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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -13
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 273 195 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.80% 8.73% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.69% 9.13% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 198 129 220
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,715
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 4,079 2,135 4,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.69% 95.61% 85.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 1,252 3,430
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 13 £67,500 -
Salford -19 1 £74,301 +7.09% 9
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 9 (3.30%) Confluence
2 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.10%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.73%) CICS
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (52.01%) Azure
2 125 (45.79%) AWS
3 50 (18.32%) GitHub
3 50 (18.32%) Serverless
4 45 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (16.12%) GCP
6 21 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (6.96%) SaaS
8 16 (5.86%) Azure AKS
9 11 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (4.03%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.03%) Firewall
2 6 (2.20%) VPN
3 5 (1.83%) Network Security
4 4 (1.47%) SAN
5 3 (1.10%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.37%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) LTE
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.23%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.66%) MySQL
5 6 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.10%) GIS
8 3 (1.10%) QGIS
9 2 (0.73%) Big Data
9 2 (0.73%) DB2
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.73%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.73%) Power BI
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (16.12%) Git
2 24 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.96%) GitLab
3 19 (6.96%) JIRA
4 12 (4.40%) Snyk
5 8 (2.93%) Postman
6 7 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.56%) JUnit
7 5 (1.83%) Maven
8 4 (1.47%) Spock
9 3 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.10%) fastlane
9 3 (1.10%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.73%) Vite
10 2 (0.73%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.37%) Storybook
General
1 50 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.92%) Finance
3 22 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.23%) Banking
5 13 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.56%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.83%) Advertising
10 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.10%) French Language
11 3 (1.10%) Games
11 3 (1.10%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.10%) Marketing
11 3 (1.10%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.10%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Retail
13 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 122 (44.69%) Senior
2 81 (29.67%) Developer
3 46 (16.85%) Senior Developer
4 45 (16.48%) Software Engineer
5 37 (13.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (11.36%) Java Developer
7 24 (8.79%) Lead
8 23 (8.42%) Architect
9 19 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (5.86%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 16 (5.86%) Senior Java Developer
11 15 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.40%) Cloud Security Architect
13 12 (4.40%) Security Architect
13 12 (4.40%) Senior Architect
13 12 (4.40%) Senior Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.40%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (21.25%) .NET
2 46 (16.85%) React
3 33 (12.09%) Spring
4 31 (11.36%) Node.js
5 29 (10.62%) RESTful
6 28 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 27 (9.89%) REST
8 24 (8.79%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.79%) CSS
8 24 (8.79%) HTML
9 11 (4.03%) Kafka
10 10 (3.66%) Django
10 10 (3.66%) FastAPI
11 9 (3.30%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.30%) .NET Framework
11 9 (3.30%) Vue
12 7 (2.56%) JWT
12 7 (2.56%) OAuth
12 7 (2.56%) PySpark
13 6 (2.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.33%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.93%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
2 11 (4.03%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.93%) Android
4 5 (1.83%) Windows
5 2 (0.73%) Debian
5 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (56.04%) DevOps
2 132 (48.35%) Agile
3 94 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (25.27%) AI
5 67 (24.54%) Microservices
6 65 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 63 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 63 (23.08%) TDD
8 55 (20.15%) Containerisation
8 55 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (18.68%) Scrum
10 46 (16.85%) Platform Engineering
10 46 (16.85%) Test Automation
11 43 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (12.82%) SDLC
14 34 (12.45%) Clean Code
14 34 (12.45%) Observability
15 29 (10.62%) Collaborative Culture
16 26 (9.52%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.21%) Python
2 60 (21.98%) Java
3 55 (20.15%) SQL
4 46 (16.85%) C#
5 44 (16.12%) JavaScript
6 39 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.96%) PowerShell
8 17 (6.23%) Bash
9 8 (2.93%) Bicep
9 8 (2.93%) Swift
10 6 (2.20%) Go
11 5 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.47%) Groovy
12 4 (1.47%) PHP
13 3 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.10%) SOQL
13 3 (1.10%) SOSL
14 2 (0.73%) C
14 2 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.66%) Degree
4 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.76%) GRC
2 7 (2.56%) QA
3 6 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (24.18%) Docker
2 16 (5.86%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.10%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (38.83%) Terraform
2 73 (26.74%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.16%) Ansible
4 5 (1.83%) Grafana
5 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) Rancher
7 2 (0.73%) Packer
7 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 25 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
2 12 (4.40%) Palo Alto
2 12 (4.40%) Salesforce
2 12 (4.40%) Tenable
3 11 (4.03%) Google
4 9 (3.30%) Databricks
4 9 (3.30%) VMware
5 5 (1.83%) Adobe
6 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.47%) Oracle
6 4 (1.47%) Splunk
7 3 (1.10%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.10%) Pega
8 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.37%) F5
9 1 (0.37%) HP