CI/CD Job Trends in Leeds

CI/CD
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 178 104 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.66% 11.21% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 12.43% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 101 72 134
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,375 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,250 £66,482
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +5.67% -5.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £87,868
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +8.46% -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,915 837 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 71.64% 90.19% 80.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 563 1,357
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Leeds

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Leeds

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

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (67.98%) AWS
2 67 (37.64%) Serverless
3 61 (34.27%) Amazon S3
3 61 (34.27%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (34.27%) GitHub
4 60 (33.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (30.90%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (26.40%) AWS Step Functions
7 39 (21.91%) Azure
8 37 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (13.48%) Amazon ECR
9 24 (13.48%) Apigee
10 22 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (12.36%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (11.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 19 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (9.55%) GCP
14 15 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (7.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.67%) Broadband
2 4 (2.25%) DNS
2 4 (2.25%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) BGP
3 2 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) NGFW
3 2 (1.12%) OSPF
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.78%) DynamoDB
2 24 (13.48%) NoSQL
3 21 (11.80%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.37%) Spark SQL
5 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.25%) Metadata
5 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.69%) MySQL
6 3 (1.69%) Power BI
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (38.20%) Jenkins
2 46 (25.84%) GitLab
3 34 (19.10%) Git
4 28 (15.73%) Cypress.io
5 27 (15.17%) SonarQube
6 25 (14.04%) Maven
7 7 (3.93%) JIRA
8 4 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.69%) Selenium
10 2 (1.12%) JUnit
10 2 (1.12%) Postman
11 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.56%) Gatling
11 1 (0.56%) JMeter
11 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.80%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.67%) Games
4 11 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.93%) Finance
6 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (38.20%) Developer
2 52 (29.21%) Java Developer
3 46 (25.84%) Senior
4 24 (13.48%) Lead
5 20 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (10.67%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (10.11%) AWS Developer
7 18 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (5.06%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.53%) AngularJS
2 38 (21.35%) Spring Boot
3 36 (20.22%) Node.js
4 26 (14.61%) Jest
5 25 (14.04%) React
6 24 (13.48%) Gherkin
7 16 (8.99%) Spring
8 13 (7.30%) Web Services
9 10 (5.62%) REST
9 10 (5.62%) RESTful
10 9 (5.06%) CSS
11 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.49%) HTML
11 8 (4.49%) PySpark
11 8 (4.49%) Vue
12 5 (2.81%) .NET
12 5 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.25%) Flask
14 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
14 3 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.67%) Mobile App
3 16 (8.99%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.37%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) NHS
9 3 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.69%) Social Media
10 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.48%) Linux
2 18 (10.11%) Android
3 16 (8.99%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.37%) Unix
4 6 (3.37%) Windows
5 4 (2.25%) CentOS
5 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (62.36%) DevOps
2 87 (48.88%) Agile
3 54 (30.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (27.53%) Mentoring
5 43 (24.16%) AI
6 42 (23.60%) Observability
7 36 (20.22%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.10%) Technical Leadership
9 32 (17.98%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (16.85%) Software Engineering
10 30 (16.85%) Test Automation
11 28 (15.73%) SDLC
12 26 (14.61%) Decision-Making
12 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (13.48%) ITIL
14 24 (13.48%) Microservices
14 24 (13.48%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.52%) Java
2 58 (32.58%) Python
3 52 (29.21%) TypeScript
4 44 (24.72%) SQL
5 39 (21.91%) Groovy
6 32 (17.98%) Bash
7 25 (14.04%) Kotlin
8 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.49%) C#
10 7 (3.93%) Go
11 5 (2.81%) PHP
12 4 (2.25%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.12%) Bicep
13 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.56%) C++
14 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.56%) Perl
14 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.48%) AWS Certification
3 22 (12.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.36%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.06%) Degree
6 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.67%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.30%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) GDPR
5 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (43.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (30.90%) Terraform
2 36 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.48%) HP Fortify
4 11 (6.18%) Progress Chef
5 10 (5.62%) Ansible
6 6 (3.37%) Argo
7 3 (1.69%) Packer
8 2 (1.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (5.06%) Databricks
2 8 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.37%) Google
4 5 (2.81%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.81%) IBM
5 3 (1.69%) Foundry
6 2 (1.12%) Arista
6 2 (1.12%) F5
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle
6 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.12%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.56%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) UiPath
7 1 (0.56%) VMware