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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -14
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 190 169 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.85% 7.59% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 7.92% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 158 136 201
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £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 £100,000 £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 2,913 2,135 3,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.43% 95.83% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,904 1,232 3,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,520
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,884 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,017 £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 11 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 11 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 -5 5 £67,500 +28.57% 6
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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) CICS
4 2 (1.05%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (50.53%) Azure
2 85 (44.74%) AWS
3 39 (20.53%) GCP
4 31 (16.32%) Serverless
5 21 (11.05%) GitHub
6 18 (9.47%) Azure AKS
6 18 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.95%) SaaS
8 12 (6.32%) Azure Functions
8 12 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.68%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.63%) HTTP
2 4 (2.11%) Firewall
3 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.05%) SAN
4 2 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.05%) MongoDB
2 21 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.84%) MySQL
4 8 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.58%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.58%) Power BI
8 3 (1.58%) Redis
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.05%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.05%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 31 (16.32%) Git
2 14 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.32%) JIRA
4 9 (4.74%) GitLab
5 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.58%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.58%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.58%) JUnit
5 3 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.05%) fastlane
6 2 (1.05%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.53%) JMeter
7 1 (0.53%) Locust
7 1 (0.53%) NUnit
7 1 (0.53%) Protractor
7 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.05%) Finance
3 9 (4.74%) Banking
4 6 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (3.16%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.63%) Games
5 5 (2.63%) Retail
6 3 (1.58%) French Language
6 3 (1.58%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.58%) Marketing
6 3 (1.58%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.58%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (37.37%) Senior
2 58 (30.53%) Developer
3 41 (21.58%) Software Engineer
4 26 (13.68%) Senior Developer
5 25 (13.16%) Lead
6 22 (11.58%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.95%) .NET Developer
7 17 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.79%) Senior .NET Developer
9 10 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Architect
10 9 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.63%) .NET
2 39 (20.53%) RESTful
3 34 (17.89%) React
4 28 (14.74%) CSS
4 28 (14.74%) HTML
5 25 (13.16%) REST
6 21 (11.05%) Spring
6 21 (11.05%) Spring Boot
7 20 (10.53%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.95%) .NET Core
8 17 (8.95%) .NET Framework
8 17 (8.95%) Node.js
9 12 (6.32%) Django
10 9 (4.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (4.74%) Vue
11 8 (4.21%) CSS3
11 8 (4.21%) FastAPI
11 8 (4.21%) HTML5
11 8 (4.21%) Kafka
12 6 (3.16%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.37%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.58%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.05%) IoT
9 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.89%) Linux
2 8 (4.21%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.16%) Android
3 6 (3.16%) Windows
4 3 (1.58%) Unix
4 3 (1.58%) VMS
5 2 (1.05%) Debian
5 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.21%) Agile
2 99 (52.11%) DevOps
3 71 (37.37%) Software Engineering
4 64 (33.68%) Microservices
5 58 (30.53%) Containerisation
6 56 (29.47%) TDD
7 45 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (21.58%) Clean Code
9 40 (21.05%) Scrum
10 34 (17.89%) AI
10 34 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (15.26%) Mentoring
13 27 (14.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (13.16%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.58%) Roadmaps
16 20 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
17 19 (10.00%) SOLID
17 19 (10.00%) User Experience
18 17 (8.95%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.89%) C#
2 46 (24.21%) Java
2 46 (24.21%) SQL
3 40 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 39 (20.53%) Python
5 33 (17.37%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.21%) Go
7 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.63%) Bicep
8 5 (2.63%) Swift
9 4 (2.11%) PHP
10 3 (1.58%) Erlang
10 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.05%) Scala
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
12 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.26%) Degree
2 10 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.16%) QA
2 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (27.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.11%) VMware NSX
2 4 (2.11%) vSphere
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (32.11%) Kubernetes
2 47 (24.74%) Terraform
3 17 (8.95%) Ansible
4 3 (1.58%) Rancher
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.05%) Packer
5 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.53%) Grafana
6 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.68%) Google
2 7 (3.68%) Oracle
2 7 (3.68%) VMware
3 4 (2.11%) Pega
4 3 (1.58%) Software AG
4 3 (1.58%) webMethods
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) F5
5 1 (0.53%) Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) HP
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) SAP
5 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) WSO2