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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -24
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 392 213 245
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.05% 8.53% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 9.26% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 292 136 199
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £56,250 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £68,505 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% +5.39% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,514 £91,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £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 4,772 2,301 4,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.62% 92.19% 82.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,770 1,330 2,811
10th Percentile £33,450 £29,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £79,938 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,600 £87,808 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,500
% change year-on-year +9.88% -0.88% -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +16 13 £67,500 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 8 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 - 3
Bolton +14 2 £53,750 - 1
Oldham +7 1 £54,250 - 1
Salford -18 1 £74,301 +7.09% 2
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 15 (3.83%) Confluence
2 13 (3.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.51%) CICS
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (47.96%) AWS
2 183 (46.68%) Azure
3 74 (18.88%) GitHub
4 67 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (15.05%) Serverless
6 54 (13.78%) GCP
7 34 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (6.63%) SaaS
9 24 (6.12%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (4.59%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.06%) Power Automate
16 11 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.81%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (2.55%) npm
17 10 (2.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) Firewall
2 6 (1.53%) SAN
3 5 (1.28%) Network Security
4 4 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.51%) DNS
6 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.63%) NoSQL
2 25 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 24 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.04%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.04%) MySQL
7 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.53%) Power BI
9 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.28%) Redis
10 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.77%) GIS
10 3 (0.77%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.77%) QGIS
11 2 (0.51%) Db2
Development Applications
1 60 (15.31%) Git
2 37 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.42%) GitLab
4 26 (6.63%) JIRA
5 16 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.32%) Bitbucket
6 13 (3.32%) Maven
6 13 (3.32%) Postman
7 12 (3.06%) Snyk
8 9 (2.30%) JUnit
8 9 (2.30%) Spock
9 8 (2.04%) Storybook
10 7 (1.79%) fastlane
11 4 (1.02%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.02%) Selenium
11 4 (1.02%) Vite
12 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.58%) Finance
3 29 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.10%) Banking
5 18 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.55%) Marketing
7 9 (2.30%) Publishing
7 9 (2.30%) Retail
8 7 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.28%) Advertising
9 5 (1.28%) Games
10 3 (0.77%) Law
10 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 158 (40.31%) Senior
2 103 (26.28%) Developer
3 58 (14.80%) Senior Developer
4 52 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (11.73%) Lead
5 46 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 42 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.65%) Architect
8 29 (7.40%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (4.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 18 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (4.34%) Applications Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Automation Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.34%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.05%) .NET
1 59 (15.05%) React
2 52 (13.27%) Node.js
2 52 (13.27%) Spring
3 44 (11.22%) AngularJS
4 42 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 34 (8.67%) CSS
5 34 (8.67%) HTML
6 25 (6.38%) Vue
7 24 (6.12%) REST
8 23 (5.87%) RESTful
9 19 (4.85%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.57%) Kafka
11 10 (2.55%) GraphQL
12 9 (2.30%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.30%) Django
12 9 (2.30%) Entity Framework
12 9 (2.30%) Flask
12 9 (2.30%) JWT
12 9 (2.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.81%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.30%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.77%) Replication
11 2 (0.51%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.51%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.14%) Linux
2 13 (3.32%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.04%) Android
4 5 (1.28%) Windows
5 3 (0.77%) CentOS
5 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.77%) Unix
6 2 (0.51%) Debian
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (60.97%) DevOps
2 161 (41.07%) Agile
3 140 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (32.40%) AI
5 94 (23.98%) Microservices
6 90 (22.96%) Mentoring
7 89 (22.70%) Software Engineering
8 83 (21.17%) Containerisation
8 83 (21.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (20.66%) Test Automation
10 80 (20.41%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (18.88%) Observability
12 70 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (17.09%) TDD
14 65 (16.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 55 (14.03%) Scrum
15 55 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
16 49 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 49 (12.50%) SDLC
17 46 (11.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.91%) Python
2 90 (22.96%) Java
3 75 (19.13%) SQL
4 66 (16.84%) TypeScript
5 65 (16.58%) JavaScript
6 59 (15.05%) C#
7 34 (8.67%) Bash
8 29 (7.40%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.32%) Swift
10 12 (3.06%) Go
11 11 (2.81%) Bicep
11 11 (2.81%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.28%) Groovy
13 4 (1.02%) PHP
13 4 (1.02%) Scala
14 3 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.77%) SOQL
14 3 (0.77%) SOSL
15 2 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.89%) DV Cleared
4 17 (4.34%) Degree
5 9 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.36%) QA
2 13 (3.32%) GRC
3 12 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.04%) WCAG
5 6 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (27.04%) Docker
2 18 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.51%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 137 (34.95%) Terraform
2 113 (28.83%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.20%) Ansible
4 19 (4.85%) Grafana
5 18 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.04%) Argo
7 7 (1.79%) Istio
8 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.02%) linkerd
10 3 (0.77%) Puppet
11 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.51%) Packer
11 2 (0.51%) Podman
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 50 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.85%) Google
3 18 (4.59%) Splunk
4 14 (3.57%) Databricks
5 13 (3.32%) Adobe
6 12 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (3.06%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.06%) Tenable
7 10 (2.55%) VMware
8 9 (2.30%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.53%) Oracle
10 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.77%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.77%) Pega
11 2 (0.51%) Dell
11 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) Apple