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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 175 181 223
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.06% 7.17% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.65% 7.56% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 149 128 199
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £97,528 £82,850
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -

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 2,631 2,395 3,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.06% 94.93% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 1,181 2,709
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 February 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 February 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
Salford +2 4 £73,801 +6.43% 7
Altrincham -6 2 £67,500 +28.57% 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 4 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.71%) Apache
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (52.57%) Azure
2 84 (48.00%) AWS
3 36 (20.57%) GCP
4 24 (13.71%) Serverless
5 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.14%) GitHub
6 16 (9.14%) SaaS
7 15 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 12 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.29%) Azure Functions
9 11 (6.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (5.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (5.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Firewall
1 6 (3.43%) HTTP
2 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) DNS
3 2 (1.14%) SAN
3 2 (1.14%) VPN
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.43%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 18 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.43%) MySQL
5 8 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.29%) Big Data
6 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.71%) Power BI
7 3 (1.71%) Redis
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (16.00%) Git
2 11 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.71%) GitLab
4 9 (5.14%) JIRA
5 4 (2.29%) JUnit
6 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.14%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.57%) Ant
8 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.57%) JMeter
8 1 (0.57%) Locust
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) NUnit
8 1 (0.57%) Protractor
8 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.43%) Finance
3 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.43%) Retail
4 5 (2.86%) Games
4 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.71%) French Language
5 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (1.71%) Italian Language
5 3 (1.71%) Marketing
5 3 (1.71%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (1.71%) Spanish Language
6 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.14%) Legal
6 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.57%) Advertising
7 1 (0.57%) Automotive
7 1 (0.57%) Electronics
7 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (34.86%) Senior
2 45 (25.71%) Developer
3 36 (20.57%) Software Engineer
4 20 (11.43%) Lead
5 19 (10.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (9.14%) .NET Developer
6 16 (9.14%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Architect
9 9 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.00%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.86%) .NET
2 34 (19.43%) React
2 34 (19.43%) RESTful
3 25 (14.29%) CSS
3 25 (14.29%) HTML
4 23 (13.14%) REST
5 21 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.71%) .NET Core
6 17 (9.71%) Spring
6 17 (9.71%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.00%) .NET Framework
7 14 (8.00%) Node.js
8 10 (5.71%) Django
9 9 (5.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.57%) Kafka
11 7 (4.00%) Vue
12 6 (3.43%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.43%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (3.43%) FastAPI
12 6 (3.43%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.43%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.43%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Debian
3 4 (2.29%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.71%) Android
4 3 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.71%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) VMS
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.00%) DevOps
2 89 (50.86%) Agile
3 66 (37.71%) Software Engineering
4 65 (37.14%) Microservices
5 64 (36.57%) Containerisation
6 47 (26.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (26.29%) TDD
8 34 (19.43%) Clean Code
9 33 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (18.29%) AI
11 29 (16.57%) Mentoring
12 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (14.86%) Scrum
14 25 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (13.14%) Test Automation
16 21 (12.00%) SOLID
16 21 (12.00%) User Experience
17 18 (10.29%) Performance Optimisation
17 18 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (10.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.43%) C#
2 40 (22.86%) Python
3 39 (22.29%) Java
4 38 (21.71%) SQL
5 37 (21.14%) JavaScript
6 33 (18.86%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.57%) Go
8 7 (4.00%) Bicep
8 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.86%) PHP
10 4 (2.29%) Scala
11 3 (1.71%) Bash
11 3 (1.71%) Erlang
11 3 (1.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) Degree
4 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) NIST
3 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (31.43%) Docker
2 6 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.29%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.29%) vSphere
4 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (33.14%) Kubernetes
2 46 (26.29%) Terraform
3 22 (12.57%) Ansible
4 4 (2.29%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.71%) Grafana
5 3 (1.71%) Puppet
5 3 (1.71%) Rancher
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.57%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.00%) VMware
3 6 (3.43%) Google
4 5 (2.86%) Oracle
5 3 (1.71%) Software AG
5 3 (1.71%) webMethods
6 2 (1.14%) Foundry
6 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) F5
7 1 (0.57%) HP
7 1 (0.57%) Pega
7 1 (0.57%) SAP
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.57%) WSO2