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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -11
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 260 191 258
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.82% 8.60% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 9.00% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 188 138 222
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,811 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,897 2,123 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.27% 95.54% 85.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 1,298 3,417
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,813 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,857
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,150 £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 10 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 10 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 +7 12 £67,500 +28.57% 4
Salford -13 1 £74,301 +7.09% 7
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 9 (3.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.15%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.77%) CICS
4 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (50.38%) Azure
2 120 (46.15%) AWS
3 48 (18.46%) Serverless
4 43 (16.54%) GitHub
5 41 (15.77%) GCP
6 39 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.31%) SaaS
8 18 (6.92%) Azure AKS
8 18 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (4.23%) Azure Functions
9 11 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.08%) Firewall
2 5 (1.92%) VPN
3 4 (1.54%) Network Security
4 3 (1.15%) HTTP
5 2 (0.77%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.38%) LTE
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 21 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.62%) MySQL
5 6 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.15%) GIS
8 3 (1.15%) QGIS
9 2 (0.77%) Big Data
9 2 (0.77%) DB2
9 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.77%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (16.15%) Git
2 22 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.69%) JIRA
4 17 (6.54%) GitLab
5 11 (4.23%) Snyk
6 8 (3.08%) Postman
7 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.92%) JUnit
9 3 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.15%) fastlane
9 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.15%) Maven
10 2 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.77%) Spock
10 2 (0.77%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.77%) Vite
10 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.38%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 45 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.85%) Finance
3 21 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.54%) Banking
5 11 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.46%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.69%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Advertising
10 3 (1.15%) French Language
10 3 (1.15%) Games
10 3 (1.15%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.15%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.15%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (43.08%) Senior
2 77 (29.62%) Developer
3 49 (18.85%) Software Engineer
4 44 (16.92%) Senior Developer
5 29 (11.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (10.77%) Java Developer
7 26 (10.00%) Lead
8 21 (8.08%) Architect
9 20 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) .NET Developer
11 14 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.62%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (4.23%) Security Architect
13 11 (4.23%) Senior Architect
13 11 (4.23%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (24.23%) .NET
2 46 (17.69%) React
3 31 (11.92%) RESTful
4 30 (11.54%) Node.js
4 30 (11.54%) Spring
5 27 (10.38%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.00%) REST
7 25 (9.62%) CSS
7 25 (9.62%) HTML
8 21 (8.08%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.00%) .NET Framework
10 11 (4.23%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.85%) Django
11 10 (3.85%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.85%) Kafka
12 9 (3.46%) Vue
13 6 (2.31%) JWT
13 6 (2.31%) OAuth
14 5 (1.92%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.92%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.92%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.62%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.00%) Linux
2 11 (4.23%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.69%) Android
4 5 (1.92%) Windows
5 2 (0.77%) Debian
5 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (55.38%) DevOps
2 126 (48.46%) Agile
3 85 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (27.31%) Software Engineering
5 69 (26.54%) Microservices
6 65 (25.00%) TDD
7 63 (24.23%) AI
8 59 (22.69%) Containerisation
9 56 (21.54%) Mentoring
10 52 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (18.85%) Scrum
12 42 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (16.15%) Test Automation
13 40 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (14.62%) Clean Code
15 35 (13.46%) Observability
16 33 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
16 33 (12.69%) SDLC
17 28 (10.77%) Roadmaps
18 27 (10.38%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 66 (25.38%) Python
2 55 (21.15%) SQL
3 54 (20.77%) Java
4 52 (20.00%) C#
5 41 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 41 (15.77%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.38%) Bash
8 8 (3.08%) Go
8 8 (3.08%) Swift
9 6 (2.31%) Bicep
10 4 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.54%) PHP
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.77%) C
12 2 (0.77%) Groovy
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) SOQL
12 2 (0.77%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 20 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.85%) Degree
4 6 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.62%) GRC
2 5 (1.92%) QA
3 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (25.00%) Docker
2 14 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.15%) vSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (35.77%) Terraform
2 77 (29.62%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.85%) Ansible
4 5 (1.92%) Grafana
5 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.15%) Rancher
7 2 (0.77%) Packer
7 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.38%) Istio
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.23%) CrowdStrike
2 11 (4.23%) Palo Alto
2 11 (4.23%) Salesforce
2 11 (4.23%) Tenable
3 10 (3.85%) Google
4 6 (2.31%) Databricks
4 6 (2.31%) VMware
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle
6 3 (1.15%) Adobe
6 3 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.15%) Pega
7 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.77%) Splunk
8 1 (0.38%) F5
8 1 (0.38%) HP