CI/CD Jobs in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 -18
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 347 388 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.45% 3.75% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 4.62% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 176 313 332
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,375 £42,961
25th Percentile £54,875 £51,250 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.00% +11.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,889 £87,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Salary trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 May 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 +11 197 £72,500 +16.00% 690
Cheshire +37 78 £68,750 +25.00% 426
Lancashire -70 33 £50,445 -34.84% 191
Merseyside +39 26 £66,250 +15.22% 188
Cumbria -62 13 £72,500 +11.54% 3
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (14.12%) Confluence
2 6 (1.73%) nginx
3 5 (1.44%) Apache
4 4 (1.15%) CMS
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) GemFire
5 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 240 (69.16%) AWS
2 220 (63.40%) Azure
3 90 (25.94%) GCP
4 30 (8.65%) GitHub
5 23 (6.63%) Serverless
6 21 (6.05%) SaaS
7 20 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.88%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.59%) HTTP
1 9 (2.59%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.02%) Broadband
3 5 (1.44%) Firewall
3 5 (1.44%) Internet
4 4 (1.15%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) DNS
6 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.58%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) FTP
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (37.18%) SQL Server
2 38 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 26 (7.49%) MySQL
4 20 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.88%) Cloud Spanner
6 10 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.59%) Redis
8 8 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.31%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.73%) Power BI
10 5 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.86%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (0.86%) Big Data
12 3 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 132 (38.04%) JIRA
2 131 (37.75%) GitLab
3 121 (34.87%) Selenium
4 115 (33.14%) Cucumber
5 112 (32.28%) Bitbucket
5 112 (32.28%) Maven
5 112 (32.28%) SonarQube
5 112 (32.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 46 (13.26%) Git
7 35 (10.09%) Jenkins
8 10 (2.88%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.02%) JUnit
10 6 (1.73%) JMeter
10 6 (1.73%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.15%) Appium
11 4 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.15%) Fiddler
11 4 (1.15%) Postman
12 3 (0.86%) NUnit
General
1 178 (51.30%) Finance
2 131 (37.75%) Banking
3 112 (32.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (24.21%) Retail
5 70 (20.17%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (20.17%) Investment Banking
6 46 (13.26%) Social Skills
7 30 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.31%) Cantonese Language
8 8 (2.31%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (1.73%) Marketing
10 5 (1.44%) Automotive
10 5 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.15%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Law
13 2 (0.58%) Advertising
13 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 156 (44.96%) Software Engineer
2 78 (22.48%) Senior
3 63 (18.16%) Developer
4 42 (12.10%) Lead
5 31 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 25 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (4.90%) .NET Developer
9 15 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.46%) Architect
12 10 (2.88%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) Lead Developer
14 8 (2.31%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.31%) Senior Architect
15 7 (2.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (2.02%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (47.55%) React
2 139 (40.06%) Spring Boot
3 134 (38.62%) Kafka
4 132 (38.04%) Spring
5 125 (36.02%) CSS
5 125 (36.02%) HTML
6 112 (32.28%) Redux
7 110 (31.70%) RESTful
8 109 (31.41%) JPA
9 85 (24.50%) REST
10 78 (22.48%) Jest
11 72 (20.75%) HTML5
12 71 (20.46%) CSS3
12 71 (20.46%) Sass
13 59 (17.00%) .NET
14 44 (12.68%) Hibernate
15 33 (9.51%) Node.js
16 30 (8.65%) .NET Core
17 20 (5.76%) AngularJS
18 14 (4.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 130 (37.46%) Product Ownership
2 110 (31.70%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (8.65%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.46%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.73%) Wiki
11 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.86%) Derivative
12 3 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.86%) Life Science
12 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.09%) Linux
2 11 (3.17%) Unix
3 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.44%) Windows
5 4 (1.15%) CentOS
6 3 (0.86%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (69.74%) DevOps
2 225 (64.84%) Agile
3 192 (55.33%) Software Engineering
4 179 (51.59%) Microservices
5 170 (48.99%) Containerisation
6 145 (41.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (39.77%) Test Automation
8 120 (34.58%) Front End Development
8 120 (34.58%) Performance Optimisation
9 119 (34.29%) SDLC
10 114 (32.85%) Mentoring
11 98 (28.24%) User Experience
12 77 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (22.19%) Migration
12 77 (22.19%) TDD
13 74 (21.33%) Strategic Thinking
14 71 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (20.46%) Responsive Web Design
15 59 (17.00%) Clean Code
16 56 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 169 (48.70%) Java
2 168 (48.41%) JavaScript
3 150 (43.23%) SQL
4 139 (40.06%) TypeScript
5 70 (20.17%) Python
6 46 (13.26%) C#
7 19 (5.48%) Bash
8 16 (4.61%) Bicep
9 15 (4.32%) Ruby
10 14 (4.03%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.75%) PHP
12 12 (3.46%) Go
13 4 (1.15%) Rust
14 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.58%) C++
16 1 (0.29%) Dart
16 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (10.09%) Degree
2 17 (4.90%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.32%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.15%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (0.86%) PhD
8 3 (0.86%) RHCE
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (35.16%) QA
2 76 (21.90%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.61%) GDPR
4 13 (3.75%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.73%) NIST
5 6 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 200 (57.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Dovecot
4 3 (0.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 190 (54.76%) Kubernetes
2 73 (21.04%) Terraform
3 20 (5.76%) Ansible
4 13 (3.75%) Grafana
5 11 (3.17%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.17%) Puppet
6 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.15%) Kibana
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.86%) Istio
8 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) Argo
9 1 (0.29%) Automic
9 1 (0.29%) Consul
9 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.29%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (32.28%) Solace
2 29 (8.36%) Google
3 14 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.31%) Oracle
5 7 (2.02%) Databricks
6 6 (1.73%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.15%) Hitachi
8 4 (1.15%) IBM
8 4 (1.15%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.15%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) VMware
9 3 (0.86%) Okta
9 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.86%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.58%) Meraki
10 2 (0.58%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.58%) SAP
11 1 (0.29%) Revolut