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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -8
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 239 174 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.50% 8.15% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 8.55% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 170 140 222
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,500 £54,875 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £97,622 £84,919
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 3,866 2,035 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.74% 95.32% 86.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,656 1,302 3,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,575
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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 +5 10 £68,750 +30.95% 3
Salford -17 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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.26%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) CICS
4 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (50.21%) Azure
2 106 (44.35%) AWS
3 46 (19.25%) Serverless
4 37 (15.48%) GCP
5 36 (15.06%) GitHub
6 35 (14.64%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.95%) Azure AKS
8 18 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.11%) SaaS
10 12 (5.02%) Azure Functions
10 12 (5.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.35%) Firewall
2 5 (2.09%) VPN
3 4 (1.67%) HTTP
3 4 (1.67%) 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 35 (14.64%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.02%) MySQL
5 6 (2.51%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.67%) 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%) 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%) Redis
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (16.32%) Git
2 20 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.37%) JIRA
3 14 (5.86%) GitLab
4 9 (3.77%) Snyk
5 8 (3.35%) Postman
6 7 (2.93%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.26%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.26%) fastlane
7 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.26%) JUnit
8 2 (0.84%) Maven
8 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.84%) Vite
8 2 (0.84%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.42%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Finance
3 18 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (7.11%) Banking
5 9 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.93%) Retail Banking
7 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.09%) Advertising
9 3 (1.26%) French Language
9 3 (1.26%) Games
9 3 (1.26%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.26%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 3 (1.26%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (42.26%) Senior
2 68 (28.45%) Developer
3 50 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 39 (16.32%) Senior Developer
5 25 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.62%) Lead
7 20 (8.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (7.11%) Architect
9 15 (6.28%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (4.18%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) GCP Engineer
14 9 (3.77%) Cloud Security Architect
14 9 (3.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.10%) .NET
2 45 (18.83%) React
3 33 (13.81%) RESTful
4 28 (11.72%) Node.js
5 25 (10.46%) Spring
6 24 (10.04%) REST
6 24 (10.04%) Spring Boot
7 23 (9.62%) CSS
7 23 (9.62%) HTML
8 19 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.86%) .NET Framework
10 11 (4.60%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.77%) Django
11 9 (3.77%) FastAPI
11 9 (3.77%) Vue
12 7 (2.93%) Kafka
13 6 (2.51%) ARM Templates
14 5 (2.09%) JWT
14 5 (2.09%) OAuth
14 5 (2.09%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.28%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.02%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.44%) Linux
2 11 (4.60%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.93%) Android
4 5 (2.09%) 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 (55.23%) DevOps
2 113 (47.28%) Agile
3 74 (30.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 74 (30.96%) Software Engineering
4 64 (26.78%) Microservices
5 59 (24.69%) TDD
6 58 (24.27%) Containerisation
7 56 (23.43%) AI
8 48 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (19.67%) Mentoring
10 44 (18.41%) Scrum
11 40 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (15.48%) Clean Code
13 36 (15.06%) Test Automation
14 35 (14.64%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (14.23%) Observability
16 28 (11.72%) Roadmaps
16 28 (11.72%) SDLC
17 27 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
18 24 (10.04%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.69%) Python
2 51 (21.34%) SQL
3 50 (20.92%) C#
4 47 (19.67%) Java
5 37 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 37 (15.48%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.02%) Bash
8 8 (3.35%) Go
8 8 (3.35%) Swift
9 6 (2.51%) Bicep
10 4 (1.67%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.67%) 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 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.77%) Degree
4 5 (2.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.18%) GRC
2 5 (2.09%) QA
3 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (25.10%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (33.47%) Terraform
2 72 (30.13%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.79%) Ansible
4 5 (2.09%) Grafana
5 4 (1.67%) 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 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.18%) Google
3 9 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (3.77%) Palo Alto
3 9 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.77%) Tenable
4 6 (2.51%) VMware
5 5 (2.09%) 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