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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 406 210 217
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.93% 8.45% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 9.27% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 299 132 175
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,413
90th Percentile £96,500 £90,000 £92,000
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 5,091 2,266 3,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.39% 91.22% 82.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,006 1,314 2,391
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,063 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 £66,250 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +7 5 £75,000 - 8
Oldham +6 3 £54,250 -
Bolton +14 2 £53,750 - 3
Salford -20 1 £74,301 +8.46% 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 15 (3.69%) Confluence
2 13 (3.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (2.71%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.74%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) CICS
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%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.52%) AWS
2 188 (46.31%) Azure
3 77 (18.97%) GitHub
4 71 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (15.02%) GCP
6 60 (14.78%) Serverless
7 37 (9.11%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.65%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.65%) SaaS
9 19 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.43%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.69%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (2.71%) dbt
15 10 (2.46%) npm
15 10 (2.46%) Pulumi
15 10 (2.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.22%) Firewall
2 5 (1.23%) Network Security
2 5 (1.23%) SAN
3 4 (0.99%) VPN
4 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.49%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.40%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 23 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.94%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.97%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.72%) MySQL
6 7 (1.72%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.48%) Power BI
8 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.23%) Redis
9 4 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.74%) GIS
10 3 (0.74%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.74%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 64 (15.76%) Git
2 38 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.37%) GitLab
4 25 (6.16%) JIRA
5 16 (3.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.45%) Maven
7 13 (3.20%) Postman
8 12 (2.96%) Snyk
9 11 (2.71%) JUnit
9 11 (2.71%) Spock
10 8 (1.97%) Storybook
11 7 (1.72%) fastlane
12 5 (1.23%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.99%) Selenium
13 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.99%) Vite
14 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.49%) XCUITest
General
1 81 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.24%) Finance
3 30 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.93%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.68%) Banking
7 10 (2.46%) Marketing
7 10 (2.46%) Publishing
8 9 (2.22%) Retail
9 7 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (0.99%) Advertising
12 3 (0.74%) Law
12 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 168 (41.38%) Senior
2 109 (26.85%) Developer
3 61 (15.02%) Senior Developer
4 56 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 48 (11.82%) Lead
6 43 (10.59%) Software Engineer
7 40 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (7.39%) Architect
9 28 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 27 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.68%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.68%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 18 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (4.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.19%) Applications Engineer
15 17 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (4.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.02%) .NET
2 59 (14.53%) React
3 57 (14.04%) Spring
4 53 (13.05%) Node.js
5 46 (11.33%) AngularJS
6 44 (10.84%) Spring Boot
7 35 (8.62%) CSS
8 34 (8.37%) HTML
9 28 (6.90%) REST
10 24 (5.91%) Vue
11 22 (5.42%) RESTful
12 19 (4.68%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.69%) Kafka
14 11 (2.71%) .NET Core
15 10 (2.46%) Entity Framework
15 10 (2.46%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (2.22%) JWT
16 9 (2.22%) LangChain
16 9 (2.22%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.71%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.71%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.99%) Replication
11 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.74%) Social Media
13 2 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.39%) Linux
2 14 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.22%) Android
4 5 (1.23%) Unix
5 4 (0.99%) Windows
6 3 (0.74%) CentOS
6 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (62.32%) DevOps
2 167 (41.13%) Agile
3 147 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (32.76%) AI
5 95 (23.40%) Microservices
5 95 (23.40%) Software Engineering
6 91 (22.41%) Mentoring
7 87 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 85 (20.94%) Containerisation
9 83 (20.44%) Observability
10 81 (19.95%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
12 68 (16.75%) TDD
13 56 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
14 53 (13.05%) Scrum
15 52 (12.81%) Collaborative Culture
16 47 (11.58%) SDLC
17 46 (11.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (33.50%) Python
2 96 (23.65%) Java
3 78 (19.21%) SQL
4 71 (17.49%) JavaScript
5 68 (16.75%) TypeScript
6 61 (15.02%) C#
7 36 (8.87%) Bash
8 28 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.45%) Swift
10 13 (3.20%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.46%) Bicep
12 9 (2.22%) Go
13 6 (1.48%) Groovy
14 4 (0.99%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.99%) Scala
15 3 (0.74%) PHP
15 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.74%) SOQL
15 3 (0.74%) SOSL
16 2 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 61 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.64%) DV Cleared
2 31 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.19%) Degree
4 9 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.91%) QA
2 13 (3.20%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.20%) GRC
3 8 (1.97%) WCAG
4 6 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (28.08%) Docker
2 18 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.74%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (35.47%) Terraform
2 117 (28.82%) Kubernetes
3 42 (10.34%) Ansible
4 19 (4.68%) Grafana
4 19 (4.68%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.46%) Argo
6 8 (1.97%) Istio
7 4 (0.99%) linkerd
7 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.74%) Podman
8 3 (0.74%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.67%) Google
3 20 (4.93%) Splunk
4 13 (3.20%) Adobe
4 13 (3.20%) Databricks
4 13 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.96%) Tenable
6 11 (2.71%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.22%) VMware
8 6 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.23%) Oracle
10 3 (0.74%) Dell
10 3 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.74%) Pega
10 3 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.49%) Apple
11 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow