CI/CD Job Trends in the North East

CI/CD
England > North East

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 54 38
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 -12
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 252 25 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.11% 2.55% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 3.11% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 217 20 34
10th Percentile £46,000 £40,238 £48,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,900
Median % change year-on-year - +5.45% -7.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,556
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,875 £79,488
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,535 805 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.49% 82.06% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 485 576
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,087 £25,379
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -7.10% -8.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,652 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,703 £79,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the North East

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North East over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the North East

CI/CD
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Tyne and Wear +29 244 £62,500 +4.17% 131
Durham -9 7 £52,500 +20.69% 7
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 22 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 19 (7.54%) Apache
2 19 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (7.54%) Jupyter
3 7 (2.78%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 150 (59.52%) AWS
2 107 (42.46%) Azure
3 45 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 36 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (13.49%) GitHub
5 34 (13.49%) Serverless
6 33 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 33 (13.10%) GCP
7 28 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
9 23 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.76%) AWS KMS
15 11 (4.37%) Firebase
16 10 (3.97%) Power Platform
16 10 (3.97%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) Firewall
1 3 (1.19%) Network Security
1 3 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.79%) DNS
2 2 (0.79%) Internet
2 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.40%) NGFW
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.92%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (6.35%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.37%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.97%) Power BI
7 9 (3.57%) MySQL
8 8 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.78%) Redis
10 6 (2.38%) DocumentDB
10 6 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.98%) Flink
12 4 (1.59%) Big Data
12 4 (1.59%) GIS
13 3 (1.19%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 64 (25.40%) GitLab
2 47 (18.65%) Git
3 33 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.37%) fastlane
4 11 (4.37%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.38%) Xcode
7 5 (1.98%) Android Studio
7 5 (1.98%) Crashlytics
7 5 (1.98%) Gradle
7 5 (1.98%) JIRA
8 4 (1.59%) Gatling
9 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.79%) JUnit
10 2 (0.79%) Mockito
11 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
General
1 126 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 70 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 60 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (11.51%) Finance
6 13 (5.16%) Legal
7 7 (2.78%) Law
8 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.19%) Banking
10 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.40%) Ukrainian Language
Job Titles
1 60 (23.81%) Developer
1 60 (23.81%) Senior
2 43 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (11.11%) Architect
3 28 (11.11%) Lead
4 24 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 14 (5.56%) Analyst
5 14 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 14 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 11 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (4.37%) Technical Leader
6 11 (4.37%) Test Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Senior Architect
7 10 (3.97%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (31.75%) Terraform
2 52 (20.63%) Node.js
3 51 (20.24%) CSS
4 45 (17.86%) HTML
5 32 (12.70%) .NET
6 22 (8.73%) REST
7 21 (8.33%) Kafka
8 19 (7.54%) PySpark
8 19 (7.54%) RESTful
9 17 (6.75%) React
10 16 (6.35%) LangChain
11 15 (5.95%) .NET Core
11 15 (5.95%) LlamaIndex
12 14 (5.56%) Spring
12 14 (5.56%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.97%) Entity Framework
14 9 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.57%) Express.js
14 9 (3.57%) Flask
14 9 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 21 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 19 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.37%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.59%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.79%) Blog
13 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.70%) Linux
2 16 (6.35%) Windows
3 12 (4.76%) Unix
4 7 (2.78%) CentOS
4 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.98%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (69.44%) Agile
2 169 (67.06%) DevOps
3 106 (42.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (40.48%) Test Automation
5 97 (38.49%) Mentoring
6 78 (30.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (25.79%) Containerisation
8 65 (25.79%) Technical Leadership
9 54 (21.43%) Data Engineering
10 51 (20.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 50 (19.84%) Coaching
12 46 (18.25%) Observability
13 44 (17.46%) AI
14 43 (17.06%) Deployment Automation
14 43 (17.06%) SFIA
15 41 (16.27%) Software Engineering
16 38 (15.08%) Full-Stack Development
17 37 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (14.68%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.16%) Python
2 60 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 45 (17.86%) Java
3 45 (17.86%) SQL
4 37 (14.68%) TypeScript
5 29 (11.51%) C#
6 23 (9.13%) Bash
7 10 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.38%) Scala
8 6 (2.38%) Swift
9 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.59%) C++
10 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.19%) Bicep
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
13 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 93 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 80 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.92%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.13%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.16%) Degree
6 12 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.19%) CCSP
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CISM
8 3 (1.19%) CISSP
8 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.86%) QA
2 28 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 21 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.76%) WCAG
5 9 (3.57%) NCSC
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.14%) Ansible
3 10 (3.97%) Grafana
4 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.19%) Argo
5 3 (1.19%) Control-M
5 3 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.79%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.17%) Google
4 7 (2.78%) Databricks
5 6 (2.38%) Apple
5 6 (2.38%) Confluent
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle
7 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 3 (1.19%) VMware
8 2 (0.79%) Pega
8 2 (0.79%) UiPath
9 1 (0.40%) Arista
9 1 (0.40%) F5
9 1 (0.40%) IFS
9 1 (0.40%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.40%) Sage