
13 203 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 181 (2.99%) PaaS
15 180 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 177 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
17 171 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
18 154 (2.54%) Datadog
19 149 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
20 133 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 151 (2.49%) Firewall
2 111 (1.83%) 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 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 26 (0.43%) DHCP
11 23 (0.38%) Internet
12 18 (0.30%) BGP
12 18 (0.30%) DSL
13 17 (0.28%) LAN
14 16 (0.26%) MQTT
14 16 (0.26%) SSL
15 15 (0.25%) PBX
16 12 (0.20%) NGFW
17 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 879 (14.50%) NoSQL
2 549 (9.06%) Big Data
3 410 (6.76%) SQL Server
4 293 (4.83%) Hadoop
5 258 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 258 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 254 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 234 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
8 196 (3.23%) MySQL
9 191 (3.15%) MongoDB
10 186 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
11 182 (3.00%) Data Lake
12 170 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 156 (2.57%) Apache Hive
14 132 (2.18%) BigQuery
15 118 (1.95%) Power BI
16 113 (1.86%) Looker
17 110 (1.81%) DynamoDB
18 105 (1.73%) Metadata
19 104 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,025 (16.91%) Jenkins
2 851 (14.04%) Git
3 412 (6.80%) GitLab
4 313 (5.16%) JIRA
5 295 (4.87%) JUnit
6 217 (3.58%) Selenium
7 167 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 153 (2.52%) Bitbucket
9 145 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 142 (2.34%) Postman
11 128 (2.11%) Artifactory
12 119 (1.96%) CircleCI
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 96 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 94 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.35%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.25%) Visual Studio
18 73 (1.20%) Maven
19 66 (1.09%) JMeter
20 64 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,731 (45.06%) Finance
2 2,188 (36.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,096 (34.58%) Law
4 1,065 (17.57%) Social Skills
5 1,034 (17.06%) Marketing
6 741 (12.23%) Legal
7 588 (9.70%) Banking
8 338 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
9 312 (5.15%) Investment Banking
10 266 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 263 (4.34%) Financial Institution
12 173 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (2.52%) Retail
14 76 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 64 (1.06%) Private Banking
17 63 (1.04%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.01%) Front Office
19 59 (0.97%) Retail Banking
20 52 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,087 (34.43%) Software Engineer
2 1,161 (19.16%) Developer
3 1,131 (18.66%) Lead
4 980 (16.17%) Senior
5 711 (11.73%) Java Engineer
6 693 (11.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 683 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 589 (9.72%) Lead Software Engineer
9 509 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 490 (8.08%) Data Engineer
11 381 (6.29%) Python Engineer
12 356 (5.87%) Big Data Engineer
12 356 (5.87%) Senior Developer
13 346 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
14 339 (5.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 317 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 317 (5.23%) Full Stack Engineer
16 306 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
17 282 (4.65%) Architect
17 282 (4.65%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 907 (14.96%) React
2 795 (13.12%) Spring
3 749 (12.36%) .NET
4 545 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 529 (8.73%) Kafka
6 495 (8.17%) HTML
7 464 (7.66%) Node.js
8 453 (7.47%) CSS
9 443 (7.31%) Spring Boot
10 423 (6.98%) REST
11 394 (6.50%) RESTful
12 371 (6.12%) JSON
13 294 (4.85%) J2EE
14 289 (4.77%) Web Services
15 217 (3.58%) GraphQL
16 214 (3.53%) .NET Core
16 214 (3.53%) PySpark
17 208 (3.43%) Hibernate
18 204 (3.37%) .NET Framework
19 191 (3.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 904 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 845 (13.94%) Algorithms
3 367 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 338 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 240 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 221 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 211 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 195 (3.22%) Data Structures
9 130 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 113 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 88 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 87 (1.44%) Market Risk
15 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
16 80 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
17 76 (1.25%) Reference Data
18 71 (1.17%) IoT
19 69 (1.14%) Blockchain
20 61 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 719 (11.86%) Linux
2 280 (4.62%) Windows
3 190 (3.13%) Unix
4 90 (1.48%) Android
5 76 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 59 (0.97%) CentOS
7 55 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.78%) Debian
9 46 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
11 21 (0.35%) VMS
12 17 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
18 3 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,805 (62.78%) Agile
2 2,943 (48.56%) Software Engineering
3 2,530 (41.74%) DevOps
4 2,186 (36.07%) SDLC
5 1,608 (26.53%) Operational Stability
6 1,497 (24.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,454 (23.99%) Machine Learning
8 1,312 (21.65%) Community of Practice
9 1,102 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,048 (17.29%) Microservices
11 984 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
12 877 (14.47%) Visualisation
13 872 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 851 (14.04%) Test Automation
15 830 (13.69%) Continuous Delivery
16 778 (12.84%) TDD
17 733 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 725 (11.96%) Risk Management
19 723 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
20 662 (10.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,238 (36.92%) Java
2 1,894 (31.25%) Python
3 1,715 (28.30%) SQL
4 965 (15.92%) JavaScript
5 878 (14.49%) C#
6 566 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 364 (6.01%) Scala
8 332 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 328 (5.41%) Go
10 297 (4.90%) Bash
11 159 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 127 (2.10%) Kotlin
13 123 (2.03%) PHP
14 99 (1.63%) Ruby
15 95 (1.57%) Bicep
16 94 (1.55%) Shell Script
17 86 (1.42%) C++
18 83 (1.37%) C
19 65 (1.07%) Prolog
19 65 (1.07%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 520 (8.58%) Degree
2 484 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 291 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 281 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 174 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 157 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 124 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 114 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 113 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 61 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 53 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (0.76%) CISSP
14 45 (0.74%) MCSE
15 42 (0.69%) MCSA
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 30 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 28 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 413 (6.81%) QA
2 155 (2.56%) 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 (0.49%) 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
14 5 (0.082%) GRC
14 5 (0.082%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.082%) NCSC
15 3 (0.049%) WAI
16 2 (0.033%) MiFID
16 2 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,247 (20.57%) Docker
2 167 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) HDFS
4 96 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 45 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 34 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 22 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 18 (0.30%) vSphere
11 11 (0.18%) Firmware
11 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
12 7 (0.12%) Ceph
12 7 (0.12%) KVM
13 4 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.049%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.049%) Xen
15 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.016%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,576 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 1,356 (22.37%) Terraform
3 431 (7.11%) Ansible
4 296 (4.88%) Grafana
5 176 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 123 (2.03%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 66 (1.09%) Kibana
9 49 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.58%) Istio
12 30 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 28 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
14 26 (0.43%) Packer
15 22 (0.36%) Consul
15 22 (0.36%) SCCM
16 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
17 20 (0.33%) Nagios
18 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 749 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 418 (6.90%) Oracle
3 383 (6.32%) Databricks
4 293 (4.83%) Google
5 233 (3.84%) Splunk
6 197 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 109 (1.80%) VMware
8 99 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 90 (1.48%) Informatica
10 82 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 76 (1.25%) IBM
12 74 (1.22%) Atlassian
13 59 (0.97%) Alteryx
13 59 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.64%) 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