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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 26 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -16
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 191 174 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.96% 7.31% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 7.64% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 157 133 192
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,500 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -

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 2,885 2,277 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.86% 95.67% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,873 1,237 2,990
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £53,928 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +7.86% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -5 5 £67,500 +28.57% 5
Salford -4 4 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 4 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.09%) Confluence
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) CICS
3 2 (1.05%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) JBoss
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (50.79%) Azure
2 88 (46.07%) AWS
3 40 (20.94%) GCP
4 31 (16.23%) Serverless
5 20 (10.47%) GitHub
6 19 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.90%) Azure AKS
7 17 (8.90%) SaaS
8 12 (6.28%) Azure Functions
8 12 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (5.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) HTTP
2 5 (2.62%) Firewall
3 3 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.05%) SAN
4 2 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SSH
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.90%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.52%) MongoDB
3 21 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.81%) MySQL
5 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.57%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.57%) Power BI
9 3 (1.57%) Redis
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.05%) Big Data
10 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.05%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.05%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 33 (17.28%) Git
2 15 (7.85%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.81%) JIRA
4 8 (4.19%) GitLab
5 4 (2.09%) JUnit
6 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.57%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.57%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.05%) fastlane
7 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.52%) Ant
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
8 1 (0.52%) Locust
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) NUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Protractor
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) XCUITest
General
1 49 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.52%) Finance
3 7 (3.66%) Banking
4 6 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (3.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.62%) Games
5 5 (2.62%) Retail
6 3 (1.57%) French Language
6 3 (1.57%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.57%) Marketing
6 3 (1.57%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.57%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 73 (38.22%) Senior
2 57 (29.84%) Developer
3 41 (21.47%) Software Engineer
4 25 (13.09%) Senior Developer
5 24 (12.57%) Lead
6 22 (11.52%) Java Developer
7 18 (9.42%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (8.90%) .NET Developer
9 11 (5.76%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Senior .NET Developer
10 10 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.71%) .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Architect
11 9 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.66%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (32.98%) .NET
2 40 (20.94%) RESTful
3 35 (18.32%) React
4 29 (15.18%) CSS
4 29 (15.18%) HTML
5 26 (13.61%) REST
6 22 (11.52%) AngularJS
6 22 (11.52%) Spring
6 22 (11.52%) Spring Boot
7 17 (8.90%) .NET Core
7 17 (8.90%) Node.js
8 16 (8.38%) .NET Framework
9 12 (6.28%) Django
10 11 (5.76%) Kafka
11 9 (4.71%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (4.71%) Vue
12 8 (4.19%) CSS3
12 8 (4.19%) FastAPI
12 8 (4.19%) HTML5
13 6 (3.14%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.08%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.33%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.05%) IoT
9 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Linux
2 8 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.66%) Windows
4 6 (3.14%) Android
5 3 (1.57%) Unix
5 3 (1.57%) VMS
6 2 (1.05%) Debian
6 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.40%) Agile
2 98 (51.31%) DevOps
3 71 (37.17%) Software Engineering
4 66 (34.55%) Microservices
5 60 (31.41%) Containerisation
6 58 (30.37%) TDD
7 45 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (20.94%) Clean Code
9 39 (20.42%) Scrum
10 35 (18.32%) AI
11 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (16.23%) Mentoring
13 29 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (13.09%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.52%) User Experience
16 21 (10.99%) Roadmaps
16 21 (10.99%) SOLID
17 18 (9.42%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (9.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.80%) C#
2 49 (25.65%) Java
3 45 (23.56%) SQL
4 41 (21.47%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.94%) Python
6 34 (17.80%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.19%) Go
8 6 (3.14%) Bicep
8 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.62%) Swift
10 4 (2.09%) PHP
11 3 (1.57%) Erlang
11 3 (1.57%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.05%) Rust
12 2 (1.05%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Bash
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.24%) Degree
3 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (28.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.09%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.09%) vSphere
4 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (31.94%) Kubernetes
2 46 (24.08%) Terraform
3 17 (8.90%) Ansible
4 3 (1.57%) Rancher
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.05%) Packer
5 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) Podman
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Puppet
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.66%) Google
2 7 (3.66%) Oracle
2 7 (3.66%) VMware
3 4 (2.09%) Pega
4 3 (1.57%) Software AG
4 3 (1.57%) webMethods
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) F5
5 1 (0.52%) Foundry
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.52%) SAP
5 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) WSO2