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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -17
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 283 195 265
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.89% 9.07% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 9.47% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 208 123 227
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £52,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,700 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
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 4,159 2,060 4,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.83% 95.86% 84.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 1,164 3,459
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £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 25 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 25 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 +11 13 £67,500 - 2
Salford -21 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 10 (3.53%) Confluence
2 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.06%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.71%) CICS
5 2 (0.71%) CMS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 148 (52.30%) Azure
2 131 (46.29%) AWS
3 52 (18.37%) GitHub
4 50 (17.67%) Serverless
5 46 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (16.25%) GCP
6 22 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (7.07%) SaaS
8 16 (5.65%) Azure AKS
9 12 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (3.89%) Azure Functions
10 11 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (2.47%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.47%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.89%) Firewall
2 6 (2.12%) VPN
3 5 (1.77%) Network Security
4 4 (1.41%) SAN
5 2 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.35%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.35%) DNS
6 1 (0.35%) LTE
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.54%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.65%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.18%) MySQL
5 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.06%) GIS
7 3 (1.06%) QGIS
8 2 (0.71%) Big Data
8 2 (0.71%) DB2
8 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.71%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.71%) Power BI
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (15.55%) Git
2 27 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.42%) GitLab
4 19 (6.71%) JIRA
5 12 (4.24%) Snyk
6 8 (2.83%) Postman
7 7 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.12%) JUnit
9 5 (1.77%) Maven
10 4 (1.41%) Spock
11 3 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.06%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.06%) fastlane
11 3 (1.06%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.71%) Vite
12 2 (0.71%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.35%) WinDbg
General
1 52 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.43%) Finance
3 23 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.01%) Banking
5 15 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.47%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Advertising
9 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
11 3 (1.06%) French Language
11 3 (1.06%) Games
11 3 (1.06%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.06%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.06%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Retail
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 126 (44.52%) Senior
2 83 (29.33%) Developer
3 47 (16.61%) Senior Developer
4 45 (15.90%) Software Engineer
5 39 (13.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.95%) Java Developer
7 27 (9.54%) Lead
8 23 (8.13%) Architect
9 20 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (4.95%) GCP Engineer
13 13 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.59%) Software Developer
14 12 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (4.24%) Senior Architect
14 12 (4.24%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.20%) .NET
2 47 (16.61%) React
3 32 (11.31%) Node.js
3 32 (11.31%) Spring
4 28 (9.89%) RESTful
5 27 (9.54%) Spring Boot
6 25 (8.83%) CSS
6 25 (8.83%) HTML
6 25 (8.83%) REST
7 23 (8.13%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.89%) Vue
9 10 (3.53%) FastAPI
9 10 (3.53%) Kafka
10 9 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.18%) .NET Framework
10 9 (3.18%) Django
11 8 (2.83%) JWT
11 8 (2.83%) OAuth
12 7 (2.47%) PySpark
13 6 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.95%) Linux
2 11 (3.89%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.18%) Android
4 5 (1.77%) Windows
5 2 (0.71%) Debian
5 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (56.18%) DevOps
2 135 (47.70%) Agile
3 100 (35.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (25.80%) AI
5 68 (24.03%) Microservices
6 66 (23.32%) Software Engineering
7 65 (22.97%) TDD
8 64 (22.61%) Mentoring
9 58 (20.49%) Containerisation
10 56 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (17.67%) Scrum
12 49 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (17.31%) Test Automation
13 46 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (13.78%) Observability
15 38 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (13.07%) SDLC
17 35 (12.37%) Clean Code
18 29 (10.25%) Collaborative Culture
19 28 (9.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.62%) Python
2 60 (21.20%) Java
3 56 (19.79%) SQL
4 47 (16.61%) C#
5 45 (15.90%) JavaScript
6 38 (13.43%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.42%) PowerShell
8 20 (7.07%) Bash
9 9 (3.18%) Bicep
10 8 (2.83%) Swift
11 7 (2.47%) Go
12 6 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.41%) Groovy
13 4 (1.41%) PHP
14 3 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.06%) SOQL
14 3 (1.06%) SOSL
15 2 (0.71%) C
15 2 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (8.83%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.53%) Degree
4 8 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.59%) GRC
2 8 (2.83%) QA
3 6 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (24.38%) Docker
2 17 (6.01%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (39.58%) Terraform
2 78 (27.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.83%) Ansible
4 8 (2.83%) Grafana
5 7 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.06%) Rancher
8 2 (0.71%) Argo
8 2 (0.71%) Istio
8 2 (0.71%) Packer
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.35%) linkerd
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.24%) CrowdStrike
2 12 (4.24%) Google
2 12 (4.24%) Palo Alto
2 12 (4.24%) Salesforce
2 12 (4.24%) Tenable
3 10 (3.53%) VMware
4 9 (3.18%) Databricks
5 6 (2.12%) Adobe
6 5 (1.77%) Oracle
7 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.41%) Splunk
8 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.06%) Pega
9 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.35%) F5
10 1 (0.35%) HP