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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -22
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 401 206 223
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.63% 8.38% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 9.31% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 290 130 167
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,996 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,363
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £89,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 5,361 2,213 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.26% 90.00% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 1,302 2,117
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,404 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 -
Altrincham +14 8 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +7 6 £72,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Oldham +4 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +16 2 £53,750 - 5
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 13 (3.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (3.24%) Confluence
2 11 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (48.63%) AWS
2 182 (45.39%) Azure
3 79 (19.70%) GitHub
4 71 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (14.21%) GCP
6 53 (13.22%) Serverless
7 39 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.73%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.73%) SaaS
9 19 (4.74%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.74%) Power Automate
12 13 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.99%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.49%) npm
15 10 (2.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.49%) Firewall
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
2 5 (1.25%) SAN
3 4 (1.00%) VPN
4 3 (0.75%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) CTI
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.48%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.24%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.75%) MySQL
7 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.75%) Chroma
11 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 66 (16.46%) Git
2 41 (10.22%) GitLab
3 37 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.74%) JIRA
5 17 (4.24%) Maven
6 15 (3.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.49%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.24%) JUnit
8 13 (3.24%) Postman
8 13 (3.24%) Spock
9 12 (2.99%) Snyk
10 8 (2.00%) Storybook
11 7 (1.75%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.25%) fastlane
12 5 (1.25%) Selenium
13 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (1.00%) Vite
14 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
General
1 86 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.96%) Finance
3 29 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.99%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.49%) Banking
7 12 (2.99%) Publishing
8 10 (2.49%) Marketing
9 9 (2.24%) Retail
10 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.25%) Games
12 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Law
14 3 (0.75%) Advertising
14 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) iGaming
15 2 (0.50%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (39.40%) Senior
2 102 (25.44%) Developer
3 62 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (13.22%) Senior Developer
5 47 (11.72%) Lead
6 40 (9.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (9.23%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.73%) Architect
9 28 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Senior Automation Engineer
15 18 (4.49%) Data Engineer
15 18 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (36.16%) Terraform
2 61 (15.21%) React
3 60 (14.96%) Spring
4 54 (13.47%) .NET
5 53 (13.22%) Node.js
6 48 (11.97%) AngularJS
7 45 (11.22%) Spring Boot
8 34 (8.48%) CSS
9 33 (8.23%) HTML
10 30 (7.48%) REST
11 23 (5.74%) Vue
12 19 (4.74%) Kafka
13 18 (4.49%) RESTful
14 17 (4.24%) FastAPI
15 10 (2.49%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.49%) Entity Framework
15 10 (2.49%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (2.24%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.70%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.24%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.00%) Replication
12 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.75%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.75%) Social Media
14 2 (0.50%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.73%) Linux
2 9 (2.24%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Unix
4 5 (1.25%) VMS
4 5 (1.25%) Windows
5 4 (1.00%) CentOS
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (63.84%) DevOps
2 160 (39.90%) Agile
3 153 (38.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (33.42%) AI
5 98 (24.44%) Microservices
6 91 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 90 (22.44%) Software Engineering
8 89 (22.19%) Mentoring
9 88 (21.95%) Observability
9 88 (21.95%) Test Automation
10 87 (21.70%) Containerisation
11 83 (20.70%) Platform Engineering
12 78 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (12.97%) TDD
16 46 (11.47%) Collaborative Culture
16 46 (11.47%) Scrum
17 43 (10.72%) Decision-Making
17 43 (10.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 139 (34.66%) Python
2 98 (24.44%) Java
3 78 (19.45%) SQL
4 76 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 72 (17.96%) TypeScript
6 56 (13.97%) C#
7 40 (9.98%) Bash
8 29 (7.23%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.49%) Bicep
9 10 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.24%) Go
10 9 (2.24%) Swift
11 8 (2.00%) Groovy
12 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.00%) Rust
12 4 (1.00%) Scala
13 3 (0.75%) C++
13 3 (0.75%) SOQL
13 3 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.73%) DV Cleared
3 36 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.24%) Degree
5 8 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCNA
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.23%) QA
2 13 (3.24%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.24%) GRC
3 8 (2.00%) WCAG
4 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 122 (30.42%) Docker
2 19 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (30.67%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.72%) Ansible
3 19 (4.74%) Grafana
3 19 (4.74%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.49%) Argo
5 8 (2.00%) Istio
6 4 (1.00%) linkerd
7 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.75%) Podman
7 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.75%) Puppet
7 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 51 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.49%) Splunk
3 21 (5.24%) Google
4 13 (3.24%) Adobe
4 13 (3.24%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.24%) Databricks
5 12 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.99%) Tenable
6 10 (2.49%) VMware
7 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.50%) Oracle
8 4 (1.00%) Mistral
9 3 (0.75%) Dell
9 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.75%) Pega
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow