CI/CD Job Trends in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 43 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 472 440 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.49% 4.65% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 5.18% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 368 302 514
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,738 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £79,092 £74,144 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,250 £88,375
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,617 8,495 6,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.05% 89.86% 90.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 3,856 5,290
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,726
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
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 North of England

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the North of England

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +8 226 £65,000 - 192
Yorkshire +16 209 £68,000 +4.62% 158
North East +1 39 £60,000 +6.19% 32
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (2.75%) Apache Spark
1 13 (2.75%) CMS
2 11 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.12%) Apache
4 7 (1.48%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.85%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) nginx
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) JBoss
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 256 (54.24%) AWS
2 250 (52.97%) Azure
3 94 (19.92%) Serverless
4 75 (15.89%) GCP
5 71 (15.04%) GitHub
6 66 (13.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (13.35%) Amazon S3
8 54 (11.44%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (8.69%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (7.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (7.42%) SaaS
13 31 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (3.39%) PaaS
17 16 (3.39%) Power Platform
18 14 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.97%) Firewall
2 13 (2.75%) HTTP
3 12 (2.54%) DNS
4 10 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.06%) VPN
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
7 3 (0.64%) DHCP
7 3 (0.64%) SAN
7 3 (0.64%) SSL
7 3 (0.64%) WAN
8 2 (0.42%) AMQP
9 1 (0.21%) BGP
9 1 (0.21%) DAB
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.77%) NoSQL
2 48 (10.17%) DynamoDB
3 44 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (8.90%) SQL Server
5 29 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (4.87%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.18%) MySQL
9 11 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.48%) Big Data
11 7 (1.48%) Redis
12 6 (1.27%) Metadata
12 6 (1.27%) Power BI
13 5 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (14.19%) Git
1 67 (14.19%) Jenkins
2 52 (11.02%) GitLab
3 21 (4.45%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.81%) SonarQube
5 15 (3.18%) JIRA
6 14 (2.97%) Maven
7 6 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.27%) JUnit
8 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.85%) Selenium
9 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.64%) JMeter
11 2 (0.42%) Appium
11 2 (0.42%) Locust
11 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 49 (10.38%) Finance
3 37 (7.84%) Retail
4 23 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.60%) Marketing
5 17 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.97%) Law
7 11 (2.33%) Games
8 10 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.69%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.48%) Banking
10 7 (1.48%) Electronics
10 7 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.27%) Legal
12 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.21%) Advertising
15 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 139 (29.45%) Developer
2 127 (26.91%) Senior
3 80 (16.95%) Lead
4 54 (11.44%) Software Engineer
5 43 (9.11%) .NET Developer
6 40 (8.47%) Data Engineer
7 38 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 38 (8.05%) Java Developer
8 37 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 28 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (4.03%) Architect
13 19 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (3.81%) Engineering Manager
15 16 (3.39%) Python Developer
15 16 (3.39%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
16 15 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (24.58%) .NET
2 102 (21.61%) React
3 70 (14.83%) RESTful
4 56 (11.86%) CSS
5 53 (11.23%) HTML
6 48 (10.17%) AngularJS
7 47 (9.96%) Node.js
8 45 (9.53%) REST
9 44 (9.32%) Spring Boot
10 40 (8.47%) Spring
11 33 (6.99%) .NET Core
12 31 (6.57%) Django
13 25 (5.30%) .NET Framework
13 25 (5.30%) FastAPI
14 24 (5.08%) ASP.NET
14 24 (5.08%) Flask
14 24 (5.08%) Vue
15 21 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (4.45%) Jest
15 21 (4.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 103 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.26%) Linux
2 22 (4.66%) Windows
3 9 (1.91%) Unix
4 7 (1.48%) Android
4 7 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.27%) VMS
6 4 (0.85%) Debian
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (59.53%) DevOps
2 232 (49.15%) Agile
3 148 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (26.48%) Mentoring
5 116 (24.58%) Software Engineering
6 114 (24.15%) Microservices
7 113 (23.94%) Containerisation
8 99 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 57 (12.08%) Test Automation
11 55 (11.65%) Clean Code
11 55 (11.65%) Observability
12 53 (11.23%) TDD
13 51 (10.81%) Scrum
14 50 (10.59%) AI
15 44 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 42 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (8.69%) Roadmaps
17 41 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (29.87%) Python
2 138 (29.24%) SQL
3 105 (22.25%) Java
4 103 (21.82%) JavaScript
5 98 (20.76%) C#
6 91 (19.28%) TypeScript
7 41 (8.69%) Bash
8 25 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.18%) Bicep
10 14 (2.97%) Go
10 14 (2.97%) Groovy
11 8 (1.69%) PHP
12 5 (1.06%) Scala
13 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.85%) XAML
14 3 (0.64%) Erlang
14 3 (0.64%) Rust
15 2 (0.42%) R
15 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.21%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 32 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 29 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.30%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.81%) Degree
5 16 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 16 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.90%) QA
2 15 (3.18%) GDPR
3 12 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.48%) NIST
5 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.64%) GRC
6 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.64%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (36.44%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.27%) vSphere
4 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.64%) KVM
5 3 (0.64%) QEMU
5 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 133 (28.18%) Terraform
2 119 (25.21%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.23%) Ansible
4 44 (9.32%) Grafana
5 34 (7.20%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.75%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.85%) Puppet
8 3 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.42%) Argo
9 2 (0.42%) Control-M
9 2 (0.42%) Rancher
10 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.21%) Kibana
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.24%) Google
3 15 (3.18%) Databricks
3 15 (3.18%) SAP
4 9 (1.91%) VMware
5 8 (1.69%) Oracle
5 8 (1.69%) Splunk
6 7 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.85%) Foundry
8 3 (0.64%) Adobe
8 3 (0.64%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.64%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.64%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.64%) Software AG
8 3 (0.64%) webMethods
9 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.42%) BMC
9 2 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto