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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -23
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 403 200 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.54% 8.32% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 9.29% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 290 125 150
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 5,501 2,153 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.56% 89.60% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 1,235 1,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,700 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 - 2
Altrincham +12 8 £65,000 - 3
Stockport +7 7 £72,500 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Oldham +3 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +11 2 £53,750 - 4
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 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (2.98%) Confluence
3 11 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.88%) AWS
2 180 (44.67%) Azure
3 81 (20.10%) GitHub
4 67 (16.63%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (13.65%) Serverless
6 54 (13.40%) GCP
7 40 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.70%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.70%) SaaS
9 21 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.72%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.98%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.48%) npm
15 10 (2.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.48%) Firewall
2 5 (1.24%) Network Security
2 5 (1.24%) SAN
3 4 (0.99%) VPN
4 3 (0.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) CTI
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.46%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.99%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.74%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.74%) MySQL
8 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.49%) Power BI
8 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.24%) Redis
10 3 (0.74%) Chroma
10 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.74%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (15.88%) Git
2 41 (10.17%) GitLab
3 34 (8.44%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.46%) JIRA
5 17 (4.22%) Maven
6 15 (3.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.23%) JUnit
8 13 (3.23%) Postman
8 13 (3.23%) Spock
9 12 (2.98%) Snyk
10 8 (1.99%) Storybook
11 5 (1.24%) fastlane
11 5 (1.24%) Selenium
12 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.99%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.99%) Vite
13 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.63%) Finance
3 29 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.47%) Publishing
7 13 (3.23%) Banking
8 10 (2.48%) Marketing
8 10 (2.48%) Retail
9 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.24%) Games
12 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Law
13 3 (0.74%) Advertising
13 3 (0.74%) iGaming
13 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 161 (39.95%) Senior
2 99 (24.57%) Developer
3 63 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (13.15%) Senior Developer
5 48 (11.91%) Lead
6 40 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (9.93%) Software Engineer
7 31 (7.69%) Architect
8 29 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.46%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.96%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (4.71%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.71%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 18 (4.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (36.23%) Terraform
2 63 (15.63%) Spring
3 60 (14.89%) React
4 54 (13.40%) Node.js
5 53 (13.15%) .NET
6 48 (11.91%) Spring Boot
7 45 (11.17%) AngularJS
8 31 (7.69%) CSS
9 30 (7.44%) HTML
10 29 (7.20%) REST
11 23 (5.71%) Vue
12 19 (4.71%) Kafka
13 17 (4.22%) FastAPI
14 15 (3.72%) RESTful
15 10 (2.48%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.48%) Entity Framework
15 10 (2.48%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (2.48%) PySpark
16 9 (2.23%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.47%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.23%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.73%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.99%) Media Streaming
12 4 (0.99%) Podcast
12 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.99%) Replication
12 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.94%) Linux
2 9 (2.23%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.49%) Android
4 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.24%) Unix
4 5 (1.24%) VMS
4 5 (1.24%) Windows
5 4 (0.99%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (63.52%) DevOps
2 159 (39.45%) Agile
3 155 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (34.00%) AI
5 99 (24.57%) Microservices
6 95 (23.57%) Software Engineering
7 94 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (23.08%) Observability
9 92 (22.83%) Mentoring
10 89 (22.08%) Containerisation
10 89 (22.08%) Test Automation
11 84 (20.84%) Platform Engineering
12 80 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (12.90%) TDD
16 46 (11.41%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (10.67%) Decision-Making
17 43 (10.67%) Event-Driven
17 43 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (35.48%) Python
2 100 (24.81%) Java
3 78 (19.35%) SQL
4 75 (18.61%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.11%) JavaScript
6 55 (13.65%) C#
7 41 (10.17%) Bash
8 29 (7.20%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.48%) Bicep
9 10 (2.48%) Go
9 10 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.23%) Swift
11 8 (1.99%) Groovy
12 4 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.99%) Rust
12 4 (0.99%) Scala
13 3 (0.74%) C++
13 3 (0.74%) PHP
13 3 (0.74%) SOQL
13 3 (0.74%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.68%) DV Cleared
3 38 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.22%) Degree
5 8 (1.99%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCNA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.20%) QA
2 14 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.23%) GRC
4 8 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.99%) WCAG
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (30.77%) Docker
2 19 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.74%) Ceph
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (31.02%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.91%) Ansible
3 19 (4.71%) Grafana
3 19 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.48%) Argo
5 8 (1.99%) Istio
6 4 (0.99%) linkerd
6 4 (0.99%) Podman
7 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.74%) Puppet
7 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 51 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.46%) Splunk
3 21 (5.21%) Google
4 13 (3.23%) Adobe
4 13 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.23%) Databricks
5 12 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.98%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.98%) Tenable
6 10 (2.48%) VMware
7 6 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.99%) Mistral
8 4 (0.99%) Oracle
8 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.74%) Dell
9 3 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.74%) New Relic
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow