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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -25
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 399 212 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.10% 8.42% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 9.17% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 297 135 192
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,700
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,517 £92,375
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 4,833 2,313 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.85% 91.90% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,803 1,344 2,658
10th Percentile £33,550 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,031 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,364
% change year-on-year +9.88% -2.55% -6.61%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +16 13 £67,500 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 8 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +4 3 £75,000 - 4
Bolton +13 2 £53,750 - 1
Oldham +7 2 £54,250 - 1
Salford -16 1 £74,301 +7.09% 4
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 15 (3.76%) Confluence
2 13 (3.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (47.87%) AWS
2 183 (45.86%) Azure
3 73 (18.30%) GitHub
4 66 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (14.79%) Serverless
6 56 (14.04%) GCP
7 33 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (6.52%) SaaS
9 25 (6.27%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (3.26%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.76%) dbt
15 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.51%) npm
16 10 (2.51%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.51%) Firewall
2 6 (1.50%) SAN
3 5 (1.25%) Network Security
4 4 (1.00%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.77%) NoSQL
2 26 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 24 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.76%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.76%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.01%) MySQL
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) GIS
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.75%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 62 (15.54%) Git
2 38 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.02%) GitLab
4 26 (6.52%) JIRA
5 16 (4.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.26%) Maven
7 13 (3.26%) Postman
8 12 (3.01%) Snyk
9 9 (2.26%) JUnit
9 9 (2.26%) Spock
10 8 (2.01%) Storybook
11 7 (1.75%) fastlane
12 4 (1.00%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.00%) Selenium
12 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.00%) Vite
13 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.54%) Finance
3 30 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.01%) Banking
6 18 (4.51%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.51%) Marketing
8 9 (2.26%) Publishing
8 9 (2.26%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
10 5 (1.25%) Games
11 3 (0.75%) Law
11 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 161 (40.35%) Senior
2 104 (26.07%) Developer
3 58 (14.54%) Senior Developer
4 55 (13.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (11.53%) Lead
5 46 (11.53%) Software Engineer
6 41 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (7.77%) Architect
8 29 (7.27%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.51%) Senior Automation Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.04%) .NET
2 59 (14.79%) React
3 55 (13.78%) Spring
4 52 (13.03%) Node.js
5 45 (11.28%) Spring Boot
6 44 (11.03%) AngularJS
7 34 (8.52%) CSS
7 34 (8.52%) HTML
8 25 (6.27%) Vue
9 24 (6.02%) REST
10 23 (5.76%) RESTful
11 19 (4.76%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.51%) Kafka
13 10 (2.51%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.26%) .NET Core
14 9 (2.26%) Flask
14 9 (2.26%) JWT
14 9 (2.26%) LangChain
14 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (2.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.01%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.76%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.26%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.00%) Replication
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.75%) Social Media
11 2 (0.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.27%) Linux
2 13 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.01%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Windows
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (0.75%) CentOS
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (61.40%) DevOps
2 162 (40.60%) Agile
3 144 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (32.33%) AI
5 95 (23.81%) Microservices
6 91 (22.81%) Software Engineering
7 90 (22.56%) Mentoring
8 85 (21.30%) Containerisation
9 84 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (20.55%) Test Automation
11 80 (20.05%) Platform Engineering
12 75 (18.80%) Observability
13 71 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (16.54%) TDD
15 64 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 55 (13.78%) Scrum
17 54 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
18 51 (12.78%) Collaborative Culture
19 48 (12.03%) SDLC
20 47 (11.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (33.58%) Python
2 93 (23.31%) Java
3 77 (19.30%) SQL
4 66 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 65 (16.29%) TypeScript
6 60 (15.04%) C#
7 34 (8.52%) Bash
8 29 (7.27%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.26%) Swift
10 12 (3.01%) Go
11 11 (2.76%) Bicep
11 11 (2.76%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.00%) PHP
13 4 (1.00%) Scala
14 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.75%) SOQL
14 3 (0.75%) SOSL
15 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 59 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.77%) DV Cleared
3 29 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.26%) Degree
5 9 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.51%) QA
2 13 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.26%) GRC
3 8 (2.01%) WCAG
4 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (28.07%) Docker
2 18 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 140 (35.09%) Terraform
2 117 (29.32%) Kubernetes
3 43 (10.78%) Ansible
4 19 (4.76%) Grafana
4 19 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.26%) Argo
6 8 (2.01%) Istio
7 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.00%) linkerd
8 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.75%) Podman
9 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 49 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.01%) Google
3 18 (4.51%) Splunk
4 13 (3.26%) Adobe
4 13 (3.26%) Databricks
5 12 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.01%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.01%) Tenable
6 10 (2.51%) VMware
7 9 (2.26%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.50%) Oracle
9 3 (0.75%) Dell
9 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.75%) Pega
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) F5