CI/CD Job Trends in Lancashire

CI/CD
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 64 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -27 +31
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 8 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.70% 1.63% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.79% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 8
10th Percentile £52,375 £37,716 £49,525
25th Percentile £56,875 £39,685 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,163 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.33% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £66,298 £63,750 £64,499
90th Percentile £67,500 - £75,772
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 963 726 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.85% 90.98% 77.62%
Number of salaries quoted 280 435 298
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £27,850
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £46,275
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +8.17% +2.83%
75th Percentile £54,795 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,525 £67,200 £70,375
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Lancashire

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Lancashire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Lancashire

CI/CD
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Burnley +2 3 £60,000 - 1
Nelson - 2 £65,000 - 1
Preston +7 1 £47,500 -24.00% 23
Blackpool - 1 £63,247 - 1
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Slack
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Pyramid
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) ChatOps
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) People Management
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Samsung