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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 6,041 7,736 21,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.65% 8.24% 12.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 8.63% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,221 5,002 8,175
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
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 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +9 4,334 £62,500 -3.85% 702
England -27 3,694 £70,000 -6.67% 1,129
Scotland +36 2,030 £65,000 -6.40% 63
Work from Home -18 1,970 £65,000 -12.75% 702
London -15 1,420 £85,000 +5.59% 502
North of England -23 691 £62,500 -7.41% 219
South East -33 621 £64,000 -5.19% 135
South West -6 443 £65,000 - 108
North West -17 401 £62,500 -10.00% 137
Midlands -18 346 £62,500 -3.85% 97
West Midlands -21 237 £65,000 - 67
Yorkshire -25 212 £60,000 -7.69% 55
East Midlands -33 108 £60,000 -4.00% 30
East of England -71 103 £61,250 -12.50% 47
Wales -3 86 £55,000 +2.33% 20
North East -5 78 £64,000 +11.30% 27
Northern Ireland -40 13 £64,400 +32.10% 23
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
1 592 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 246 (4.07%) Apache
3 185 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (1.62%) FileNet
5 94 (1.56%) Confluence
6 57 (0.94%) nginx
7 56 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 44 (0.73%) IIS
9 41 (0.68%) CMS
10 37 (0.61%) OpenStack
11 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
13 21 (0.35%) GemFire
14 17 (0.28%) Camunda
14 17 (0.28%) Umbraco
14 17 (0.28%) WordPress
15 16 (0.26%) Jupyter
16 11 (0.18%) CICS
16 11 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 8 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.099%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.083%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.083%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.050%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.050%) Simulink
5 3 (0.050%) Sketch
5 3 (0.050%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.033%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.017%) Blender
7 1 (0.017%) Notion
7 1 (0.017%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.15%) Shopify
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 2 (0.033%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.033%) Magento
6 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,815 (46.60%) AWS
2 2,179 (36.07%) Azure
3 900 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
4 588 (9.73%) GCP
5 514 (8.51%) Serverless
6 402 (6.65%) GitHub
7 312 (5.16%) Amazon S3
8 285 (4.72%) SaaS
9 283 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
10 243 (4.02%) Power Platform
11 211 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
12 204 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
13 188 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
13 188 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 177 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
15 175 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
16 153 (2.53%) Datadog
17 152 (2.52%) PaaS
18 151 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
19 139 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.43%) Firewall
2 110 (1.82%) DNS
3 73 (1.21%) WAN
4 65 (1.08%) Kerberos
5 61 (1.01%) VPN
6 50 (0.83%) Network Security
7 46 (0.76%) HTTP
8 38 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 29 (0.48%) DHCP
11 22 (0.36%) Internet
12 17 (0.28%) LAN
13 16 (0.26%) MQTT
13 16 (0.26%) SSL
14 15 (0.25%) BGP
14 15 (0.25%) DSL
15 11 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.18%) MPLS
16 9 (0.15%) WLAN
17 8 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 855 (14.15%) NoSQL
2 513 (8.49%) Big Data
3 420 (6.95%) SQL Server
4 271 (4.49%) Hadoop
5 261 (4.32%) Relational Database
6 258 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 246 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
8 229 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 189 (3.13%) MySQL
10 186 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 186 (3.08%) MongoDB
11 179 (2.96%) Data Lake
12 170 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
13 142 (2.35%) Apache Hive
14 132 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 124 (2.05%) Power BI
16 118 (1.95%) DynamoDB
17 111 (1.84%) Looker
17 111 (1.84%) Metadata
18 96 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 967 (16.01%) Jenkins
2 872 (14.43%) Git
3 436 (7.22%) GitLab
4 318 (5.26%) JIRA
5 291 (4.82%) JUnit
6 200 (3.31%) Selenium
7 145 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 140 (2.32%) Cypress.io
9 138 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 128 (2.12%) Postman
11 121 (2.00%) CircleCI
12 117 (1.94%) Artifactory
13 106 (1.75%) Jasmine
14 89 (1.47%) TeamCity
15 86 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
16 82 (1.36%) Visual Studio
16 82 (1.36%) WebDriver
17 76 (1.26%) Maven
18 63 (1.04%) JMeter
18 63 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,623 (43.42%) Finance
2 2,110 (34.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,999 (33.09%) Law
4 1,115 (18.46%) Social Skills
5 976 (16.16%) Marketing
6 727 (12.03%) Legal
7 556 (9.20%) Banking
8 326 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
9 295 (4.88%) Investment Banking
10 288 (4.77%) Public Sector
11 247 (4.09%) Financial Institution
12 161 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 153 (2.53%) Retail
14 76 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.22%) Billing
16 67 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 62 (1.03%) Retail Banking
18 55 (0.91%) Private Banking
19 54 (0.89%) Front Office
20 52 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,054 (34.00%) Software Engineer
2 1,204 (19.93%) Developer
3 1,116 (18.47%) Lead
4 1,022 (16.92%) Senior
5 687 (11.37%) Java Engineer
6 669 (11.07%) Java Software Engineer
7 666 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 581 (9.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 476 (7.88%) Data Engineer
10 468 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
11 380 (6.29%) Python Engineer
12 374 (6.19%) Senior Developer
13 341 (5.64%) Python Software Engineer
14 334 (5.53%) Big Data Engineer
15 318 (5.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 308 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
16 308 (5.10%) Full Stack Engineer
17 294 (4.87%) AWS Software Engineer
18 281 (4.65%) Architect
19 269 (4.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 926 (15.33%) React
2 797 (13.19%) .NET
3 775 (12.83%) Spring
4 545 (9.02%) AngularJS
5 519 (8.59%) Kafka
6 505 (8.36%) HTML
7 499 (8.26%) Node.js
8 462 (7.65%) CSS
9 429 (7.10%) Spring Boot
10 413 (6.84%) REST
10 413 (6.84%) RESTful
11 362 (5.99%) JSON
12 294 (4.87%) Web Services
13 277 (4.59%) J2EE
14 235 (3.89%) GraphQL
15 217 (3.59%) .NET Core
16 211 (3.49%) .NET Framework
16 211 (3.49%) Hibernate
16 211 (3.49%) PySpark
17 193 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 897 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 825 (13.66%) Algorithms
3 335 (5.55%) Product Ownership
4 320 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 237 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 222 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 210 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 193 (3.19%) Data Structures
9 127 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 123 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 106 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 106 (1.75%) Mobile App
12 84 (1.39%) Market Risk
13 82 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 81 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 76 (1.26%) Private Cloud
15 76 (1.26%) Reference Data
16 69 (1.14%) IoT
17 68 (1.13%) Blockchain
18 58 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 691 (11.44%) Linux
2 268 (4.44%) Windows
3 183 (3.03%) Unix
4 89 (1.47%) Android
5 78 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 57 (0.94%) CentOS
7 54 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 47 (0.78%) Debian
9 40 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
10 38 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.31%) VMS
13 12 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 11 (0.18%) Solaris
15 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.13%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,771 (62.42%) Agile
2 2,898 (47.97%) Software Engineering
3 2,539 (42.03%) DevOps
4 2,118 (35.06%) SDLC
5 1,535 (25.41%) Operational Stability
6 1,457 (24.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1,415 (23.42%) Machine Learning
8 1,274 (21.09%) Community of Practice
9 1,095 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,052 (17.41%) Microservices
11 996 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
12 888 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 854 (14.14%) Test Automation
14 851 (14.09%) Visualisation
15 800 (13.24%) Continuous Delivery
16 798 (13.21%) TDD
17 776 (12.85%) Full Stack Development
18 741 (12.27%) Continuous Integration
19 700 (11.59%) Risk Management
20 682 (11.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2,153 (35.64%) Java
2 1,885 (31.20%) Python
3 1,650 (27.31%) SQL
4 982 (16.26%) JavaScript
5 918 (15.20%) C#
6 572 (9.47%) TypeScript
7 361 (5.98%) PowerShell
8 357 (5.91%) Scala
9 323 (5.35%) Go
10 288 (4.77%) Bash
11 151 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 146 (2.42%) PL/SQL
13 121 (2.00%) PHP
14 99 (1.64%) C++
15 98 (1.62%) Bicep
15 98 (1.62%) Ruby
16 89 (1.47%) Shell Script
17 87 (1.44%) C
18 65 (1.08%) Prolog
18 65 (1.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 535 (8.86%) Degree
2 510 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 309 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 301 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 192 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 171 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 127 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 123 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 113 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 72 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 51 (0.84%) CISSP
12 50 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (0.70%) MCSA
14 42 (0.70%) MCSE
15 37 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.51%) CCSK
16 31 (0.51%) CCSP
17 29 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (6.94%) QA
2 154 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 95 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.13%) SLA
5 57 (0.94%) GDPR
6 39 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (0.55%) NIST
8 21 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.28%) PMO
10 13 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.17%) PSD2
12 10 (0.17%) WCAG
13 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.12%) NCSC
14 6 (0.099%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.083%) GRC
15 5 (0.083%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.066%) EMIR
16 4 (0.066%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,268 (20.99%) Docker
2 167 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 118 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 107 (1.77%) HDFS
5 45 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 42 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 17 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.22%) Firmware
11 12 (0.20%) vSphere
12 11 (0.18%) Time Sharing Option
13 8 (0.13%) Ceph
13 8 (0.13%) KVM
14 5 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.066%) Xen
16 3 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
16 3 (0.050%) Varnish
16 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1,587 (26.27%) Kubernetes
2 1,358 (22.48%) Terraform
3 458 (7.58%) Ansible
4 279 (4.62%) Grafana
5 169 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 110 (1.82%) Puppet
7 72 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 62 (1.03%) Kibana
9 46 (0.76%) HAProxy
10 41 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 34 (0.56%) Istio
12 30 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
14 25 (0.41%) SCCM
15 24 (0.40%) Packer
16 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
17 21 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
17 21 (0.35%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.33%) Nagios
18 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 757 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 402 (6.65%) Oracle
3 372 (6.16%) Databricks
4 296 (4.90%) Google
5 231 (3.82%) Splunk
6 191 (3.16%) Dynatrace
7 97 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 90 (1.49%) Informatica
9 84 (1.39%) VMware
10 76 (1.26%) Cloudera
11 74 (1.22%) IBM
12 72 (1.19%) Atlassian
13 58 (0.96%) Salesforce
14 57 (0.94%) Alteryx
15 56 (0.93%) ServiceNow
16 33 (0.55%) Cisco
17 28 (0.46%) Sybase
18 27 (0.45%) Xamarin
19 25 (0.41%) CyberArk
20 24 (0.40%) Facebook