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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -28
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 401 187 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.27% 7.86% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 8.82% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 277 118 133
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,438 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £66,750 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.69% +4.00% -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 5,796 2,121 3,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.14% 89.19% 84.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,351 1,190 1,619
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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 8 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 8 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 +14 9 £65,000 - 10
Stockport +4 9 £72,500 - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 9 £51,000 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 4
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +3 2 £53,750 - 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 13 (3.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) CMS
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Kentico
7 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (49.88%) AWS
2 168 (41.90%) Azure
3 85 (21.20%) GitHub
4 58 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (12.97%) GCP
5 52 (12.97%) Serverless
6 37 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.73%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.24%) SaaS
10 17 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.24%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.99%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.99%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.49%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.99%) Firewall
2 11 (2.74%) DNS
2 11 (2.74%) Network Security
3 6 (1.50%) BIG-IP
3 6 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (1.25%) SAN
5 3 (0.75%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) CTI
6 2 (0.50%) DHCP
6 2 (0.50%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.48%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.74%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
8 6 (1.50%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.25%) Chroma
9 5 (1.25%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.25%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) MySQL
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 64 (15.96%) Git
2 48 (11.97%) GitLab
3 38 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.74%) JIRA
5 17 (4.24%) Maven
6 15 (3.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (3.24%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.24%) JUnit
7 13 (3.24%) Spock
8 9 (2.24%) Snyk
9 8 (2.00%) Storybook
10 7 (1.75%) Postman
10 7 (1.75%) Selenium
11 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.00%) fastlane
12 4 (1.00%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.00%) Vagrant
12 4 (1.00%) Vite
13 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.22%) Finance
3 26 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.49%) Publishing
6 19 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.99%) Marketing
8 11 (2.74%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.25%) Games
11 5 (1.25%) iGaming
11 5 (1.25%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Local Government
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (39.15%) Senior
2 90 (22.44%) Developer
3 72 (17.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (11.97%) Lead
5 47 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 44 (10.97%) Software Engineer
7 34 (8.48%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (6.98%) Architect
10 27 (6.73%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (6.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.24%) Automation Engineer
14 20 (4.99%) Data Engineer
14 20 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.74%) Senior Automation Engineer
16 18 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
18 15 (3.74%) Applications Engineer
18 15 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (34.91%) Terraform
2 72 (17.96%) React
3 71 (17.71%) Spring
4 57 (14.21%) Spring Boot
5 55 (13.72%) Node.js
6 48 (11.97%) .NET
7 43 (10.72%) AngularJS
8 33 (8.23%) REST
9 30 (7.48%) CSS
10 29 (7.23%) HTML
11 27 (6.73%) Kafka
12 21 (5.24%) Vue
13 20 (4.99%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.24%) .NET Core
15 11 (2.74%) LangChain
15 11 (2.74%) PySpark
16 10 (2.49%) Flask
16 10 (2.49%) GraphQL
16 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (2.49%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.24%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.99%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.99%) Media Streaming
6 12 (2.99%) Podcast
6 12 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.98%) Linux
2 8 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.50%) Unix
4 5 (1.25%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) CentOS
4 5 (1.25%) VMS
5 4 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (63.84%) DevOps
2 164 (40.90%) Agile
3 160 (39.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 141 (35.16%) AI
5 102 (25.44%) Software Engineering
6 101 (25.19%) Microservices
7 99 (24.69%) Mentoring
8 98 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (24.19%) Observability
10 95 (23.69%) Containerisation
11 90 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (22.19%) Test Automation
13 81 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
14 61 (15.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
16 51 (12.72%) Code Quality
17 46 (11.47%) Event-Driven
18 45 (11.22%) TDD
19 44 (10.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 41 (10.22%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.40%) Python
2 108 (26.93%) Java
3 92 (22.94%) TypeScript
4 79 (19.70%) SQL
5 69 (17.21%) JavaScript
6 53 (13.22%) C#
7 44 (10.97%) Bash
8 30 (7.48%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.49%) Go
10 11 (2.74%) Bicep
11 9 (2.24%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.00%) Groovy
13 6 (1.50%) Swift
14 5 (1.25%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.25%) Rust
15 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.00%) Scala
16 3 (0.75%) SOQL
16 3 (0.75%) SOSL
17 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 85 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.47%) DV Cleared
3 42 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.74%) Degree
5 8 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) CCNA
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MCSE
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.73%) QA
2 17 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.49%) GRC
4 8 (2.00%) WCAG
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 132 (32.92%) Docker
2 16 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 132 (32.92%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.97%) Ansible
3 20 (4.99%) Grafana
3 20 (4.99%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.74%) Argo
5 7 (1.75%) Istio
5 7 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.50%) Podman
7 4 (1.00%) linkerd
7 4 (1.00%) Packer
8 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.75%) Puppet
8 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.25%) Opsview
Vendors
1 55 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.49%) Splunk
3 19 (4.74%) Google
4 14 (3.49%) Databricks
5 13 (3.24%) Adobe
5 13 (3.24%) AppDynamics
6 10 (2.49%) VMware
7 9 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.24%) Tenable
8 8 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.50%) F5
9 6 (1.50%) Mistral
9 6 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle
10 4 (1.00%) YouTube
11 3 (0.75%) Dell
11 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.75%) Thales