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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 230 176 247
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.74% 8.81% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 9.25% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 170 143 218
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%

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 3,557 1,903 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.31% 95.25% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 1,252 3,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £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 £92,500 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -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 15 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 15 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 -4 8 £68,750 +30.95% 2
Salford -11 3 £73,801 +6.37% 6
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 (3.91%) Confluence
2 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) CICS
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (50.00%) Azure
2 103 (44.78%) AWS
3 44 (19.13%) Serverless
4 40 (17.39%) GCP
5 31 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (13.04%) GitHub
7 20 (8.70%) Azure AKS
8 19 (8.26%) SaaS
9 16 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.52%) Azure Functions
10 15 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (5.22%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.04%) Entra ID
14 7 (3.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) Firewall
2 4 (1.74%) HTTP
3 3 (1.30%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) Network Security
4 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 23 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.83%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.09%) MySQL
5 5 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.74%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.30%) GIS
7 3 (1.30%) QGIS
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.87%) Big Data
8 2 (0.87%) DB2
8 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.87%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (16.52%) Git
2 19 (8.26%) JIRA
3 18 (7.83%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.78%) GitLab
5 7 (3.04%) Postman
6 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.17%) Snyk
7 3 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.30%) fastlane
7 3 (1.30%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.30%) JUnit
8 2 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.87%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.43%) GDB
9 1 (0.43%) Locust
9 1 (0.43%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.35%) Finance
3 17 (7.39%) Banking
4 13 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.04%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.04%) Retail Banking
6 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.17%) Advertising
8 4 (1.74%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) French Language
9 3 (1.30%) Games
9 3 (1.30%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.30%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.30%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (38.26%) Senior
2 65 (28.26%) Developer
3 52 (22.61%) Software Engineer
4 33 (14.35%) Senior Developer
5 26 (11.30%) Lead
6 24 (10.43%) Java Developer
7 23 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (6.96%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Architect
11 11 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Azure Developer
13 9 (3.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (26.96%) .NET
2 40 (17.39%) React
3 36 (15.65%) RESTful
4 26 (11.30%) REST
5 25 (10.87%) CSS
5 25 (10.87%) HTML
5 25 (10.87%) Spring
6 24 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 21 (9.13%) Node.js
8 19 (8.26%) AngularJS
9 15 (6.52%) .NET Framework
10 13 (5.65%) Django
11 12 (5.22%) .NET Core
12 11 (4.78%) Vue
13 10 (4.35%) FastAPI
14 7 (3.04%) ARM Templates
14 7 (3.04%) Kafka
15 5 (2.17%) Celery
15 5 (2.17%) Flask
15 5 (2.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.09%) Mobile App
5 10 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.04%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.87%) IoT
12 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.52%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.04%) Android
4 6 (2.61%) Windows
5 2 (0.87%) Debian
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (56.52%) DevOps
2 119 (51.74%) Agile
3 78 (33.91%) Software Engineering
4 64 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (27.83%) Microservices
5 63 (27.39%) TDD
6 62 (26.96%) Containerisation
7 49 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (20.87%) AI
9 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (18.26%) Scrum
10 40 (17.39%) Clean Code
11 39 (16.96%) Mentoring
12 35 (15.22%) Test Automation
13 31 (13.48%) Observability
13 31 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.17%) Roadmaps
15 26 (11.30%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.48%) Python
2 52 (22.61%) C#
3 51 (22.17%) SQL
4 48 (20.87%) Java
5 38 (16.52%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.91%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.48%) Go
8 8 (3.48%) Swift
9 7 (3.04%) Bash
10 6 (2.61%) Bicep
11 4 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.74%) PHP
12 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.87%) Scala
14 1 (0.43%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.35%) Degree
4 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.61%) GRC
1 6 (2.61%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (28.70%) Docker
2 10 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.74%) vSphere
4 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (33.48%) Kubernetes
2 74 (32.17%) Terraform
3 21 (9.13%) Ansible
4 5 (2.17%) Grafana
5 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.30%) Rancher
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.87%) Packer
7 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.43%) Istio
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.91%) Google
3 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.04%) Oracle
5 6 (2.61%) VMware
6 5 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.17%) Tenable
7 3 (1.30%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.30%) Pega
7 3 (1.30%) Software AG
7 3 (1.30%) webMethods
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) F5
8 1 (0.43%) HP