CI/CD Jobs in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 92 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 145 191 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.52% 2.46% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.08% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 96 162 172
10th Percentile £46,875 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £97,375 £97,125
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,601 6,207 5,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.30% 79.99% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,837 4,103 3,101
10th Percentile £28,822 £27,300 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,189 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Birmingham -5 51 £60,000 -20.00% 41
Staffordshire +29 29 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Shropshire +28 18 £60,000 -17.24% 12
Warwickshire +4 13 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Solihull +10 11 £55,000 -18.52% 4
Coventry -2 7 £66,250 +6.00% 13
Worcestershire +20 4 £65,000 -29.73% 9
Herefordshire - 4 £92,500 - 2
Walsall - 1 £60,000 - 1
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 23 (15.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.45%) nginx
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) CMS
3 3 (2.07%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (68.28%) Azure
2 71 (48.97%) AWS
3 34 (23.45%) GCP
4 29 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.72%) SaaS
6 13 (8.97%) GitHub
6 13 (8.97%) Serverless
7 10 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.90%) IaaS
8 9 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.21%) PaaS
9 8 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Firewall
2 8 (5.52%) HTTP
3 7 (4.83%) DNS
3 7 (4.83%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.76%) Broadband
4 4 (2.76%) FTP
4 4 (2.76%) IMAP
4 4 (2.76%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.76%) SMTP
4 4 (2.76%) SSH
5 3 (2.07%) VPN
6 2 (1.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.69%) Internet
7 1 (0.69%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.69%) IPsec
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.21%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.14%) Power BI
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.76%) MySQL
8 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.07%) Metadata
8 3 (2.07%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.07%) Redis
9 2 (1.38%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (30.34%) JIRA
2 29 (20.00%) GitLab
3 27 (18.62%) Selenium
3 27 (18.62%) SonarQube
4 26 (17.93%) Maven
5 24 (16.55%) Bitbucket
5 24 (16.55%) Cucumber
5 24 (16.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (14.48%) Git
7 11 (7.59%) Jenkins
8 7 (4.83%) JUnit
8 7 (4.83%) NUnit
9 4 (2.76%) Vagrant
10 3 (2.07%) MLflow
10 3 (2.07%) Mockito
10 3 (2.07%) Postman
11 2 (1.38%) JMeter
11 2 (1.38%) Mocha
11 2 (1.38%) Storybook
12 1 (0.69%) TestComplete
General
1 39 (26.90%) Finance
2 35 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 32 (22.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (16.55%) Banking
5 16 (11.03%) Retail
6 11 (7.59%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (7.59%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.14%) Automotive
10 4 (2.76%) Advertising
11 3 (2.07%) Law
12 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.69%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 39 (26.90%) Software Engineer
2 37 (25.52%) Developer
3 29 (20.00%) Senior
4 14 (9.66%) Lead
5 11 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.21%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.21%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.83%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Backend Developer
10 6 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Architect
11 5 (3.45%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.34%) React
2 42 (28.97%) Spring
3 33 (22.76%) Spring Boot
4 32 (22.07%) HTML
5 30 (20.69%) CSS
6 26 (17.93%) JPA
6 26 (17.93%) Kafka
7 24 (16.55%) Redux
8 21 (14.48%) .NET
8 21 (14.48%) REST
9 20 (13.79%) Node.js
9 20 (13.79%) RESTful
10 18 (12.41%) Jest
11 15 (10.34%) Hibernate
12 13 (8.97%) CSS3
12 13 (8.97%) HTML5
13 12 (8.28%) Sass
14 10 (6.90%) .NET Core
15 7 (4.83%) AngularJS
16 6 (4.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.31%) Product Ownership
2 25 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.66%) Cloud Native
4 13 (8.97%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.52%) Private Cloud
6 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.14%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.76%) Replication
9 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.07%) Lidar
9 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.07%) NHS
10 2 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) IoT
10 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Windows
2 10 (6.90%) Linux
3 7 (4.83%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.45%) Android
4 5 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.76%) VMS
6 3 (2.07%) Unix
7 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (70.34%) DevOps
2 78 (53.79%) Agile
3 51 (35.17%) Microservices
4 49 (33.79%) Containerisation
5 42 (28.97%) Software Engineering
6 38 (26.21%) Front End Development
6 38 (26.21%) SDLC
7 35 (24.14%) Test Automation
8 34 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (23.45%) TDD
9 29 (20.00%) Clean Code
9 29 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 28 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (17.93%) User Experience
12 24 (16.55%) Performance Optimisation
13 23 (15.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (15.86%) Scrum
14 21 (14.48%) Continuous Delivery
15 20 (13.79%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.38%) SQL
2 49 (33.79%) JavaScript
3 44 (30.34%) Java
4 40 (27.59%) Python
5 28 (19.31%) C#
6 24 (16.55%) TypeScript
7 23 (15.86%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.21%) Bash
8 9 (6.21%) Bicep
9 5 (3.45%) PHP
10 4 (2.76%) Groovy
11 3 (2.07%) Scala
11 3 (2.07%) Swift
11 3 (2.07%) VB
12 2 (1.38%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.69%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 14 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.59%) Degree
5 10 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.38%) PhD
9 1 (0.69%) CCNA
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (23.45%) QA
2 12 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.59%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.52%) GDPR
5 7 (4.83%) COBIT
6 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.07%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) NCSC
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (42.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) DFS Replication
2 4 (2.76%) Dovecot
2 4 (2.76%) Postfix
2 4 (2.76%) Squid
3 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (39.31%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.69%) Terraform
3 10 (6.90%) Grafana
3 10 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.21%) Ansible
5 4 (2.76%) Nessus
5 4 (2.76%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.38%) Kibana
6 2 (1.38%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.55%) Solace
3 10 (6.90%) Databricks
4 9 (6.21%) Oracle
5 6 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.45%) Google
7 4 (2.76%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.76%) Okta
7 4 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.76%) Splunk
7 4 (2.76%) VMware
8 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.38%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.38%) Meraki
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco
9 1 (0.69%) IBM
9 1 (0.69%) Juniper
9 1 (0.69%) Pega
9 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds