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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 178 174 210
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.39% 6.27% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 6.74% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 148 124 181
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,856 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £89,000
North West median annual salary £65,250 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.38% -3.70% +8.00%

All Process and 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 2,273 2,583 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 81.56% 93.08% 92.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 1,211 1,687
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £86,430 £86,250 £84,837
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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
Salford +5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Bolton +15 1 - - 61
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 3 (1.69%) Apache
1 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.69%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (57.30%) Azure
2 88 (49.44%) AWS
3 34 (19.10%) GCP
4 25 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (11.80%) Serverless
6 17 (9.55%) SaaS
7 14 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.30%) GitHub
9 11 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.62%) Azure Functions
10 10 (5.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.49%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) HTTP
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.12%) WAN
3 1 (0.56%) DAB
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) NoSQL
2 18 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.87%) MySQL
3 14 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.25%) Big Data
7 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) Power BI
8 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.12%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.73%) Git
2 15 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.74%) GitLab
4 10 (5.62%) JIRA
5 4 (2.25%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.25%) JMeter
5 4 (2.25%) JUnit
6 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.69%) Gatling
6 3 (1.69%) Selenium
7 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.56%) Appium
8 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.56%) Locust
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.11%) Finance
3 11 (6.18%) Retail
4 8 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.37%) Games
5 6 (3.37%) Marketing
6 5 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.12%) Electronics
8 2 (1.12%) Legal
8 2 (1.12%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 60 (33.71%) Senior
2 47 (26.40%) Developer
3 29 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 23 (12.92%) Lead
5 20 (11.24%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.11%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Architect
9 11 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.49%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.58%) .NET
2 35 (19.66%) RESTful
3 26 (14.61%) React
4 22 (12.36%) CSS
4 22 (12.36%) HTML
5 20 (11.24%) AngularJS
5 20 (11.24%) REST
6 17 (9.55%) .NET Core
6 17 (9.55%) Spring
6 17 (9.55%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.99%) .NET Framework
8 11 (6.18%) Node.js
9 9 (5.06%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.49%) Django
10 8 (4.49%) Kafka
11 7 (3.93%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (3.37%) Entity Framework
12 6 (3.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.30%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.93%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.69%) BBC
8 3 (1.69%) Online Games
8 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) IoT
9 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.49%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Debian
3 4 (2.25%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.69%) VMS
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.12%) Android
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.87%) DevOps
2 93 (52.25%) Agile
3 64 (35.96%) Microservices
4 63 (35.39%) Containerisation
5 60 (33.71%) Software Engineering
6 46 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (21.91%) TDD
8 35 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (18.54%) AI
9 33 (18.54%) Clean Code
10 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (14.61%) Mentoring
13 23 (12.92%) Test Automation
14 22 (12.36%) Scrum
14 22 (12.36%) User Experience
15 21 (11.80%) Roadmaps
16 19 (10.67%) SOLID
17 18 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
18 17 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 58 (32.58%) C#
2 45 (25.28%) SQL
3 41 (23.03%) Python
4 36 (20.22%) Java
5 35 (19.66%) JavaScript
6 30 (16.85%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.49%) Bash
9 6 (3.37%) Bicep
10 5 (2.81%) Go
11 4 (2.25%) Scala
12 3 (1.69%) Erlang
12 3 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.69%) Rust
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.93%) Degree
4 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) GDPR
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.25%) NIST
3 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (35.96%) Docker
2 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.69%) vSphere
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 38 (21.35%) Terraform
3 21 (11.80%) Ansible
4 8 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.93%) Grafana
6 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.69%) Puppet
7 2 (1.12%) Rancher
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.56%) Podman
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.37%) Google
3 5 (2.81%) Splunk
3 5 (2.81%) VMware
4 4 (2.25%) Foundry
4 4 (2.25%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) Software AG
5 3 (1.69%) webMethods
6 2 (1.12%) SAP
6 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.56%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) WSO2