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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -28
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 409 209 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.87% 8.42% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 9.26% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 303 130 167
10th Percentile £48,800 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,613
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £91,750
North West median annual salary £68,403 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.23% +1.56% -8.57%

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 5,217 2,257 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.86% 90.93% 81.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 1,312 2,314
10th Percentile £32,820 £29,525 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,842 £68,750
90th Percentile £99,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 21 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 21 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 +14 11 £65,000 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 - 2
Stockport +9 6 £72,500 - 5
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Oldham +5 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton +14 2 £53,750 -
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 14 (3.42%) Confluence
2 13 (3.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.73%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) CICS
6 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.17%) AWS
2 189 (46.21%) Azure
3 80 (19.56%) GitHub
4 72 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (14.67%) GCP
5 60 (14.67%) Serverless
6 39 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.85%) SaaS
8 27 (6.60%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 17 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (3.67%) Power Automate
13 14 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (2.93%) Snowflake
15 10 (2.44%) dbt
15 10 (2.44%) npm
15 10 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.20%) Firewall
2 5 (1.22%) Network Security
2 5 (1.22%) SAN
3 4 (0.98%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.36%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.87%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.91%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.96%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.71%) MySQL
7 7 (1.71%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.47%) Power BI
9 5 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.98%) Redis
11 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.73%) GIS
11 3 (0.73%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.73%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 65 (15.89%) Git
2 39 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 36 (8.80%) GitLab
4 24 (5.87%) JIRA
5 16 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.42%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.42%) Maven
7 13 (3.18%) Postman
8 12 (2.93%) Snyk
9 11 (2.69%) JUnit
9 11 (2.69%) Spock
10 8 (1.96%) Storybook
11 6 (1.47%) fastlane
12 5 (1.22%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.98%) Selenium
13 4 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.98%) Vite
14 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 84 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.14%) Finance
3 29 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.16%) Banking
7 10 (2.44%) Marketing
7 10 (2.44%) Publishing
8 9 (2.20%) Retail
9 7 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.22%) Games
12 4 (0.98%) Advertising
13 3 (0.73%) Law
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Local Government
14 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Legal
Job Titles
1 166 (40.59%) Senior
2 108 (26.41%) Developer
3 61 (14.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (14.43%) Senior Developer
5 51 (12.47%) Lead
6 41 (10.02%) Software Engineer
7 40 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.58%) Architect
9 28 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (6.60%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (4.65%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Senior Automation Engineer
15 18 (4.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 17 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (35.94%) Terraform
2 60 (14.67%) .NET
3 59 (14.43%) Spring
4 58 (14.18%) React
5 56 (13.69%) Node.js
6 46 (11.25%) AngularJS
6 46 (11.25%) Spring Boot
7 35 (8.56%) CSS
8 34 (8.31%) HTML
9 28 (6.85%) REST
10 23 (5.62%) Vue
11 21 (5.13%) RESTful
12 18 (4.40%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.67%) Kafka
14 10 (2.44%) .NET Core
14 10 (2.44%) Entity Framework
14 10 (2.44%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
15 9 (2.20%) JWT
15 9 (2.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.78%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.16%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.69%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.69%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.98%) Replication
11 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.73%) Social Media
13 2 (0.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.33%) Linux
2 12 (2.93%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.96%) Android
4 4 (0.98%) CentOS
4 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.98%) Unix
4 4 (0.98%) Windows
5 3 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (63.08%) DevOps
2 164 (40.10%) Agile
3 152 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (32.03%) AI
5 98 (23.96%) Microservices
6 94 (22.98%) Software Engineering
7 91 (22.25%) Mentoring
8 87 (21.27%) Containerisation
8 87 (21.27%) Test Automation
9 86 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (20.78%) Observability
11 84 (20.54%) Platform Engineering
12 76 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 61 (14.91%) TDD
15 57 (13.94%) Technical Leadership
16 51 (12.47%) Scrum
17 50 (12.22%) Collaborative Culture
18 45 (11.00%) Decision-Making
19 44 (10.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 141 (34.47%) Python
2 99 (24.21%) Java
3 81 (19.80%) SQL
4 75 (18.34%) JavaScript
5 69 (16.87%) TypeScript
6 60 (14.67%) C#
7 39 (9.54%) Bash
8 28 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.93%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.93%) Swift
10 10 (2.44%) Bicep
11 9 (2.20%) Go
12 6 (1.47%) Groovy
13 4 (0.98%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.98%) Scala
14 3 (0.73%) C++
14 3 (0.73%) PHP
14 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.73%) SOQL
14 3 (0.73%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 68 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.80%) DV Cleared
3 34 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.91%) Degree
5 8 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.11%) QA
2 13 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.18%) GRC
3 8 (1.96%) WCAG
4 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 119 (29.10%) Docker
2 18 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.73%) Ceph
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.25%) Ansible
3 19 (4.65%) Grafana
3 19 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.44%) Argo
5 8 (1.96%) Istio
6 4 (0.98%) linkerd
7 3 (0.73%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) Podman
7 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.73%) Puppet
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.38%) Google
3 20 (4.89%) Splunk
4 13 (3.18%) Adobe
4 13 (3.18%) Databricks
5 12 (2.93%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (2.93%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.93%) Tenable
6 11 (2.69%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.20%) VMware
8 6 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.22%) Oracle
10 3 (0.73%) Dell
10 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.73%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.73%) Pega
10 3 (0.73%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.49%) New Relic
11 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow