CI/CD Job Trends in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 -30
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 546 334 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.36% 6.48% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 7.25% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 396 162 210
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,975 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,080 4,608 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.54% 89.44% 77.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,877 2,209 3,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the North West

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North West over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Manchester +2 405 £71,991 +10.76% 215
Lancashire +35 60 £62,500 +13.64% 46
Merseyside -1 41 £62,500 -3.85% 11
Cheshire -32 31 £61,250 -15.52% 22
Cumbria - 7 £50,000 - 1
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.01%) Confluence
3 10 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.10%) IIS
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 255 (46.70%) Azure
2 234 (42.86%) AWS
3 99 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
4 92 (16.85%) GitHub
5 71 (13.00%) GCP
6 66 (12.09%) Serverless
7 44 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (6.59%) Power Platform
9 34 (6.23%) SaaS
10 28 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (4.03%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.66%) Power Automate
13 19 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.30%) dbt
14 18 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (2.75%) Snowflake
16 14 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.38%) Firewall
2 8 (1.47%) DNS
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
4 5 (0.92%) DHCP
4 5 (0.92%) SAN
5 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.73%) VPN
6 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.37%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.37%) CTI
7 2 (0.37%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Wireless
7 2 (0.37%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.18%) BGP
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) NGFW
8 1 (0.18%) OSPF
8 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.88%) MongoDB
2 28 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.75%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.38%) MySQL
9 12 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.65%) Metadata
12 8 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.47%) Power BI
13 7 (1.28%) Redis
14 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.73%) Data Vault
16 4 (0.73%) Spark SQL
17 3 (0.55%) Chroma
Development Applications
1 94 (17.22%) Git
2 52 (9.52%) GitLab
3 35 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 26 (4.76%) JIRA
5 19 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 17 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 17 (3.11%) Maven
7 15 (2.75%) JUnit
8 13 (2.38%) Postman
8 13 (2.38%) Spock
9 12 (2.20%) Snyk
10 8 (1.47%) Selenium
10 8 (1.47%) Storybook
11 7 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.10%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.92%) fastlane
13 5 (0.92%) NUnit
14 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.73%) Vite
General
1 119 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.37%) Finance
3 42 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.58%) Marketing
7 17 (3.11%) Retail
8 14 (2.56%) Banking
8 14 (2.56%) Publishing
9 11 (2.01%) Games
10 9 (1.65%) Advertising
11 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.10%) Law
12 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Legal
13 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (35.90%) Senior
2 150 (27.47%) Developer
3 77 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (11.90%) Lead
5 64 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 55 (10.07%) Software Engineer
7 42 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (7.14%) Architect
9 35 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (5.86%) Data Engineer
11 28 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
12 27 (4.95%) .NET Developer
13 26 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 24 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
15 24 (4.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 22 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (3.85%) Java Developer
17 21 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
17 21 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (30.59%) Terraform
2 91 (16.67%) .NET
3 81 (14.84%) React
4 69 (12.64%) Spring
5 66 (12.09%) Node.js
6 51 (9.34%) AngularJS
6 51 (9.34%) Spring Boot
7 47 (8.61%) CSS
8 46 (8.42%) HTML
9 39 (7.14%) REST
10 28 (5.13%) .NET Core
10 28 (5.13%) ASP.NET
11 26 (4.76%) RESTful
11 26 (4.76%) Vue
12 23 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
12 23 (4.21%) Entity Framework
13 21 (3.85%) Kafka
14 18 (3.30%) FastAPI
15 16 (2.93%) Playwright
16 14 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 52 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.73%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.73%) Podcast
13 4 (0.73%) Replication
13 4 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.24%) Linux
2 13 (2.38%) Windows
3 11 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.65%) Unix
5 8 (1.47%) Android
6 6 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.92%) VMS
8 4 (0.73%) CentOS
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (61.17%) DevOps
2 225 (41.21%) Agile
3 184 (33.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (28.21%) AI
5 140 (25.64%) Mentoring
6 137 (25.09%) Software Engineering
7 129 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 114 (20.88%) Test Automation
9 113 (20.70%) Microservices
10 110 (20.15%) Observability
11 107 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 104 (19.05%) Containerisation
13 101 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
14 93 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
15 70 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
16 65 (11.90%) TDD
17 60 (10.99%) Decision-Making
18 56 (10.26%) Scrum
19 55 (10.07%) Analytics
20 54 (9.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 164 (30.04%) Python
2 122 (22.34%) SQL
3 119 (21.79%) Java
4 107 (19.60%) JavaScript
5 97 (17.77%) TypeScript
6 89 (16.30%) C#
7 47 (8.61%) Bash
8 37 (6.78%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.48%) Bicep
10 14 (2.56%) C++
11 11 (2.01%) Go
12 10 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.65%) Swift
14 8 (1.47%) Groovy
15 7 (1.28%) Apex Code
16 6 (1.10%) C
17 5 (0.92%) PHP
18 4 (0.73%) Scala
18 4 (0.73%) SOQL
18 4 (0.73%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 78 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 42 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 41 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.49%) Degree
5 15 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) CCNA
10 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.37%) MCSE
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.06%) QA
2 21 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.38%) GRC
4 10 (1.83%) WCAG
5 6 (1.10%) GDPR
6 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 146 (26.74%) Docker
2 20 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.28%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.55%) Ceph
5 3 (0.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 148 (27.11%) Kubernetes
2 56 (10.26%) Ansible
3 20 (3.66%) Grafana
3 20 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 15 (2.75%) Argo
5 12 (2.20%) Istio
6 8 (1.47%) linkerd
7 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.92%) Podman
7 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.73%) Puppet
9 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 87 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.68%) Google
3 26 (4.76%) Splunk
4 17 (3.11%) Databricks
5 15 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.38%) Adobe
6 13 (2.38%) AppDynamics
6 13 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (2.20%) Tenable
8 11 (2.01%) VMware
9 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.10%) Oracle
11 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.73%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.73%) Mistral
13 3 (0.55%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (0.55%) ServiceNow