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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 38 19
Rank change year-on-year +18 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 183 179 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.94% 5.39% 10.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.44% 6.04% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 152 126 211
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,563 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,633 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,375 £87,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £65,250 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% -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 1,939 2,964 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.08% 89.22% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 1,398 1,708
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +5.58%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% +3.77%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Bolton +19 1 - -
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 4 (2.19%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.64%) CMS
2 3 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 98 (53.55%) Azure
2 95 (51.91%) AWS
3 34 (18.58%) GCP
4 26 (14.21%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.93%) Serverless
6 15 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (8.20%) SaaS
7 14 (7.65%) GitHub
8 12 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.83%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.09%) WAN
3 1 (0.55%) DAB
3 1 (0.55%) SAN
3 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 16 (8.74%) MongoDB
3 15 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.10%) MySQL
5 9 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.64%) Power BI
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.09%) Big Data
11 2 (1.09%) Redis
12 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (13.66%) Git
2 16 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.56%) GitLab
4 9 (4.92%) JIRA
5 5 (2.73%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.19%) JMeter
7 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.64%) Gatling
7 3 (1.64%) JUnit
7 3 (1.64%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.55%) Ant
9 1 (0.55%) Appium
9 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.55%) Maven
9 1 (0.55%) NUnit
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.38%) Finance
3 14 (7.65%) Retail
4 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.28%) Games
5 6 (3.28%) Marketing
6 3 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.09%) Electronics
7 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.09%) Legal
7 2 (1.09%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.55%) Law
8 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 60 (32.79%) Senior
2 45 (24.59%) Developer
3 28 (15.30%) Software Engineer
4 26 (14.21%) Lead
5 17 (9.29%) .NET Developer
6 15 (8.20%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.65%) Architect
8 13 (7.10%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.92%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) AWS Solution Architect
11 8 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (30.05%) .NET
2 33 (18.03%) RESTful
3 30 (16.39%) React
4 19 (10.38%) AngularJS
5 17 (9.29%) .NET Core
5 17 (9.29%) CSS
5 17 (9.29%) HTML
5 17 (9.29%) Spring
5 17 (9.29%) Spring Boot
6 16 (8.74%) REST
7 15 (8.20%) .NET Framework
8 13 (7.10%) Node.js
9 9 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (4.92%) Kafka
10 8 (4.37%) Django
10 8 (4.37%) Hibernate
11 7 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.83%) Vue
12 6 (3.28%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (26.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.56%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.64%) BBC
9 3 (1.64%) Online Games
10 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.09%) IoT
10 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Linux
2 9 (4.92%) Windows
3 6 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.73%) Debian
5 4 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.64%) Android
6 3 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.64%) Unix
6 3 (1.64%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (60.11%) DevOps
2 90 (49.18%) Agile
3 69 (37.70%) Containerisation
4 66 (36.07%) Microservices
5 65 (35.52%) Software Engineering
6 47 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (20.77%) TDD
8 35 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (16.94%) AI
9 31 (16.94%) Clean Code
9 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (14.21%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.11%) Roadmaps
13 20 (10.93%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (10.93%) Test Automation
13 20 (10.93%) User Experience
14 18 (9.84%) Scrum
15 17 (9.29%) Event-Driven
15 17 (9.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 56 (30.60%) C#
2 48 (26.23%) Python
3 45 (24.59%) SQL
4 36 (19.67%) Java
5 33 (18.03%) JavaScript
6 32 (17.49%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.01%) Bash
8 10 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.73%) Bicep
10 4 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (1.64%) Erlang
11 3 (1.64%) Rust
12 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 2 (1.09%) Scala
13 1 (0.55%) Dart
13 1 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.46%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.28%) Degree
6 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) GDPR
2 12 (6.56%) QA
3 7 (3.83%) HIPAA
3 7 (3.83%) NIST
4 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (41.53%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.64%) vSphere
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.55%) HDFS
6 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.55%) Postfix
6 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (34.97%) Kubernetes
2 45 (24.59%) Terraform
3 21 (11.48%) Ansible
4 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.37%) Grafana
6 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.64%) Puppet
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.55%) Podman
7 1 (0.55%) Rancher
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.46%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Splunk
4 5 (2.73%) VMware
5 4 (2.19%) Foundry
6 3 (1.64%) Databricks
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle
6 3 (1.64%) Software AG
6 3 (1.64%) webMethods
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.09%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.55%) Okta
8 1 (0.55%) Pega
8 1 (0.55%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.55%) WSO2