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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 38 14
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +3
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 193 207 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.18% 5.13% 12.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 6.22% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 119 143 308
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,875 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £78,363 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £87,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%

All Process and 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 2,111 3,327 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.49% 82.41% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,788 2,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £83,575 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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
Bolton +9 4 - - 7
Oldham - 4 £65,000 - 1
Salford +15 3 - - 2
Stockport +4 3 - - 2
Altrincham -9 3 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bury -3 1 £60,000 -4.00%
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.29%) Confluence
2 5 (2.59%) CMS
3 4 (2.07%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.04%) Apache
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (63.73%) AWS
2 108 (55.96%) Azure
3 45 (23.32%) GCP
4 27 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (7.25%) GitHub
6 13 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (6.74%) Serverless
7 12 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (5.18%) Power Automate
8 10 (5.18%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.18%) SaaS
9 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.15%) AWS CodeBuild
10 8 (4.15%) Route 53
10 8 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.59%) HTTP
2 4 (2.07%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) DNS
3 3 (1.55%) WAN
4 2 (1.04%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) DAB
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.65%) NoSQL
2 33 (17.10%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.25%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.70%) MySQL
5 9 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.59%) Big Data
7 5 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.04%) Power BI
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 47 (24.35%) GitLab
1 47 (24.35%) JIRA
2 40 (20.73%) Selenium
3 35 (18.13%) Cucumber
4 30 (15.54%) Maven
4 30 (15.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (15.03%) SonarQube
6 28 (14.51%) Bitbucket
7 23 (11.92%) Git
8 22 (11.40%) Jenkins
9 8 (4.15%) CircleCI
10 7 (3.63%) JMeter
10 7 (3.63%) JUnit
11 5 (2.59%) Appium
11 5 (2.59%) LoadRunner
11 5 (2.59%) Postman
12 4 (2.07%) Fiddler
13 3 (1.55%) Gatling
14 2 (1.04%) NUnit
15 1 (0.52%) Ant
General
1 57 (29.53%) Finance
2 33 (17.10%) Retail
3 30 (15.54%) Banking
4 27 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (13.47%) Social Skills
6 18 (9.33%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (9.33%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.11%) Cantonese Language
8 6 (3.11%) Mandarin Language
8 6 (3.11%) Marketing
9 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.07%) Games
9 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.55%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Electronics
12 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 57 (29.53%) Software Engineer
2 52 (26.94%) Senior
3 35 (18.13%) Developer
4 22 (11.40%) Lead
5 19 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.29%) Architect
7 14 (7.25%) Senior Architect
8 13 (6.74%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.74%) AWS Architect
8 13 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (6.74%) AWS Solution Architect
8 13 (6.74%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.22%) DevOps Architect
9 12 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (6.22%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 12 (6.22%) TOGAF Architect
10 11 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.50%) React
2 51 (26.42%) Spring
2 51 (26.42%) Spring Boot
3 44 (22.80%) RESTful
4 42 (21.76%) Kafka
5 38 (19.69%) .NET
6 35 (18.13%) HTML
7 34 (17.62%) CSS
8 32 (16.58%) REST
9 30 (15.54%) Redux
10 27 (13.99%) JPA
11 20 (10.36%) Jest
12 19 (9.84%) HTML5
13 18 (9.33%) CSS3
13 18 (9.33%) Sass
14 16 (8.29%) Hibernate
15 14 (7.25%) AngularJS
16 13 (6.74%) Node.js
17 12 (6.22%) .NET Core
18 11 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.28%) Product Ownership
2 39 (20.21%) Cloud Native
3 27 (13.99%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.74%) Management Information System
6 11 (5.70%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.11%) Wiki
8 5 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.55%) BBC
10 3 (1.55%) Blog
10 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Online Games
10 3 (1.55%) Social Media
11 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Tandem
12 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.99%) Linux
2 10 (5.18%) Ubuntu
3 9 (4.66%) Debian
4 7 (3.63%) Windows
5 4 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.55%) Android
6 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.55%) Unix
7 2 (1.04%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (73.06%) DevOps
2 109 (56.48%) Agile
3 92 (47.67%) Containerisation
4 91 (47.15%) Software Engineering
5 88 (45.60%) Microservices
6 53 (27.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (23.83%) Test Automation
8 43 (22.28%) SDLC
8 43 (22.28%) TDD
9 40 (20.73%) Mentoring
10 38 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (19.69%) Performance Optimisation
11 37 (19.17%) User Experience
12 35 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (16.06%) Front End Development
14 26 (13.47%) Event-Driven
14 26 (13.47%) Roadmaps
15 25 (12.95%) Code Quality
16 24 (12.44%) Clean Code
17 23 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.34%) Java
2 71 (36.79%) SQL
3 58 (30.05%) JavaScript
4 56 (29.02%) Python
5 44 (22.80%) TypeScript
6 43 (22.28%) C#
7 18 (9.33%) Bash
8 11 (5.70%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.59%) Go
10 3 (1.55%) Bicep
10 3 (1.55%) Rust
10 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
11 2 (1.04%) Scala
12 1 (0.52%) Dart
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
12 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (8.29%) AWS Certification
2 14 (7.25%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (6.22%) Degree
4 10 (5.18%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.11%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.52%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.76%) QA
2 19 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 19 (9.84%) GDPR
3 13 (6.74%) HIPAA
4 12 (6.22%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (54.92%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.52%) HDFS
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) Postfix
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (46.63%) Kubernetes
2 49 (25.39%) Terraform
3 17 (8.81%) Ansible
4 13 (6.74%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.22%) Grafana
6 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.55%) Puppet
7 2 (1.04%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Podman
8 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (13.99%) Solace
2 19 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.77%) Google
4 12 (6.22%) Splunk
5 7 (3.63%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.07%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.07%) Databricks
6 4 (2.07%) IBM
6 4 (2.07%) Moogsoft
6 4 (2.07%) Oracle
7 3 (1.55%) Foundry
8 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.04%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.52%) Meraki
9 1 (0.52%) Okta
9 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) VMware