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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 38 15
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 191 189 281
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.90% 5.22% 11.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.29% 6.08% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 152 130 246
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,375 £46,778
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,633 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £87,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and 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 2,057 3,110 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.07% 85.84% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,415 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,900 £84,777
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
Salford +8 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Bolton +13 1 - - 21
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 6 (3.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.57%) CMS
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (52.36%) AWS
2 99 (51.83%) Azure
3 35 (18.32%) GCP
4 28 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.95%) Serverless
6 18 (9.42%) GitHub
7 15 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.33%) SaaS
9 12 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.71%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.19%) Azure Functions
12 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.19%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 1 (0.52%) DAB
3 1 (0.52%) SAN
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.80%) NoSQL
2 19 (9.95%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.24%) MySQL
6 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.57%) Big Data
10 3 (1.57%) Power BI
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.05%) Redis
12 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (11.52%) Git
2 16 (8.38%) GitLab
2 16 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.28%) JIRA
4 8 (4.19%) Cucumber
4 8 (4.19%) Selenium
5 6 (3.14%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.09%) JMeter
7 3 (1.57%) Gatling
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) NUnit
9 1 (0.52%) Ant
9 1 (0.52%) Appium
9 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) JUnit
9 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 48 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.04%) Finance
3 15 (7.85%) Retail
4 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.66%) Games
5 7 (3.66%) Marketing
5 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Electronics
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.52%) Advertising
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.52%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 62 (32.46%) Senior
2 50 (26.18%) Developer
3 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 25 (13.09%) Lead
5 18 (9.42%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.38%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Architect
8 13 (6.81%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (5.76%) AWS Architect
11 10 (5.24%) AWS Solution Architect
11 10 (5.24%) Senior Architect
11 10 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.80%) .NET
2 32 (16.75%) RESTful
3 30 (15.71%) React
4 22 (11.52%) Spring
4 22 (11.52%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.90%) .NET Core
6 14 (7.33%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.33%) REST
7 13 (6.81%) .NET Framework
7 13 (6.81%) HTML
8 12 (6.28%) CSS
9 11 (5.76%) Kafka
10 10 (5.24%) Node.js
11 9 (4.71%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.19%) Hibernate
13 7 (3.66%) Django
13 7 (3.66%) Vue
13 7 (3.66%) Web Services
14 6 (3.14%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.28%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.62%) Wiki
8 4 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.57%) BBC
9 3 (1.57%) Online Games
10 2 (1.05%) Blog
10 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.99%) Linux
2 8 (4.19%) Windows
3 7 (3.66%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.14%) Debian
5 4 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.57%) Android
6 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.57%) Unix
7 2 (1.05%) VMS
8 1 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (62.83%) DevOps
2 93 (48.69%) Agile
3 71 (37.17%) Containerisation
4 70 (36.65%) Software Engineering
5 66 (34.55%) Microservices
6 45 (23.56%) TDD
7 44 (23.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (16.75%) Clean Code
10 31 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (14.66%) AI
11 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
12 27 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (14.14%) Roadmaps
13 23 (12.04%) Test Automation
14 21 (10.99%) Event-Driven
15 20 (10.47%) SDLC
16 19 (9.95%) Performance Optimisation
16 19 (9.95%) User Experience
17 18 (9.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.37%) C#
2 49 (25.65%) SQL
3 47 (24.61%) Python
4 42 (21.99%) Java
5 29 (15.18%) JavaScript
6 28 (14.66%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.28%) Bash
8 10 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.62%) Bicep
10 4 (2.09%) Go
11 3 (1.57%) Erlang
11 3 (1.57%) PHP
11 3 (1.57%) Rust
12 2 (1.05%) Scala
12 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) Dart
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.24%) Degree
6 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.05%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) GDPR
2 12 (6.28%) QA
3 9 (4.71%) HIPAA
3 9 (4.71%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (41.88%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.05%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.05%) vSphere
5 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.52%) HDFS
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.52%) Postfix
5 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (35.60%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.99%) Terraform
3 19 (9.95%) Ansible
4 10 (5.24%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.71%) Grafana
6 3 (1.57%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Google
3 10 (5.24%) Splunk
4 4 (2.09%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.09%) Foundry
4 4 (2.09%) IBM
4 4 (2.09%) Moogsoft
4 4 (2.09%) VMware
5 3 (1.57%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.57%) Databricks
5 3 (1.57%) Oracle
5 3 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.57%) Software AG
5 3 (1.57%) webMethods
6 2 (1.05%) SAP
6 2 (1.05%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.52%) Pega
7 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.52%) WSO2