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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -14
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 179 180 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.06% 7.23% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 7.61% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 151 132 192
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £82,548
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -

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 2,686 2,366 3,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.96% 95.06% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,181 2,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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
Salford 0 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
Altrincham -7 2 £67,500 +28.57% 6
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 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) Apache
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (51.96%) Azure
2 87 (48.60%) AWS
3 37 (20.67%) GCP
4 24 (13.41%) Serverless
5 18 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.50%) GitHub
7 16 (8.94%) SaaS
8 15 (8.38%) Azure AKS
9 12 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.15%) Azure Functions
10 11 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.91%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) Firewall
1 6 (3.35%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) SAN
3 2 (1.12%) VPN
3 2 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.55%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.73%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.70%) MySQL
5 8 (4.47%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.23%) Big Data
7 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.68%) Power BI
8 3 (1.68%) Redis
8 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.08%) Git
2 11 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.59%) GitLab
3 10 (5.59%) JIRA
4 4 (2.23%) JUnit
5 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.56%) Ant
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.56%) fastlane
7 1 (0.56%) JMeter
7 1 (0.56%) Locust
7 1 (0.56%) NUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Protractor
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.38%) Finance
3 6 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.35%) Retail
4 5 (2.79%) Games
4 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.68%) Banking
6 3 (1.68%) French Language
6 3 (1.68%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.68%) Marketing
6 3 (1.68%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.68%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.12%) Legal
7 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.12%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 63 (35.20%) Senior
2 44 (24.58%) Developer
3 38 (21.23%) Software Engineer
4 20 (11.17%) Lead
4 20 (11.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (8.94%) .NET Developer
5 16 (8.94%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.82%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Senior .NET Developer
8 9 (5.03%) Architect
9 8 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.64%) .NET
2 35 (19.55%) React
2 35 (19.55%) RESTful
3 25 (13.97%) CSS
3 25 (13.97%) HTML
4 24 (13.41%) REST
5 21 (11.73%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.06%) .NET Core
7 17 (9.50%) Spring
7 17 (9.50%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.82%) .NET Framework
9 13 (7.26%) Node.js
10 11 (6.15%) Django
11 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.47%) Kafka
12 8 (4.47%) Vue
13 7 (3.91%) FastAPI
14 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET
14 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (3.35%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.26%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) IoT
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.61%) Linux
2 7 (3.91%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.23%) Debian
3 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.68%) Android
4 3 (1.68%) Unix
4 3 (1.68%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (52.51%) DevOps
2 90 (50.28%) Agile
3 67 (37.43%) Software Engineering
4 66 (36.87%) Microservices
5 64 (35.75%) Containerisation
6 49 (27.37%) TDD
7 47 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (18.99%) Clean Code
9 33 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (17.88%) AI
11 29 (16.20%) Mentoring
12 28 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (15.08%) Scrum
14 25 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
16 22 (12.29%) User Experience
17 21 (11.73%) SOLID
18 19 (10.61%) Roadmaps
19 18 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
19 18 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.28%) C#
2 40 (22.35%) Python
3 39 (21.79%) Java
3 39 (21.79%) SQL
4 36 (20.11%) JavaScript
5 33 (18.44%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.47%) Go
7 7 (3.91%) Bicep
7 7 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.23%) PHP
8 4 (2.23%) Scala
9 3 (1.68%) Bash
9 3 (1.68%) Erlang
9 3 (1.68%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.59%) Degree
2 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.68%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.23%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (31.28%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.23%) vSphere
4 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (33.52%) Kubernetes
2 48 (26.82%) Terraform
3 21 (11.73%) Ansible
4 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.68%) Grafana
5 3 (1.68%) Puppet
5 3 (1.68%) Rancher
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.12%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) VMware
3 6 (3.35%) Google
4 5 (2.79%) Oracle
5 3 (1.68%) Software AG
5 3 (1.68%) webMethods
6 2 (1.12%) Foundry
6 2 (1.12%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) F5
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) Pega
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) WSO2