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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 25 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -29
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 415 195 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.36% 8.52% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 9.62% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 288 126 130
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,780 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% -10.71%

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 5,926 2,027 3,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.54% 88.52% 84.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,404 1,192 1,528
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,297 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,850
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 October 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 16 October 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
Stockport +9 13 £70,000 - 1
Altrincham +13 9 £65,000 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne -1 9 £51,000 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Oldham +1 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton -3 2 £53,750 - 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 13 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.20%) CMS
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.96%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.72%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Kentico
7 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 205 (49.40%) AWS
2 170 (40.96%) Azure
3 90 (21.69%) GitHub
4 56 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (13.25%) GCP
6 51 (12.29%) Serverless
7 37 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (7.23%) Power Platform
9 26 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (5.78%) Amazon S3
11 20 (4.82%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.58%) SaaS
13 18 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.61%) PowerApps
16 11 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.65%) Snowflake
17 10 (2.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.86%) Firewall
2 11 (2.65%) DNS
2 11 (2.65%) Network Security
3 6 (1.45%) BIG-IP
3 6 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (1.20%) SAN
5 3 (0.72%) VPN
6 2 (0.48%) CTI
6 2 (0.48%) DHCP
6 2 (0.48%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.51%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.06%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.10%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.93%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.69%) Power BI
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.20%) Chroma
8 5 (1.20%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.20%) Redis
9 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.96%) MySQL
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 69 (16.63%) Git
2 52 (12.53%) GitLab
3 41 (9.88%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.06%) JIRA
5 17 (4.10%) Maven
6 16 (3.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (3.13%) JUnit
7 13 (3.13%) Spock
8 12 (2.89%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.93%) Selenium
9 8 (1.93%) Storybook
10 7 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.69%) Snyk
11 5 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.20%) Postman
12 4 (0.96%) fastlane
12 4 (0.96%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.96%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.96%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.96%) Vite
General
1 102 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.53%) Finance
3 29 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.30%) Publishing
6 21 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.37%) Marketing
8 11 (2.65%) Retail
9 7 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.69%) iGaming
10 5 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.20%) Banking
10 5 (1.20%) Law
11 4 (0.96%) Games
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Billing
14 1 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 157 (37.83%) Senior
2 93 (22.41%) Developer
3 81 (19.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (12.77%) Lead
5 45 (10.84%) Senior Developer
6 44 (10.60%) Software Engineer
7 35 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (7.23%) Senior DevOps
9 29 (6.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 26 (6.27%) Architect
10 26 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
11 22 (5.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (4.82%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.58%) Senior Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
16 15 (3.61%) Applications Engineer
16 15 (3.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (35.18%) Terraform
2 79 (19.04%) Spring
3 74 (17.83%) React
4 65 (15.66%) Spring Boot
5 58 (13.98%) Node.js
6 49 (11.81%) .NET
7 44 (10.60%) AngularJS
8 39 (9.40%) REST
9 34 (8.19%) CSS
10 33 (7.95%) HTML
11 30 (7.23%) Kafka
12 21 (5.06%) Vue
13 19 (4.58%) FastAPI
14 14 (3.37%) .NET Core
15 12 (2.89%) PySpark
15 12 (2.89%) RESTful
16 11 (2.65%) Entity Framework
16 11 (2.65%) GraphQL
16 11 (2.65%) LangChain
17 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.72%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.86%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.89%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.89%) Media Streaming
7 12 (2.89%) Podcast
8 10 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.45%) Culture of Ownership
12 6 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.64%) Linux
2 10 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.45%) CentOS
3 6 (1.45%) Unix
4 5 (1.20%) Android
4 5 (1.20%) VMS
5 4 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (64.34%) DevOps
2 170 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 168 (40.48%) Agile
4 146 (35.18%) AI
5 109 (26.27%) Software Engineering
6 107 (25.78%) Microservices
7 102 (24.58%) Mentoring
8 100 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (23.86%) Containerisation
10 95 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (22.65%) Observability
11 94 (22.65%) Test Automation
12 86 (20.72%) Platform Engineering
13 66 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 61 (14.70%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (12.53%) Code Quality
16 48 (11.57%) Event-Driven
17 46 (11.08%) Collaborative Culture
18 45 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 45 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (38.55%) Python
2 117 (28.19%) Java
3 95 (22.89%) TypeScript
4 86 (20.72%) SQL
5 74 (17.83%) JavaScript
6 54 (13.01%) C#
7 44 (10.60%) Bash
8 27 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.58%) Go
10 11 (2.65%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.41%) Bicep
12 8 (1.93%) Groovy
13 6 (1.45%) Swift
14 5 (1.20%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.20%) Rust
15 4 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.96%) Scala
16 3 (0.72%) SOQL
16 3 (0.72%) SOSL
17 2 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (13.49%) DV Cleared
3 50 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.58%) Degree
5 9 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.48%) CCNA
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.48%) MCSE
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.16%) QA
2 18 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.93%) WCAG
5 7 (1.69%) GRC
6 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 139 (33.49%) Docker
2 13 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.72%) Ceph
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 137 (33.01%) Kubernetes
2 53 (12.77%) Ansible
3 18 (4.34%) Grafana
3 18 (4.34%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.65%) Argo
5 7 (1.69%) Istio
5 7 (1.69%) Podman
5 7 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.96%) linkerd
6 4 (0.96%) Packer
7 3 (0.72%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.72%) Puppet
7 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.24%) Opsview
Vendors
1 60 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.30%) Splunk
3 21 (5.06%) Google
4 14 (3.37%) Databricks
5 13 (3.13%) Adobe
5 13 (3.13%) AppDynamics
6 10 (2.41%) VMware
7 9 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.69%) Tenable
9 6 (1.45%) F5
9 6 (1.45%) Mistral
10 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.20%) YouTube
11 4 (0.96%) Oracle
11 4 (0.96%) Thales
12 3 (0.72%) Dell
12 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace