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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 42 13
Rank change year-on-year +17 -29 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 195 196 330
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.35% 5.06% 12.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.39% 5.97% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 126 132 291
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +9.80%
75th Percentile £78,780 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,419
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 2,076 3,283 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 84.74% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,555 1,995
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +12 4 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Bolton +8 4 - - 5
Oldham - 4 £65,000 - 4
Stockport +2 3 - -
Altrincham -4 3 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - - 3
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 16 (8.21%) Confluence
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.05%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (61.54%) AWS
2 116 (59.49%) Azure
3 41 (21.03%) GCP
4 28 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.72%) GitHub
6 14 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.18%) Serverless
7 13 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (6.67%) SaaS
8 10 (5.13%) Power Automate
8 10 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.59%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.59%) Route 53
12 6 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.54%) DNS
1 3 (1.54%) Firewall
1 3 (1.54%) HTTP
1 3 (1.54%) WAN
2 1 (0.51%) DAB
2 1 (0.51%) SAN
2 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 28 (14.36%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.72%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.62%) MySQL
7 7 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.05%) Big Data
11 3 (1.54%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.54%) Power BI
12 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.51%) Redis
13 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (22.56%) GitLab
2 42 (21.54%) JIRA
3 37 (18.97%) Selenium
4 35 (17.95%) Cucumber
5 28 (14.36%) Bitbucket
5 28 (14.36%) Maven
5 28 (14.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 27 (13.85%) SonarQube
7 18 (9.23%) Git
7 18 (9.23%) Jenkins
8 7 (3.59%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.05%) JMeter
10 3 (1.54%) Gatling
11 2 (1.03%) Appium
11 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.03%) JUnit
11 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.03%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) MLflow
12 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (26.67%) Finance
2 33 (16.92%) Retail
3 32 (16.41%) Social Skills
4 27 (13.85%) Banking
4 27 (13.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (9.23%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (9.23%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Marketing
8 7 (3.59%) Games
9 6 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.54%) Cantonese Language
11 3 (1.54%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.03%) Advertising
12 2 (1.03%) Electronics
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 55 (28.21%) Senior
2 50 (25.64%) Software Engineer
3 46 (23.59%) Developer
4 20 (10.26%) Lead
5 18 (9.23%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.72%) Architect
7 15 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.67%) AWS Architect
8 13 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.15%) AWS Solution Architect
9 12 (6.15%) Senior Architect
10 11 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (5.64%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (5.13%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (5.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.13%) TOGAF Architect
12 8 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.21%) React
2 49 (25.13%) Spring
2 49 (25.13%) Spring Boot
3 45 (23.08%) .NET
3 45 (23.08%) RESTful
4 40 (20.51%) Kafka
5 37 (18.97%) HTML
6 36 (18.46%) CSS
7 32 (16.41%) REST
8 30 (15.38%) Redux
9 27 (13.85%) JPA
10 23 (11.79%) HTML5
11 22 (11.28%) CSS3
12 21 (10.77%) Jest
13 18 (9.23%) Sass
14 16 (8.21%) Hibernate
15 14 (7.18%) .NET Core
16 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
17 11 (5.64%) Node.js
18 9 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 34 (17.44%) Product Ownership
3 27 (13.85%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (6.15%) Mobile App
6 11 (5.64%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.08%) Wiki
8 5 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.54%) BBC
10 3 (1.54%) Blog
10 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.54%) Online Games
10 3 (1.54%) Social Media
11 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.03%) Tandem
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.77%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.59%) Debian
3 7 (3.59%) Windows
4 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.54%) Android
5 3 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.03%) Unix
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (70.77%) DevOps
2 112 (57.44%) Agile
3 90 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 88 (45.13%) Software Engineering
5 87 (44.62%) Microservices
6 54 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (23.59%) SDLC
8 44 (22.56%) Performance Optimisation
8 44 (22.56%) TDD
8 44 (22.56%) Test Automation
9 41 (21.03%) Mentoring
10 37 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (17.95%) User Experience
12 32 (16.41%) Clean Code
13 31 (15.90%) Front End Development
14 26 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (11.79%) AI
17 22 (11.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (35.38%) Java
2 67 (34.36%) SQL
3 54 (27.69%) JavaScript
4 50 (25.64%) C#
5 43 (22.05%) Python
5 43 (22.05%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.67%) Bash
7 9 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.05%) Bicep
9 3 (1.54%) Erlang
9 3 (1.54%) PHP
9 3 (1.54%) Rust
10 2 (1.03%) Go
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) Dart
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 13 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (5.13%) Degree
4 9 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.03%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.51%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.49%) QA
2 18 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 16 (8.21%) GDPR
4 11 (5.64%) HIPAA
5 10 (5.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (49.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.51%) HDFS
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) Postfix
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 39 (20.00%) Terraform
3 18 (9.23%) Ansible
4 11 (5.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.62%) Grafana
6 3 (1.54%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.85%) Solace
2 22 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.18%) Google
4 11 (5.64%) Splunk
5 4 (2.05%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.05%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.05%) Databricks
5 4 (2.05%) Foundry
5 4 (2.05%) IBM
5 4 (2.05%) Moogsoft
6 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.03%) SAP
7 2 (1.03%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.51%) Meraki
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) Pega
8 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.51%) WSO2