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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -22
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 365 208 278
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.80% 8.78% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 9.33% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 271 132 229
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,125 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,308 £67,563 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.58% +8.10% -10.71%

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 4,593 2,229 4,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.95% 94.13% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 1,283 3,551
10th Percentile £32,528 £29,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,179
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +17 13 £67,500 - 2
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne +2 5 £51,000 - 1
Bolton +14 1 £35,000 - 2
Salford -17 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 14 (3.84%) Confluence
2 9 (2.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.55%) CICS
7 2 (0.55%) CMS
7 2 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.55%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 179 (49.04%) AWS
2 176 (48.22%) Azure
3 73 (20.00%) GitHub
4 65 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (16.99%) Serverless
6 53 (14.52%) GCP
7 33 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.40%) SaaS
9 20 (5.48%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.93%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (3.84%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.74%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.47%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.56%) Firewall
2 6 (1.64%) Network Security
2 6 (1.64%) SAN
2 6 (1.64%) VPN
3 2 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.27%) LTE
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.40%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.58%) MongoDB
2 24 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.47%) MySQL
4 9 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.64%) Power BI
7 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.82%) GIS
8 3 (0.82%) Pinecone
8 3 (0.82%) QGIS
8 3 (0.82%) Redis
9 2 (0.55%) Db2
9 2 (0.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (13.97%) Git
2 36 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.67%) GitLab
4 24 (6.58%) JIRA
5 14 (3.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (3.29%) Postman
6 12 (3.29%) Snyk
7 11 (3.01%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.19%) Maven
9 7 (1.92%) fastlane
10 6 (1.64%) JUnit
10 6 (1.64%) Spock
11 4 (1.10%) Selenium
11 4 (1.10%) Storybook
11 4 (1.10%) Vite
12 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.82%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
General
1 70 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.79%) Finance
3 24 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.48%) Banking
5 18 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.74%) Marketing
8 8 (2.19%) Retail
9 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.92%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Advertising
10 5 (1.37%) Games
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) French Language
12 3 (0.82%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.82%) Law
12 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.82%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 153 (41.92%) Senior
2 96 (26.30%) Developer
3 53 (14.52%) Senior Developer
4 49 (13.42%) Software Engineer
5 43 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (11.23%) Lead
7 38 (10.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 31 (8.49%) Java Developer
9 27 (7.40%) Architect
10 20 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (4.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.93%) Senior Java Developer
13 17 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (4.66%) GCP Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) .NET Developer
14 15 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.84%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.08%) .NET
2 59 (16.16%) React
3 47 (12.88%) Node.js
4 43 (11.78%) Spring
5 36 (9.86%) Spring Boot
6 33 (9.04%) AngularJS
7 29 (7.95%) CSS
7 29 (7.95%) HTML
8 27 (7.40%) REST
9 26 (7.12%) RESTful
10 25 (6.85%) Vue
11 20 (5.48%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.84%) Kafka
13 10 (2.74%) .NET Core
13 10 (2.74%) Django
13 10 (2.74%) JWT
13 10 (2.74%) OAuth
14 9 (2.47%) Flask
14 9 (2.47%) LangChain
14 9 (2.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 81 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.84%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.01%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.55%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.75%) Linux
2 15 (4.11%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.74%) Android
4 6 (1.64%) Windows
5 2 (0.55%) CentOS
5 2 (0.55%) Debian
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (58.63%) DevOps
2 154 (42.19%) Agile
3 129 (35.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (30.14%) AI
5 87 (23.84%) Microservices
6 86 (23.56%) Software Engineering
7 85 (23.29%) Mentoring
8 74 (20.27%) Containerisation
9 73 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (18.90%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (18.90%) Test Automation
11 68 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (18.36%) TDD
13 66 (18.08%) Observability
14 56 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (14.52%) Scrum
16 46 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
17 43 (11.78%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (11.78%) SDLC
18 41 (11.23%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 117 (32.05%) Python
2 74 (20.27%) Java
2 74 (20.27%) SQL
3 60 (16.44%) C#
4 58 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 56 (15.34%) TypeScript
6 29 (7.95%) Bash
7 28 (7.67%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.29%) Swift
9 11 (3.01%) Bicep
10 10 (2.74%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.19%) Go
12 5 (1.37%) PHP
13 4 (1.10%) Groovy
13 4 (1.10%) Scala
14 3 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) SOQL
14 3 (0.82%) SOSL
15 2 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.38%) Degree
4 15 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.21%) QA
2 13 (3.56%) GRC
3 6 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.10%) WCAG
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (25.21%) Docker
2 19 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (36.99%) Terraform
2 106 (29.04%) Kubernetes
3 31 (8.49%) Ansible
4 14 (3.84%) Grafana
5 12 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.64%) Argo
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.10%) Istio
8 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.82%) linkerd
10 2 (0.55%) Packer
10 2 (0.55%) Puppet
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.11%) Google
3 14 (3.84%) Databricks
4 13 (3.56%) Splunk
5 12 (3.29%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.29%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.29%) Tenable
6 11 (3.01%) VMware
7 9 (2.47%) Adobe
8 6 (1.64%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.37%) Oracle
10 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.82%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.82%) Pega
11 1 (0.27%) F5
11 1 (0.27%) HP
11 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow