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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -23
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 346 198 283
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.62% 8.69% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 9.13% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 255 127 233
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,310 £69,384 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.11% +11.01% -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 4,443 2,168 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.20% 95.17% 82.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,518 1,236 3,672
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,330
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -7.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,625 £80,392
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +15 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 4 £51,000 - 1
Bolton +14 1 £35,000 - 2
Salford -19 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 13 (3.76%) Confluence
2 9 (2.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.58%) CICS
6 2 (0.58%) CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 173 (50.00%) AWS
2 163 (47.11%) Azure
3 68 (19.65%) GitHub
4 61 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (17.05%) Serverless
6 52 (15.03%) GCP
7 30 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.80%) SaaS
9 16 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.62%) Power Platform
10 14 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.05%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.89%) Pulumi
14 9 (2.60%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.18%) Firewall
2 6 (1.73%) Network Security
2 6 (1.73%) VPN
3 4 (1.16%) SAN
4 2 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.38%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.94%) MongoDB
2 24 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.31%) MySQL
5 7 (2.02%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.73%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.73%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.73%) Power BI
6 6 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.87%) GIS
8 3 (0.87%) Pinecone
8 3 (0.87%) QGIS
8 3 (0.87%) Redis
9 2 (0.58%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.58%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 49 (14.16%) Git
2 34 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.80%) GitLab
4 24 (6.94%) JIRA
5 12 (3.47%) Snyk
6 11 (3.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (3.18%) Postman
7 10 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.31%) Maven
9 7 (2.02%) JUnit
10 6 (1.73%) fastlane
10 6 (1.73%) Spock
11 4 (1.16%) Storybook
11 4 (1.16%) Vite
12 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.87%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.87%) Selenium
13 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.58%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.58%) XCUITest
General
1 66 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.03%) Finance
3 24 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (5.49%) Banking
5 18 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.89%) Marketing
8 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.02%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Advertising
10 5 (1.45%) Retail
11 4 (1.16%) Games
11 4 (1.16%) Publishing
12 3 (0.87%) French Language
12 3 (0.87%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.87%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (40.17%) Senior
2 95 (27.46%) Developer
3 51 (14.74%) Senior Developer
3 51 (14.74%) Software Engineer
4 43 (12.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (10.98%) Lead
6 31 (8.96%) Java Developer
7 29 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.51%) Architect
9 20 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (5.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (4.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.34%) .NET Developer
13 15 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
14 13 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.79%) .NET
2 59 (17.05%) React
3 45 (13.01%) Node.js
4 39 (11.27%) Spring
5 32 (9.25%) AngularJS
5 32 (9.25%) Spring Boot
6 30 (8.67%) REST
7 29 (8.38%) CSS
7 29 (8.38%) HTML
8 26 (7.51%) RESTful
9 25 (7.23%) Vue
10 20 (5.78%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.05%) Kafka
12 10 (2.89%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.89%) Django
12 10 (2.89%) JWT
12 10 (2.89%) OAuth
13 9 (2.60%) .NET Framework
13 9 (2.60%) Flask
13 9 (2.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 78 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.34%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.05%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.89%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.73%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.49%) Linux
2 14 (4.05%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.89%) Android
4 6 (1.73%) Windows
5 2 (0.58%) Debian
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (58.09%) DevOps
2 152 (43.93%) Agile
3 119 (34.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (30.92%) AI
5 86 (24.86%) Microservices
6 83 (23.99%) Software Engineering
7 78 (22.54%) Mentoring
8 69 (19.94%) Containerisation
9 68 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (19.36%) TDD
11 65 (18.79%) Test Automation
12 64 (18.50%) Observability
13 63 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (17.63%) Platform Engineering
15 56 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 55 (15.90%) Scrum
17 43 (12.43%) SDLC
17 43 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (12.14%) Clean Code
19 37 (10.69%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 105 (30.35%) Python
2 72 (20.81%) Java
3 68 (19.65%) SQL
4 58 (16.76%) C#
4 58 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 58 (16.76%) TypeScript
5 28 (8.09%) Bash
6 26 (7.51%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.18%) Swift
8 9 (2.60%) Bicep
8 9 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.31%) Go
10 5 (1.45%) PHP
11 4 (1.16%) Groovy
11 4 (1.16%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.87%) SOQL
12 3 (0.87%) SOSL
13 2 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 36 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.62%) Degree
4 10 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.05%) QA
2 13 (3.76%) GRC
3 6 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.16%) WCAG
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) GDPR
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (24.86%) Docker
2 19 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 128 (36.99%) Terraform
2 100 (28.90%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.51%) Ansible
4 13 (3.76%) Grafana
5 11 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.73%) Argo
7 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.16%) Istio
8 4 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.87%) linkerd
10 2 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.58%) Puppet
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 40 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.34%) Google
3 12 (3.47%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.47%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.47%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.47%) Tenable
4 11 (3.18%) Splunk
5 10 (2.89%) Databricks
6 9 (2.60%) Adobe
6 9 (2.60%) VMware
7 6 (1.73%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.16%) Oracle
9 3 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.87%) Pega
10 2 (0.58%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.29%) F5
11 1 (0.29%) HP
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow