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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 396 189 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.18% 8.00% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 8.99% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 271 120 134
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,760 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £66,750 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 5,831 2,103 3,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.24% 89.03% 84.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,359 1,191 1,595
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,343 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.04% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,803
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.58% -7.63%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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
Stockport +7 10 £72,500 - 5
Altrincham +14 9 £65,000 - 9
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 9 £51,000 -
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 4
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 -16.54%
Bolton -2 2 £53,750 - 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 13 (3.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.27%) Confluence
4 5 (1.26%) CMS
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.01%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.76%) nginx
6 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Kentico
7 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (49.24%) AWS
2 163 (41.16%) Azure
3 86 (21.72%) GitHub
4 56 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (12.63%) GCP
6 48 (12.12%) Serverless
7 37 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 22 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.30%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.80%) SaaS
12 17 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (4.29%) Power Automate
13 15 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.03%) PowerApps
15 12 (3.03%) Snowflake
16 11 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.78%) Entra ID
17 10 (2.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.04%) Firewall
2 11 (2.78%) DNS
2 11 (2.78%) Network Security
3 6 (1.52%) BIG-IP
3 6 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (1.26%) SAN
5 3 (0.76%) VPN
6 2 (0.51%) CTI
6 2 (0.51%) DHCP
6 2 (0.51%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.77%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.52%) Power BI
7 6 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.26%) Chroma
8 5 (1.26%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.26%) Redis
9 4 (1.01%) MySQL
10 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.51%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 66 (16.67%) Git
2 48 (12.12%) GitLab
3 38 (9.60%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.56%) JIRA
5 17 (4.29%) Maven
6 15 (3.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (3.28%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.28%) JUnit
7 13 (3.28%) Spock
8 9 (2.27%) Snyk
9 8 (2.02%) Storybook
10 7 (1.77%) Selenium
11 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.52%) Postman
12 4 (1.01%) fastlane
12 4 (1.01%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.01%) Vagrant
12 4 (1.01%) Vite
13 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.37%) Finance
3 26 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (5.56%) Publishing
5 19 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.03%) Marketing
7 10 (2.53%) Retail
8 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.52%) Banking
10 5 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.26%) iGaming
10 5 (1.26%) Law
11 4 (1.01%) Games
12 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Local Government
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 156 (39.39%) Senior
2 89 (22.47%) Developer
3 74 (18.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.87%) Lead
5 46 (11.62%) Senior Developer
6 42 (10.61%) Software Engineer
7 34 (8.59%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (7.07%) Senior DevOps
10 27 (6.82%) Architect
10 27 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.80%) Senior Automation Engineer
15 18 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (3.79%) Applications Engineer
17 15 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (35.35%) Terraform
2 72 (18.18%) Spring
3 70 (17.68%) React
4 58 (14.65%) Spring Boot
5 55 (13.89%) Node.js
6 45 (11.36%) .NET
7 43 (10.86%) AngularJS
8 32 (8.08%) REST
9 30 (7.58%) CSS
10 29 (7.32%) HTML
11 27 (6.82%) Kafka
12 20 (5.05%) Vue
13 19 (4.80%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.28%) .NET Core
15 11 (2.78%) LangChain
15 11 (2.78%) PySpark
16 10 (2.53%) Flask
16 10 (2.53%) GraphQL
16 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (2.53%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.30%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.04%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.03%) Media Streaming
6 12 (3.03%) Podcast
7 11 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.34%) Linux
2 8 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.52%) Unix
4 5 (1.26%) Android
4 5 (1.26%) CentOS
4 5 (1.26%) VMS
5 4 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (63.64%) DevOps
2 161 (40.66%) Agile
3 159 (40.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (35.35%) AI
5 100 (25.25%) Microservices
5 100 (25.25%) Software Engineering
6 98 (24.75%) Mentoring
7 95 (23.99%) Containerisation
7 95 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (23.48%) Observability
9 91 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (22.47%) Test Automation
11 81 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
12 61 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 54 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (12.63%) Code Quality
15 43 (10.86%) Event-Driven
15 43 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (10.35%) Collaborative Culture
16 41 (10.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 155 (39.14%) Python
2 110 (27.78%) Java
3 92 (23.23%) TypeScript
4 79 (19.95%) SQL
5 69 (17.42%) JavaScript
6 50 (12.63%) C#
7 45 (11.36%) Bash
8 30 (7.58%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.79%) Go
10 11 (2.78%) Bicep
11 9 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.02%) Groovy
13 6 (1.52%) Swift
14 5 (1.26%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.26%) Rust
15 4 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.01%) Scala
16 3 (0.76%) SOQL
16 3 (0.76%) SOSL
17 2 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 87 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.13%) DV Cleared
3 42 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.55%) Degree
5 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.51%) CCNA
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) MCSE
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.08%) QA
2 18 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.27%) GRC
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
1 130 (32.83%) Docker
2 16 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.76%) Ceph
6 2 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (32.83%) Kubernetes
2 50 (12.63%) Ansible
3 19 (4.80%) Grafana
3 19 (4.80%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.78%) Argo
5 7 (1.77%) Istio
5 7 (1.77%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.52%) Podman
7 4 (1.01%) linkerd
7 4 (1.01%) Packer
8 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.76%) Puppet
8 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.25%) Opsview
Vendors
1 55 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.56%) Splunk
3 19 (4.80%) Google
4 14 (3.54%) Databricks
5 13 (3.28%) Adobe
5 13 (3.28%) AppDynamics
6 10 (2.53%) VMware
7 9 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.27%) Tenable
8 8 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.52%) F5
9 6 (1.52%) Mistral
9 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.01%) Oracle
11 4 (1.01%) YouTube
12 3 (0.76%) Dell
12 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.76%) Thales