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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 333 202 281
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.51% 8.90% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.71% 9.34% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 245 127 231
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £51,701
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 4,318 2,163 4,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.40% 95.33% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,408 1,218 3,623
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £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% -9.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £81,200
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 14 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 14 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 +14 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 3 £51,000 - 3
Salford -17 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 (3.60%) Confluence
2 8 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.90%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) CICS
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (49.55%) AWS
2 162 (48.65%) Azure
3 66 (19.82%) GitHub
4 59 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (17.12%) Serverless
6 52 (15.62%) GCP
7 29 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (6.91%) SaaS
9 15 (4.50%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.50%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.20%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (3.00%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.70%) Azure Functions
16 8 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.30%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) Network Security
2 6 (1.80%) VPN
3 4 (1.20%) SAN
4 2 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) LTE
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.71%) NoSQL
2 22 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.01%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.40%) MySQL
6 7 (2.10%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.80%) Power BI
8 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.50%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.90%) GIS
10 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.90%) QGIS
11 2 (0.60%) Db2
11 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (14.11%) Git
2 32 (9.61%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.81%) GitLab
4 23 (6.91%) JIRA
5 12 (3.60%) Snyk
6 10 (3.00%) Postman
7 8 (2.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.10%) JUnit
8 7 (2.10%) Maven
9 6 (1.80%) Spock
10 5 (1.50%) fastlane
11 4 (1.20%) Vite
12 3 (0.90%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.90%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.90%) Storybook
13 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.60%) Selenium
13 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.41%) Finance
3 24 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.41%) Banking
6 14 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.70%) Marketing
8 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.10%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.50%) Advertising
11 4 (1.20%) Games
11 4 (1.20%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) French Language
12 3 (0.90%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.90%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.90%) Publishing
12 3 (0.90%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (41.14%) Senior
2 92 (27.63%) Developer
3 50 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 49 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 43 (12.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (10.81%) Lead
7 30 (9.01%) Java Developer
8 27 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (7.81%) Architect
10 21 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (4.50%) GCP Engineer
15 14 (4.20%) .NET Developer
16 13 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
17 12 (3.60%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.22%) .NET
2 58 (17.42%) React
3 41 (12.31%) Node.js
4 37 (11.11%) Spring
5 30 (9.01%) Spring Boot
6 29 (8.71%) AngularJS
7 28 (8.41%) REST
8 27 (8.11%) CSS
8 27 (8.11%) HTML
9 25 (7.51%) RESTful
10 23 (6.91%) Vue
11 20 (6.01%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.00%) .NET Framework
12 10 (3.00%) Django
12 10 (3.00%) JWT
12 10 (3.00%) Kafka
12 10 (3.00%) OAuth
13 9 (2.70%) .NET Core
13 9 (2.70%) Flask
14 8 (2.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 74 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.01%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.20%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.60%) Culture of Ownership
14 2 (0.60%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.11%) Linux
2 13 (3.90%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.00%) Android
4 5 (1.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.60%) Debian
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (58.26%) DevOps
2 147 (44.14%) Agile
3 120 (36.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (30.63%) AI
5 84 (25.23%) Microservices
6 82 (24.62%) Software Engineering
7 75 (22.52%) Mentoring
8 66 (19.82%) Containerisation
8 66 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.82%) TDD
9 62 (18.62%) Observability
10 61 (18.32%) Test Automation
11 60 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (17.42%) Platform Engineering
13 56 (16.82%) Scrum
14 53 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 40 (12.01%) Clean Code
15 40 (12.01%) SDLC
16 39 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (10.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 104 (31.23%) Python
2 68 (20.42%) Java
3 67 (20.12%) SQL
4 56 (16.82%) C#
5 55 (16.52%) JavaScript
6 54 (16.22%) TypeScript
7 25 (7.51%) Bash
7 25 (7.51%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.00%) Bicep
8 10 (3.00%) Swift
9 8 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.10%) Go
11 5 (1.50%) PHP
12 4 (1.20%) Groovy
12 4 (1.20%) Scala
13 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.90%) SOQL
13 3 (0.90%) SOSL
14 2 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.50%) Degree
4 10 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.90%) GRC
1 13 (3.90%) QA
2 6 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) WCAG
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (24.62%) Docker
2 19 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (38.14%) Terraform
2 94 (28.23%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.81%) Ansible
4 11 (3.30%) Grafana
5 10 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.50%) Argo
6 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.90%) Istio
7 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.60%) linkerd
8 2 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.20%) Google
3 12 (3.60%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.60%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.60%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.60%) Tenable
4 10 (3.00%) Databricks
4 10 (3.00%) VMware
5 9 (2.70%) Splunk
6 8 (2.40%) Adobe
7 6 (1.80%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.20%) Oracle
10 3 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.90%) Pega
11 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.30%) F5
11 1 (0.30%) HP
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow