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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -12
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 265 197 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.78% 8.82% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 9.22% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 191 134 223
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £77,607
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.00%

All Process & 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 3,970 2,136 4,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.65% 95.66% 85.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 1,271 3,433
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,965 £40,270 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,545 £69,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
Altrincham +10 13 £67,500 +28.57% 4
Salford -17 1 £74,301 +7.09% 5
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 9 (3.40%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.13%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) CICS
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (50.94%) Azure
2 121 (45.66%) AWS
3 50 (18.87%) Serverless
4 48 (18.11%) GitHub
5 41 (15.47%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (15.47%) GCP
6 20 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (7.17%) SaaS
8 17 (6.42%) Azure AKS
9 11 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (4.15%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.40%) Firewall
2 5 (1.89%) VPN
3 4 (1.51%) Network Security
4 3 (1.13%) HTTP
4 3 (1.13%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.38%) LTE
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.32%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.15%) MySQL
5 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.89%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.13%) GIS
8 3 (1.13%) QGIS
9 2 (0.75%) Big Data
9 2 (0.75%) DB2
9 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.75%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.75%) Power BI
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (16.23%) Git
2 22 (8.30%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.17%) GitLab
3 19 (7.17%) JIRA
4 12 (4.53%) Snyk
5 8 (3.02%) Postman
6 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.64%) JUnit
7 5 (1.89%) Maven
8 4 (1.51%) Spock
9 3 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.13%) fastlane
9 3 (1.13%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.75%) Vite
10 2 (0.75%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 47 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.72%) Finance
3 22 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.42%) Banking
5 12 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.64%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.89%) Advertising
10 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) French Language
10 3 (1.13%) Games
10 3 (1.13%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
10 3 (1.13%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.13%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 118 (44.53%) Senior
2 79 (29.81%) Developer
3 46 (17.36%) Software Engineer
4 45 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 32 (12.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (11.70%) Java Developer
7 23 (8.68%) Lead
8 22 (8.30%) Architect
9 19 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (6.04%) .NET Developer
10 16 (6.04%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.91%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.53%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.53%) Security Architect
13 12 (4.53%) Senior Architect
13 12 (4.53%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (22.26%) .NET
2 46 (17.36%) React
3 33 (12.45%) Spring
4 31 (11.70%) Node.js
5 30 (11.32%) RESTful
6 28 (10.57%) Spring Boot
7 26 (9.81%) REST
8 25 (9.43%) CSS
8 25 (9.43%) HTML
9 24 (9.06%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.15%) .NET Framework
11 10 (3.77%) Django
11 10 (3.77%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.77%) Kafka
12 9 (3.40%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.40%) Vue
13 6 (2.26%) JWT
13 6 (2.26%) OAuth
13 6 (2.26%) PySpark
14 5 (1.89%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.17%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.04%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.28%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.53%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.51%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.91%) Linux
2 11 (4.15%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.64%) Android
4 5 (1.89%) Windows
5 2 (0.75%) Debian
5 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (56.60%) DevOps
2 131 (49.43%) Agile
3 89 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (25.66%) Microservices
5 66 (24.91%) AI
5 66 (24.91%) Software Engineering
6 63 (23.77%) TDD
7 58 (21.89%) Mentoring
8 56 (21.13%) Containerisation
9 53 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (19.25%) Scrum
11 46 (17.36%) Test Automation
12 44 (16.60%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (13.21%) Clean Code
15 35 (13.21%) Observability
16 34 (12.83%) SDLC
17 29 (10.94%) Collaborative Culture
18 26 (9.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.79%) Python
2 59 (22.26%) Java
3 56 (21.13%) SQL
4 48 (18.11%) C#
5 44 (16.60%) JavaScript
6 41 (15.47%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.04%) Bash
7 16 (6.04%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.02%) Swift
9 7 (2.64%) Bicep
10 6 (2.26%) Go
11 4 (1.51%) Groovy
11 4 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.51%) PHP
12 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.75%) C
13 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 2 (0.75%) SOQL
13 2 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 22 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.77%) Degree
4 7 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.91%) GRC
2 6 (2.26%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (24.53%) Docker
2 15 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.13%) vSphere
5 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 99 (37.36%) Terraform
2 74 (27.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.06%) Ansible
4 5 (1.89%) Grafana
5 4 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.13%) Rancher
7 2 (0.75%) Packer
7 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.38%) Istio
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.53%) CrowdStrike
2 12 (4.53%) Palo Alto
2 12 (4.53%) Tenable
3 11 (4.15%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.77%) Google
5 8 (3.02%) Databricks
6 7 (2.64%) VMware
7 5 (1.89%) Adobe
8 4 (1.51%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.51%) Oracle
8 4 (1.51%) Splunk
9 3 (1.13%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.13%) Pega
10 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.38%) F5
11 1 (0.38%) HP