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 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 38 53 18
Rank change year-on-year +15 -35 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 257 260 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.02% 3.74% 9.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 4.59% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 198 177 320
10th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,313 £50,000 £56,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £79,697 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,100 £87,427
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 4,340 5,659 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.82% 81.49% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,444 2,817 2,769
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,196 £31,200
25th Percentile £34,938 £40,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
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 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 14 November 2025.

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 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
Manchester +15 195 £65,383 +0.59% 262
Cheshire +20 37 £72,500 +21.34% 41
Merseyside -6 12 £63,750 +35.64% 8
Lancashire +15 9 £50,000 -11.11% 69
Cumbria -2 3 £65,500 +6.94% 2
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 9 (3.50%) Confluence
2 5 (1.95%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.56%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.17%) Apache
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) CMS
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (52.53%) Azure
2 125 (48.64%) AWS
3 45 (17.51%) GCP
4 33 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (10.51%) GitHub
6 23 (8.95%) Serverless
7 20 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.39%) SaaS
9 15 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (5.84%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.67%) PaaS
12 11 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.89%) Azure Functions
13 10 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.50%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) HTTP
2 5 (1.95%) DNS
2 5 (1.95%) Firewall
3 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) Internet
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) WAN
5 1 (0.39%) DAB
5 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.01%) NoSQL
2 22 (8.56%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.39%) SQL Server
5 17 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.06%) MySQL
7 10 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.56%) Big Data
11 4 (1.56%) Redis
11 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.17%) Power BI
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.78%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (14.01%) Git
2 30 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.28%) GitLab
4 19 (7.39%) JIRA
5 10 (3.89%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.89%) Selenium
6 8 (3.11%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.11%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.56%) JMeter
8 3 (1.17%) Gatling
8 3 (1.17%) JUnit
8 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.78%) Maven
9 2 (0.78%) MLflow
9 2 (0.78%) NUnit
10 1 (0.39%) Ant
10 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
General
1 61 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.84%) Finance
3 21 (8.17%) Retail
4 13 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.89%) Marketing
6 7 (2.72%) Banking
6 7 (2.72%) Games
6 7 (2.72%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.78%) Advertising
8 2 (0.78%) Automotive
8 2 (0.78%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (0.78%) Electronics
8 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Legal
8 2 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.39%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 82 (31.91%) Senior
2 72 (28.02%) Developer
3 36 (14.01%) Lead
4 35 (13.62%) Software Engineer
5 25 (9.73%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (7.78%) .NET Developer
8 18 (7.00%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (5.84%) Architect
10 15 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.28%) AWS Architect
13 11 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.28%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.89%) AWS Solution Architect
14 10 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (28.02%) .NET
2 40 (15.56%) RESTful
3 38 (14.79%) React
4 27 (10.51%) Spring Boot
5 26 (10.12%) Spring
6 24 (9.34%) .NET Core
7 20 (7.78%) AngularJS
7 20 (7.78%) HTML
8 19 (7.39%) CSS
9 18 (7.00%) Node.js
10 17 (6.61%) .NET Framework
10 17 (6.61%) REST
11 14 (5.45%) Kafka
12 11 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.89%) Vue
14 9 (3.50%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.50%) Jest
15 8 (3.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.06%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.11%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.33%) Wiki
9 4 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.17%) BBC
10 3 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.17%) Online Games
10 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.28%) Linux
2 10 (3.89%) Windows
3 8 (3.11%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.72%) Debian
5 4 (1.56%) Android
5 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.56%) Unix
5 4 (1.56%) VMS
5 4 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (61.87%) DevOps
2 124 (48.25%) Agile
3 87 (33.85%) Containerisation
4 83 (32.30%) Software Engineering
5 75 (29.18%) Microservices
6 61 (23.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (19.84%) TDD
8 48 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (15.56%) Mentoring
11 36 (14.01%) Clean Code
12 35 (13.62%) AI
13 32 (12.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (12.06%) Test Automation
15 27 (10.51%) Roadmaps
16 26 (10.12%) Scrum
16 26 (10.12%) SDLC
17 25 (9.73%) Observability
17 25 (9.73%) Unit Testing
18 24 (9.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.85%) C#
2 68 (26.46%) Python
3 64 (24.90%) SQL
4 52 (20.23%) Java
5 42 (16.34%) JavaScript
6 39 (15.18%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.17%) Bash
8 15 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.72%) Bicep
9 7 (2.72%) Go
10 6 (2.33%) PHP
11 4 (1.56%) Ruby
12 3 (1.17%) Erlang
12 3 (1.17%) Rust
12 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.78%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) C
14 1 (0.39%) Dart
14 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.45%) Degree
4 13 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.78%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.39%) CISM
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.17%) QA
2 17 (6.61%) GDPR
3 10 (3.89%) NIST
4 9 (3.50%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (40.86%) Docker
2 7 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.17%) KVM
4 3 (1.17%) QEMU
4 3 (1.17%) vSphere
5 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.39%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.39%) HDFS
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 91 (35.41%) Kubernetes
2 60 (23.35%) Terraform
3 25 (9.73%) Ansible
4 21 (8.17%) Grafana
5 16 (6.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.78%) Google
3 12 (4.67%) Splunk
4 7 (2.72%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.95%) VMware
6 4 (1.56%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.56%) Databricks
6 4 (1.56%) Foundry
6 4 (1.56%) IBM
6 4 (1.56%) Moogsoft
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.17%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.17%) Software AG
7 3 (1.17%) webMethods
8 2 (0.78%) SAP
8 2 (0.78%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.39%) F5
9 1 (0.39%) Pega
9 1 (0.39%) WSO2