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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 26 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 379 214 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.00% 8.69% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.18% 9.32% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 282 137 223
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,305 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +8.00% -10.71%

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 4,633 2,297 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.30% 93.26% 83.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 1,324 3,404
10th Percentile £33,575 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.11% -8.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 9 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 9 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 +17 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 5 £51,000 - 2
Bolton +13 1 £35,000 - 2
Stockport +2 1 £75,000 - 2
Salford -19 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 14 (3.69%) Confluence
2 9 (2.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.79%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 183 (48.28%) AWS
2 180 (47.49%) Azure
3 72 (19.00%) GitHub
4 66 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (16.36%) Serverless
6 54 (14.25%) GCP
7 32 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (7.39%) SaaS
9 20 (5.28%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.75%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (3.43%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.64%) Pulumi
17 9 (2.37%) Azure Functions
17 9 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.17%) Firewall
2 6 (1.58%) Network Security
2 6 (1.58%) SAN
3 5 (1.32%) VPN
4 2 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.26%) LTE
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.12%) NoSQL
2 26 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 25 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.43%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.64%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.37%) MySQL
7 8 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.85%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.58%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.58%) Power BI
10 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.06%) Redis
12 3 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.79%) GIS
12 3 (0.79%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.79%) QGIS
13 2 (0.53%) Db2
13 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (14.25%) Git
2 35 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.18%) GitLab
4 24 (6.33%) JIRA
5 15 (3.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.43%) Postman
7 12 (3.17%) Snyk
8 11 (2.90%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.37%) Maven
10 8 (2.11%) JUnit
10 8 (2.11%) Spock
11 7 (1.85%) fastlane
12 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.06%) Selenium
12 4 (1.06%) Storybook
12 4 (1.06%) Vite
13 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 76 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.57%) Finance
3 25 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.28%) Banking
5 18 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.75%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.64%) Marketing
7 8 (2.11%) Retail
8 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.32%) Advertising
9 5 (1.32%) Games
10 4 (1.06%) Publishing
11 3 (0.79%) French Language
11 3 (0.79%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.79%) Law
11 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.79%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 156 (41.16%) Senior
2 96 (25.33%) Developer
3 53 (13.98%) Senior Developer
4 49 (12.93%) Software Engineer
5 48 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (11.61%) Lead
7 43 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (7.92%) Java Developer
9 29 (7.65%) Architect
10 22 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 18 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (4.22%) .NET Developer
13 16 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (3.96%) Applications Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.15%) .NET
2 60 (15.83%) React
3 50 (13.19%) Spring
4 47 (12.40%) Node.js
5 41 (10.82%) Spring Boot
6 37 (9.76%) AngularJS
7 30 (7.92%) CSS
7 30 (7.92%) HTML
8 26 (6.86%) REST
8 26 (6.86%) RESTful
8 26 (6.86%) Vue
9 21 (5.54%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.69%) Kafka
11 11 (2.90%) Django
12 10 (2.64%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.64%) Flask
13 9 (2.37%) JWT
13 9 (2.37%) LangChain
13 9 (2.37%) OAuth
13 9 (2.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.28%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.69%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.11%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.53%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.33%) Linux
2 15 (3.96%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.64%) Android
4 6 (1.58%) Windows
5 3 (0.79%) CentOS
5 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.53%) Debian
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.53%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (60.42%) DevOps
2 157 (41.42%) Agile
3 137 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (30.34%) AI
5 93 (24.54%) Microservices
6 87 (22.96%) Software Engineering
7 85 (22.43%) Mentoring
8 82 (21.64%) Containerisation
9 76 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (19.53%) Platform Engineering
10 74 (19.53%) Test Automation
11 70 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (18.21%) Observability
13 68 (17.94%) TDD
14 62 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 54 (14.25%) Scrum
16 48 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (12.14%) Collaborative Culture
18 43 (11.35%) Decision-Making
18 43 (11.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 125 (32.98%) Python
2 83 (21.90%) Java
3 76 (20.05%) SQL
4 60 (15.83%) TypeScript
5 59 (15.57%) C#
5 59 (15.57%) JavaScript
6 31 (8.18%) Bash
7 28 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.17%) Swift
9 11 (2.90%) Bicep
10 10 (2.64%) Go
10 10 (2.64%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.32%) Groovy
11 5 (1.32%) PHP
12 4 (1.06%) Scala
13 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.79%) SOQL
13 3 (0.79%) SOSL
14 2 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 50 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.33%) DV Cleared
4 19 (5.01%) Degree
5 9 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.28%) QA
2 13 (3.43%) GRC
3 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.06%) WCAG
5 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) GDPR
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (26.65%) Docker
2 19 (5.01%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 138 (36.41%) Terraform
2 113 (29.82%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.03%) Ansible
4 15 (3.96%) Grafana
5 13 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.58%) Argo
7 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.06%) Istio
8 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.79%) linkerd
10 2 (0.53%) Packer
10 2 (0.53%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.22%) Google
3 15 (3.96%) Splunk
4 14 (3.69%) Databricks
5 12 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.17%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.17%) Tenable
6 11 (2.90%) VMware
7 9 (2.37%) Adobe
8 8 (2.11%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.32%) Oracle
11 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.79%) Pega
12 1 (0.26%) F5
12 1 (0.26%) HP
12 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow