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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 176 169 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.65% 6.46% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 6.85% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 145 117 187
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,000 £82,548
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -

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 2,432 2,467 2,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 78.12% 94.34% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,164 2,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £42,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 26 January 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 26 January 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
Salford +1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 3 (1.70%) Apache
1 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.14%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) JBoss
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.41%) Azure
2 84 (47.73%) AWS
3 38 (21.59%) GCP
4 25 (14.20%) Serverless
5 20 (11.36%) SaaS
6 19 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.66%) GitHub
8 13 (7.39%) Azure Functions
8 13 (7.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (5.68%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) HTTP
2 4 (2.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.14%) DNS
3 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) VPN
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 1 (0.57%) DAB
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) SAN
4 1 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.93%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.82%) MySQL
5 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.27%) Big Data
7 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.70%) Power BI
8 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Git
2 13 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.11%) GitLab
4 8 (4.55%) JIRA
5 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.27%) JUnit
6 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.14%) JMeter
6 2 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.57%) Appium
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) Locust
7 1 (0.57%) Maven
7 1 (0.57%) NUnit
7 1 (0.57%) Postman
7 1 (0.57%) Protractor
7 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.57%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.09%) Finance
3 8 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.98%) Retail
5 5 (2.84%) Games
6 4 (2.27%) Marketing
7 3 (1.70%) French Language
7 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Italian Language
7 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.70%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (1.70%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.14%) Electronics
8 2 (1.14%) Legal
8 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (35.80%) Senior
2 48 (27.27%) Developer
3 32 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 20 (11.36%) Lead
5 19 (10.80%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.23%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.23%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (7.39%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Senior .NET Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Architect
9 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (35.23%) .NET
2 35 (19.89%) RESTful
3 32 (18.18%) React
4 26 (14.77%) REST
5 24 (13.64%) CSS
5 24 (13.64%) HTML
6 19 (10.80%) AngularJS
7 18 (10.23%) .NET Core
8 17 (9.66%) Spring
8 17 (9.66%) Spring Boot
9 14 (7.95%) .NET Framework
9 14 (7.95%) Node.js
10 10 (5.68%) Django
11 9 (5.11%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.55%) Kafka
13 7 (3.98%) FastAPI
13 7 (3.98%) Hibernate
13 7 (3.98%) Vue
14 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET
14 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.52%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) IoT
10 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.23%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Android
3 5 (2.84%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.70%) VMS
5 2 (1.14%) Debian
5 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.70%) DevOps
2 90 (51.14%) Agile
3 63 (35.80%) Software Engineering
4 61 (34.66%) Containerisation
4 61 (34.66%) Microservices
5 47 (26.70%) TDD
6 45 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (18.75%) AI
8 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.61%) Clean Code
10 26 (14.77%) Test Automation
11 25 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
12 23 (13.07%) Scrum
13 22 (12.50%) SOLID
14 20 (11.36%) User Experience
15 18 (10.23%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 15 (8.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.82%) C#
2 41 (23.30%) SQL
3 40 (22.73%) Python
4 36 (20.45%) JavaScript
5 35 (19.89%) Java
6 32 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.41%) Bicep
7 6 (3.41%) Go
7 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.84%) Bash
9 4 (2.27%) PHP
9 4 (2.27%) Scala
10 3 (1.70%) Erlang
10 3 (1.70%) Rust
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.25%) Degree
2 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) GDPR
3 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (31.82%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.27%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.27%) vSphere
4 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) HDFS
6 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 45 (25.57%) Terraform
3 21 (11.93%) Ansible
4 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.70%) Grafana
5 3 (1.70%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.70%) Puppet
5 3 (1.70%) Rancher
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.57%) Podman
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.41%) VMware
3 5 (2.84%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) Oracle
5 3 (1.70%) Software AG
5 3 (1.70%) Splunk
5 3 (1.70%) webMethods
6 2 (1.14%) Foundry
6 2 (1.14%) SAP
6 2 (1.14%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) Moogsoft
7 1 (0.57%) Pega
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.57%) WSO2