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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 28 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 411 190 208
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.38% 7.99% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 8.92% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 280 120 139
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,563 £47,250
25th Percentile £54,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,875 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 5,822 2,129 3,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.22% 89.49% 83.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,394 1,191 1,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 1 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 1 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
Altrincham +12 9 £65,000 - 13
Stockport +4 9 £72,500 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 9 £51,000 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 4
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +2 2 £53,750 - 3
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 (3.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.43%) Confluence
4 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.97%) CMS
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.73%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) Kentico
8 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 205 (49.88%) AWS
2 178 (43.31%) Azure
3 88 (21.41%) GitHub
4 64 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (14.11%) Serverless
6 55 (13.38%) GCP
7 40 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.57%) Power Platform
9 24 (5.84%) SaaS
10 23 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (5.11%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
12 17 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.65%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.92%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.68%) Entra ID
16 10 (2.43%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.41%) Firewall
2 8 (1.95%) DNS
2 8 (1.95%) Network Security
3 5 (1.22%) SAN
4 3 (0.73%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) CTI
5 2 (0.49%) DHCP
5 2 (0.49%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.08%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.62%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.70%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.46%) MySQL
8 6 (1.46%) Power BI
8 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.22%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) Chroma
10 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.73%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 66 (16.06%) Git
2 45 (10.95%) GitLab
3 37 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.35%) JIRA
5 17 (4.14%) Maven
6 15 (3.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.16%) JUnit
8 13 (3.16%) Spock
9 12 (2.92%) Snyk
10 10 (2.43%) Postman
11 8 (1.95%) Storybook
12 6 (1.46%) Selenium
13 5 (1.22%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.97%) fastlane
14 4 (0.97%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.97%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.97%) Vite
15 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 95 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.90%) Finance
3 27 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.35%) Publishing
6 20 (4.87%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.92%) Retail
8 10 (2.43%) Marketing
9 7 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Banking
11 5 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.22%) Games
11 5 (1.22%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) iGaming
12 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 161 (39.17%) Senior
2 92 (22.38%) Developer
3 71 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (11.68%) Lead
5 46 (11.19%) Senior Developer
5 46 (11.19%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.03%) Platform Engineer
8 31 (7.54%) Architect
9 26 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (6.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (4.87%) Automation Engineer
13 20 (4.87%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (4.87%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.62%) Senior Automation Engineer
15 18 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
17 15 (3.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (35.77%) Terraform
2 73 (17.76%) Spring
3 72 (17.52%) React
4 58 (14.11%) Spring Boot
5 56 (13.63%) Node.js
6 48 (11.68%) .NET
7 44 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 32 (7.79%) REST
9 30 (7.30%) CSS
10 29 (7.06%) HTML
11 27 (6.57%) Kafka
12 21 (5.11%) Vue
13 19 (4.62%) FastAPI
14 12 (2.92%) .NET Core
14 12 (2.92%) RESTful
15 11 (2.68%) PySpark
16 10 (2.43%) Flask
16 10 (2.43%) GraphQL
16 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (2.43%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 90 (21.90%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.65%) Private Cloud
5 12 (2.92%) Media Streaming
5 12 (2.92%) Podcast
6 11 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.43%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.22%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.97%) Replication
11 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.76%) Linux
2 8 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.46%) Unix
4 5 (1.22%) Android
4 5 (1.22%) CentOS
4 5 (1.22%) VMS
5 4 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (64.72%) DevOps
2 165 (40.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 163 (39.66%) Agile
4 147 (35.77%) AI
5 104 (25.30%) Software Engineering
6 101 (24.57%) Mentoring
6 101 (24.57%) Microservices
7 100 (24.33%) Containerisation
8 99 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (24.09%) Observability
9 92 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (22.14%) Test Automation
11 81 (19.71%) Platform Engineering
12 63 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 55 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
14 52 (12.65%) Code Quality
15 48 (11.68%) Event-Driven
15 48 (11.68%) TDD
16 46 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 43 (10.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.44%) Python
2 110 (26.76%) Java
3 92 (22.38%) TypeScript
4 80 (19.46%) SQL
5 70 (17.03%) JavaScript
6 52 (12.65%) C#
7 48 (11.68%) Bash
8 35 (8.52%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.41%) Go
10 12 (2.92%) Bicep
11 9 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.95%) Groovy
13 6 (1.46%) Swift
14 5 (1.22%) Rust
15 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.97%) Scala
16 3 (0.73%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.73%) PHP
16 3 (0.73%) SOQL
16 3 (0.73%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 85 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.92%) DV Cleared
3 43 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.62%) Degree
5 9 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.49%) CCNA
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.49%) MCSE
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.57%) QA
2 17 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.16%) GRC
4 10 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.95%) WCAG
6 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 135 (32.85%) Docker
2 20 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.46%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.73%) Ceph
6 2 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 138 (33.58%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.41%) Ansible
3 22 (5.35%) Grafana
3 22 (5.35%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.68%) Argo
5 8 (1.95%) Istio
6 7 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.46%) Podman
8 4 (0.97%) linkerd
8 4 (0.97%) Packer
9 3 (0.73%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.73%) Puppet
9 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.24%) Opsview
Vendors
1 60 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.35%) Splunk
3 21 (5.11%) Google
4 14 (3.41%) Databricks
5 13 (3.16%) Adobe
5 13 (3.16%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.92%) Tenable
7 10 (2.43%) VMware
8 9 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.97%) Mistral
10 4 (0.97%) Oracle
10 4 (0.97%) YouTube
11 3 (0.73%) Dell
11 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.73%) F5
11 3 (0.73%) New Relic