CI/CD Job Trends in the East Midlands

CI/CD
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 83 86 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 -46 +5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 53 42 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.11% 1.90% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.15% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 48 28 82
10th Percentile £52,470 £41,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% - -1.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £81,250
England median annual salary £73,250 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% - -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,007 1,954 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.77% 88.42% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 822 1,277
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +17 18 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Leicestershire +10 15 £64,000 +4.49% 29
Northamptonshire +3 12 £65,000 - 27
Derbyshire - 6 £68,000 - 32
Lincolnshire -12 1 £46,000 +16.46% 20
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) IIS
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) Azure
2 30 (56.60%) AWS
3 9 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (16.98%) GitHub
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (7.55%) SaaS
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.66%) npm
5 3 (5.66%) NuGet
5 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) PaaS
5 3 (5.66%) SonarCloud
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.77%) Datadog
6 2 (3.77%) dbt
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle CX
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.89%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) NAS
1 1 (1.89%) SAN
1 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.55%) Redis
5 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.77%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.77%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) GitLab
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.43%) Selenium
4 3 (5.66%) JUnit
5 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.77%) JIRA
5 2 (3.77%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.77%) Postman
5 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.89%) Appium
6 1 (1.89%) JMeter
6 1 (1.89%) Mockito
6 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.89%) TestNG
6 1 (1.89%) XCUITest
General
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Law
4 4 (7.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Senior
2 14 (26.42%) Developer
3 13 (24.53%) Lead
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Developer
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (15.09%) Software Engineer
7 7 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) C# Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Senior C# Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Python Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (7.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) .NET
2 16 (30.19%) React
3 13 (24.53%) AngularJS
4 12 (22.64%) .NET Core
5 8 (15.09%) REST
6 7 (13.21%) ASP.NET
7 6 (11.32%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (9.43%) Django
9 4 (7.55%) JSON
9 4 (7.55%) Node.js
9 4 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (5.66%) CSS
10 3 (5.66%) HTML
10 3 (5.66%) RESTful
10 3 (5.66%) YAML
11 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
11 2 (3.77%) HTML5
11 2 (3.77%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (3.77%) SOAP
11 2 (3.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
5 1 (1.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) DevOps
2 17 (32.08%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Test Automation
4 11 (20.75%) Data Modelling
5 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
5 10 (18.87%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (15.09%) Microservices
7 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.32%) Logistics
9 6 (11.32%) MVC
9 6 (11.32%) Web Development
10 5 (9.43%) Cost Optimisation
10 5 (9.43%) Data Governance
10 5 (9.43%) Software Testing
11 4 (7.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) C#
2 22 (41.51%) JavaScript
3 17 (32.08%) Python
3 17 (32.08%) SQL
4 6 (11.32%) Bash
4 6 (11.32%) Java
4 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.77%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) Go
6 2 (3.77%) Groovy
6 2 (3.77%) Ruby
7 1 (1.89%) Delphi
7 1 (1.89%) PHP
7 1 (1.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
1 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Terraform
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.77%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.89%) Apple
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.89%) VMware