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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 29 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -22
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 329 203 279
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.46% 8.94% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 9.38% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 243 128 230
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £51,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £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 4,298 2,164 4,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.30% 95.33% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,393 1,219 3,607
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £80,661
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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +14 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 4 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 3 £51,000 - 3
Salford -16 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 12 (3.65%) Confluence
2 8 (2.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.91%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.61%) CICS
6 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.61%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (49.54%) AWS
2 162 (49.24%) Azure
3 66 (20.06%) GitHub
4 59 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (17.02%) Serverless
6 52 (15.81%) GCP
7 29 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (6.99%) SaaS
9 15 (4.56%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.26%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (3.04%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.74%) Azure Functions
16 8 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.34%) Firewall
2 6 (1.82%) Network Security
2 6 (1.82%) VPN
3 4 (1.22%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) LTE
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.51%) NoSQL
2 22 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.43%) MySQL
6 6 (1.82%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.82%) Power BI
7 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.91%) GIS
9 3 (0.91%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.91%) QGIS
10 2 (0.61%) Db2
10 2 (0.61%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (14.29%) Git
2 32 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.29%) GitLab
4 23 (6.99%) JIRA
5 12 (3.65%) Snyk
6 10 (3.04%) Postman
7 8 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.13%) Maven
9 5 (1.52%) fastlane
9 5 (1.52%) JUnit
10 4 (1.22%) Spock
10 4 (1.22%) Vite
11 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.91%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.91%) Storybook
12 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.61%) Selenium
12 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.61%) XCUITest
General
1 65 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.98%) Finance
3 24 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.47%) Banking
6 14 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.74%) Marketing
8 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.13%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Advertising
11 4 (1.22%) Games
11 4 (1.22%) Retail
12 3 (0.91%) French Language
12 3 (0.91%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.91%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.91%) Publishing
12 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 134 (40.73%) Senior
2 90 (27.36%) Developer
3 50 (15.20%) Software Engineer
4 48 (14.59%) Senior Developer
5 43 (13.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (10.94%) Lead
7 30 (9.12%) Java Developer
8 27 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (7.90%) Architect
10 21 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (4.56%) GCP Engineer
14 14 (4.26%) .NET Developer
15 13 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.45%) .NET
2 56 (17.02%) React
3 41 (12.46%) Node.js
4 35 (10.64%) Spring
5 30 (9.12%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.51%) REST
7 27 (8.21%) AngularJS
7 27 (8.21%) CSS
7 27 (8.21%) HTML
8 25 (7.60%) RESTful
9 21 (6.38%) Vue
10 18 (5.47%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.04%) .NET Framework
11 10 (3.04%) Django
11 10 (3.04%) JWT
11 10 (3.04%) Kafka
11 10 (3.04%) OAuth
12 9 (2.74%) .NET Core
13 8 (2.43%) ARM Templates
13 8 (2.43%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 72 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.26%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
14 2 (0.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.17%) Linux
2 13 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.04%) Android
4 5 (1.52%) Windows
5 2 (0.61%) Debian
5 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (58.05%) DevOps
2 145 (44.07%) Agile
3 119 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (29.79%) AI
5 80 (24.32%) Microservices
5 80 (24.32%) Software Engineering
6 75 (22.80%) Mentoring
7 66 (20.06%) Containerisation
7 66 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (19.45%) TDD
9 60 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (17.93%) Test Automation
11 58 (17.63%) Observability
11 58 (17.63%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (16.41%) Scrum
13 49 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 40 (12.16%) Clean Code
14 40 (12.16%) SDLC
15 38 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (10.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 102 (31.00%) Python
2 66 (20.06%) Java
2 66 (20.06%) SQL
3 56 (17.02%) C#
4 53 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 50 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.60%) Bash
6 25 (7.60%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.04%) Bicep
7 10 (3.04%) Swift
8 8 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.13%) Go
10 5 (1.52%) PHP
11 4 (1.22%) Groovy
11 4 (1.22%) Scala
12 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.91%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.91%) SOQL
12 3 (0.91%) SOSL
13 2 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.56%) Degree
4 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.95%) GRC
1 13 (3.95%) QA
2 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) WCAG
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (24.32%) Docker
2 19 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (38.30%) Terraform
2 94 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.90%) Ansible
4 11 (3.34%) Grafana
5 10 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.52%) Argo
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.91%) Istio
7 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.61%) linkerd
8 2 (0.61%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.26%) Google
3 12 (3.65%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.65%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.65%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.65%) Tenable
4 10 (3.04%) Databricks
4 10 (3.04%) VMware
5 8 (2.43%) Adobe
6 7 (2.13%) Splunk
7 5 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.22%) Oracle
9 3 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.91%) Pega
10 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.30%) F5
10 1 (0.30%) HP
10 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow