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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 30 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 291 193 265
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.00% 9.04% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 9.44% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 215 121 227
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,500 £52,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -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 4,183 2,045 4,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.92% 95.83% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 1,143 3,464
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £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 26 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 26 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 +12 13 £67,500 - 3
Salford -21 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 10 (3.44%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.03%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (51.20%) Azure
2 136 (46.74%) AWS
3 55 (18.90%) GitHub
4 50 (17.18%) Serverless
5 47 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (16.15%) GCP
6 23 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (6.87%) SaaS
8 16 (5.50%) Azure AKS
9 12 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (3.78%) Azure Functions
10 11 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.44%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.78%) Firewall
2 6 (2.06%) VPN
3 5 (1.72%) Network Security
4 4 (1.37%) SAN
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) LTE
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 20 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.09%) MySQL
5 7 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.06%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.03%) GIS
8 3 (1.03%) QGIS
9 2 (0.69%) Big Data
9 2 (0.69%) DB2
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.69%) Power BI
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (15.46%) Git
2 28 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.56%) GitLab
4 20 (6.87%) JIRA
5 12 (4.12%) Snyk
6 8 (2.75%) Postman
7 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.06%) JUnit
8 6 (2.06%) Maven
9 4 (1.37%) Spock
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.03%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.03%) fastlane
10 3 (1.03%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.69%) Storybook
11 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.69%) Vite
11 2 (0.69%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.40%) Finance
3 23 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (5.84%) Banking
5 16 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.41%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.72%) Advertising
9 5 (1.72%) Marketing
10 3 (1.03%) French Language
10 3 (1.03%) Games
10 3 (1.03%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.03%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.03%) Retail
10 3 (1.03%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (43.99%) Senior
2 84 (28.87%) Developer
3 47 (16.15%) Senior Developer
4 45 (15.46%) Software Engineer
5 39 (13.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.65%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.31%) Lead
8 23 (7.90%) Architect
9 20 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (5.84%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
13 13 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.47%) Software Developer
14 12 (4.12%) Security Architect
14 12 (4.12%) Senior Architect
14 12 (4.12%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.31%) .NET
2 47 (16.15%) React
3 34 (11.68%) Node.js
4 33 (11.34%) Spring
5 29 (9.97%) RESTful
6 28 (9.62%) Spring Boot
7 27 (9.28%) CSS
7 27 (9.28%) HTML
8 25 (8.59%) AngularJS
8 25 (8.59%) REST
9 13 (4.47%) Vue
10 10 (3.44%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.44%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.44%) Kafka
11 9 (3.09%) Django
12 8 (2.75%) JWT
12 8 (2.75%) OAuth
13 7 (2.41%) PySpark
14 6 (2.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.87%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.15%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.81%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.81%) Linux
2 11 (3.78%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.09%) Android
4 5 (1.72%) Windows
5 2 (0.69%) Debian
5 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (56.36%) DevOps
2 137 (47.08%) Agile
3 104 (35.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (25.77%) AI
5 71 (24.40%) Microservices
6 68 (23.37%) Mentoring
7 67 (23.02%) Software Engineering
8 66 (22.68%) TDD
9 61 (20.96%) Containerisation
10 57 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (17.53%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (17.53%) Test Automation
12 50 (17.18%) Scrum
13 49 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.43%) Observability
15 40 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (12.71%) SDLC
17 35 (12.03%) Clean Code
18 30 (10.31%) Collaborative Culture
19 29 (9.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 84 (28.87%) Python
2 63 (21.65%) Java
3 57 (19.59%) SQL
4 49 (16.84%) JavaScript
5 48 (16.49%) C#
6 41 (14.09%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.22%) Bash
7 21 (7.22%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.09%) Bicep
9 8 (2.75%) Go
9 8 (2.75%) Swift
10 6 (2.06%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.37%) Groovy
11 4 (1.37%) PHP
12 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.03%) SOQL
12 3 (1.03%) SOSL
13 2 (0.69%) C
13 2 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.78%) Degree
4 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.47%) GRC
2 9 (3.09%) QA
3 6 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (25.09%) Docker
2 18 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (39.52%) Terraform
2 82 (28.18%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.93%) Ansible
4 9 (3.09%) Grafana
5 8 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.03%) Rancher
8 2 (0.69%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.34%) linkerd
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.47%) Google
3 12 (4.12%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (4.12%) Palo Alto
3 12 (4.12%) Salesforce
3 12 (4.12%) Tenable
4 11 (3.78%) VMware
5 9 (3.09%) Databricks
6 8 (2.75%) Adobe
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle
8 4 (1.37%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.37%) Splunk
9 3 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.03%) Pega
10 1 (0.34%) F5
10 1 (0.34%) HP