CI/CD Job Trends in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 60 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +12
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 126 200 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.38% 4.83% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 5.27% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 97 117 135
10th Percentile £42,000 £49,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £66,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +20.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,978 £97,500
England median annual salary £73,250 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% - -3.33%

All Process & 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 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Birmingham -4 67 £60,000 -7.69% 35
Staffordshire -7 12 £67,500 +8.00% 8
Warwickshire -3 11 £77,500 +10.71% 7
Coventry -4 7 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Solihull +2 6 £75,000 +13.64%
Herefordshire - 5 £92,500 - 3
Worcestershire -27 4 £63,250 -2.69% 14
Shropshire -14 3 - - 20
Halesowen - 2 £44,000 - 1
Tipton - 1 £42,500 - 3
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (5.56%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) CMS
2 4 (3.17%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (70.63%) Azure
2 49 (38.89%) AWS
3 35 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (23.02%) SaaS
5 21 (16.67%) Serverless
6 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 17 (13.49%) GitHub
8 12 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (9.52%) PowerApps
9 11 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (8.73%) GCP
9 11 (8.73%) Power Automate
10 10 (7.94%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) FTP
2 4 (3.17%) HTTP
2 4 (3.17%) IMAP
2 4 (3.17%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (3.17%) SMTP
2 4 (3.17%) SSH
3 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.32%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.17%) MySQL
5 4 (3.17%) Power BI
6 3 (2.38%) Redis
7 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.59%) Metadata
7 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.59%) Power Query
7 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.59%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (18.25%) Git
2 16 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.73%) GitLab
3 11 (8.73%) JIRA
4 5 (3.97%) JUnit
4 5 (3.97%) Selenium
5 4 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.17%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.38%) Mockito
6 3 (2.38%) MSTest
6 3 (2.38%) NUnit
7 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.59%) Gatling
7 2 (1.59%) JMeter
7 2 (1.59%) Maven
7 2 (1.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) Locust
8 1 (0.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.79%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.79%) Snyk
General
1 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.32%) Finance
4 9 (7.14%) Automotive
5 8 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Advertising
7 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (29.37%) Senior
2 28 (22.22%) Developer
3 20 (15.87%) Lead
4 19 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.70%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.14%) CRM Developer
9 9 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM Developer
9 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 9 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 7 (5.56%) C# Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.63%) .NET
2 13 (10.32%) React
3 12 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 10 (7.94%) Spring
5 8 (6.35%) ARM Templates
6 7 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.56%) PySpark
6 7 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.76%) REST
8 5 (3.97%) CSS
8 5 (3.97%) HTML
8 5 (3.97%) RESTful
9 4 (3.17%) Django
9 4 (3.17%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.17%) LDAP
9 4 (3.17%) Node.js
9 4 (3.17%) Playwright
10 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.17%) Replication
4 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) CMDB
5 1 (0.79%) Derivative
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.79%) PKI
5 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.90%) Windows
2 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 11 (8.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.17%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.17%) VMS
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (76.19%) DevOps
2 50 (39.68%) Agile
3 25 (19.84%) Migration
4 23 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (15.87%) Mentoring
6 19 (15.08%) TDD
7 17 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 15 (11.90%) Scrum
10 14 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 13 (10.32%) CRM
11 13 (10.32%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (10.32%) Service Delivery
11 13 (10.32%) Test Automation
12 12 (9.52%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.52%) Data Modelling
12 12 (9.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) Python
2 37 (29.37%) SQL
3 26 (20.63%) C#
4 22 (17.46%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.49%) JavaScript
6 16 (12.70%) Java
7 11 (8.73%) Bicep
8 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.76%) Go
10 4 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (3.17%) Groovy
11 3 (2.38%) Bash
11 3 (2.38%) Scala
11 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.59%) Delphi
12 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) C
13 1 (0.79%) C++
13 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.35%) Degree
5 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.59%) CCNA
7 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) CISSP
8 1 (0.79%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.25%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.59%) WCAG
6 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) DFS Replication
2 4 (3.17%) Dovecot
2 4 (3.17%) Postfix
2 4 (3.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (24.60%) Terraform
2 27 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.14%) Grafana
4 7 (5.56%) Ansible
5 5 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.17%) Nessus
6 4 (3.17%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.59%) Argo
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.79%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.79%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.14%) Databricks
3 6 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (3.17%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.38%) Google
5 3 (2.38%) Guidewire
5 3 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Denodo
6 1 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Splunk
6 1 (0.79%) Talend
6 1 (0.79%) Zend