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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 26 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -9
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 234 176 253
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.48% 8.38% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 8.78% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 167 142 220
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +14.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,809 2,005 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.86% 95.43% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 1,276 3,407
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,204 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,957
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -1 9 £67,500 +28.57% 1
Salford -17 1 £74,301 +7.09% 5
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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 5 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.28%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.85%) CICS
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (49.57%) Azure
2 106 (45.30%) AWS
3 45 (19.23%) Serverless
4 36 (15.38%) GCP
4 36 (15.38%) GitHub
5 34 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.12%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.26%) SaaS
9 12 (5.13%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (1.71%) HTTP
2 4 (1.71%) VPN
3 3 (1.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.24%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.56%) MySQL
5 6 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.71%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.28%) GIS
7 3 (1.28%) QGIS
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) DB2
8 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.85%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (16.67%) Git
2 20 (8.55%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.55%) JIRA
3 13 (5.56%) GitLab
4 8 (3.42%) Postman
4 8 (3.42%) Snyk
5 7 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.28%) fastlane
6 3 (1.28%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.28%) JUnit
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.85%) Vite
7 2 (0.85%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.43%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.53%) Finance
3 17 (7.26%) Banking
3 17 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.99%) Retail Banking
6 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.14%) Advertising
8 3 (1.28%) French Language
8 3 (1.28%) Games
8 3 (1.28%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.28%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.28%) Retail
8 3 (1.28%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.85%) Legal
9 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (41.88%) Senior
2 66 (28.21%) Developer
3 52 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 38 (16.24%) Senior Developer
5 24 (10.26%) Lead
6 23 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (9.40%) Java Developer
8 21 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (6.84%) Architect
10 15 (6.41%) .NET Developer
11 14 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (4.27%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Azure Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.07%) .NET
2 44 (18.80%) React
3 33 (14.10%) RESTful
4 28 (11.97%) Node.js
5 25 (10.68%) Spring
6 24 (10.26%) CSS
6 24 (10.26%) HTML
6 24 (10.26%) REST
6 24 (10.26%) Spring Boot
7 19 (8.12%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.41%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.13%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.85%) Django
10 9 (3.85%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.85%) Vue
11 7 (2.99%) Kafka
12 6 (2.56%) ARM Templates
13 5 (2.14%) JWT
13 5 (2.14%) OAuth
13 5 (2.14%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.98%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.13%) Mobile App
6 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.56%) Linux
2 11 (4.70%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.99%) Android
4 5 (2.14%) Windows
5 2 (0.85%) Debian
5 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (55.56%) DevOps
2 113 (48.29%) Agile
3 77 (32.91%) Software Engineering
4 69 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (28.21%) Microservices
6 60 (25.64%) Containerisation
6 60 (25.64%) TDD
7 55 (23.50%) AI
8 47 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (20.09%) Mentoring
9 44 (18.80%) Scrum
10 40 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (16.24%) Clean Code
12 36 (15.38%) Test Automation
13 35 (14.96%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (14.53%) Observability
15 28 (11.97%) Roadmaps
16 27 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (11.11%) SDLC
18 25 (10.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.36%) Python
2 53 (22.65%) SQL
3 52 (22.22%) C#
4 46 (19.66%) Java
5 38 (16.24%) JavaScript
6 37 (15.81%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.27%) Bash
9 8 (3.42%) Go
9 8 (3.42%) Swift
10 6 (2.56%) Bicep
11 4 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.71%) PHP
12 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.85%) C
13 2 (0.85%) Scala
14 1 (0.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (7.26%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.42%) Degree
4 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.85%) GRC
2 5 (2.14%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (26.50%) Docker
2 12 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.28%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (32.91%) Terraform
2 73 (31.20%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.97%) Ansible
4 4 (1.71%) Grafana
4 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.28%) Rancher
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.85%) Packer
6 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (8.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.85%) Google
2 9 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (3.42%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.42%) Tenable
4 6 (2.56%) VMware
5 5 (2.14%) Oracle
6 3 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.28%) Pega
7 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) F5
8 1 (0.43%) HP
8 1 (0.43%) Software AG
8 1 (0.43%) webMethods