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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -9
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 239 177 253
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.58% 8.48% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 8.89% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 172 143 221
10th Percentile £50,125 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,655 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,802 1,991 4,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.86% 95.40% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 1,263 3,398
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £53,200 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +9.59% -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 29 April 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 April 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 -1 9 £67,500 +28.57% 1
Salford -17 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 9 (3.77%) Confluence
2 5 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.26%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) CICS
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (49.79%) Azure
2 108 (45.19%) AWS
3 46 (19.25%) Serverless
4 38 (15.90%) GCP
5 37 (15.48%) GitHub
6 35 (14.64%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.37%) Azure AKS
8 19 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.11%) SaaS
10 13 (5.44%) Azure Functions
10 13 (5.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.93%) Firewall
2 4 (1.67%) HTTP
2 4 (1.67%) VPN
3 3 (1.26%) Network Security
4 2 (0.84%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.42%) LTE
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.32%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.44%) MySQL
5 6 (2.51%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.26%) GIS
7 3 (1.26%) QGIS
7 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.84%) Big Data
8 2 (0.84%) DB2
8 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.84%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (16.74%) Git
2 20 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.37%) JIRA
3 13 (5.44%) GitLab
4 8 (3.35%) Postman
4 8 (3.35%) Snyk
5 7 (2.93%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.26%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.26%) fastlane
6 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.26%) JUnit
7 2 (0.84%) Maven
7 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.84%) Vite
7 2 (0.84%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.42%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Finance
3 17 (7.11%) Banking
3 17 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.93%) Retail Banking
6 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.09%) Advertising
8 4 (1.67%) Retail
9 3 (1.26%) French Language
9 3 (1.26%) Games
9 3 (1.26%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.26%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.26%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (41.42%) Senior
2 67 (28.03%) Developer
3 53 (22.18%) Software Engineer
4 38 (15.90%) Senior Developer
5 24 (10.04%) Lead
6 23 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Java Developer
7 22 (9.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (6.69%) Architect
9 15 (6.28%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.60%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.77%) Azure Developer
14 9 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.52%) .NET
2 45 (18.83%) React
3 34 (14.23%) RESTful
4 28 (11.72%) Node.js
5 26 (10.88%) Spring
6 25 (10.46%) Spring Boot
7 24 (10.04%) CSS
7 24 (10.04%) HTML
7 24 (10.04%) REST
8 19 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 15 (6.28%) .NET Framework
10 12 (5.02%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.18%) Django
11 10 (4.18%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.18%) Vue
12 7 (2.93%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.93%) Kafka
13 5 (2.09%) JWT
13 5 (2.09%) OAuth
13 5 (2.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.92%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.86%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.02%) Mobile App
6 10 (4.18%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.51%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.44%) Linux
2 11 (4.60%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.93%) Android
4 5 (2.09%) Windows
5 2 (0.84%) Debian
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (56.49%) DevOps
2 115 (48.12%) Agile
3 78 (32.64%) Software Engineering
4 70 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (28.03%) Microservices
6 63 (26.36%) Containerisation
7 61 (25.52%) TDD
8 56 (23.43%) AI
9 48 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (19.67%) Mentoring
11 44 (18.41%) Scrum
12 43 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (16.32%) Clean Code
14 38 (15.90%) Test Automation
15 35 (14.64%) Observability
15 35 (14.64%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (12.13%) Roadmaps
17 27 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
18 26 (10.88%) SDLC
19 25 (10.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.69%) Python
2 54 (22.59%) SQL
3 52 (21.76%) C#
4 47 (19.67%) Java
5 38 (15.90%) JavaScript
6 37 (15.48%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.18%) Bash
9 8 (3.35%) Go
9 8 (3.35%) Swift
10 7 (2.93%) Bicep
11 4 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
12 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.84%) C
13 2 (0.84%) Scala
14 1 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.77%) Degree
4 6 (2.51%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.77%) GRC
2 5 (2.09%) QA
3 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (27.20%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (32.64%) Terraform
2 76 (31.80%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.79%) Ansible
4 4 (1.67%) Grafana
4 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.26%) Rancher
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.84%) Packer
6 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.42%) Istio
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.77%) Google
2 9 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (3.35%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.35%) Tenable
4 7 (2.93%) Oracle
5 6 (2.51%) VMware
6 3 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.26%) Pega
6 3 (1.26%) Software AG
6 3 (1.26%) webMethods
7 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe
8 1 (0.42%) Databricks
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) HP