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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -20
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 400 214 241
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.13% 8.53% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 9.26% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 299 137 196
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £57,500 £52,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,700
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,511 £91,875
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £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 4,810 2,310 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.67% 92.07% 82.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 1,339 2,729
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,550 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -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 27 July 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 27 July 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 13 £67,500 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 8 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 - 3
Bolton +13 2 £53,750 - 2
Oldham +8 2 £54,250 - 1
Salford -20 1 £74,301 +7.09% 2
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 (3.75%) Confluence
2 13 (3.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 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
1 190 (47.50%) AWS
2 185 (46.25%) Azure
3 74 (18.50%) GitHub
4 67 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (14.75%) Serverless
6 55 (13.75%) GCP
7 34 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (6.50%) SaaS
9 25 (6.25%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (4.50%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (3.25%) Power Automate
16 11 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.75%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (2.50%) dbt
17 10 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.75%) Firewall
2 6 (1.50%) SAN
3 5 (1.25%) Network Security
4 4 (1.00%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) DNS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.50%) NoSQL
2 25 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 24 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.00%) MySQL
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.50%) Power BI
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Redis
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.75%) GIS
10 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.75%) QGIS
11 2 (0.50%) Db2
Development Applications
1 61 (15.25%) Git
2 37 (9.25%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.25%) GitLab
4 26 (6.50%) JIRA
5 16 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.25%) Bitbucket
6 13 (3.25%) Maven
6 13 (3.25%) Postman
7 12 (3.00%) Snyk
8 9 (2.25%) JUnit
8 9 (2.25%) Spock
9 8 (2.00%) Storybook
10 7 (1.75%) fastlane
11 4 (1.00%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.00%) Selenium
11 4 (1.00%) Vite
12 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.25%) Finance
3 29 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.00%) Banking
6 18 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.50%) Marketing
8 9 (2.25%) Publishing
8 9 (2.25%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
10 5 (1.25%) Games
11 3 (0.75%) Law
11 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 161 (40.25%) Senior
2 104 (26.00%) Developer
3 58 (14.50%) Senior Developer
4 56 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (11.75%) Lead
6 46 (11.50%) Software Engineer
7 42 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.75%) Architect
9 29 (7.25%) Java Developer
10 25 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 17 (4.25%) Applications Engineer
14 17 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
14 17 (4.25%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.00%) .NET
2 59 (14.75%) React
3 55 (13.75%) Spring
4 52 (13.00%) Node.js
5 45 (11.25%) Spring Boot
6 44 (11.00%) AngularJS
7 34 (8.50%) CSS
7 34 (8.50%) HTML
8 25 (6.25%) Vue
9 24 (6.00%) REST
10 23 (5.75%) RESTful
11 19 (4.75%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.50%) Kafka
13 10 (2.50%) GraphQL
14 9 (2.25%) ASP.NET
14 9 (2.25%) Django
14 9 (2.25%) Entity Framework
14 9 (2.25%) Flask
14 9 (2.25%) JWT
14 9 (2.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.50%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.25%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.75%) Replication
10 3 (0.75%) Social Media
11 2 (0.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.50%) Linux
2 13 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.00%) Android
4 5 (1.25%) Windows
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (0.75%) CentOS
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) Debian
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (61.75%) DevOps
2 162 (40.50%) Agile
3 145 (36.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (32.00%) AI
5 95 (23.75%) Microservices
6 91 (22.75%) Mentoring
6 91 (22.75%) Software Engineering
7 86 (21.50%) Containerisation
8 84 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (20.25%) Platform Engineering
9 81 (20.25%) Test Automation
10 75 (18.75%) Observability
11 70 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (16.50%) TDD
13 64 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 55 (13.75%) Scrum
14 55 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 48 (12.00%) SDLC
17 47 (11.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 133 (33.25%) Python
2 93 (23.25%) Java
3 76 (19.00%) SQL
4 66 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 66 (16.50%) TypeScript
5 60 (15.00%) C#
6 34 (8.50%) Bash
7 29 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.25%) Swift
9 12 (3.00%) Go
10 11 (2.75%) Bicep
10 11 (2.75%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.25%) Groovy
12 4 (1.00%) PHP
12 4 (1.00%) Scala
13 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.75%) SOQL
13 3 (0.75%) SOSL
14 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 59 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.75%) DV Cleared
3 29 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.25%) Degree
5 9 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.50%) QA
2 13 (3.25%) GRC
3 12 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.00%) WCAG
5 6 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 111 (27.75%) Docker
2 18 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (35.25%) Terraform
2 118 (29.50%) Kubernetes
3 44 (11.00%) Ansible
4 19 (4.75%) Grafana
4 19 (4.75%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.25%) Argo
6 8 (2.00%) Istio
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.00%) linkerd
9 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.75%) Podman
9 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 51 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.00%) Google
3 18 (4.50%) Splunk
4 14 (3.50%) Databricks
5 13 (3.25%) Adobe
6 12 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (3.00%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.00%) Tenable
7 10 (2.50%) VMware
8 9 (2.25%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.50%) Oracle
10 3 (0.75%) Dell
10 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.75%) Pega
10 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.25%) F5