CI/CD Job Trends in Manchester

CI/CD
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 39 15
Rank change year-on-year +21 -24 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 196 186 290
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.22% 5.16% 11.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 6.02% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 146 127 255
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,350
25th Percentile £56,563 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,028 3,089 2,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.03% 85.64% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 1,399 1,874
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £59,541
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -7.63% +8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,926
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Manchester

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Manchester

CI/CD
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Salford +10 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Bolton +9 2 - - 93
Oldham - 2 £65,000 -
Stockport -2 1 - - 5
Altrincham -3 1 - - 25
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 34
Sale - 1 - -
Wigan - 1 - - 2
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.53%) CMS
3 3 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.59%) AWS
2 106 (54.08%) Azure
3 35 (17.86%) GCP
4 28 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.69%) Serverless
6 18 (9.18%) GitHub
7 15 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.14%) SaaS
9 13 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.59%) Power Platform
13 8 (4.08%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (4.08%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
14 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) HTTP
2 2 (1.02%) DNS
2 2 (1.02%) Firewall
2 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.02%) WAN
3 1 (0.51%) DAB
3 1 (0.51%) SAN
3 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.82%) NoSQL
2 21 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.18%) SQL Server
4 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.59%) MySQL
7 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.04%) Big Data
9 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.53%) Power BI
11 2 (1.02%) Redis
12 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.78%) GitLab
2 22 (11.22%) Git
2 22 (11.22%) JIRA
3 18 (9.18%) Cucumber
3 18 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.18%) Selenium
4 10 (5.10%) Bitbucket
4 10 (5.10%) Maven
4 10 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (4.59%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.04%) JMeter
8 3 (1.53%) Gatling
9 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.02%) JUnit
9 2 (1.02%) NUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Ant
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.51%) Protractor
General
1 45 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Finance
3 25 (12.76%) Retail
4 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.59%) Banking
4 9 (4.59%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.59%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.08%) Marketing
6 7 (3.57%) Games
6 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Advertising
9 2 (1.02%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.02%) Electronics
9 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (30.61%) Senior
2 49 (25.00%) Developer
3 36 (18.37%) Software Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Lead
5 17 (8.67%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.65%) .NET Developer
6 15 (7.65%) Architect
6 15 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.61%) AWS Architect
8 11 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) AWS Solution Architect
9 10 (5.10%) Senior Architect
9 10 (5.10%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) DevOps Architect
11 8 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.02%) .NET
2 41 (20.92%) RESTful
3 39 (19.90%) React
4 33 (16.84%) Spring
4 33 (16.84%) Spring Boot
5 24 (12.24%) REST
6 22 (11.22%) HTML
6 22 (11.22%) Kafka
7 21 (10.71%) CSS
8 15 (7.65%) .NET Core
8 15 (7.65%) AngularJS
8 15 (7.65%) HTML5
9 14 (7.14%) CSS3
10 11 (5.61%) .NET Framework
10 11 (5.61%) Jest
10 11 (5.61%) Redux
11 10 (5.10%) Node.js
12 9 (4.59%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 10 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.06%) Wiki
8 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.53%) BBC
9 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.53%) Online Games
10 2 (1.02%) Blog
10 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Social Media
10 2 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.73%) Linux
2 8 (4.08%) Ubuntu
2 8 (4.08%) Windows
3 7 (3.57%) Debian
4 4 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.53%) Android
5 3 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.53%) Unix
6 2 (1.02%) VMS
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (66.33%) DevOps
2 101 (51.53%) Agile
3 79 (40.31%) Containerisation
4 76 (38.78%) Software Engineering
5 73 (37.24%) Microservices
6 43 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (21.43%) TDD
8 37 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (16.84%) Mentoring
11 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (15.82%) Test Automation
13 29 (14.80%) SDLC
14 28 (14.29%) Clean Code
14 28 (14.29%) User Experience
15 27 (13.78%) AI
15 27 (13.78%) Performance Optimisation
16 25 (12.76%) Roadmaps
17 19 (9.69%) Event-Driven
18 18 (9.18%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.55%) C#
1 54 (27.55%) SQL
2 53 (27.04%) Java
3 48 (24.49%) Python
4 38 (19.39%) JavaScript
5 35 (17.86%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.63%) Bash
7 10 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.55%) Bicep
9 3 (1.53%) Erlang
9 3 (1.53%) PHP
9 3 (1.53%) Rust
9 3 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.02%) Go
10 2 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.12%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.02%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.71%) QA
2 16 (8.16%) GDPR
3 11 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.59%) HIPAA
4 9 (4.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (44.39%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.02%) vSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.51%) HDFS
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.51%) Postfix
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.43%) Terraform
3 19 (9.69%) Ansible
4 11 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.10%) Grafana
6 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.53%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.63%) Google
3 11 (5.61%) Splunk
4 9 (4.59%) Solace
5 4 (2.04%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.04%) Foundry
5 4 (2.04%) IBM
5 4 (2.04%) Moogsoft
5 4 (2.04%) VMware
6 3 (1.53%) Databricks
6 3 (1.53%) Oracle
6 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.53%) Software AG
6 3 (1.53%) webMethods
7 2 (1.02%) SAP
7 2 (1.02%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.51%) Pega
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.51%) WSO2