CI/CD: Market Demand & Career Impact (2026)
Live data on CI/CD demand across 6 categories, salary ranges and which companies are hiring.
Quick Answer
CI/CD is required in 19.5% of DevOps & Infrastructure listings. Salary data, hiring trends and co-occurring skills from 1,571 active job listings. Updated April
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- Skill Spotlight
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- Last updated
- April 24, 2026
- Primary topic
- CI/CD
Updated April 24, 2026 · Based on 1,571 job listings · Primary category signal: DevOps & Infrastructure (19.5%)
Demand by Role Category
| Category | Demand % | Trend (30d) | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| DevOps & Infrastructure | 19.5% | ↓ 25.1pp | 628 |
| Security | 5.5% | ↓ 10.6pp | 72 |
| Software Engineering | 4.9% | ↓ 3.7pp | 408 |
| AI & Machine Learning | 3.0% | ↑ 0.2pp | 67 |
| Data & Analytics | 2.0% | ↓ 2.6pp | 108 |
| Product & Design | 0.2% | ↓ 1.6pp | 4 |
Who's Asking for CI/CD?
Top roles: Full Stack Developer (269), DevOps Engineer (214), Data Engineer (40), Backend Engineer (30), Security Engineer (30)
Top companies: Recruiting From Scratch (30), JABIL CIRCUIT, INC (30), anthropic (20), cloudflare (20), mongodb (17)
Seniority breakdown: mid: 50.1% · senior: 48.9% · entry: 1.0%
Commonly Paired With
Skills that appear alongside CI/CD most frequently:
- AWS — 43.8% co-occurrence
- Docker — 32.7% co-occurrence
- Python — 28.2% co-occurrence
- Kubernetes — 28.2% co-occurrence
- Scala — 26.9% co-occurrence
- Git — 26.8% co-occurrence
- Terraform — 26.8% co-occurrence
- Azure — 24.8% co-occurrence
Salary Signal
Compensation signal for CI/CD: median $100,000, typical middle range $65,000 - $143,681 and highest observed listing at $300,000.
Based on 439 listings with published compensation.
Trend
Over the past month, CI/CD declined to 19.5% demand (-25.1 percentage points), which may reflect stack consolidation in DevOps & Infrastructure teams.
Frequently Asked Questions
How in demand is CI/CD right now?
From 1,571 live postings, CI/CD shows 19.5% demand in DevOps & Infrastructure and a -25.1 percentage points 30-day change. The negative move indicates softer demand than the prior month.
What salary can I expect if I know CI/CD?
In listings that disclose pay, CI/CD roles center around a $100,000 median (439 samples), with most offers between $65,000 and $143,681.
What skills pair well with CI/CD?
The most common companions to CI/CD are AWS, Docker and Python. Hiring teams frequently bundle these skills in the same role scope, so learning them together usually improves interview fit.
Data sourced from 1,571 active job listings via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby. Updated weekly. About our data & methodology.
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