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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 38 17
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 0
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 184 184 243
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.91% 5.26% 10.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.41% 5.94% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 153 127 217
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,875 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £97,250 £87,500 £88,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1,956 3,098 2,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.09% 88.49% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,446 1,750
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +3.54%

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 30 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 30 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 +11 3 £73,801 +2.18% 1
Bolton +18 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%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.80%) Azure
2 95 (51.63%) AWS
3 34 (18.48%) GCP
4 27 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.87%) Serverless
6 16 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (8.15%) SaaS
8 14 (7.61%) GitHub
9 13 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.35%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.80%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.80%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) 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 15 (8.15%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.07%) MySQL
4 10 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.63%) Power BI
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.09%) Big Data
10 2 (1.09%) Redis
11 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (13.59%) Git
2 17 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.07%) GitLab
4 8 (4.35%) JIRA
5 6 (3.26%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.17%) JMeter
7 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.63%) Gatling
7 3 (1.63%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.09%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Ant
9 1 (0.54%) Appium
9 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.54%) Maven
9 1 (0.54%) NUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.33%) Finance
3 14 (7.61%) Retail
4 7 (3.80%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.26%) Games
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%) Tech for Good
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
Job Titles
1 60 (32.61%) Senior
2 47 (25.54%) Developer
3 28 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 26 (14.13%) Lead
5 17 (9.24%) .NET Developer
6 16 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.61%) Architect
8 13 (7.07%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.89%) AWS Architect
11 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
12 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.89%) .NET
2 33 (17.93%) RESTful
3 30 (16.30%) React
4 18 (9.78%) AngularJS
5 17 (9.24%) .NET Core
5 17 (9.24%) Spring
5 17 (9.24%) Spring Boot
6 16 (8.70%) CSS
6 16 (8.70%) HTML
7 15 (8.15%) .NET Framework
7 15 (8.15%) REST
8 13 (7.07%) Node.js
9 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.35%) Django
10 8 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.35%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.35%) Kafka
11 7 (3.80%) Vue
12 6 (3.26%) Entity Framework
12 6 (3.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (26.63%) Cloud Native
2 23 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.26%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.63%) BBC
8 3 (1.63%) Online Games
9 2 (1.09%) Blog
9 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.09%) IoT
9 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.41%) 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 90 (48.91%) Agile
3 68 (36.96%) Containerisation
4 65 (35.33%) Microservices
4 65 (35.33%) Software Engineering
5 47 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (20.65%) TDD
7 35 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.85%) Clean Code
8 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (16.30%) AI
10 26 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (14.13%) Mentoring
11 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
12 20 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
12 20 (10.87%) Test Automation
13 19 (10.33%) User Experience
14 18 (9.78%) Scrum
14 18 (9.78%) SDLC
15 17 (9.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 56 (30.43%) C#
2 49 (26.63%) Python
3 46 (25.00%) SQL
4 36 (19.57%) Java
5 32 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 31 (16.85%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.52%) Bash
8 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.72%) Bicep
10 4 (2.17%) Go
11 3 (1.63%) Erlang
11 3 (1.63%) Rust
12 2 (1.09%) PHP
12 2 (1.09%) Scala
13 1 (0.54%) Dart
13 1 (0.54%) Groovy
13 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.89%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.80%) Degree
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 13 (7.07%) GDPR
2 12 (6.52%) QA
3 7 (3.80%) HIPAA
3 7 (3.80%) NIST
4 3 (1.63%) 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 63 (34.24%) Kubernetes
2 45 (24.46%) Terraform
3 21 (11.41%) 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%) Rancher
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) 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