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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -7
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 245 193 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.56% 8.88% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 9.30% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 175 140 222
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,907 2,075 4,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.80% 95.49% 86.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 1,300 3,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,650
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +3 10 £68,750 +30.95% 3
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 6
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 9 (3.67%) Confluence
2 4 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) CICS
4 2 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.41%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (50.61%) Azure
2 109 (44.49%) AWS
3 45 (18.37%) Serverless
4 40 (16.33%) GCP
5 38 (15.51%) GitHub
6 37 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.76%) Azure AKS
7 19 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.35%) SaaS
9 12 (4.90%) Azure Functions
9 12 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.86%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.45%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.27%) Firewall
2 5 (2.04%) VPN
3 4 (1.63%) HTTP
3 4 (1.63%) Network Security
4 2 (0.82%) SAN
5 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.41%) LTE
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.88%) NoSQL
2 21 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.12%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.90%) MySQL
5 5 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.22%) GIS
7 3 (1.22%) QGIS
8 2 (0.82%) Big Data
8 2 (0.82%) DB2
8 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.82%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (16.33%) Git
2 20 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.16%) JIRA
3 13 (5.31%) GitLab
4 9 (3.67%) Snyk
5 8 (3.27%) Postman
6 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.22%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.22%) fastlane
7 3 (1.22%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.22%) JUnit
8 2 (0.82%) Maven
8 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.82%) Vite
8 2 (0.82%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.41%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.88%) Finance
3 18 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.94%) Banking
5 9 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.86%) Retail Banking
7 6 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.04%) Advertising
9 3 (1.22%) French Language
9 3 (1.22%) Games
9 3 (1.22%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.22%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.22%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.82%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (42.45%) Senior
2 71 (28.98%) Developer
3 49 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 26 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (10.20%) Lead
7 24 (9.80%) Java Developer
8 20 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (7.35%) Architect
10 16 (6.53%) .NET Developer
11 14 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.67%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.90%) .NET
2 45 (18.37%) React
3 32 (13.06%) RESTful
4 29 (11.84%) Node.js
5 26 (10.61%) Spring
6 25 (10.20%) REST
6 25 (10.20%) Spring Boot
7 24 (9.80%) CSS
7 24 (9.80%) HTML
8 19 (7.76%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.71%) .NET Framework
10 11 (4.49%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.08%) Django
11 10 (4.08%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.67%) Vue
13 8 (3.27%) Kafka
14 6 (2.45%) ARM Templates
14 6 (2.45%) JWT
14 6 (2.45%) OAuth
15 5 (2.04%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.53%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.90%) Mobile App
5 11 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.41%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.31%) Linux
2 11 (4.49%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.86%) Android
4 5 (2.04%) Windows
5 2 (0.82%) Debian
5 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (55.51%) DevOps
2 115 (46.94%) Agile
3 76 (31.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (29.39%) Software Engineering
5 66 (26.94%) Microservices
6 61 (24.90%) TDD
7 59 (24.08%) Containerisation
8 57 (23.27%) AI
9 50 (20.41%) Mentoring
10 49 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (17.96%) Scrum
12 41 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (15.51%) Clean Code
14 37 (15.10%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (14.69%) Observability
15 36 (14.69%) Test Automation
16 29 (11.84%) SDLC
17 28 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (11.43%) Roadmaps
18 25 (10.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.71%) Python
2 52 (21.22%) SQL
3 51 (20.82%) C#
4 48 (19.59%) Java
5 38 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 37 (15.10%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.31%) Bash
9 8 (3.27%) Go
9 8 (3.27%) Swift
10 6 (2.45%) Bicep
11 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.63%) PHP
12 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.82%) C
13 2 (0.82%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) SOQL
14 1 (0.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 17 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.67%) Degree
4 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) GRC
2 5 (2.04%) QA
3 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (24.90%) Docker
2 13 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (34.29%) Terraform
2 74 (30.20%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.57%) Ansible
4 5 (2.04%) Grafana
5 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.22%) Rancher
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.82%) Packer
7 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.41%) Istio
8 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.08%) Google
2 10 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (3.67%) Palo Alto
3 9 (3.67%) Tenable
4 6 (2.45%) VMware
5 5 (2.04%) Oracle
6 3 (1.22%) Databricks
6 3 (1.22%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.22%) Pega
7 2 (0.82%) Adobe
7 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.41%) F5
8 1 (0.41%) HP
8 1 (0.41%) Software AG
8 1 (0.41%) webMethods