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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 325 204 277
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.40% 8.99% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 9.43% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 242 129 228
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.00%

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 4,283 2,164 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.23% 95.33% 83.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,384 1,222 3,602
10th Percentile £32,913 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +4.84% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £80,944
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +14 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 4 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 3 £51,000 - 2
Salford -16 1 £74,301 +7.09% 4
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 12 (3.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.92%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.62%) CICS
6 2 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.62%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 161 (49.54%) AWS
2 160 (49.23%) Azure
3 64 (19.69%) GitHub
4 58 (17.85%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (17.23%) Serverless
6 51 (15.69%) GCP
7 27 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (7.08%) SaaS
9 15 (4.62%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.31%) Power Platform
11 13 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.77%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.77%) Pulumi
16 8 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.38%) Firewall
2 6 (1.85%) Network Security
2 6 (1.85%) VPN
3 4 (1.23%) SAN
4 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) LTE
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 23 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.46%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.77%) MySQL
6 6 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.85%) Power BI
7 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.92%) GIS
9 3 (0.92%) QGIS
10 2 (0.62%) Big Data
10 2 (0.62%) Db2
10 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (13.85%) Git
2 31 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.38%) GitLab
4 23 (7.08%) JIRA
5 12 (3.69%) Snyk
6 9 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.77%) Postman
7 8 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.15%) Maven
9 5 (1.54%) fastlane
9 5 (1.54%) JUnit
10 4 (1.23%) Spock
10 4 (1.23%) Vite
11 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.92%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.92%) Storybook
12 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.62%) Selenium
12 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.62%) XCUITest
General
1 64 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.85%) Finance
3 24 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.54%) Banking
5 14 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.77%) Marketing
7 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.15%) Retail Banking
8 6 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.54%) Advertising
10 4 (1.23%) Games
10 4 (1.23%) Retail
11 3 (0.92%) French Language
11 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.92%) Publishing
11 3 (0.92%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (41.23%) Senior
2 89 (27.38%) Developer
3 50 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 48 (14.77%) Senior Developer
5 43 (13.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (11.08%) Lead
7 30 (9.23%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.00%) Architect
9 25 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
14 14 (4.31%) .NET Developer
14 14 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.69%) .NET
2 56 (17.23%) React
3 41 (12.62%) Node.js
4 35 (10.77%) Spring
5 30 (9.23%) Spring Boot
6 27 (8.31%) AngularJS
6 27 (8.31%) CSS
6 27 (8.31%) HTML
6 27 (8.31%) REST
7 26 (8.00%) RESTful
8 21 (6.46%) Vue
9 18 (5.54%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.08%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.08%) Django
10 10 (3.08%) JWT
10 10 (3.08%) Kafka
10 10 (3.08%) OAuth
11 9 (2.77%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.46%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.31%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.15%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.92%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.08%) Android
4 5 (1.54%) Windows
5 2 (0.62%) Debian
5 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (57.85%) DevOps
2 142 (43.69%) Agile
3 117 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (29.54%) AI
5 81 (24.92%) Microservices
6 79 (24.31%) Software Engineering
7 75 (23.08%) Mentoring
8 64 (19.69%) Containerisation
8 64 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (19.69%) TDD
9 59 (18.15%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (17.23%) Platform Engineering
12 55 (16.92%) Observability
13 53 (16.31%) Scrum
14 49 (15.08%) Full-Stack Development
15 40 (12.31%) Clean Code
15 40 (12.31%) SDLC
16 38 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (10.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.46%) Python
2 66 (20.31%) Java
2 66 (20.31%) SQL
3 56 (17.23%) C#
4 52 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 49 (15.08%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.77%) Bash
8 10 (3.08%) Swift
9 9 (2.77%) Bicep
10 8 (2.46%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.15%) Go
12 5 (1.54%) PHP
13 4 (1.23%) Groovy
13 4 (1.23%) Scala
14 3 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.92%) SOQL
14 3 (0.92%) SOSL
15 2 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (10.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.31%) Degree
4 9 (2.77%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.00%) GRC
2 12 (3.69%) QA
3 6 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.92%) WCAG
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (23.38%) Docker
2 19 (5.85%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (38.15%) Terraform
2 91 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.00%) Ansible
4 9 (2.77%) Grafana
5 8 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.92%) Argo
7 3 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.62%) Istio
8 2 (0.62%) Packer
8 2 (0.62%) Rancher
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.31%) linkerd
9 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.31%) Google
3 12 (3.69%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.69%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.69%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.69%) Tenable
4 10 (3.08%) Databricks
4 10 (3.08%) VMware
5 8 (2.46%) Adobe
6 7 (2.15%) Splunk
7 5 (1.54%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.23%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.23%) Oracle
9 3 (0.92%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.92%) Pega
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.31%) F5
10 1 (0.31%) HP
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow