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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 20 39
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -4
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 223 175 243
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.87% 8.72% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 9.15% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 172 143 217
10th Percentile £50,125 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -

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 3,374 1,912 4,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.64% 95.22% 86.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 1,246 3,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,344 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,786 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -3 8 £68,750 +30.95% 2
Salford -13 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 8 (3.59%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.35%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) CICS
4 2 (0.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 109 (48.88%) Azure
2 102 (45.74%) AWS
3 41 (18.39%) GCP
4 38 (17.04%) Serverless
5 27 (12.11%) GitHub
6 26 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (8.07%) Azure AKS
7 18 (8.07%) SaaS
8 13 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.38%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (2.69%) dbt
13 5 (2.24%) Apigee
13 5 (2.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) Firewall
1 5 (2.24%) HTTP
2 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.35%) VPN
3 2 (0.90%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) SAN
4 1 (0.45%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.45%) LTE
4 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.94%) NoSQL
2 25 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.07%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.28%) MySQL
5 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.35%) GIS
8 3 (1.35%) QGIS
8 3 (1.35%) Redis
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.90%) Big Data
9 2 (0.90%) DB2
9 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 37 (16.59%) Git
2 20 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.07%) JIRA
4 12 (5.38%) GitLab
5 6 (2.69%) Postman
6 3 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.35%) fastlane
6 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.35%) JUnit
6 3 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) Snyk
7 2 (0.90%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.45%) GDB
8 1 (0.45%) Locust
8 1 (0.45%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.70%) Finance
3 15 (6.73%) Banking
4 9 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.24%) Advertising
6 5 (2.24%) Games
6 5 (2.24%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.79%) Retail
8 3 (1.35%) French Language
8 3 (1.35%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.35%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.35%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (37.22%) Senior
2 65 (29.15%) Developer
3 52 (23.32%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.45%) Senior Developer
5 26 (11.66%) Java Developer
6 25 (11.21%) Lead
7 22 (9.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.73%) .NET Developer
10 14 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Python Engineer
13 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (4.93%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) .NET Software Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Architect
14 10 (4.48%) Software Developer
15 9 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
16 8 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
16 8 (3.59%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.35%) .NET
2 41 (18.39%) RESTful
3 38 (17.04%) React
4 28 (12.56%) CSS
4 28 (12.56%) HTML
5 27 (12.11%) Spring
6 26 (11.66%) REST
6 26 (11.66%) Spring Boot
7 22 (9.87%) AngularJS
8 20 (8.97%) Node.js
9 15 (6.73%) .NET Framework
10 13 (5.83%) .NET Core
10 13 (5.83%) Django
11 11 (4.93%) Vue
12 9 (4.04%) FastAPI
13 7 (3.14%) Kafka
14 6 (2.69%) CSS3
14 6 (2.69%) HTML5
15 5 (2.24%) ASP.NET
15 5 (2.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.38%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.90%) IoT
11 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.17%) Linux
2 11 (4.93%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.14%) Android
4 6 (2.69%) Windows
5 3 (1.35%) Unix
6 2 (0.90%) Debian
6 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (55.61%) DevOps
2 120 (53.81%) Agile
3 78 (34.98%) Software Engineering
4 66 (29.60%) Microservices
5 63 (28.25%) TDD
6 60 (26.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (26.46%) Containerisation
8 45 (20.18%) Scrum
9 44 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (18.83%) AI
10 42 (18.83%) Clean Code
11 39 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (17.04%) Mentoring
13 35 (15.70%) Test Automation
14 30 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (12.11%) Collaborative Culture
15 27 (12.11%) Roadmaps
16 25 (11.21%) Observability
17 20 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.77%) Java
2 51 (22.87%) C#
3 49 (21.97%) Python
3 49 (21.97%) SQL
4 43 (19.28%) JavaScript
5 32 (14.35%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.59%) Go
6 8 (3.59%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.59%) Swift
7 5 (2.24%) Bicep
8 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.79%) PHP
9 3 (1.35%) Bash
9 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Erlang
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.48%) Degree
4 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (28.25%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.79%) vSphere
4 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (33.18%) Kubernetes
2 68 (30.49%) Terraform
3 22 (9.87%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) Grafana
4 3 (1.35%) Rancher
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.90%) Packer
5 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.48%) Google
3 7 (3.14%) Oracle
3 7 (3.14%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.14%) VMware
4 4 (1.79%) Pega
5 3 (1.35%) Software AG
5 3 (1.35%) webMethods
6 2 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.90%) Tenable
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe
7 1 (0.45%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) F5
7 1 (0.45%) HP
7 1 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) WSO2