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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 400 198 216
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.60% 8.28% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 9.22% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 290 123 160
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,125 £43,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,931
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 5,379 2,147 3,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.27% 89.80% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 1,237 1,986
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,448 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,313
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 - 2
Altrincham +15 8 £65,000 - 3
Stockport +7 6 £72,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Oldham +3 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +14 2 £53,750 - 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 13 (3.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (3.00%) Confluence
3 11 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (48.75%) AWS
2 178 (44.50%) Azure
3 80 (20.00%) GitHub
4 67 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (13.50%) GCP
5 54 (13.50%) Serverless
6 39 (9.75%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.75%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.75%) SaaS
8 20 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 20 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (3.75%) Power Automate
11 14 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.00%) Snowflake
13 11 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.50%) npm
14 10 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.50%) Firewall
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
2 5 (1.25%) SAN
3 4 (1.00%) VPN
4 3 (0.75%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) CTI
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.50%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.50%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.75%) MySQL
8 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
8 6 (1.50%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.75%) Chroma
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (15.75%) Git
2 41 (10.25%) GitLab
3 34 (8.50%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.50%) JIRA
5 17 (4.25%) Maven
6 15 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.25%) JUnit
8 13 (3.25%) Postman
8 13 (3.25%) Spock
9 12 (3.00%) Snyk
10 8 (2.00%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) fastlane
11 5 (1.25%) Selenium
12 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.00%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.00%) Vite
13 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.75%) Finance
3 29 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.25%) Banking
6 13 (3.25%) Publishing
7 10 (2.50%) Marketing
8 9 (2.25%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.25%) Games
12 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Law
13 3 (0.75%) Advertising
13 3 (0.75%) iGaming
13 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (39.75%) Senior
2 99 (24.75%) Developer
3 62 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (13.25%) Senior Developer
5 48 (12.00%) Lead
6 40 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (9.75%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.75%) Architect
9 28 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.00%) Java Developer
12 20 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.75%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (4.75%) Senior Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Data Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (36.25%) Terraform
2 62 (15.50%) Spring
3 59 (14.75%) React
4 54 (13.50%) .NET
4 54 (13.50%) Node.js
5 47 (11.75%) Spring Boot
6 45 (11.25%) AngularJS
7 31 (7.75%) CSS
8 30 (7.50%) HTML
9 29 (7.25%) REST
10 23 (5.75%) Vue
11 18 (4.50%) Kafka
12 17 (4.25%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.75%) RESTful
14 10 (2.50%) .NET Core
14 10 (2.50%) Entity Framework
14 10 (2.50%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
15 9 (2.25%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.25%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.75%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.50%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Replication
12 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.75%) Media Streaming
13 3 (0.75%) Podcast
13 3 (0.75%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.75%) Linux
2 9 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Unix
4 5 (1.25%) VMS
4 5 (1.25%) Windows
5 4 (1.00%) CentOS
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (63.25%) DevOps
2 157 (39.25%) Agile
3 154 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (33.75%) AI
5 98 (24.50%) Microservices
6 93 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (23.25%) Software Engineering
7 91 (22.75%) Observability
8 90 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 88 (22.00%) Containerisation
9 88 (22.00%) Test Automation
10 83 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
11 79 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 56 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
14 52 (13.00%) TDD
15 46 (11.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 43 (10.75%) Decision-Making
16 43 (10.75%) Scrum
16 43 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (35.00%) Python
2 98 (24.50%) Java
3 76 (19.00%) SQL
4 74 (18.50%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.25%) JavaScript
6 56 (14.00%) C#
7 40 (10.00%) Bash
8 29 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.50%) Bicep
9 10 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.25%) Go
10 9 (2.25%) Swift
11 8 (2.00%) Groovy
12 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.00%) Rust
12 4 (1.00%) Scala
13 3 (0.75%) C++
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
13 3 (0.75%) SOQL
13 3 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.75%) DV Cleared
3 36 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.25%) Degree
5 8 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCNA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.25%) QA
2 13 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.25%) GRC
3 8 (2.00%) WCAG
4 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 123 (30.75%) Docker
2 19 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 124 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.75%) Ansible
3 19 (4.75%) Grafana
3 19 (4.75%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.50%) Argo
5 8 (2.00%) Istio
6 4 (1.00%) linkerd
7 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.75%) Podman
7 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.75%) Puppet
7 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 51 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.50%) Splunk
3 21 (5.25%) Google
4 13 (3.25%) Adobe
4 13 (3.25%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.25%) Databricks
5 12 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.00%) Tenable
6 10 (2.50%) VMware
7 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.00%) Mistral
8 4 (1.00%) Oracle
9 3 (0.75%) Dell
9 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.75%) New Relic
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow