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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 29 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 388 211 247
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.01% 8.46% 4.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.18% 9.15% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 291 133 199
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £91,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +5.47% -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 4,742 2,307 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.50% 92.46% 82.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,752 1,328 2,990
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
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% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £79,813 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,925 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 22 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 22 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 7 £51,000 - 2
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 - 3
Bolton +14 2 £53,750 -
Oldham +8 1 £54,250 - 1
Salford -17 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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 12 (3.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.52%) CICS
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (48.20%) AWS
2 181 (46.65%) Azure
3 73 (18.81%) GitHub
4 66 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (15.21%) Serverless
6 53 (13.66%) GCP
7 33 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (6.70%) SaaS
9 23 (5.93%) Power Platform
10 18 (4.64%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.84%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.84%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (2.58%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.84%) Firewall
2 6 (1.55%) SAN
3 5 (1.29%) Network Security
4 4 (1.03%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.44%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.19%) MongoDB
3 23 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.06%) MySQL
7 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.80%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.55%) Power BI
9 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.29%) Redis
10 3 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.77%) GIS
10 3 (0.77%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.77%) QGIS
11 2 (0.52%) Db2
11 2 (0.52%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 56 (14.43%) Git
2 35 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.25%) GitLab
4 26 (6.70%) JIRA
5 16 (4.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.35%) Postman
7 12 (3.09%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.09%) Maven
7 12 (3.09%) Snyk
8 9 (2.32%) JUnit
8 9 (2.32%) Spock
9 7 (1.80%) fastlane
9 7 (1.80%) Storybook
10 4 (1.03%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.03%) Selenium
10 4 (1.03%) Vite
11 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.24%) Finance
3 28 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.15%) Banking
5 18 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.58%) Marketing
7 9 (2.32%) Retail
8 8 (2.06%) Publishing
9 7 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Advertising
10 5 (1.29%) Games
11 3 (0.77%) Law
11 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 156 (40.21%) Senior
2 101 (26.03%) Developer
3 56 (14.43%) Senior Developer
4 53 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (11.86%) Lead
5 46 (11.86%) Software Engineer
6 42 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.73%) Architect
8 29 (7.47%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (4.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 18 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (4.38%) Applications Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.21%) .NET
2 58 (14.95%) React
3 52 (13.40%) Spring
4 51 (13.14%) Node.js
5 42 (10.82%) AngularJS
5 42 (10.82%) Spring Boot
6 33 (8.51%) CSS
6 33 (8.51%) HTML
7 25 (6.44%) Vue
8 23 (5.93%) REST
8 23 (5.93%) RESTful
9 19 (4.90%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.61%) Kafka
11 9 (2.32%) .NET Core
11 9 (2.32%) Django
11 9 (2.32%) Flask
11 9 (2.32%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.32%) JWT
11 9 (2.32%) OAuth
11 9 (2.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.09%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.84%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.32%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.52%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.52%) PMI
14 2 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.70%) Linux
2 14 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.32%) Android
4 5 (1.29%) Windows
5 3 (0.77%) CentOS
5 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
6 2 (0.52%) Debian
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (60.82%) DevOps
2 156 (40.21%) Agile
3 139 (35.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (31.44%) AI
5 94 (24.23%) Microservices
6 89 (22.94%) Mentoring
6 89 (22.94%) Software Engineering
7 83 (21.39%) Containerisation
8 80 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (20.62%) Platform Engineering
9 79 (20.36%) Test Automation
10 74 (19.07%) Observability
11 69 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (17.01%) TDD
13 64 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
14 54 (13.92%) Scrum
14 54 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
15 47 (12.11%) Collaborative Culture
16 46 (11.86%) SDLC
17 45 (11.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 128 (32.99%) Python
2 88 (22.68%) Java
3 75 (19.33%) SQL
4 65 (16.75%) TypeScript
5 64 (16.49%) JavaScript
6 57 (14.69%) C#
7 34 (8.76%) Bash
8 29 (7.47%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.35%) Swift
10 12 (3.09%) Go
11 11 (2.84%) Bicep
11 11 (2.84%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.29%) Groovy
12 5 (1.29%) PHP
13 4 (1.03%) Scala
14 3 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.77%) SOQL
14 3 (0.77%) SOSL
15 2 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.96%) DV Cleared
2 27 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.38%) Degree
4 9 (2.32%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.41%) QA
2 13 (3.35%) GRC
3 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.80%) WCAG
5 6 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (26.29%) Docker
2 18 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 137 (35.31%) Terraform
2 112 (28.87%) Kubernetes
3 38 (9.79%) Ansible
4 19 (4.90%) Grafana
5 16 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.55%) Argo
7 5 (1.29%) Istio
7 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.29%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.03%) linkerd
9 3 (0.77%) Puppet
10 2 (0.52%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 48 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.90%) Google
3 18 (4.64%) Splunk
4 14 (3.61%) Databricks
5 12 (3.09%) Adobe
5 12 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.09%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.09%) Tenable
6 10 (2.58%) VMware
7 9 (2.32%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.29%) Oracle
10 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.77%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.77%) Pega
11 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) Apple
12 1 (0.26%) F5
12 1 (0.26%) HP