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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 51 45
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 340 381 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.25% 3.86% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 4.67% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 186 312 313
10th Percentile £47,231 £40,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £54,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,688 £77,715 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £87,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -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 7,669 8,165 7,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.77% 82.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 6,197 3,919
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,831
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 £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 12 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 12 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 +11 198 £72,500 +16.00% 312
Cheshire +34 71 £73,500 +33.64% 64
Lancashire -71 32 £50,890 -34.27% 122
Merseyside +41 25 £67,500 +17.39% 21
Cumbria -63 14 £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 44 (12.94%) Confluence
2 5 (1.47%) nginx
3 4 (1.18%) Apache
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 3 (0.88%) GemFire
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 231 (67.94%) AWS
2 222 (65.29%) Azure
3 87 (25.59%) GCP
4 27 (7.94%) GitHub
5 25 (7.35%) SaaS
6 21 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.29%) Serverless
8 13 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.94%) PaaS
10 10 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.35%) IaaS
13 7 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.06%) HTTP
1 7 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.76%) Firewall
3 5 (1.47%) DNS
4 4 (1.18%) Broadband
4 4 (1.18%) Internet
4 4 (1.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.59%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.59%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) FTP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) IPsec
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (38.24%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.76%) MySQL
4 12 (3.53%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
6 9 (2.65%) Redis
7 8 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.76%) Power BI
9 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.88%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.88%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 125 (36.76%) GitLab
1 125 (36.76%) JIRA
2 115 (33.82%) Selenium
3 112 (32.94%) Bitbucket
3 112 (32.94%) Maven
3 112 (32.94%) SonarQube
3 112 (32.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 109 (32.06%) Cucumber
5 40 (11.76%) Git
6 34 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.24%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.76%) JMeter
8 6 (1.76%) JUnit
8 6 (1.76%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.18%) Appium
9 4 (1.18%) Fiddler
9 4 (1.18%) Postman
10 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.88%) NUnit
11 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 173 (50.88%) Finance
2 132 (38.82%) Banking
3 112 (32.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (24.71%) Retail
5 70 (20.59%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (20.59%) Investment Banking
6 36 (10.59%) Social Skills
7 23 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.76%) Cantonese Language
9 6 (1.76%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.47%) Automotive
10 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.47%) Legal
11 4 (1.18%) Marketing
12 3 (0.88%) Games
12 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Law
12 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 153 (45.00%) Software Engineer
2 66 (19.41%) Senior
3 57 (16.76%) Developer
4 49 (14.41%) Lead
5 23 (6.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (6.47%) Senior Developer
7 21 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.29%) .NET Developer
10 13 (3.82%) Architect
11 12 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (2.94%) Lead Developer
13 9 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (2.06%) AWS DevOps
15 7 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (2.06%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.06%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (47.65%) React
2 131 (38.53%) Spring Boot
3 126 (37.06%) Kafka
4 124 (36.47%) Spring
5 120 (35.29%) CSS
6 119 (35.00%) HTML
7 112 (32.94%) Redux
8 109 (32.06%) JPA
9 104 (30.59%) RESTful
10 83 (24.41%) REST
11 76 (22.35%) Jest
12 71 (20.88%) CSS3
12 71 (20.88%) HTML5
12 71 (20.88%) Sass
13 58 (17.06%) .NET
14 45 (13.24%) Hibernate
15 30 (8.82%) .NET Core
16 29 (8.53%) Node.js
17 20 (5.88%) AngularJS
18 11 (3.24%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 133 (39.12%) Product Ownership
2 111 (32.65%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.53%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.24%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.18%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Derivative
11 3 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.88%) Life Science
12 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.59%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.12%) Linux
2 12 (3.53%) Unix
3 7 (2.06%) Windows
4 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.18%) CentOS
6 3 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.59%) Debian
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.59%) zOS
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (70.59%) DevOps
2 213 (62.65%) Agile
3 187 (55.00%) Software Engineering
4 166 (48.82%) Containerisation
5 165 (48.53%) Microservices
6 139 (40.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (40.29%) Test Automation
8 122 (35.88%) Mentoring
8 122 (35.88%) SDLC
9 119 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 117 (34.41%) Front End Development
11 95 (27.94%) User Experience
12 79 (23.24%) Migration
13 74 (21.76%) Strategic Thinking
13 74 (21.76%) TDD
14 73 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (20.59%) Responsive Web Design
16 66 (19.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
18 53 (15.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 159 (46.76%) JavaScript
2 157 (46.18%) Java
3 142 (41.76%) SQL
4 134 (39.41%) TypeScript
5 67 (19.71%) Python
6 44 (12.94%) C#
7 21 (6.18%) Bash
8 20 (5.88%) Bicep
9 17 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.82%) Ruby
11 12 (3.53%) Go
12 11 (3.24%) PHP
13 4 (1.18%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) C++
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.29%) Dart
15 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (8.24%) Degree
2 15 (4.41%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.53%) AWS Certification
3 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.88%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (0.88%) RHCE
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (35.88%) QA
2 76 (22.35%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.71%) GDPR
4 11 (3.24%) HIPAA
5 9 (2.65%) NIST
6 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 186 (54.71%) Docker
2 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.88%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.88%) Postfix
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (53.24%) Kubernetes
2 76 (22.35%) Terraform
3 21 (6.18%) Ansible
4 13 (3.82%) Progress Chef
4 13 (3.82%) Puppet
5 12 (3.53%) Grafana
6 4 (1.18%) Kibana
6 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.88%) Istio
7 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.29%) Argo
8 1 (0.29%) Automic
8 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.29%) Consul
8 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.29%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (32.94%) Solace
2 23 (6.76%) Google
3 16 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.65%) Databricks
4 9 (2.65%) Oracle
5 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.47%) VMware
6 4 (1.18%) Hitachi
6 4 (1.18%) Ping Identity
7 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.88%) Okta
7 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.88%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.59%) IBM
8 2 (0.59%) Meraki
8 2 (0.59%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.29%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.29%) Zend