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

6 months to
27 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 1,959 3,918 9,633
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.73% 9.79% 13.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 10.19% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 2,931 4,567
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 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
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 30,975 38,432 70,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.61% 96.05% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,429 26,704 41,843
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 27 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 47 (2.40%) Apache
2 37 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.74%) Confluence
4 33 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 30 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 26 (1.33%) nginx
7 23 (1.17%) CMS
8 22 (1.12%) IIS
9 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 14 (0.71%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.51%) WordPress
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
12 3 (0.15%) Moodle
13 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.051%) JBoss
14 1 (0.051%) Mule
14 1 (0.051%) SAS
14 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
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 37 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 2 (0.10%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 998 (50.94%) Azure
2 862 (44.00%) AWS
3 412 (21.03%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (10.97%) Serverless
5 198 (10.11%) GCP
6 192 (9.80%) SaaS
7 157 (8.01%) GitHub
8 127 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (5.31%) Power Platform
10 80 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
12 70 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (3.57%) PaaS
13 69 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
15 62 (3.16%) Snowflake
16 54 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
17 52 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.24%) Firewall
2 69 (3.52%) DNS
3 44 (2.25%) WAN
4 28 (1.43%) SD-WAN
4 28 (1.43%) VPN
5 26 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.17%) HTTP
7 22 (1.12%) DHCP
8 17 (0.87%) Network Security
9 16 (0.82%) Internet
10 14 (0.71%) LAN
11 9 (0.46%) SNMP
11 9 (0.46%) tcpdump
12 8 (0.41%) MQTT
12 8 (0.41%) NGFW
12 8 (0.41%) WLAN
13 7 (0.36%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.31%) SSL
15 5 (0.26%) AMQP
15 5 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 149 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (4.39%) NoSQL
4 81 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 79 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (3.78%) MySQL
8 70 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 67 (3.42%) Data Lake
9 67 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
10 53 (2.71%) Power BI
11 50 (2.55%) MongoDB
12 38 (1.94%) Redis
13 36 (1.84%) BigQuery
14 35 (1.79%) Star Schema
15 29 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (1.38%) Big Data
17 26 (1.33%) RDBMS
18 21 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 17 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 332 (16.95%) Jenkins
2 330 (16.85%) Git
3 213 (10.87%) GitLab
4 145 (7.40%) JIRA
5 86 (4.39%) Selenium
6 81 (4.13%) Postman
7 80 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 58 (2.96%) TeamCity
9 52 (2.65%) Visual Studio
10 41 (2.09%) Bitbucket
11 33 (1.68%) JUnit
12 29 (1.48%) Cypress.io
12 29 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
13 24 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
14 22 (1.12%) JMeter
15 19 (0.97%) SpecFlow
16 17 (0.87%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.77%) REST Assured
18 13 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (0.66%) TestNG
General
1 451 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 336 (17.15%) Finance
3 125 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (5.51%) Banking
5 97 (4.95%) Retail
6 85 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.27%) Law
9 57 (2.91%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.19%) Marketing
11 28 (1.43%) Games
11 28 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.28%) Legal
12 25 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.02%) Tech for Good
15 18 (0.92%) Health Technology
16 16 (0.82%) Police
17 15 (0.77%) Back Office
18 11 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 537 (27.41%) Developer
2 469 (23.94%) Senior
3 350 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 290 (14.80%) Lead
5 188 (9.60%) Senior Developer
6 186 (9.49%) Software Engineer
7 133 (6.79%) Data Engineer
8 118 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (5.92%) Full Stack Developer
10 112 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 105 (5.36%) Architect
12 98 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
13 85 (4.34%) .NET Developer
14 84 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 61 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
15 61 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 56 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 55 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
18 54 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
19 53 (2.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (19.04%) .NET
2 225 (11.49%) React
3 185 (9.44%) REST
4 163 (8.32%) Node.js
5 144 (7.35%) RESTful
6 123 (6.28%) CSS
7 121 (6.18%) Web Services
8 119 (6.07%) AngularJS
9 116 (5.92%) Kafka
10 110 (5.62%) HTML
11 103 (5.26%) .NET Framework
12 101 (5.16%) .NET Core
13 92 (4.70%) GraphQL
14 86 (4.39%) Django
15 76 (3.88%) Spring
16 72 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
17 71 (3.62%) JSON
18 66 (3.37%) ASP.NET
19 56 (2.86%) ARM Templates
20 48 (2.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
3 85 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (3.98%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 57 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 49 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 47 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 44 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 41 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.99%) IoT
12 38 (1.94%) Client/Server
13 36 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.33%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
17 21 (1.07%) Blog
17 21 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 315 (16.08%) Linux
2 182 (9.29%) Windows
3 50 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.17%) Unix
6 20 (1.02%) Android
7 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.56%) 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 1,172 (59.83%) DevOps
2 922 (47.06%) Agile
3 525 (26.80%) Software Engineering
4 393 (20.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 361 (18.43%) Continuous Integration
6 353 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (16.95%) Microservices
8 310 (15.82%) TDD
9 307 (15.67%) Scrum
10 274 (13.99%) Test Automation
11 268 (13.68%) Containerisation
12 255 (13.02%) Full Stack Development
13 206 (10.52%) Continuous Deployment
14 201 (10.26%) Analytics
15 197 (10.06%) Mentoring
16 180 (9.19%) SDLC
17 174 (8.88%) Continuous Delivery
18 167 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 161 (8.22%) Roadmaps
20 155 (7.91%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 544 (27.77%) Python
2 449 (22.92%) C#
3 383 (19.55%) SQL
4 377 (19.24%) Java
5 320 (16.33%) JavaScript
6 192 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 161 (8.22%) PowerShell
8 123 (6.28%) Bash
9 117 (5.97%) Go
10 50 (2.55%) PHP
11 43 (2.19%) C
12 39 (1.99%) Bicep
12 39 (1.99%) Scala
13 37 (1.89%) C++
14 33 (1.68%) Perl
15 30 (1.53%) T-SQL
16 28 (1.43%) Shell Script
17 27 (1.38%) Groovy
18 26 (1.33%) Ruby
19 16 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 295 (15.06%) Security Cleared
2 195 (9.95%) Degree
3 181 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 105 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 75 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 70 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 67 (3.42%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.43%) CISM
11 28 (1.43%) CISSP
12 27 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.38%) CCSK
12 27 (1.38%) CCSP
13 25 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 18 (0.92%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (8.93%) QA
2 61 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 32 (1.63%) NIST
5 13 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.41%) GDPR
7 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.31%) WCAG
8 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.26%) NCSC
9 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.15%) PSD2
10 3 (0.15%) SLA
10 3 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.10%) EMIR
11 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.10%) MiFID
12 1 (0.051%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.051%) SEPA
System Software
1 612 (31.24%) Docker
2 59 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 49 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.41%) 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
1 602 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 537 (27.41%) Terraform
3 229 (11.69%) Ansible
4 68 (3.47%) Grafana
5 62 (3.16%) Puppet
6 33 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 30 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
9 24 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.12%) SCCM
11 19 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (0.92%) Kibana
13 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.77%) Packer
13 15 (0.77%) SCOM
13 15 (0.77%) WSUS
14 11 (0.56%) Nagios
15 10 (0.51%) HAProxy
15 10 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 367 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.11%) Oracle
3 58 (2.96%) Google
4 56 (2.86%) Databricks
5 27 (1.38%) VMware
6 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 17 (0.87%) Splunk
8 16 (0.82%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.66%) Red Hat
9 13 (0.66%) Teradata
9 13 (0.66%) WSO2
10 10 (0.51%) Remedy
10 10 (0.51%) SAP
10 10 (0.51%) Serena
11 9 (0.46%) Cisco
11 9 (0.46%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.41%) Citrix
12 8 (0.41%) Meraki
12 8 (0.41%) MuleSoft