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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 26 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -16
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 204 171 228
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.12% 7.70% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 8.02% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 167 137 204
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +7.76% +0.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,500 £97,528 £84,919
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 2,976 2,131 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.66% 95.95% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 1,240 3,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -6 5 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Salford -8 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 5 (2.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) CICS
4 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 2 (0.98%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.49%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (49.51%) Azure
2 92 (45.10%) AWS
3 41 (20.10%) GCP
4 32 (15.69%) Serverless
5 22 (10.78%) GitHub
6 19 (9.31%) SaaS
7 18 (8.82%) Azure AKS
7 18 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.88%) Azure Functions
8 12 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.43%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) Firewall
1 5 (2.45%) HTTP
2 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.98%) Network Security
3 2 (0.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.49%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.63%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.78%) MongoDB
2 22 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.37%) MySQL
4 9 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.47%) Redis
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.98%) Big Data
9 2 (0.98%) DB2
9 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.98%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.98%) Power BI
9 2 (0.98%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) Git
2 15 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.37%) JIRA
4 10 (4.90%) GitLab
5 3 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.47%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.47%) fastlane
5 3 (1.47%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.47%) JUnit
5 3 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.98%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.98%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.49%) Locust
7 1 (0.49%) Postman
7 1 (0.49%) Protractor
7 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 50 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.25%) Finance
3 11 (5.39%) Banking
4 7 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.45%) Games
7 4 (1.96%) Retail
8 3 (1.47%) French Language
8 3 (1.47%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.47%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.47%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.47%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.98%) Advertising
9 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (36.76%) Senior
2 64 (31.37%) Developer
3 44 (21.57%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.75%) Lead
6 23 (11.27%) Java Developer
7 18 (8.82%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.39%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
10 10 (4.90%) .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Architect
10 10 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (4.41%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.35%) .NET
2 39 (19.12%) React
2 39 (19.12%) RESTful
3 28 (13.73%) CSS
3 28 (13.73%) HTML
4 26 (12.75%) REST
5 23 (11.27%) Spring
5 23 (11.27%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.80%) AngularJS
6 20 (9.80%) Node.js
7 18 (8.82%) .NET Core
8 17 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.88%) Django
10 10 (4.90%) Vue
11 9 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (3.92%) CSS3
12 8 (3.92%) FastAPI
12 8 (3.92%) HTML5
12 8 (3.92%) Kafka
13 7 (3.43%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.86%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.43%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.98%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.98%) IoT
10 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.98%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.35%) Linux
2 10 (4.90%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.94%) Android
3 6 (2.94%) Windows
4 3 (1.47%) Unix
4 3 (1.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.98%) Debian
5 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (54.41%) Agile
2 106 (51.96%) DevOps
3 73 (35.78%) Software Engineering
4 69 (33.82%) Microservices
5 60 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 57 (27.94%) TDD
7 50 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (21.57%) Clean Code
9 41 (20.10%) Scrum
10 40 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (18.14%) AI
12 35 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (15.20%) Mentoring
14 28 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (13.24%) Test Automation
16 24 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (11.76%) Roadmaps
17 21 (10.29%) User Experience
18 19 (9.31%) Collaborative Culture
18 19 (9.31%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.43%) C#
2 49 (24.02%) Java
3 46 (22.55%) SQL
4 42 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 42 (20.59%) Python
5 35 (17.16%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.92%) Go
7 7 (3.43%) Swift
8 6 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.96%) PHP
11 3 (1.47%) Erlang
11 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.98%) Scala
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.90%) Degree
4 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) QA
2 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (27.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 4 (1.96%) vSphere
3 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (31.86%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.49%) Terraform
3 19 (9.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.47%) Rancher
5 2 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.98%) Packer
5 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.49%) Grafana
6 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.92%) Google
3 7 (3.43%) Oracle
3 7 (3.43%) VMware
4 4 (1.96%) Pega
5 3 (1.47%) Software AG
5 3 (1.47%) webMethods
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) F5
6 1 (0.49%) Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.49%) WSO2