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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 238 175 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.53% 8.34% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 8.75% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 170 141 221
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,063 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,826 2,001 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.79% 95.38% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 1,273 3,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,938 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,850
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.83% -4.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,829
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -1 9 £67,500 +28.57% 4
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 7
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 9 (3.78%) Confluence
2 5 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.26%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) CICS
5 2 (0.84%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.42%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (50.00%) Azure
2 107 (44.96%) AWS
3 45 (18.91%) Serverless
4 36 (15.13%) GCP
4 36 (15.13%) GitHub
5 35 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.98%) Azure AKS
7 18 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.14%) SaaS
9 12 (5.04%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.94%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.94%) Firewall
2 4 (1.68%) HTTP
2 4 (1.68%) VPN
3 3 (1.26%) Network Security
4 2 (0.84%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.42%) LTE
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.46%) MySQL
5 6 (2.52%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.26%) GIS
8 3 (1.26%) QGIS
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.84%) Big Data
9 2 (0.84%) DB2
9 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.84%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (16.81%) Git
2 20 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.40%) JIRA
3 14 (5.88%) GitLab
4 8 (3.36%) Postman
4 8 (3.36%) Snyk
5 7 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.26%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.26%) fastlane
6 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.26%) JUnit
7 2 (0.84%) Maven
7 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.84%) Vite
7 2 (0.84%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.42%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (7.14%) Banking
3 17 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.78%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.94%) Retail Banking
6 6 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.10%) Advertising
8 3 (1.26%) French Language
8 3 (1.26%) Games
8 3 (1.26%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.26%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
8 3 (1.26%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (41.60%) Senior
2 67 (28.15%) Developer
3 52 (21.85%) Software Engineer
4 38 (15.97%) Senior Developer
5 24 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (10.08%) Lead
6 22 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 21 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (6.72%) Architect
9 15 (6.30%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (26.05%) .NET
2 45 (18.91%) React
3 33 (13.87%) RESTful
4 28 (11.76%) Node.js
5 25 (10.50%) Spring
6 24 (10.08%) CSS
6 24 (10.08%) HTML
6 24 (10.08%) REST
6 24 (10.08%) Spring Boot
7 19 (7.98%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.30%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.04%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.78%) Django
10 9 (3.78%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.78%) Vue
11 7 (2.94%) Kafka
12 6 (2.52%) ARM Templates
13 5 (2.10%) JWT
13 5 (2.10%) OAuth
13 5 (2.10%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.04%) Mobile App
6 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.46%) Linux
2 11 (4.62%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.94%) Android
4 5 (2.10%) Windows
5 2 (0.84%) Debian
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (55.46%) DevOps
2 114 (47.90%) Agile
3 77 (32.35%) Software Engineering
4 72 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (27.73%) Microservices
6 60 (25.21%) Containerisation
6 60 (25.21%) TDD
7 55 (23.11%) AI
8 48 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (19.75%) Mentoring
10 44 (18.49%) Scrum
11 40 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (15.97%) Clean Code
13 36 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (15.13%) Test Automation
14 34 (14.29%) Observability
15 28 (11.76%) Roadmaps
16 27 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (11.34%) SDLC
17 25 (10.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.79%) Python
2 54 (22.69%) SQL
3 52 (21.85%) C#
4 46 (19.33%) Java
5 38 (15.97%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.97%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.04%) Bash
8 8 (3.36%) Go
8 8 (3.36%) Swift
9 6 (2.52%) Bicep
10 4 (1.68%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.68%) PHP
11 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) C
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.78%) Degree
4 5 (2.10%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.78%) GRC
2 5 (2.10%) QA
3 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (26.47%) Docker
2 12 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (33.19%) Terraform
2 74 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.82%) Ansible
4 5 (2.10%) Grafana
5 4 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.26%) Rancher
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.42%) Istio
8 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.78%) Google
2 9 (3.78%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (3.36%) Palo Alto
3 8 (3.36%) Tenable
4 6 (2.52%) VMware
5 5 (2.10%) Oracle
6 3 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.26%) Pega
7 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.42%) Adobe
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) HP
8 1 (0.42%) Software AG
8 1 (0.42%) webMethods