CircleCI Job Trends in the North of England

CircleCI
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CircleCI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 231 277
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 +114
Permanent jobs citing CircleCI 5 48 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.047% 0.53% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 6.71% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 47 14
10th Percentile £58,625 - £61,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £48,250 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65,188 £69,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £67,775 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -17.58% +3.13%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 540 715 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.08% 7.84% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 394 393 798
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,431
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -8.70% +2.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CircleCI job vacancy trend in the North of England

CircleCI
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CircleCI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CircleCI

CircleCI
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 CircleCI within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +23 4 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Yorkshire -55 1 £68,000 +37.37% 4
CircleCI
England

CircleCI
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (60.00%) Route 53
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Debian
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk