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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 38 15
Rank change year-on-year +17 -23 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 189 188 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.87% 5.26% 11.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 6.09% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 154 130 233
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,875 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,633 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £87,500 £87,484
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and 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 2,040 3,089 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.89% 86.36% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,403 1,794
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,815
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,600 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +9 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Bolton +14 1 - - 15
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 (2.12%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.59%) CMS
2 3 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) JBoss
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (52.38%) Azure
2 98 (51.85%) AWS
3 34 (17.99%) GCP
4 28 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.58%) Serverless
6 17 (8.99%) GitHub
7 15 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (7.94%) SaaS
8 13 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.76%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.23%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.59%) HTTP
2 2 (1.06%) DNS
2 2 (1.06%) Firewall
2 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) DAB
3 1 (0.53%) SAN
3 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.93%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.99%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.29%) MySQL
6 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.65%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.59%) Big Data
10 3 (1.59%) Power BI
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.06%) Redis
12 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (11.11%) Git
2 16 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.41%) GitLab
4 10 (5.29%) JIRA
5 6 (3.17%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.17%) Selenium
6 4 (2.12%) JMeter
7 3 (1.59%) Gatling
8 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.06%) NUnit
9 1 (0.53%) Ant
9 1 (0.53%) Appium
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) JUnit
9 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Protractor
9 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.11%) Finance
3 15 (7.94%) Retail
4 7 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.70%) Games
4 7 (3.70%) Marketing
4 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.06%) Electronics
6 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.06%) Legal
6 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.53%) Advertising
7 1 (0.53%) Automotive
7 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.53%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (32.80%) Senior
2 49 (25.93%) Developer
3 29 (15.34%) Software Engineer
4 25 (13.23%) Lead
5 17 (8.99%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.47%) .NET Developer
7 14 (7.41%) Architect
8 13 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.29%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
12 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.63%) .NET
2 32 (16.93%) RESTful
3 30 (15.87%) React
4 19 (10.05%) Spring
4 19 (10.05%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.99%) .NET Core
6 14 (7.41%) .NET Framework
6 14 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.41%) REST
7 13 (6.88%) HTML
8 12 (6.35%) CSS
9 11 (5.82%) Node.js
10 9 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (4.76%) Kafka
11 8 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.23%) Hibernate
12 7 (3.70%) Django
12 7 (3.70%) Vue
13 6 (3.17%) Entity Framework
13 6 (3.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.59%) BBC
9 3 (1.59%) Online Games
9 3 (1.59%) Wiki
10 2 (1.06%) Blog
10 2 (1.06%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.11%) Linux
2 8 (4.23%) Windows
3 7 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.17%) Debian
5 4 (2.12%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.59%) Android
6 3 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.59%) Unix
7 2 (1.06%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (61.90%) DevOps
2 91 (48.15%) Agile
3 69 (36.51%) Containerisation
3 69 (36.51%) Software Engineering
4 64 (33.86%) Microservices
5 45 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (22.75%) TDD
7 36 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.46%) Clean Code
9 32 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (14.81%) AI
11 27 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (13.23%) Roadmaps
13 21 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 19 (10.05%) Event-Driven
14 19 (10.05%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (10.05%) SDLC
15 18 (9.52%) Scrum
15 18 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.69%) C#
2 48 (25.40%) SQL
3 46 (24.34%) Python
4 38 (20.11%) Java
5 29 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.34%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.35%) Bash
7 10 (5.29%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.65%) Bicep
9 4 (2.12%) Go
10 3 (1.59%) Erlang
10 3 (1.59%) PHP
10 3 (1.59%) Rust
11 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) Dart
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.82%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.29%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.76%) Degree
6 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.06%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) GDPR
2 12 (6.35%) QA
3 8 (4.23%) HIPAA
3 8 (4.23%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (40.74%) Docker
2 7 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.06%) vSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.53%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) Postfix
5 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.75%) Terraform
3 19 (10.05%) Ansible
4 10 (5.29%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.76%) Grafana
6 3 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.53%) Podman
7 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.82%) Google
3 9 (4.76%) Splunk
4 4 (2.12%) Foundry
4 4 (2.12%) VMware
5 3 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.59%) Databricks
5 3 (1.59%) IBM
5 3 (1.59%) Moogsoft
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle
5 3 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.59%) Software AG
5 3 (1.59%) webMethods
6 2 (1.06%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.06%) SAP
6 2 (1.06%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.53%) Pega
7 1 (0.53%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.53%) WSO2