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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 396 193 207
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.36% 8.18% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 9.14% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 281 119 143
10th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £78,363
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £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 5,577 2,111 3,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.54% 89.49% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,287 1,196 1,788
10th Percentile £32,400 £29,500 £30,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,625 £83,575
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 10 £65,000 - 12
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 9 £51,000 - 3
Stockport +7 8 £72,500 - 3
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 2
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 -16.54% 1
Bolton 0 2 £53,750 - 5
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 13 (3.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.78%) Confluence
2 11 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (49.49%) AWS
2 175 (44.19%) Azure
3 80 (20.20%) GitHub
4 67 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (14.65%) Serverless
6 53 (13.38%) GCP
7 41 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 25 (6.31%) SaaS
10 23 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.79%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (3.03%) Snowflake
17 11 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
18 10 (2.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.78%) Firewall
2 5 (1.26%) Network Security
2 5 (1.26%) SAN
3 4 (1.01%) DNS
4 3 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) CTI
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.31%) MongoDB
2 21 (5.30%) NoSQL
3 18 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.77%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.77%) MySQL
8 6 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.52%) Power BI
8 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.26%) Redis
10 3 (0.76%) Chroma
10 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.76%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.51%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (16.16%) Git
2 42 (10.61%) GitLab
3 34 (8.59%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.56%) JIRA
5 17 (4.29%) Maven
6 14 (3.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (3.54%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.28%) JUnit
7 13 (3.28%) Spock
8 12 (3.03%) Postman
8 12 (3.03%) Snyk
9 8 (2.02%) Storybook
10 5 (1.26%) Selenium
11 4 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.01%) fastlane
11 4 (1.01%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.01%) Vite
12 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 89 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.65%) Finance
3 29 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.79%) Publishing
7 11 (2.78%) Retail
8 10 (2.53%) Marketing
9 9 (2.27%) Banking
10 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Games
11 5 (1.26%) Law
12 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.76%) Advertising
13 3 (0.76%) iGaming
13 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 159 (40.15%) Senior
2 95 (23.99%) Developer
3 63 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (12.37%) Senior Developer
5 46 (11.62%) Lead
6 39 (9.85%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (7.58%) Architect
8 30 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
10 21 (5.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.05%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.80%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (4.80%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.80%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 16 (4.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (36.87%) Terraform
2 64 (16.16%) Spring
3 59 (14.90%) React
4 52 (13.13%) Node.js
5 49 (12.37%) Spring Boot
6 48 (12.12%) .NET
7 46 (11.62%) AngularJS
8 31 (7.83%) CSS
9 30 (7.58%) HTML
10 28 (7.07%) REST
11 23 (5.81%) Vue
12 20 (5.05%) Kafka
13 17 (4.29%) FastAPI
14 14 (3.54%) RESTful
15 11 (2.78%) PySpark
16 10 (2.53%) Entity Framework
16 10 (2.53%) GraphQL
16 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (2.53%) Pulumi
17 9 (2.27%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.72%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.28%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.78%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.53%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.26%) Media Streaming
12 5 (1.26%) Podcast
13 4 (1.01%) Replication
13 4 (1.01%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.59%) Linux
2 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.52%) Android
3 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Windows
4 5 (1.26%) Unix
4 5 (1.26%) VMS
5 4 (1.01%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (64.39%) DevOps
2 157 (39.65%) Agile
3 156 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (34.60%) AI
5 95 (23.99%) Microservices
6 94 (23.74%) Mentoring
6 94 (23.74%) Software Engineering
7 92 (23.23%) Observability
8 90 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (22.47%) Test Automation
10 88 (22.22%) Containerisation
11 83 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
13 66 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 54 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (13.13%) TDD
16 44 (11.11%) Scrum
17 43 (10.86%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (10.86%) Event-Driven
18 41 (10.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 146 (36.87%) Python
2 103 (26.01%) Java
3 78 (19.70%) SQL
4 77 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 72 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 50 (12.63%) C#
7 43 (10.86%) Bash
8 32 (8.08%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.78%) Bicep
9 11 (2.78%) Go
10 10 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.02%) Groovy
12 7 (1.77%) Swift
13 5 (1.26%) Rust
14 4 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.01%) Scala
15 3 (0.76%) C++
15 3 (0.76%) PHP
15 3 (0.76%) SOQL
15 3 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.86%) DV Cleared
3 40 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.55%) Degree
5 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) CCNA
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) MCSE
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.57%) QA
2 16 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.28%) GRC
4 9 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.02%) WCAG
6 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (31.82%) Docker
2 20 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.76%) Ceph
5 3 (0.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (31.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (12.12%) Ansible
3 21 (5.30%) Grafana
3 21 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.78%) Argo
5 8 (2.02%) Istio
6 5 (1.26%) Podman
6 5 (1.26%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.01%) linkerd
8 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.76%) Puppet
8 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.56%) Splunk
3 20 (5.05%) Google
4 13 (3.28%) Adobe
4 13 (3.28%) AppDynamics
4 13 (3.28%) Databricks
5 12 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.03%) Tenable
6 11 (2.78%) VMware
7 6 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.01%) Mistral
9 4 (1.01%) Oracle
10 3 (0.76%) Dell
10 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.76%) New Relic
11 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow