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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -21
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 285 211 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.29% 4.21% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 4.74% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 194 116 282
10th Percentile £43,948 £45,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,066 £72,500 £79,431
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £94,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £72,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.72% +3.93% -6.67%

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 8,648 4,454 11,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.50% 88.85% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,051 2,533 7,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -1 177 £65,000 +8.33% 164
East Midlands -1 107 £65,000 +4.00% 159
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 8 (2.81%) IIS
2 5 (1.75%) Confluence
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.70%) SAS
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (53.33%) Azure
2 105 (36.84%) AWS
3 75 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (17.19%) Serverless
5 33 (11.58%) GitHub
6 25 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.96%) GCP
8 17 (5.96%) SaaS
9 16 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.61%) Power Platform
10 15 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.91%) Firebase
11 14 (4.91%) Stripe
11 14 (4.91%) TestFlight
12 10 (3.51%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (1.75%) Wireless
2 4 (1.40%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.40%) Firewall
2 4 (1.40%) MQTT
2 4 (1.40%) ZigBee
3 3 (1.05%) VPN
4 2 (0.70%) Broadband
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.35%) LTE
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (4.56%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.21%) Power BI
6 8 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.46%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.11%) Metadata
9 5 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.40%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.40%) Redis
11 3 (1.05%) MySQL
11 3 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 45 (15.79%) Git
2 19 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.32%) GitLab
4 14 (4.91%) Crashlytics
4 14 (4.91%) XCTest
5 13 (4.56%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.21%) JIRA
6 12 (4.21%) Selenium
6 12 (4.21%) XCUITest
7 11 (3.86%) JUnit
8 10 (3.51%) Gatling
8 10 (3.51%) Maven
8 10 (3.51%) Snyk
9 9 (3.16%) Mockito
10 7 (2.46%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.46%) JMeter
10 7 (2.46%) Postman
11 5 (1.75%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.75%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.98%) Finance
3 29 (10.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.51%) Advertising
6 10 (3.51%) Banking
7 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.75%) Law
8 5 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.40%) Automotive
9 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (27.37%) Senior
2 56 (19.65%) Developer
2 56 (19.65%) Lead
3 35 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (8.77%) Software Engineer
5 20 (7.02%) Architect
6 17 (5.96%) .NET Developer
7 16 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (5.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.91%) Cloud Architect
8 14 (4.91%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.91%) Mobile Engineer
8 14 (4.91%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Cloud Security Architect
11 10 (3.51%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.25%) .NET
2 41 (14.39%) React
3 28 (9.82%) ASP.NET
3 28 (9.82%) ASP.NET Core
4 24 (8.42%) CSS
4 24 (8.42%) HTML
4 24 (8.42%) Node.js
4 24 (8.42%) REST
5 21 (7.37%) .NET Core
6 19 (6.67%) SwiftUI
7 18 (6.32%) Playwright
8 16 (5.61%) .NET Framework
8 16 (5.61%) Entity Framework
9 14 (4.91%) RESTful
9 14 (4.91%) Spring
9 14 (4.91%) UIKit
10 10 (3.51%) Kafka
11 9 (3.16%) PySpark
11 9 (3.16%) YAML
12 7 (2.46%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.98%) Mobile App
2 24 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.46%) IoT
7 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.75%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.40%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.70%) Digital TV
11 2 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.23%) Linux
2 27 (9.47%) Apple iOS
3 17 (5.96%) Windows
4 8 (2.81%) Android
5 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (52.98%) DevOps
2 118 (41.40%) Agile
3 87 (30.53%) Test Automation
4 77 (27.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (24.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (24.91%) Mentoring
6 57 (20.00%) AI
7 49 (17.19%) Observability
8 46 (16.14%) Analytics
9 43 (15.09%) Microservices
10 40 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
11 39 (13.68%) Containerisation
11 39 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 36 (12.63%) Scrum
13 34 (11.93%) Coaching
13 34 (11.93%) SDLC
14 33 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (10.18%) Code Quality
15 29 (10.18%) DevSecOps
15 29 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.21%) SQL
2 67 (23.51%) Python
3 52 (18.25%) C#
4 51 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 38 (13.33%) Java
6 34 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 27 (9.47%) Bash
8 21 (7.37%) PowerShell
9 19 (6.67%) Swift
10 14 (4.91%) Kotlin
11 12 (4.21%) C++
12 11 (3.86%) Bicep
13 9 (3.16%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.46%) C
14 7 (2.46%) PHP
15 5 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (1.40%) Rust
17 3 (1.05%) Go
17 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.37%) Degree
4 14 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) ISEB
6 7 (2.46%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.05%) CITP
10 2 (0.70%) CISSP
10 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.74%) QA
2 26 (9.12%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.51%) GRC
4 8 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.11%) GDPR
6 4 (1.40%) JTAG
6 4 (1.40%) WCAG
7 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (20.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (21.75%) Terraform
2 56 (19.65%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.56%) Grafana
4 8 (2.81%) Ansible
5 6 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Argo
6 4 (1.40%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.70%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) Nagios
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.32%) CrowdStrike
3 14 (4.91%) Amplitude
3 14 (4.91%) Braze
4 13 (4.56%) Databricks
5 10 (3.51%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.51%) Tenable
6 9 (3.16%) Oracle
7 5 (1.75%) Apple
8 4 (1.40%) Facebook
8 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.40%) Veracode
9 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.70%) Google
9 2 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.70%) VMware
9 2 (0.70%) YouTube
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds