CI/CD Job Trends in Durham

CI/CD
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +11
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 9 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 4.48% 6.98% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 8.24% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £40,025 £47,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £64,471 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,145 £69,800
90th Percentile - £79,600 £71,625
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 182 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 75.62% 84.65% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 54 57 132
10th Percentile £25,087 £33,081 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.47% +18.75%
75th Percentile £56,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,403 £79,600 £64,775
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Durham

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Durham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Durham

CI/CD
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Darlington +3 4 £73,801 +2.50%
CI/CD
North East

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) dbt
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Pulumi
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Sentry
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Locust
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
1 4 (44.44%) Django
2 2 (22.22%) Blazor
2 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Flask
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Clean Code
4 4 (44.44%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) B2C
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (22.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle