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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 399 206 223
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.60% 8.35% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.45% 9.28% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 290 129 167
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,363
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £89,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 5,357 2,221 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.23% 90.03% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,159 1,305 2,121
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
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 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 -
Altrincham +14 8 £65,000 - 3
Stockport +6 6 £72,500 - 3
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Oldham +4 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +15 2 £53,750 - 3
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 13 (3.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (3.26%) Confluence
2 11 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 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
1 194 (48.62%) AWS
2 184 (46.12%) Azure
3 79 (19.80%) GitHub
4 71 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (14.29%) GCP
6 55 (13.78%) Serverless
7 39 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.77%) SaaS
9 19 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.51%) Amazon S3
11 17 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (3.76%) Power Automate
13 13 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.01%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.51%) npm
16 10 (2.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.26%) Firewall
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
2 5 (1.25%) SAN
3 4 (1.00%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.01%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.50%) MySQL
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.00%) Redis
11 3 (0.75%) Chroma
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.75%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 65 (16.29%) Git
2 39 (9.77%) GitLab
3 38 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.51%) JIRA
5 16 (4.01%) Maven
6 15 (3.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.51%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.26%) JUnit
8 13 (3.26%) Postman
8 13 (3.26%) Spock
9 12 (3.01%) Snyk
10 8 (2.01%) Storybook
11 7 (1.75%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.25%) fastlane
12 5 (1.25%) Selenium
13 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (1.00%) Vite
14 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.04%) Finance
3 29 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.51%) Banking
7 10 (2.51%) Marketing
7 10 (2.51%) Publishing
8 9 (2.26%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Games
11 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Advertising
12 3 (0.75%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) iGaming
13 2 (0.50%) Local Government
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (39.10%) Senior
2 101 (25.31%) Developer
3 62 (15.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.03%) Senior Developer
5 46 (11.53%) Lead
6 40 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (9.27%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.77%) Architect
9 28 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.51%) Java Developer
10 22 (5.51%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (4.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.51%) Data Engineer
14 18 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (4.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (36.59%) Terraform
2 58 (14.54%) React
3 57 (14.29%) Spring
4 56 (14.04%) .NET
5 55 (13.78%) Node.js
6 48 (12.03%) AngularJS
7 42 (10.53%) Spring Boot
8 34 (8.52%) CSS
9 33 (8.27%) HTML
10 29 (7.27%) REST
11 23 (5.76%) Vue
12 18 (4.51%) RESTful
13 17 (4.26%) FastAPI
14 16 (4.01%) Kafka
15 10 (2.51%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.51%) Entity Framework
15 10 (2.51%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (2.26%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.26%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.76%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Replication
11 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.52%) Linux
2 9 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) VMS
5 4 (1.00%) CentOS
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
5 4 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (63.41%) DevOps
2 159 (39.85%) Agile
3 151 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (33.08%) AI
5 98 (24.56%) Microservices
6 89 (22.31%) Software Engineering
7 88 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (22.06%) Test Automation
8 86 (21.55%) Mentoring
8 86 (21.55%) Observability
9 84 (21.05%) Containerisation
10 83 (20.80%) Platform Engineering
11 77 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
13 55 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
14 53 (13.28%) TDD
15 47 (11.78%) Scrum
16 46 (11.53%) Collaborative Culture
17 45 (11.28%) Decision-Making
18 43 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (35.09%) Python
2 97 (24.31%) Java
3 77 (19.30%) JavaScript
3 77 (19.30%) SQL
4 69 (17.29%) TypeScript
5 56 (14.04%) C#
6 40 (10.03%) Bash
7 28 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.51%) Bicep
8 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.26%) Go
9 9 (2.26%) Swift
10 8 (2.01%) Groovy
11 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.00%) Rust
11 4 (1.00%) Scala
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.75%) SOQL
12 3 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 71 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 35 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.01%) Degree
5 8 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.27%) 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
1 121 (30.33%) Docker
2 18 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.01%) 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
1 120 (30.08%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.78%) Ansible
3 19 (4.76%) Grafana
3 19 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.51%) Argo
5 8 (2.01%) Istio
6 4 (1.00%) linkerd
7 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.75%) Podman
7 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.75%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.51%) Splunk
3 21 (5.26%) Google
4 13 (3.26%) Adobe
4 13 (3.26%) AppDynamics
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 9 (2.26%) VMware
7 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle
9 4 (1.00%) Mistral
10 3 (0.75%) Dell
10 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.75%) Pega
10 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow