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 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 38 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 1,962 3,981 8,890
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.80% 9.67% 12.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 10.07% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 3,025 4,549
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,820 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £84,919 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £101,500
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 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 11 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 (2.50%) Apache
2 40 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 36 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.73%) Confluence
5 32 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (1.53%) OpenStack
7 27 (1.38%) nginx
8 25 (1.27%) IIS
9 23 (1.17%) CMS
10 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.71%) 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 (0.25%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.25%) 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 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.20%) 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
1 991 (50.51%) Azure
2 859 (43.78%) AWS
3 418 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (11.16%) Serverless
5 213 (10.86%) GCP
6 210 (10.70%) SaaS
7 171 (8.72%) GitHub
8 126 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 81 (4.13%) PaaS
11 80 (4.08%) Amazon S3
12 78 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 70 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (3.36%) Snowflake
17 58 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
18 55 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
19 54 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.38%) Firewall
2 75 (3.82%) DNS
3 44 (2.24%) WAN
4 34 (1.73%) VPN
5 28 (1.43%) SD-WAN
5 28 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.22%) HTTP
7 22 (1.12%) DHCP
8 17 (0.87%) Internet
8 17 (0.87%) Network Security
9 14 (0.71%) LAN
10 12 (0.61%) 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 (0.25%) AMQP
14 5 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 150 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (4.18%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 79 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.82%) MySQL
7 73 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 70 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 67 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
10 61 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 56 (2.85%) Power BI
12 50 (2.55%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 37 (1.89%) Redis
14 35 (1.78%) Star Schema
15 32 (1.63%) Big Data
16 31 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (1.43%) RDBMS
18 22 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
19 18 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 350 (17.84%) Jenkins
2 323 (16.46%) Git
3 200 (10.19%) GitLab
4 142 (7.24%) JIRA
5 96 (4.89%) Selenium
6 94 (4.79%) Cucumber
7 91 (4.64%) Postman
8 61 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 51 (2.60%) Visual Studio
10 43 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 34 (1.73%) JUnit
12 30 (1.53%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
14 26 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (1.17%) JMeter
16 19 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.97%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (0.71%) REST Assured
18 14 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 432 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 335 (17.07%) Finance
3 123 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (5.91%) Banking
5 98 (4.99%) Retail
6 80 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 64 (3.26%) Law
9 49 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 42 (2.14%) Marketing
11 27 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.33%) Games
12 26 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.22%) Legal
14 22 (1.12%) Tech for Good
15 17 (0.87%) Police
16 16 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.76%) Back Office
18 11 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 520 (26.50%) Developer
2 470 (23.96%) Senior
3 353 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 301 (15.34%) Lead
5 186 (9.48%) Senior Developer
6 182 (9.28%) Software Engineer
7 138 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 126 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 113 (5.76%) Architect
10 111 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 106 (5.40%) Full Stack Developer
12 98 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
13 78 (3.98%) Software Developer
14 71 (3.62%) .NET Developer
15 62 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
15 62 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 60 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 58 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
18 57 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
19 52 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (18.14%) .NET
2 216 (11.01%) React
3 197 (10.04%) REST
4 158 (8.05%) Node.js
5 130 (6.63%) RESTful
6 119 (6.07%) CSS
7 118 (6.01%) Kafka
7 118 (6.01%) Web Services
8 113 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 107 (5.45%) HTML
10 103 (5.25%) .NET Framework
11 99 (5.05%) .NET Core
12 83 (4.23%) GraphQL
13 80 (4.08%) JSON
14 75 (3.82%) Django
14 75 (3.82%) Spring
15 71 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
16 67 (3.41%) ASP.NET
17 53 (2.70%) ARM Templates
18 48 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 97 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
3 87 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 65 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 51 (2.60%) Private Cloud
8 50 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (2.34%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.04%) IoT
12 39 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.89%) Client/Server
14 36 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 31 (1.58%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.27%) Algorithms
19 22 (1.12%) Blog
20 21 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 329 (16.77%) Linux
2 189 (9.63%) Windows
3 53 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.12%) Unix
6 20 (1.02%) Android
7 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.61%) 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 1,184 (60.35%) DevOps
2 914 (46.59%) Agile
3 513 (26.15%) Software Engineering
4 405 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (18.50%) Continuous Integration
6 334 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 329 (16.77%) Microservices
8 311 (15.85%) Scrum
9 293 (14.93%) TDD
10 283 (14.42%) Test Automation
11 272 (13.86%) Containerisation
12 226 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
13 201 (10.24%) Continuous Deployment
14 198 (10.09%) Analytics
15 187 (9.53%) Mentoring
16 180 (9.17%) Continuous Delivery
17 173 (8.82%) SDLC
18 161 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 159 (8.10%) Roadmaps
20 157 (8.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 544 (27.73%) Python
2 434 (22.12%) C#
3 393 (20.03%) Java
4 388 (19.78%) SQL
5 325 (16.56%) JavaScript
6 191 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 159 (8.10%) PowerShell
8 129 (6.57%) Bash
9 119 (6.07%) Go
10 56 (2.85%) PHP
11 44 (2.24%) C
12 42 (2.14%) Perl
12 42 (2.14%) Scala
13 36 (1.83%) C++
14 35 (1.78%) Bicep
15 32 (1.63%) Ruby
15 32 (1.63%) T-SQL
16 29 (1.48%) Shell Script
17 26 (1.33%) Groovy
18 15 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 282 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 190 (9.68%) Degree
3 174 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 102 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 71 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 57 (2.91%) 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 24 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.23%) QA
2 58 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.53%) NIST
5 13 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.36%) GDPR
7 6 (0.31%) WCAG
8 5 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.20%) NCSC
9 4 (0.20%) 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
1 618 (31.50%) Docker
2 59 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.61%) 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
1 609 (31.04%) Kubernetes
2 542 (27.62%) Terraform
3 233 (11.88%) Ansible
4 72 (3.67%) Puppet
5 70 (3.57%) Grafana
6 32 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (1.07%) SCCM
10 20 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (0.97%) Kibana
12 17 (0.87%) Packer
13 15 (0.76%) Salt
14 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.71%) SCOM
14 14 (0.71%) WSUS
15 13 (0.66%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.61%) Nagios
17 11 (0.56%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 369 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.36%) Google
3 65 (3.31%) Oracle
4 59 (3.01%) Databricks
5 33 (1.68%) VMware
6 18 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 18 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 16 (0.82%) Atlassian
7 16 (0.82%) Splunk
8 15 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.66%) Teradata
9 13 (0.66%) WSO2
10 12 (0.61%) Citrix
11 10 (0.51%) Remedy
11 10 (0.51%) SAP
11 10 (0.51%) Serena
11 10 (0.51%) TOWER Software
12 9 (0.46%) Cisco
12 9 (0.46%) Sun
13 8 (0.41%) Meraki