CI/CD Job Trends in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 70 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 +2
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 183 239 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.34% 3.67% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 4.08% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 150 144 208
10th Percentile £42,450 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,599 £87,375
England median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.69% - -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,360 5,857 4,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.47% 89.85% 88.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,562 3,797
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,309
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 Midlands

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

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

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
West Midlands -19 125 £64,500 -3.01% 233
East Midlands +8 56 £67,500 +3.85% 189
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 7 (3.83%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) nginx
4 3 (1.64%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (69.95%) Azure
2 77 (42.08%) AWS
3 45 (24.59%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (18.58%) SaaS
5 27 (14.75%) GitHub
6 21 (11.48%) Serverless
7 18 (9.84%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.65%) GCP
9 13 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.10%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.56%) Power Automate
10 12 (6.56%) PowerApps
11 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) Firewall
2 4 (2.19%) DNS
2 4 (2.19%) FTP
2 4 (2.19%) HTTP
2 4 (2.19%) IMAP
2 4 (2.19%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (2.19%) SMTP
2 4 (2.19%) SSH
3 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) NAS
4 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.58%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.83%) Redis
6 6 (3.28%) MySQL
6 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.19%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.19%) Power BI
9 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.09%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.09%) Metadata
9 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.09%) Power Query
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 30 (16.39%) Git
2 22 (12.02%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.29%) GitLab
4 13 (7.10%) JIRA
5 11 (6.01%) Selenium
6 8 (4.37%) JUnit
7 6 (3.28%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.19%) Mockito
8 4 (2.19%) NUnit
8 4 (2.19%) Postman
8 4 (2.19%) Vagrant
9 3 (1.64%) JMeter
9 3 (1.64%) MSTest
10 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.09%) Gatling
10 2 (1.09%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.09%) Maven
10 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.55%) Snyk
11 1 (0.55%) TestNG
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.84%) Finance
2 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.01%) Retail
4 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.83%) Automotive
5 7 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.83%) Law
6 5 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (34.97%) Senior
2 43 (23.50%) Developer
3 34 (18.58%) Lead
4 28 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (13.11%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (12.02%) Data Engineer
7 20 (10.93%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.29%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Azure Data Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) .NET Developer
13 9 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) CRM Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support
13 9 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Support Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.04%) .NET
2 28 (15.30%) React
3 19 (10.38%) AngularJS
4 16 (8.74%) .NET Core
5 15 (8.20%) .NET Framework
5 15 (8.20%) REST
6 12 (6.56%) Spring
7 11 (6.01%) ARM Templates
8 10 (5.46%) ASP.NET
9 9 (4.92%) Django
9 9 (4.92%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.37%) CSS
10 8 (4.37%) HTML
10 8 (4.37%) Node.js
10 8 (4.37%) RESTful
11 7 (3.83%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.28%) Playwright
12 6 (3.28%) YAML
13 5 (2.73%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.73%) Replication
3 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.55%) CMDB
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Windows
2 17 (9.29%) Linux
3 11 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.19%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.19%) VMS
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (68.31%) DevOps
2 68 (37.16%) Agile
3 32 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (16.39%) Mentoring
5 30 (16.39%) Test Automation
6 29 (15.85%) Migration
7 27 (14.75%) Data Modelling
8 24 (13.11%) Containerisation
9 23 (12.57%) TDD
9 23 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (12.02%) Software Engineering
11 21 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (9.84%) Microservices
13 17 (9.29%) CRM
13 17 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (8.74%) Scrum
15 14 (7.65%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.88%) Python
2 58 (31.69%) SQL
3 50 (27.32%) C#
4 39 (21.31%) JavaScript
5 25 (13.66%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.02%) Java
7 15 (8.20%) PowerShell
8 14 (7.65%) Bicep
9 10 (5.46%) Bash
10 8 (4.37%) Go
11 6 (3.28%) Groovy
12 4 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.64%) Delphi
13 3 (1.64%) Scala
13 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.09%) PHP
14 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.09%) Ruby
15 1 (0.55%) C
15 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.46%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.46%) Degree
4 7 (3.83%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.09%) CCNA
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.39%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.73%) GDPR
3 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) WCAG
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) DFS Replication
2 4 (2.19%) Dovecot
2 4 (2.19%) Postfix
2 4 (2.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (24.04%) Terraform
2 37 (20.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.01%) Grafana
4 10 (5.46%) Ansible
5 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.19%) Nessus
6 4 (2.19%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.64%) Argo
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.56%) Databricks
3 10 (5.46%) Oracle
4 6 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (2.73%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.19%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.64%) Google
7 3 (1.64%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.55%) Apple
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco
9 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) Splunk
9 1 (0.55%) Talend
9 1 (0.55%) VMware
9 1 (0.55%) Zend