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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,945 3,995 8,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.77% 9.66% 12.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 10.06% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,645 3,037 4,568
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £84,919 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 49 (2.52%) Apache
2 40 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 36 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.75%) Confluence
5 32 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (1.54%) OpenStack
7 27 (1.39%) nginx
8 25 (1.29%) IIS
9 23 (1.18%) CMS
10 18 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.72%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.51%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.10%) Moodle
15 1 (0.051%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.051%) JBoss
15 1 (0.051%) Mule
15 1 (0.051%) SAS
15 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Sketch
4 2 (0.10%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.051%) Blender
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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
1 982 (50.49%) Azure
2 854 (43.91%) AWS
3 412 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (11.16%) Serverless
5 213 (10.95%) GCP
6 207 (10.64%) SaaS
7 170 (8.74%) GitHub
8 125 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (5.50%) Power Platform
10 80 (4.11%) Amazon S3
11 79 (4.06%) PaaS
12 77 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 72 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
15 69 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (3.39%) Snowflake
17 57 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
18 54 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.42%) Firewall
2 75 (3.86%) DNS
3 44 (2.26%) WAN
4 33 (1.70%) VPN
5 28 (1.44%) SD-WAN
5 28 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.23%) HTTP
7 22 (1.13%) DHCP
8 17 (0.87%) Internet
8 17 (0.87%) Network Security
9 14 (0.72%) LAN
10 11 (0.57%) NGFW
11 10 (0.51%) SNMP
11 10 (0.51%) tcpdump
12 8 (0.41%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.41%) MQTT
12 8 (0.41%) WLAN
13 6 (0.31%) SSL
14 5 (0.26%) AMQP
14 5 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 150 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 79 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 75 (3.86%) MySQL
6 72 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 70 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
8 67 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
9 61 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 55 (2.83%) Power BI
11 50 (2.57%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 37 (1.90%) Redis
13 35 (1.80%) Star Schema
14 31 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (1.59%) Big Data
15 28 (1.44%) RDBMS
16 22 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 346 (17.79%) Jenkins
2 321 (16.50%) Git
3 199 (10.23%) GitLab
4 141 (7.25%) JIRA
5 94 (4.83%) Selenium
6 93 (4.78%) Cucumber
7 89 (4.58%) Postman
8 60 (3.08%) TeamCity
9 51 (2.62%) Visual Studio
10 43 (2.21%) Bitbucket
11 34 (1.75%) JUnit
12 30 (1.54%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 26 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 22 (1.13%) JMeter
16 19 (0.98%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.93%) SpecFlow
18 15 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
19 14 (0.72%) REST Assured
19 14 (0.72%) SoapUI
General
1 431 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 332 (17.07%) Finance
3 123 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (5.91%) Banking
5 98 (5.04%) Retail
6 80 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.29%) Law
9 49 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 42 (2.16%) Marketing
11 27 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.34%) Games
12 26 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.23%) Legal
14 22 (1.13%) Tech for Good
15 17 (0.87%) Police
16 16 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.77%) Back Office
18 11 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 516 (26.53%) Developer
2 467 (24.01%) Senior
3 350 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 299 (15.37%) Lead
5 186 (9.56%) Senior Developer
6 182 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 137 (7.04%) Data Engineer
8 124 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 112 (5.76%) Architect
10 110 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 104 (5.35%) Full Stack Developer
12 97 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
13 77 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 71 (3.65%) .NET Developer
15 61 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
15 61 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 59 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 57 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
19 51 (2.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (18.10%) .NET
2 215 (11.05%) React
3 194 (9.97%) REST
4 158 (8.12%) Node.js
5 130 (6.68%) RESTful
6 118 (6.07%) Web Services
7 117 (6.02%) Kafka
8 116 (5.96%) CSS
9 111 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 104 (5.35%) HTML
11 100 (5.14%) .NET Framework
12 96 (4.94%) .NET Core
13 83 (4.27%) GraphQL
14 78 (4.01%) JSON
15 75 (3.86%) Django
15 75 (3.86%) Spring
16 71 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
17 64 (3.29%) ASP.NET
18 52 (2.67%) ARM Templates
19 48 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 104 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 96 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 87 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 64 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 50 (2.57%) Private Cloud
8 49 (2.52%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 39 (2.01%) IoT
11 39 (2.01%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.90%) Client/Server
13 36 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 31 (1.59%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
16 25 (1.29%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (1.13%) Blog
18 21 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 325 (16.71%) Linux
2 188 (9.67%) Windows
3 52 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.13%) Unix
6 20 (1.03%) Android
7 18 (0.93%) 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 6 (0.31%) 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%) Debian
14 1 (0.051%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (60.15%) DevOps
2 903 (46.43%) Agile
3 510 (26.22%) Software Engineering
4 400 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 360 (18.51%) Continuous Integration
6 333 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 329 (16.92%) Microservices
8 308 (15.84%) Scrum
9 290 (14.91%) TDD
10 279 (14.34%) Test Automation
11 272 (13.98%) Containerisation
12 223 (11.47%) Full Stack Development
13 200 (10.28%) Continuous Deployment
14 198 (10.18%) Analytics
15 186 (9.56%) Mentoring
16 178 (9.15%) Continuous Delivery
17 171 (8.79%) SDLC
18 159 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 158 (8.12%) Roadmaps
20 156 (8.02%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 540 (27.76%) Python
2 430 (22.11%) C#
3 390 (20.05%) Java
4 384 (19.74%) SQL
5 320 (16.45%) JavaScript
6 189 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 157 (8.07%) PowerShell
8 126 (6.48%) Bash
9 119 (6.12%) Go
10 55 (2.83%) PHP
11 44 (2.26%) C
12 42 (2.16%) Scala
13 40 (2.06%) Perl
14 36 (1.85%) C++
15 35 (1.80%) Bicep
16 31 (1.59%) Ruby
17 29 (1.49%) Shell Script
17 29 (1.49%) T-SQL
18 26 (1.34%) Groovy
19 15 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 279 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 190 (9.77%) Degree
3 173 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 102 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 70 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 57 (2.93%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.70%) 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 16 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (9.25%) QA
2 57 (2.93%) 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
11 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.10%) EMIR
11 2 (0.10%) MiFID
11 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.051%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.051%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.051%) SEPA
System Software
1 614 (31.57%) Docker
2 58 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 26 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.57%) vSphere
8 3 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Ceph
10 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
10 1 (0.051%) Varnish
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 605 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 537 (27.61%) Terraform
3 229 (11.77%) Ansible
4 70 (3.60%) Grafana
4 70 (3.60%) Puppet
5 32 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 25 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 21 (1.08%) SCCM
9 20 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.98%) Kibana
11 17 (0.87%) Packer
12 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.72%) Salt
12 14 (0.72%) SCOM
12 14 (0.72%) WSUS
13 13 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.62%) Nagios
15 11 (0.57%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 365 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.39%) Google
3 65 (3.34%) Oracle
4 59 (3.03%) Databricks
5 31 (1.59%) VMware
6 18 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 16 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 16 (0.82%) Splunk
9 15 (0.77%) Xamarin
10 13 (0.67%) Teradata
10 13 (0.67%) WSO2
11 11 (0.57%) Citrix
12 10 (0.51%) Remedy
12 10 (0.51%) SAP
12 10 (0.51%) Serena
13 9 (0.46%) Cisco
13 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
14 8 (0.41%) Meraki
14 8 (0.41%) Sun