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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -13
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 177 180 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.96% 7.28% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 7.66% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 149 133 191
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £97,528 £82,548
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%

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 2,702 2,351 3,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.77% 95.07% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 1,178 2,704
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 £74,230 £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 21 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 21 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 +1 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
Altrincham -7 2 £67,500 +28.57% 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 4 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.13%) 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 91 (51.41%) Azure
2 84 (47.46%) AWS
3 37 (20.90%) GCP
4 23 (12.99%) Serverless
5 18 (10.17%) GitHub
6 16 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.04%) SaaS
7 15 (8.47%) Azure AKS
8 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (6.21%) Azure Functions
8 11 (6.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.39%) Firewall
1 6 (3.39%) HTTP
2 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.13%) DNS
3 2 (1.13%) SAN
3 2 (1.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.13%) WAN
4 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.56%) Network Security
4 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.77%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.86%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.78%) MySQL
5 8 (4.52%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.26%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.69%) Big Data
8 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.69%) Power BI
8 3 (1.69%) Redis
8 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.82%) Git
2 11 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.65%) GitLab
3 10 (5.65%) JIRA
4 4 (2.26%) JUnit
5 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.13%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.56%) Ant
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) NUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Protractor
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.60%) Finance
3 6 (3.39%) Retail
4 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.82%) Games
4 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Banking
6 3 (1.69%) French Language
6 3 (1.69%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.69%) Marketing
6 3 (1.69%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.69%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.13%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.13%) Legal
7 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.13%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 64 (36.16%) Senior
2 46 (25.99%) Developer
3 36 (20.34%) Software Engineer
4 20 (11.30%) Lead
5 19 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.04%) .NET Developer
8 14 (7.91%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Python Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (5.08%) Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.95%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (33.90%) .NET
2 35 (19.77%) RESTful
3 34 (19.21%) React
4 25 (14.12%) CSS
4 25 (14.12%) HTML
5 23 (12.99%) REST
6 20 (11.30%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.60%) .NET Core
7 17 (9.60%) Spring
7 17 (9.60%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.91%) .NET Framework
9 13 (7.34%) Node.js
10 11 (6.21%) Django
11 9 (5.08%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.52%) Kafka
12 8 (4.52%) Vue
13 7 (3.95%) FastAPI
14 6 (3.39%) ASP.NET
14 6 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (3.39%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.34%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.13%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.13%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.13%) IoT
9 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.73%) Linux
2 7 (3.95%) Windows
3 5 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.26%) Android
4 4 (2.26%) Debian
4 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (51.98%) DevOps
2 90 (50.85%) Agile
3 65 (36.72%) Software Engineering
4 64 (36.16%) Microservices
5 63 (35.59%) Containerisation
6 49 (27.68%) TDD
7 46 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (20.34%) Clean Code
9 33 (18.64%) AI
10 32 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (15.82%) Mentoring
13 27 (15.25%) Scrum
14 24 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (12.43%) Test Automation
15 22 (12.43%) User Experience
16 20 (11.30%) SOLID
17 19 (10.73%) Roadmaps
18 18 (10.17%) Performance Optimisation
18 18 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.51%) C#
2 39 (22.03%) Java
2 39 (22.03%) Python
3 38 (21.47%) SQL
4 36 (20.34%) JavaScript
5 33 (18.64%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.52%) Go
7 7 (3.95%) Bicep
8 6 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.26%) PHP
10 3 (1.69%) Bash
10 3 (1.69%) Erlang
10 3 (1.69%) Rust
10 3 (1.69%) Scala
11 2 (1.13%) Swift
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.65%) Degree
2 10 (5.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.69%) 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 (3.95%) QA
2 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.26%) 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 55 (31.07%) Docker
2 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.26%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.26%) vSphere
4 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.56%) HDFS
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (33.90%) Kubernetes
2 46 (25.99%) Terraform
3 21 (11.86%) Ansible
4 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.69%) Grafana
5 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Puppet
5 3 (1.69%) Rancher
6 2 (1.13%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.13%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.95%) VMware
3 6 (3.39%) Google
4 5 (2.82%) Oracle
5 3 (1.69%) Software AG
5 3 (1.69%) webMethods
6 2 (1.13%) Splunk
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) F5
7 1 (0.56%) Foundry
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