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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 -20
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 991 528 575
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.44% 5.46% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 6.14% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 732 315 462
10th Percentile £46,025 £48,575 £44,738
25th Percentile £52,375 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +8.00% -7.45%
75th Percentile £81,438 £77,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,050 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,782 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.37% +3.57% -6.67%

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 15,705 8,595 11,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.36% 88.92% 78.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 4,292 7,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +18 543 £68,403 +5.23% 196
Yorkshire +19 264 £69,310 +1.93% 92
North East +16 184 £56,250 -6.25% 79
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 27 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.02%) Confluence
4 18 (1.82%) Apache
5 15 (1.51%) Jupyter
5 15 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.71%) CMS
8 6 (0.61%) IIS
8 6 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.40%) WordPress
11 3 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) CICS
12 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Magento
3 1 (0.10%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 483 (48.74%) AWS
2 451 (45.51%) Azure
3 194 (19.58%) GitHub
4 182 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (17.15%) Serverless
6 116 (11.71%) GCP
7 108 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
8 103 (10.39%) Amazon S3
9 95 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 80 (8.07%) Amazon ECS
12 66 (6.66%) Power Platform
13 61 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 58 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (4.64%) SaaS
16 43 (4.34%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
19 31 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
20 30 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.22%) Broadband
2 19 (1.92%) Firewall
3 16 (1.61%) DNS
4 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.81%) HTTP
5 8 (0.81%) Network Security
6 6 (0.61%) VPN
7 5 (0.50%) SAN
8 4 (0.40%) BGP
8 4 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (0.40%) NGFW
8 4 (0.40%) OSPF
8 4 (0.40%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.20%) ZigBee
11 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.06%) MongoDB
2 65 (6.56%) DynamoDB
3 63 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (6.16%) NoSQL
5 46 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 39 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
8 31 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (3.03%) Power BI
10 25 (2.52%) Data Lake
11 24 (2.42%) MySQL
12 22 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.72%) Spark SQL
15 13 (1.31%) Metadata
16 12 (1.21%) Redis
17 9 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
18 7 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 187 (18.87%) Git
2 132 (13.32%) Jenkins
3 126 (12.71%) GitLab
4 49 (4.94%) JIRA
5 31 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 30 (3.03%) Maven
7 29 (2.93%) Cypress.io
8 27 (2.72%) SonarQube
9 22 (2.22%) Bitbucket
10 18 (1.82%) fastlane
10 18 (1.82%) Postman
11 15 (1.51%) JUnit
12 12 (1.21%) Snyk
13 11 (1.11%) Spock
14 10 (1.01%) Selenium
15 8 (0.81%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.81%) Storybook
16 7 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.71%) Xcode
17 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 221 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 163 (16.45%) Public Sector
3 131 (13.22%) Finance
4 87 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.43%) Games
7 27 (2.72%) Legal
8 26 (2.62%) Banking
8 26 (2.62%) Marketing
9 20 (2.02%) Law
10 18 (1.82%) Retail
11 16 (1.61%) Advertising
12 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.31%) Publishing
13 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.91%) Local Government
15 8 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.71%) Retail Banking
16 7 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 305 (30.78%) Senior
2 285 (28.76%) Developer
3 136 (13.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (12.01%) Lead
5 97 (9.79%) Software Engineer
6 95 (9.59%) Senior Developer
7 73 (7.37%) Java Developer
8 70 (7.06%) Architect
9 67 (6.76%) Data Engineer
10 66 (6.66%) Platform Engineer
11 65 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 52 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
13 49 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
16 41 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
17 39 (3.94%) .NET Developer
18 34 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
19 32 (3.23%) Software Developer
20 31 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.24%) .NET
2 145 (14.63%) Node.js
3 123 (12.41%) React
4 111 (11.20%) CSS
5 101 (10.19%) AngularJS
6 98 (9.89%) HTML
7 91 (9.18%) Spring
8 87 (8.78%) Spring Boot
9 83 (8.38%) REST
10 60 (6.05%) RESTful
11 53 (5.35%) .NET Core
12 43 (4.34%) PySpark
13 42 (4.24%) ASP.NET
14 38 (3.83%) Vue
15 33 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
15 33 (3.33%) Entity Framework
16 28 (2.83%) Kafka
17 27 (2.72%) Jest
18 26 (2.62%) .NET Framework
18 26 (2.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 50 (5.05%) Mobile App
5 40 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.51%) Social Media
14 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 11 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
17 10 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.99%) Linux
2 37 (3.73%) Android
3 35 (3.53%) Windows
4 31 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 25 (2.52%) Unix
6 16 (1.61%) CentOS
6 16 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (63.37%) DevOps
2 468 (47.23%) Agile
3 338 (34.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 257 (25.93%) Mentoring
5 241 (24.32%) Test Automation
6 239 (24.12%) AI
7 228 (23.01%) Software Engineering
8 219 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 192 (19.37%) Containerisation
10 188 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 184 (18.57%) Microservices
12 177 (17.86%) Observability
13 174 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 150 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
15 142 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
16 121 (12.21%) Scrum
17 120 (12.11%) Coaching
18 112 (11.30%) TDD
19 102 (10.29%) Decision-Making
20 95 (9.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 300 (30.27%) Python
2 232 (23.41%) SQL
3 225 (22.70%) Java
4 179 (18.06%) JavaScript
5 166 (16.75%) TypeScript
6 147 (14.83%) C#
7 89 (8.98%) Bash
8 54 (5.45%) Kotlin
9 49 (4.94%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.73%) Groovy
11 24 (2.42%) Bicep
12 20 (2.02%) Swift
13 17 (1.72%) Go
14 14 (1.41%) PHP
15 13 (1.31%) C++
16 9 (0.91%) C
16 9 (0.91%) Scala
17 7 (0.71%) VB.NET
18 6 (0.61%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 106 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.46%) Degree
4 48 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.30%) CCSP
13 3 (0.30%) CISM
13 3 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.69%) QA
2 58 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 42 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 27 (2.72%) WCAG
5 18 (1.82%) GDPR
6 13 (1.31%) GRC
7 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.30%) NCSC
9 3 (0.30%) NIST
10 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 292 (29.47%) Docker
2 18 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) vSphere
6 3 (0.30%) Ceph
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 308 (31.08%) Terraform
2 219 (22.10%) Kubernetes
3 83 (8.38%) Ansible
4 30 (3.03%) Grafana
5 27 (2.72%) Argo
6 24 (2.42%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.51%) HP Fortify
9 13 (1.31%) Istio
10 8 (0.81%) linkerd
11 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.71%) Puppet
12 3 (0.30%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.30%) Control-M
12 3 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.30%) Kibana
12 3 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.30%) Podman
13 1 (0.10%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.25%) Databricks
3 42 (4.24%) Google
4 25 (2.52%) Splunk
5 18 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 16 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.51%) VMware
8 14 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.31%) Adobe
10 12 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (1.21%) Tenable
11 9 (0.91%) Pega
12 8 (0.81%) Apple
12 8 (0.81%) Oracle
13 7 (0.71%) IBM
13 7 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.61%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.40%) Arista