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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 405 200 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.53% 8.33% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 9.30% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 288 125 151
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £87,500
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 5,538 2,151 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.64% 89.59% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,266 1,232 1,842
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,025
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,925 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 10 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 10 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 - 2
Altrincham +12 8 £65,000 - 1
Stockport +6 8 £72,500 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Oldham +3 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +9 2 £53,750 - 3
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 (3.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.72%) Confluence
2 11 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.64%) AWS
2 180 (44.44%) Azure
3 80 (19.75%) GitHub
4 66 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (13.58%) Serverless
6 54 (13.33%) GCP
7 40 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.67%) SaaS
9 21 (5.19%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.70%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.96%) Snowflake
14 11 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.47%) npm
15 10 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.96%) Firewall
2 6 (1.48%) Network Security
3 5 (1.23%) SAN
4 4 (0.99%) DNS
4 4 (0.99%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) CTI
5 2 (0.49%) DHCP
5 2 (0.49%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.42%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.98%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.73%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.73%) MySQL
8 6 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.48%) Power BI
8 6 (1.48%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.23%) Redis
10 3 (0.74%) Chroma
10 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.74%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (15.80%) Git
2 42 (10.37%) GitLab
3 34 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.68%) JIRA
5 17 (4.20%) Maven
6 15 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.46%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.21%) JUnit
8 13 (3.21%) Postman
8 13 (3.21%) Spock
9 12 (2.96%) Snyk
10 8 (1.98%) Storybook
11 6 (1.48%) Selenium
12 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.23%) fastlane
13 4 (0.99%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.99%) Vite
14 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 89 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.31%) Finance
3 29 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.46%) Publishing
7 11 (2.72%) Banking
7 11 (2.72%) Retail
8 10 (2.47%) Marketing
9 7 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.23%) Games
10 5 (1.23%) Law
10 5 (1.23%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.74%) Advertising
12 3 (0.74%) iGaming
12 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 162 (40.00%) Senior
2 98 (24.20%) Developer
3 65 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (12.84%) Senior Developer
5 48 (11.85%) Lead
6 41 (10.12%) Software Engineer
7 39 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.65%) Architect
9 29 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.69%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (4.69%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.69%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (4.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 17 (4.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (36.30%) Terraform
2 63 (15.56%) Spring
3 60 (14.81%) React
4 54 (13.33%) Node.js
5 53 (13.09%) .NET
6 48 (11.85%) Spring Boot
7 45 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 31 (7.65%) CSS
9 30 (7.41%) HTML
10 29 (7.16%) REST
11 23 (5.68%) Vue
12 19 (4.69%) Kafka
13 17 (4.20%) FastAPI
14 15 (3.70%) RESTful
15 10 (2.47%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.47%) Entity Framework
15 10 (2.47%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.47%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (2.47%) PySpark
16 9 (2.22%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.21%) Private Cloud
5 13 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.72%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.99%) Media Streaming
11 4 (0.99%) Podcast
11 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.99%) Replication
11 4 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.40%) Linux
2 9 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.48%) Android
3 6 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.48%) Windows
4 5 (1.23%) Unix
4 5 (1.23%) VMS
5 4 (0.99%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (63.46%) DevOps
2 161 (39.75%) Agile
3 157 (38.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (33.83%) AI
5 99 (24.44%) Microservices
6 94 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 94 (23.21%) Software Engineering
7 93 (22.96%) Mentoring
7 93 (22.96%) Observability
8 90 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 89 (21.98%) Containerisation
10 84 (20.74%) Platform Engineering
11 81 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (16.54%) Full-Stack Development
13 56 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
14 51 (12.59%) TDD
15 45 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
16 43 (10.62%) Decision-Making
16 43 (10.62%) Event-Driven
16 43 (10.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (35.80%) Python
2 101 (24.94%) Java
3 78 (19.26%) SQL
4 75 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 74 (18.27%) JavaScript
6 56 (13.83%) C#
7 42 (10.37%) Bash
8 30 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.72%) Go
10 10 (2.47%) Bicep
10 10 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.22%) Swift
12 8 (1.98%) Groovy
13 4 (0.99%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.99%) Rust
13 4 (0.99%) Scala
14 3 (0.74%) C++
14 3 (0.74%) PHP
14 3 (0.74%) SOQL
14 3 (0.74%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 78 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.37%) DV Cleared
3 41 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.44%) Degree
5 8 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.98%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.49%) CCNA
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.49%) MCSE
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.42%) QA
2 15 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.21%) GRC
4 8 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.98%) WCAG
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (31.11%) Docker
2 20 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.74%) Ceph
5 3 (0.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 50 (12.35%) Ansible
3 19 (4.69%) Grafana
3 19 (4.69%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.47%) Argo
5 8 (1.98%) Istio
6 5 (1.23%) Podman
7 4 (0.99%) linkerd
8 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 53 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.43%) Splunk
3 21 (5.19%) Google
4 13 (3.21%) Adobe
4 13 (3.21%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.21%) Databricks
5 12 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.96%) Tenable
6 11 (2.72%) VMware
7 6 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.99%) Mistral
9 4 (0.99%) Oracle
10 3 (0.74%) Dell
10 3 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.74%) New Relic
11 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow