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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 40 15
Rank change year-on-year +19 -25 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 184 190 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.74% 5.14% 11.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 5.93% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 153 132 226
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £96,000 £87,500 £87,460
North West median annual salary £65,633 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.01% -10.71% +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 2,010 3,204 2,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.60% 86.71% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 1,500 1,768
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,675
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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
Salford +10 3 £73,801 +2.18% 1
Bolton +12 1 - -
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 (2.17%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.63%) CMS
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (53.26%) Azure
2 95 (51.63%) AWS
3 33 (17.93%) GCP
4 28 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.87%) Serverless
6 16 (8.70%) GitHub
7 15 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (8.15%) SaaS
8 13 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.35%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.09%) WAN
3 1 (0.54%) DAB
3 1 (0.54%) SAN
3 1 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 16 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.98%) MySQL
5 10 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.89%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.17%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.63%) Power BI
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.09%) Big Data
11 2 (1.09%) Redis
12 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (11.41%) Git
2 16 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.07%) GitLab
4 9 (4.89%) JIRA
5 6 (3.26%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.72%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.72%) Selenium
7 4 (2.17%) JMeter
8 3 (1.63%) Gatling
9 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.09%) NUnit
10 1 (0.54%) Ant
10 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.54%) JUnit
10 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.54%) Maven
10 1 (0.54%) Protractor
10 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.33%) Finance
3 14 (7.61%) Retail
4 7 (3.80%) Games
4 7 (3.80%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.26%) Marketing
6 4 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.09%) Electronics
8 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.09%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.54%) Automotive
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (33.15%) Senior
2 48 (26.09%) Developer
3 28 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 26 (14.13%) Lead
5 16 (8.70%) .NET Developer
5 16 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.61%) Architect
7 13 (7.07%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.43%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.89%) AWS Solution Architect
10 9 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Architect
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.98%) .NET
2 31 (16.85%) RESTful
3 29 (15.76%) React
4 17 (9.24%) .NET Core
5 16 (8.70%) Spring
5 16 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 15 (8.15%) .NET Framework
7 14 (7.61%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.61%) HTML
7 14 (7.61%) REST
8 13 (7.07%) CSS
9 11 (5.98%) Node.js
10 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.35%) Kafka
12 7 (3.80%) Django
12 7 (3.80%) Hibernate
12 7 (3.80%) Vue
13 6 (3.26%) HTML5
13 6 (3.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.26%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.17%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.63%) BBC
9 3 (1.63%) Online Games
10 2 (1.09%) Blog
10 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Social Media
10 2 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.87%) Linux
2 8 (4.35%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.26%) Debian
5 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.63%) Android
6 3 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.63%) Unix
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.54%) CentOS
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (60.87%) DevOps
2 89 (48.37%) Agile
3 68 (36.96%) Containerisation
4 67 (36.41%) Software Engineering
5 63 (34.24%) Microservices
6 45 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (22.83%) TDD
8 35 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (16.85%) Clean Code
10 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (15.22%) AI
11 28 (15.22%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.41%) Test Automation
15 19 (10.33%) Event-Driven
15 19 (10.33%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (10.33%) User Experience
16 18 (9.78%) SDLC
17 17 (9.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.07%) C#
2 46 (25.00%) Python
2 46 (25.00%) SQL
3 35 (19.02%) Java
4 30 (16.30%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.76%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.52%) Bash
7 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.72%) Bicep
9 3 (1.63%) Erlang
9 3 (1.63%) Go
9 3 (1.63%) PHP
9 3 (1.63%) Rust
10 2 (1.09%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) Dart
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.80%) Degree
6 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.09%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.15%) GDPR
2 12 (6.52%) QA
3 8 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 8 (4.35%) NIST
4 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (41.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.09%) vSphere
5 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) Postfix
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 43 (23.37%) Terraform
3 19 (10.33%) Ansible
4 10 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.89%) Grafana
6 3 (1.63%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.63%) Puppet
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.54%) Podman
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.98%) Google
3 8 (4.35%) Splunk
4 4 (2.17%) Foundry
4 4 (2.17%) VMware
5 3 (1.63%) Databricks
5 3 (1.63%) Oracle
5 3 (1.63%) Software AG
5 3 (1.63%) webMethods
6 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.09%) IBM
6 2 (1.09%) Moogsoft
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
6 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.09%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.54%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.54%) Pega
7 1 (0.54%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.54%) WSO2