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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 29 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 378 213 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.92% 8.57% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 9.23% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 280 134 213
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £91,250
North West median annual salary £68,403 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.34% +8.00% -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 4,672 2,307 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.18% 92.80% 82.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 1,324 3,317
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £88,333 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +16 13 £67,500 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 6 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +2 2 £75,000 - 5
Bolton +14 1 £35,000 - 5
Salford -20 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 15 (3.97%) Confluence
2 10 (2.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.79%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.53%) CICS
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 182 (48.15%) AWS
2 179 (47.35%) Azure
3 72 (19.05%) GitHub
4 65 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (15.61%) Serverless
6 52 (13.76%) GCP
7 33 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (6.88%) SaaS
9 21 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 17 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (3.44%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.65%) Pulumi
17 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (2.38%) Power Automate
18 8 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.91%) Firewall
2 6 (1.59%) SAN
3 5 (1.32%) Network Security
4 4 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 25 (6.61%) MongoDB
2 25 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.38%) MySQL
6 8 (2.12%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.85%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.59%) Power BI
9 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.32%) Redis
10 3 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.79%) GIS
10 3 (0.79%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.79%) QGIS
11 2 (0.53%) Db2
11 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (14.29%) Git
2 33 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.47%) GitLab
4 26 (6.88%) JIRA
5 16 (4.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.44%) Postman
7 12 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.17%) Snyk
8 10 (2.65%) Maven
9 9 (2.38%) JUnit
9 9 (2.38%) Spock
10 7 (1.85%) fastlane
11 5 (1.32%) Storybook
12 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.06%) Selenium
12 4 (1.06%) Vite
13 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.40%) Finance
3 26 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.29%) Banking
5 18 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.65%) Marketing
7 8 (2.12%) Retail
8 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.32%) Advertising
9 5 (1.32%) Games
9 5 (1.32%) Publishing
10 3 (0.79%) French Language
10 3 (0.79%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.79%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.79%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 154 (40.74%) Senior
2 97 (25.66%) Developer
3 54 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 50 (13.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (12.43%) Software Engineer
6 44 (11.64%) Lead
7 43 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 29 (7.67%) Architect
10 22 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
13 16 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
13 16 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
13 16 (4.23%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 16 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.87%) .NET
2 58 (15.34%) React
3 52 (13.76%) Spring
4 49 (12.96%) Node.js
5 42 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 39 (10.32%) AngularJS
7 32 (8.47%) CSS
7 32 (8.47%) HTML
8 26 (6.88%) RESTful
8 26 (6.88%) Vue
9 22 (5.82%) REST
10 20 (5.29%) FastAPI
11 14 (3.70%) Kafka
12 10 (2.65%) Django
12 10 (2.65%) Flask
13 9 (2.38%) .NET Core
13 9 (2.38%) JWT
13 9 (2.38%) LangChain
13 9 (2.38%) OAuth
13 9 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.91%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.53%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.61%) Linux
2 15 (3.97%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.65%) Android
4 5 (1.32%) Windows
5 3 (0.79%) CentOS
5 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.53%) Debian
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.53%) Unix
6 2 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (60.85%) DevOps
2 155 (41.01%) Agile
3 135 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (31.48%) AI
5 93 (24.60%) Microservices
6 87 (23.02%) Software Engineering
7 86 (22.75%) Mentoring
8 81 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 77 (20.37%) Test Automation
10 76 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (19.84%) Platform Engineering
12 72 (19.05%) Observability
13 71 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (17.20%) TDD
15 64 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 55 (14.55%) Scrum
17 50 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
18 47 (12.43%) Collaborative Culture
19 44 (11.64%) Decision-Making
20 43 (11.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 126 (33.33%) Python
2 86 (22.75%) Java
3 78 (20.63%) SQL
4 63 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 62 (16.40%) JavaScript
6 55 (14.55%) C#
7 32 (8.47%) Bash
8 29 (7.67%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.17%) Swift
10 11 (2.91%) Bicep
10 11 (2.91%) Go
11 10 (2.65%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.32%) Groovy
12 5 (1.32%) PHP
13 4 (1.06%) Scala
14 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.79%) SOQL
14 3 (0.79%) SOSL
15 2 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 50 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.35%) DV Cleared
4 20 (5.29%) Degree
5 9 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.59%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.29%) QA
2 13 (3.44%) GRC
3 7 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.32%) WCAG
6 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (26.19%) Docker
2 18 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (35.45%) Terraform
2 111 (29.37%) Kubernetes
3 37 (9.79%) Ansible
4 17 (4.50%) Grafana
5 14 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.59%) Argo
7 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.06%) Istio
8 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.79%) linkerd
10 2 (0.53%) Packer
10 2 (0.53%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.76%) Splunk
3 16 (4.23%) Google
4 14 (3.70%) Databricks
5 12 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.17%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.17%) Tenable
6 10 (2.65%) Adobe
6 10 (2.65%) VMware
7 9 (2.38%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.59%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.32%) Oracle
10 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.79%) Pega
11 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) F5
12 1 (0.26%) HP