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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 372 213 279
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.86% 8.76% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.01% 9.37% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 276 136 229
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,305 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +8.00% -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 4,642 2,273 4,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.11% 93.50% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,678 1,314 3,473
10th Percentile £32,963 £29,825 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 July 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 July 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 +17 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 5 £51,000 - 2
Bolton +15 1 £35,000 - 6
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 14 (3.76%) Confluence
2 9 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.81%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.54%) CICS
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 182 (48.92%) AWS
2 179 (48.12%) Azure
3 72 (19.35%) GitHub
4 66 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (16.67%) Serverless
6 52 (13.98%) GCP
7 32 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (7.53%) SaaS
9 20 (5.38%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.84%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (3.76%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.69%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.42%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.23%) Firewall
2 6 (1.61%) Network Security
2 6 (1.61%) SAN
3 5 (1.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.54%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.53%) NoSQL
2 26 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 25 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.42%) MySQL
7 8 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.88%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.61%) Power BI
10 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.08%) Redis
12 3 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.81%) GIS
12 3 (0.81%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.81%) QGIS
13 2 (0.54%) Db2
13 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 53 (14.25%) Git
2 35 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.33%) GitLab
4 24 (6.45%) JIRA
5 15 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (3.23%) Postman
6 12 (3.23%) Snyk
7 11 (2.96%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.42%) Maven
9 8 (2.15%) JUnit
9 8 (2.15%) Spock
10 7 (1.88%) fastlane
11 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.08%) Selenium
11 4 (1.08%) Storybook
11 4 (1.08%) Vite
12 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 74 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.59%) Finance
3 24 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.38%) Banking
5 18 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.69%) Marketing
7 8 (2.15%) Retail
8 7 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.88%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.34%) Advertising
9 5 (1.34%) Games
10 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 3 (0.81%) French Language
11 3 (0.81%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.81%) Law
11 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.81%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 156 (41.94%) Senior
2 96 (25.81%) Developer
3 53 (14.25%) Senior Developer
4 49 (13.17%) Software Engineer
5 43 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 43 (11.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.56%) Lead
6 30 (8.06%) Java Developer
7 28 (7.53%) Architect
8 21 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 18 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 15 (4.03%) Applications Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (4.03%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (17.74%) .NET
2 60 (16.13%) React
3 48 (12.90%) Spring
4 47 (12.63%) Node.js
5 39 (10.48%) Spring Boot
6 37 (9.95%) AngularJS
7 30 (8.06%) CSS
7 30 (8.06%) HTML
8 27 (7.26%) RESTful
9 26 (6.99%) REST
9 26 (6.99%) Vue
10 21 (5.65%) FastAPI
11 14 (3.76%) Kafka
12 11 (2.96%) Django
13 10 (2.69%) .NET Core
13 10 (2.69%) Flask
14 9 (2.42%) JWT
14 9 (2.42%) LangChain
14 9 (2.42%) OAuth
14 9 (2.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 84 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.76%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.96%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.15%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.81%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
15 2 (0.54%) Mainframe
15 2 (0.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.91%) Linux
2 15 (4.03%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.69%) Android
4 6 (1.61%) Windows
5 3 (0.81%) CentOS
5 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.54%) Debian
6 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.54%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (59.95%) DevOps
2 155 (41.67%) Agile
3 132 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (30.65%) AI
5 93 (25.00%) Microservices
6 86 (23.12%) Software Engineering
7 85 (22.85%) Mentoring
8 78 (20.97%) Containerisation
9 75 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (19.62%) Test Automation
11 71 (19.09%) Platform Engineering
12 69 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (18.28%) Observability
13 68 (18.28%) TDD
14 62 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 55 (14.78%) Scrum
16 48 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
17 44 (11.83%) Collaborative Culture
18 43 (11.56%) SDLC
19 42 (11.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.53%) Python
2 80 (21.51%) Java
3 76 (20.43%) SQL
4 60 (16.13%) C#
5 59 (15.86%) JavaScript
5 59 (15.86%) TypeScript
6 29 (7.80%) Bash
7 28 (7.53%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.23%) Swift
9 11 (2.96%) Bicep
10 10 (2.69%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.15%) Go
12 5 (1.34%) Groovy
12 5 (1.34%) PHP
13 4 (1.08%) Scala
14 3 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.81%) SOQL
14 3 (0.81%) SOSL
15 2 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.26%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 19 (5.11%) Degree
5 9 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.11%) QA
2 13 (3.49%) GRC
3 6 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.08%) WCAG
5 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (26.34%) Docker
2 19 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (36.02%) Terraform
2 110 (29.57%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.41%) Ansible
4 14 (3.76%) Grafana
5 12 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.61%) Argo
7 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.08%) Istio
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.81%) linkerd
10 2 (0.54%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) Puppet
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.03%) Splunk
3 14 (3.76%) Databricks
3 14 (3.76%) Google
4 12 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 12 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.23%) Tenable
5 11 (2.96%) VMware
6 9 (2.42%) Adobe
7 8 (2.15%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.34%) Oracle
10 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.81%) Pega
11 1 (0.27%) F5
11 1 (0.27%) HP
11 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow