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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -15
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 198 169 227
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.01% 7.63% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 7.96% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 163 136 203
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,500 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -

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 2,946 2,123 3,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.58% 95.85% 88.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 1,230 3,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,719 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,875 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -6 5 £67,500 +28.57% 4
Salford -7 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 5 (2.53%) Confluence
2 4 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) CICS
4 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (50.00%) Azure
2 90 (45.45%) AWS
3 39 (19.70%) GCP
4 32 (16.16%) Serverless
5 22 (11.11%) GitHub
6 19 (9.60%) SaaS
7 18 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 18 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.06%) Azure Functions
8 12 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.54%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) HTTP
2 4 (2.02%) Firewall
3 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.01%) SAN
4 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.19%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 22 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.57%) MySQL
4 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.01%) Big Data
9 2 (1.01%) DB2
9 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.01%) GIS
9 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.01%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (16.16%) Git
2 14 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.06%) JIRA
4 10 (5.05%) GitLab
5 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.52%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.52%) JUnit
5 3 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.01%) fastlane
6 2 (1.01%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.01%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) JMeter
7 1 (0.51%) Locust
7 1 (0.51%) NUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Protractor
General
1 50 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.12%) Finance
3 9 (4.55%) Banking
4 7 (3.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.53%) Games
7 4 (2.02%) Retail
8 3 (1.52%) French Language
8 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.52%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.52%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.01%) Advertising
9 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.01%) Legal
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 71 (35.86%) Senior
2 61 (30.81%) Developer
3 43 (21.72%) Software Engineer
4 27 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 26 (13.13%) Lead
6 22 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 18 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
10 10 (5.05%) .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Architect
10 10 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (4.55%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.03%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (32.83%) .NET
2 39 (19.70%) React
2 39 (19.70%) RESTful
3 28 (14.14%) CSS
3 28 (14.14%) HTML
4 26 (13.13%) REST
5 22 (11.11%) Spring
5 22 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 20 (10.10%) AngularJS
6 20 (10.10%) Node.js
7 18 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 17 (8.59%) .NET Framework
9 12 (6.06%) Django
10 10 (5.05%) Vue
11 9 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.04%) CSS3
12 8 (4.04%) FastAPI
12 8 (4.04%) HTML5
12 8 (4.04%) Kafka
13 6 (3.03%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.07%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.54%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) IoT
10 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Linux
2 9 (4.55%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.03%) Android
3 6 (3.03%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) Debian
5 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (54.55%) Agile
2 104 (52.53%) DevOps
3 72 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 67 (33.84%) Microservices
5 59 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 57 (28.79%) TDD
7 49 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (21.72%) Clean Code
9 41 (20.71%) Scrum
10 39 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (18.69%) AI
12 34 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (15.15%) Mentoring
14 28 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (12.63%) Test Automation
16 23 (11.62%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (11.62%) Roadmaps
17 20 (10.10%) User Experience
18 19 (9.60%) Observability
18 19 (9.60%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 56 (28.28%) C#
2 47 (23.74%) Java
3 46 (23.23%) SQL
4 41 (20.71%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.20%) Python
6 35 (17.68%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.04%) Go
8 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.03%) Swift
9 5 (2.53%) Bicep
10 4 (2.02%) PHP
11 3 (1.52%) Erlang
11 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.01%) Scala
13 1 (0.51%) Rust
13 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) Degree
4 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.03%) QA
2 4 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (28.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.02%) VMware NSX
2 4 (2.02%) vSphere
3 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (32.32%) Kubernetes
2 50 (25.25%) Terraform
3 19 (9.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) Rancher
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.01%) Packer
5 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.51%) Grafana
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.54%) Google
2 7 (3.54%) Oracle
2 7 (3.54%) VMware
3 4 (2.02%) Pega
4 3 (1.52%) Software AG
4 3 (1.52%) webMethods
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) F5
5 1 (0.51%) Foundry
5 1 (0.51%) HP
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) SAP
5 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.51%) WSO2