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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 339 199 282
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.56% 8.76% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 9.20% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 250 126 232
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £69,692 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.44% +11.51% -10.00%

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 4,382 2,164 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.81% 95.25% 82.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,461 1,226 3,670
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,250 £80,492
North West median annual salary £55,000 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 4 £51,000 - 2
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 4
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 12 (3.54%) Confluence
2 9 (2.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.88%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) CMS
6 2 (0.59%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 170 (50.15%) AWS
2 164 (48.38%) Azure
3 67 (19.76%) GitHub
4 59 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (17.11%) Serverless
6 54 (15.93%) GCP
7 30 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (7.37%) SaaS
9 15 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.42%) Power Platform
10 14 (4.13%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.95%) Pulumi
14 9 (2.65%) Azure Functions
14 9 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.24%) Firewall
2 6 (1.77%) Network Security
2 6 (1.77%) VPN
3 4 (1.18%) SAN
4 2 (0.59%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) LTE
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 22 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.90%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.36%) MySQL
6 7 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.77%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.77%) Power BI
8 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.88%) GIS
10 3 (0.88%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.88%) QGIS
11 2 (0.59%) Db2
11 2 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (14.45%) Git
2 34 (10.03%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.96%) GitLab
4 23 (6.78%) JIRA
5 12 (3.54%) Snyk
6 11 (3.24%) Postman
7 8 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.36%) Maven
8 7 (2.06%) JUnit
9 6 (1.77%) Spock
10 5 (1.47%) fastlane
11 4 (1.18%) Storybook
11 4 (1.18%) Vite
12 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.88%) Selenium
13 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.59%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.45%) Finance
3 24 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.31%) Banking
6 16 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.65%) Marketing
8 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.06%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.47%) Advertising
11 4 (1.18%) Games
11 4 (1.18%) Publishing
11 4 (1.18%) Retail
12 3 (0.88%) French Language
12 3 (0.88%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.88%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.88%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (40.71%) Senior
2 94 (27.73%) Developer
3 51 (15.04%) Senior Developer
4 49 (14.45%) Software Engineer
5 43 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (10.62%) Lead
7 31 (9.14%) Java Developer
8 27 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (7.67%) Architect
10 20 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (5.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
14 15 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (4.13%) .NET Developer
15 14 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
17 12 (3.54%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.88%) .NET
2 59 (17.40%) React
3 41 (12.09%) Node.js
4 38 (11.21%) Spring
5 31 (9.14%) AngularJS
5 31 (9.14%) Spring Boot
6 28 (8.26%) CSS
6 28 (8.26%) HTML
6 28 (8.26%) REST
7 25 (7.37%) RESTful
8 23 (6.78%) Vue
9 20 (5.90%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.24%) Kafka
11 10 (2.95%) Django
11 10 (2.95%) JWT
11 10 (2.95%) OAuth
12 9 (2.65%) .NET Core
12 9 (2.65%) .NET Framework
12 9 (2.65%) Flask
13 8 (2.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (22.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.90%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.01%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.13%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.77%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.59%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.59%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.01%) Linux
2 13 (3.83%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.95%) Android
4 5 (1.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.59%) Debian
5 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (58.41%) DevOps
2 149 (43.95%) Agile
3 121 (35.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (31.56%) AI
5 84 (24.78%) Microservices
6 82 (24.19%) Software Engineering
7 76 (22.42%) Mentoring
8 68 (20.06%) Containerisation
9 67 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (19.47%) TDD
11 63 (18.58%) Observability
12 62 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (18.29%) Test Automation
13 59 (17.40%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (16.52%) Scrum
15 54 (15.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 42 (12.39%) SDLC
17 41 (12.09%) Clean Code
17 41 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
18 36 (10.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 105 (30.97%) Python
2 70 (20.65%) Java
3 66 (19.47%) SQL
4 57 (16.81%) C#
4 57 (16.81%) JavaScript
5 55 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.67%) Bash
7 25 (7.37%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.95%) Bicep
8 10 (2.95%) Swift
9 9 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.36%) Go
11 5 (1.47%) PHP
11 5 (1.47%) Scala
12 4 (1.18%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.88%) SOQL
13 3 (0.88%) SOSL
14 2 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.42%) Degree
4 10 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.83%) GRC
1 13 (3.83%) QA
2 6 (1.77%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.18%) WCAG
4 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (25.07%) Docker
2 19 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 128 (37.76%) Terraform
2 96 (28.32%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.67%) Ansible
4 12 (3.54%) Grafana
5 11 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.47%) Argo
6 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.18%) Istio
7 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.88%) linkerd
9 2 (0.59%) Packer
9 2 (0.59%) Puppet
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.42%) Google
3 12 (3.54%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.54%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.54%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.54%) Tenable
4 10 (2.95%) Databricks
4 10 (2.95%) Splunk
4 10 (2.95%) VMware
5 9 (2.65%) Adobe
6 6 (1.77%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle
9 3 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.88%) Pega
10 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.29%) F5
11 1 (0.29%) HP
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow