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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -23
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 335 202 283
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.52% 8.90% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 9.34% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 247 127 233
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.00%

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 4,340 2,163 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.48% 95.33% 82.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,427 1,221 3,640
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,625 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £81,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +15 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 3 £51,000 - 2
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 12 (3.58%) Confluence
2 8 (2.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.90%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) CICS
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 167 (49.85%) AWS
2 164 (48.96%) Azure
3 67 (20.00%) GitHub
4 59 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (17.31%) Serverless
6 54 (16.12%) GCP
7 30 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (6.87%) SaaS
9 15 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.48%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.18%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.99%) Pulumi
14 9 (2.69%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.28%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) Network Security
2 6 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.19%) SAN
4 2 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) LTE
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.66%) NoSQL
2 22 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.58%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.39%) MySQL
6 7 (2.09%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.79%) Power BI
8 5 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.49%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.90%) GIS
10 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.90%) QGIS
11 2 (0.60%) Db2
11 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (14.63%) Git
2 34 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (8.06%) GitLab
4 23 (6.87%) JIRA
5 12 (3.58%) Snyk
6 11 (3.28%) Postman
7 8 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (2.39%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.09%) JUnit
8 7 (2.09%) Maven
9 6 (1.79%) Spock
10 5 (1.49%) fastlane
11 4 (1.19%) Vite
12 3 (0.90%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.90%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.90%) Selenium
12 3 (0.90%) Storybook
13 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.33%) Finance
3 24 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.37%) Banking
6 14 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.69%) Marketing
8 7 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.09%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.49%) Advertising
11 4 (1.19%) Games
11 4 (1.19%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) French Language
12 3 (0.90%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.90%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 3 (0.90%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 138 (41.19%) Senior
2 93 (27.76%) Developer
3 50 (14.93%) Senior Developer
3 50 (14.93%) Software Engineer
4 43 (12.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (10.75%) Lead
6 31 (9.25%) Java Developer
7 27 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.76%) Architect
9 21 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (5.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 17 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (4.78%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.18%) .NET Developer
14 14 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.58%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.10%) .NET
2 58 (17.31%) React
3 41 (12.24%) Node.js
4 38 (11.34%) Spring
5 31 (9.25%) Spring Boot
6 29 (8.66%) AngularJS
7 28 (8.36%) REST
8 27 (8.06%) CSS
8 27 (8.06%) HTML
9 26 (7.76%) RESTful
10 23 (6.87%) Vue
11 20 (5.97%) FastAPI
12 11 (3.28%) Kafka
13 10 (2.99%) .NET Framework
13 10 (2.99%) Django
13 10 (2.99%) JWT
13 10 (2.99%) OAuth
14 9 (2.69%) .NET Core
14 9 (2.69%) Flask
15 8 (2.39%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.18%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.60%) Culture of Ownership
14 2 (0.60%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.07%) Linux
2 13 (3.88%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.99%) Android
4 5 (1.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.60%) Debian
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (57.91%) DevOps
2 147 (43.88%) Agile
3 121 (36.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (31.04%) AI
5 84 (25.07%) Microservices
6 82 (24.48%) Software Engineering
7 75 (22.39%) Mentoring
8 68 (20.30%) Containerisation
9 66 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (19.70%) TDD
10 63 (18.81%) Observability
11 61 (18.21%) Test Automation
12 60 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (16.72%) Scrum
15 53 (15.82%) Full-Stack Development
16 42 (12.54%) SDLC
17 41 (12.24%) Clean Code
18 40 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
19 35 (10.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 105 (31.34%) Python
2 69 (20.60%) Java
3 67 (20.00%) SQL
4 56 (16.72%) C#
5 55 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 54 (16.12%) TypeScript
7 26 (7.76%) Bash
8 25 (7.46%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.99%) Bicep
9 10 (2.99%) Swift
10 9 (2.69%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.39%) Go
12 5 (1.49%) PHP
12 5 (1.49%) Scala
13 4 (1.19%) Groovy
14 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.90%) SOQL
14 3 (0.90%) SOSL
15 2 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.16%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.48%) Degree
4 10 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.88%) GRC
1 13 (3.88%) QA
2 6 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) WCAG
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (25.07%) Docker
2 19 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 128 (38.21%) Terraform
2 96 (28.66%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.76%) Ansible
4 12 (3.58%) Grafana
5 11 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.49%) Argo
6 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.19%) Istio
7 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) linkerd
9 2 (0.60%) Packer
9 2 (0.60%) Puppet
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.48%) Google
3 12 (3.58%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.58%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.58%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.58%) Tenable
4 10 (2.99%) Databricks
4 10 (2.99%) Splunk
4 10 (2.99%) VMware
5 8 (2.39%) Adobe
6 6 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle
9 3 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.90%) Pega
10 2 (0.60%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.30%) F5
11 1 (0.30%) HP
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow