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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 209 170 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.01% 7.93% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 8.29% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 170 139 214
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,375
25th Percentile £59,063 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +11.01% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,750 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -

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 3,100 2,051 3,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.30% 95.66% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 1,251 3,212
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -4 8 £68,750 +30.95% 2
Salford -6 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 6 (2.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.44%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) CICS
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (48.33%) Azure
2 96 (45.93%) AWS
3 39 (18.66%) GCP
4 33 (15.79%) Serverless
5 22 (10.53%) GitHub
6 21 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (8.61%) Azure AKS
8 17 (8.13%) SaaS
9 12 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.26%) Azure Functions
10 11 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.35%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) Firewall
1 5 (2.39%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.44%) VPN
3 2 (0.96%) Network Security
3 2 (0.96%) SAN
4 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.48%) LTE
4 1 (0.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.66%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.22%) MySQL
5 7 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.35%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.44%) GIS
8 3 (1.44%) QGIS
8 3 (1.44%) Redis
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.96%) Big Data
9 2 (0.96%) DB2
9 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.96%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 34 (16.27%) Git
2 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.18%) JIRA
4 11 (5.26%) GitLab
5 3 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.44%) fastlane
5 3 (1.44%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.44%) JUnit
5 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.96%) Postman
6 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.96%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.48%) GDB
7 1 (0.48%) Locust
7 1 (0.48%) Protractor
7 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.48%) WinDbg
General
1 50 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.92%) Finance
3 13 (6.22%) Banking
4 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.39%) Games
7 4 (1.91%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.44%) Advertising
8 3 (1.44%) French Language
8 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.44%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.44%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.44%) Retail
8 3 (1.44%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (36.84%) Senior
2 63 (30.14%) Developer
3 48 (22.97%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.35%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.44%) Lead
6 25 (11.96%) Java Developer
7 19 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (7.18%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.78%) .NET Software Engineer
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.31%) Architect
13 9 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (4.31%) Senior .NET Developer
14 7 (3.35%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.62%) .NET
2 40 (19.14%) RESTful
3 38 (18.18%) React
4 28 (13.40%) CSS
4 28 (13.40%) HTML
5 25 (11.96%) REST
5 25 (11.96%) Spring
5 25 (11.96%) Spring Boot
6 20 (9.57%) AngularJS
6 20 (9.57%) Node.js
7 17 (8.13%) .NET Framework
8 15 (7.18%) .NET Core
9 12 (5.74%) Django
10 10 (4.78%) Vue
11 8 (3.83%) FastAPI
11 8 (3.83%) Kafka
12 7 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (3.35%) CSS3
12 7 (3.35%) HTML5
13 6 (2.87%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.01%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.96%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.96%) IoT
10 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.13%) Linux
2 10 (4.78%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.83%) Windows
4 6 (2.87%) Android
5 3 (1.44%) Unix
5 3 (1.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.96%) Debian
6 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (54.55%) Agile
2 112 (53.59%) DevOps
3 77 (36.84%) Software Engineering
4 69 (33.01%) Microservices
5 61 (29.19%) TDD
6 59 (28.23%) Containerisation
7 53 (25.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (21.05%) Scrum
9 42 (20.10%) Clean Code
10 40 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (18.18%) AI
12 35 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (16.27%) Mentoring
14 30 (14.35%) Test Automation
15 29 (13.88%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
17 24 (11.48%) Roadmaps
18 22 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
19 21 (10.05%) User Experience
20 20 (9.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 56 (26.79%) C#
2 53 (25.36%) Java
3 46 (22.01%) SQL
4 43 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 43 (20.57%) Python
5 33 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.83%) Go
7 7 (3.35%) Swift
8 6 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.39%) Bicep
10 4 (1.91%) PHP
11 3 (1.44%) Erlang
11 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.96%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Rust
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.78%) Degree
4 7 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.87%) QA
2 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (28.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) VMware NSX
2 5 (2.39%) vSphere
3 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (32.06%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.75%) Terraform
3 20 (9.57%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) Rancher
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.96%) Packer
5 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.83%) VMware
3 7 (3.35%) Google
3 7 (3.35%) Oracle
4 4 (1.91%) Pega
5 3 (1.44%) Software AG
5 3 (1.44%) webMethods
6 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe
7 1 (0.48%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) F5
7 1 (0.48%) Foundry
7 1 (0.48%) HP
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) WSO2