CI/CD Job Trends in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 21 53
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 -30
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 13 16 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.36% 6.81% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 7.24% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile £56,750 £47,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £64,400
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.60% +35.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £60,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £82,032 £71,000 £84,460
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 221 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 70.93% 94.04% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 275 63 329
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £33,926 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
County Antrim -25 13 £62,500 +13.64% 18
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.69%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.69%) Sentry
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 3 (23.08%) Next.js
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Django
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) LangChain
3 2 (15.38%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (15.38%) React Native
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) AI
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Facial Recognition
5 2 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 2 (15.38%) Geofencing
5 2 (15.38%) LLM
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle