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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 47 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -28 +2
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 465 487 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.73% 3.92% 9.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 4.84% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 373 338 622
10th Percentile £46,600 £44,738 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,700 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 8,344 10,071 7,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.93% 81.02% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,621 4,733 5,412
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +15 257 £65,000 +4.00% 327
Yorkshire +5 177 £68,000 +11.48% 105
North East -11 33 £60,000 +9.09% 33
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 17 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.37%) Apache
3 10 (2.15%) CMS
3 10 (2.15%) Confluence
4 6 (1.29%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 257 (55.27%) AWS
2 239 (51.40%) Azure
3 75 (16.13%) GCP
4 65 (13.98%) GitHub
5 64 (13.76%) Serverless
6 47 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 39 (8.39%) Amazon S3
9 33 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (7.10%) SaaS
10 30 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (4.09%) Power Platform
15 16 (3.44%) PaaS
16 14 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (2.37%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) Firewall
2 8 (1.72%) DNS
2 8 (1.72%) HTTP
2 8 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.86%) Network Security
3 4 (0.86%) SAN
3 4 (0.86%) VPN
4 3 (0.65%) DHCP
4 3 (0.65%) SSL
4 3 (0.65%) WAN
5 2 (0.43%) AMQP
5 2 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.22%) BGP
6 1 (0.22%) DAB
6 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.22%) LAN
6 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.97%) NoSQL
2 36 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (7.31%) SQL Server
4 29 (6.24%) DynamoDB
5 26 (5.59%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.44%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.80%) MySQL
9 11 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.94%) Metadata
12 7 (1.51%) Big Data
12 7 (1.51%) Redis
13 6 (1.29%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.29%) Power BI
13 6 (1.29%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 50 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 46 (9.89%) Git
2 46 (9.89%) GitLab
3 25 (5.38%) JIRA
4 13 (2.80%) CircleCI
5 12 (2.58%) Cucumber
5 12 (2.58%) Selenium
6 9 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.29%) MLflow
9 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.08%) JMeter
10 4 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.86%) JUnit
10 4 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.65%) Gatling
11 3 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.43%) Appium
12 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 112 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (12.04%) Finance
3 36 (7.74%) Retail
4 25 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.09%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.01%) Marketing
7 10 (2.15%) Games
7 10 (2.15%) Law
7 10 (2.15%) Tech for Good
8 7 (1.51%) Banking
8 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.29%) Electronics
9 6 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 127 (27.31%) Senior
2 118 (25.38%) Developer
3 79 (16.99%) Lead
4 56 (12.04%) Software Engineer
5 41 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (8.60%) Data Engineer
7 33 (7.10%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.45%) .NET Developer
9 29 (6.24%) Senior Data Engineer
10 25 (5.38%) Architect
11 23 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.95%) Engineering Manager
12 21 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.87%) Java Developer
14 15 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
14 15 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.23%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (23.87%) .NET
2 86 (18.49%) React
3 63 (13.55%) RESTful
4 40 (8.60%) HTML
5 39 (8.39%) CSS
6 37 (7.96%) Node.js
7 35 (7.53%) Spring
8 33 (7.10%) .NET Core
8 33 (7.10%) Spring Boot
9 31 (6.67%) REST
10 28 (6.02%) AngularJS
10 28 (6.02%) Django
11 24 (5.16%) FastAPI
12 23 (4.95%) .NET Framework
13 22 (4.73%) Flask
13 22 (4.73%) Vue
14 21 (4.52%) Kafka
15 15 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (3.01%) ASP.NET
16 14 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 94 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.09%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.29%) Wiki
10 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.03%) Linux
2 18 (3.87%) Windows
3 13 (2.80%) Unix
4 8 (1.72%) Android
4 8 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.72%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.51%) Debian
6 4 (0.86%) VMS
6 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (57.85%) DevOps
2 203 (43.66%) Agile
3 139 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (28.82%) Software Engineering
5 121 (26.02%) Mentoring
6 117 (25.16%) Containerisation
7 107 (23.01%) Microservices
8 99 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (12.47%) TDD
11 57 (12.26%) Test Automation
12 55 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 53 (11.40%) Clean Code
14 50 (10.75%) AI
15 49 (10.54%) Roadmaps
16 48 (10.32%) Observability
17 42 (9.03%) Data Modelling
17 42 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
18 40 (8.60%) Coaching
18 40 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (35.48%) Python
2 145 (31.18%) SQL
3 103 (22.15%) C#
4 91 (19.57%) Java
5 86 (18.49%) JavaScript
6 72 (15.48%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.10%) Bash
8 32 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.23%) Bicep
10 9 (1.94%) Go
11 7 (1.51%) PHP
12 4 (0.86%) Ruby
12 4 (0.86%) XAML
13 3 (0.65%) C
13 3 (0.65%) Erlang
13 3 (0.65%) Rust
13 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.43%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) Groovy
15 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (6.24%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.59%) AWS Certification
3 25 (5.38%) Degree
3 25 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) CISM
10 1 (0.22%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.88%) QA
2 22 (4.73%) GDPR
3 12 (2.58%) NIST
4 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.94%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.65%) GRC
7 3 (0.65%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 166 (35.70%) Docker
2 8 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.29%) vSphere
4 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.65%) KVM
6 3 (0.65%) QEMU
7 2 (0.43%) Squid
7 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) HDFS
8 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (29.89%) Kubernetes
2 130 (27.96%) Terraform
3 41 (8.82%) Ansible
4 40 (8.60%) Grafana
5 31 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.29%) Kubeflow
7 3 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.65%) Control-M
7 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
8 2 (0.43%) Argo
8 2 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 56 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.88%) Databricks
3 31 (6.67%) Google
4 12 (2.58%) Splunk
5 9 (1.94%) VMware
6 7 (1.51%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.51%) Oracle
7 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.86%) Bloomberg
8 4 (0.86%) Foundry
8 4 (0.86%) IBM
8 4 (0.86%) Moogsoft
8 4 (0.86%) SAP
9 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.65%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.65%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.65%) Software AG
9 3 (0.65%) webMethods
10 2 (0.43%) New Relic