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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -26
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 402 188 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.25% 7.93% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 8.89% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 277 119 133
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £56,250 £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 £77,500 £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 5,834 2,115 3,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.17% 84.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 1,185 1,624
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 6 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 6 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
Altrincham +14 9 £65,000 - 11
Stockport +4 9 £72,500 - 8
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 9 £51,000 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 4
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 -16.54% 1
Bolton +3 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 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.24%) CMS
4 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Kentico
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (50.00%) AWS
2 171 (42.54%) Azure
3 87 (21.64%) GitHub
4 59 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (13.68%) Serverless
6 52 (12.94%) GCP
7 38 (9.45%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.72%) Power Platform
9 23 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 21 (5.22%) SaaS
11 17 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (3.98%) Power Automate
13 15 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.99%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.74%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.74%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.98%) Firewall
2 10 (2.49%) DNS
2 10 (2.49%) Network Security
3 5 (1.24%) BIG-IP
3 5 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (1.24%) SAN
4 3 (0.75%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) CTI
5 2 (0.50%) DHCP
5 2 (0.50%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.47%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 18 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.48%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.24%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.74%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.49%) Power BI
7 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.24%) Chroma
8 5 (1.24%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.24%) Redis
9 4 (1.00%) MySQL
10 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 66 (16.42%) Git
2 47 (11.69%) GitLab
3 38 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.72%) JIRA
5 17 (4.23%) Maven
6 15 (3.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (3.48%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.23%) JUnit
8 13 (3.23%) Spock
9 11 (2.74%) Snyk
10 8 (1.99%) Storybook
11 7 (1.74%) Postman
12 6 (1.49%) Selenium
13 5 (1.24%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.00%) fastlane
14 4 (1.00%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.00%) Vagrant
14 4 (1.00%) Vite
15 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 95 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 48 (11.94%) Finance
3 26 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.47%) Publishing
6 19 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.74%) Marketing
7 11 (2.74%) Retail
8 7 (1.74%) Banking
8 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.24%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.24%) Games
9 5 (1.24%) Law
10 4 (1.00%) iGaming
11 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Back Office
13 1 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 159 (39.55%) Senior
2 91 (22.64%) Developer
3 71 (17.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (11.94%) Lead
4 48 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 44 (10.95%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (7.46%) Architect
7 30 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.47%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (6.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 23 (5.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.98%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.98%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (4.73%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
14 15 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (35.57%) Terraform
2 73 (18.16%) React
3 71 (17.66%) Spring
4 57 (14.18%) Spring Boot
5 56 (13.93%) Node.js
6 47 (11.69%) .NET
7 43 (10.70%) AngularJS
8 32 (7.96%) REST
9 30 (7.46%) CSS
10 29 (7.21%) HTML
11 27 (6.72%) Kafka
12 21 (5.22%) Vue
13 20 (4.98%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.23%) .NET Core
15 11 (2.74%) LangChain
15 11 (2.74%) PySpark
16 10 (2.49%) Flask
16 10 (2.49%) GraphQL
16 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (2.49%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.39%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.47%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.98%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.99%) Media Streaming
7 12 (2.99%) Podcast
8 10 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.49%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.00%) Replication
14 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.96%) Linux
2 8 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.49%) Unix
4 5 (1.24%) Android
4 5 (1.24%) CentOS
4 5 (1.24%) VMS
5 4 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (63.93%) DevOps
2 162 (40.30%) Agile
3 161 (40.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (35.82%) AI
5 102 (25.37%) Software Engineering
6 101 (25.12%) Microservices
7 99 (24.63%) Mentoring
8 97 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (24.13%) Observability
9 96 (23.88%) Containerisation
10 90 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (21.64%) Test Automation
12 81 (20.15%) Platform Engineering
13 61 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
14 53 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (12.69%) Code Quality
16 46 (11.44%) Event-Driven
17 45 (11.19%) TDD
18 44 (10.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 42 (10.45%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.81%) Python
2 108 (26.87%) Java
3 93 (23.13%) TypeScript
4 79 (19.65%) SQL
5 69 (17.16%) JavaScript
6 52 (12.94%) C#
7 45 (11.19%) Bash
8 32 (7.96%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.48%) Go
10 12 (2.99%) Bicep
11 9 (2.24%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.99%) Groovy
13 6 (1.49%) Swift
14 5 (1.24%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.24%) Rust
15 4 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.00%) Scala
16 3 (0.75%) SOQL
16 3 (0.75%) SOSL
17 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.19%) DV Cleared
3 42 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.73%) Degree
5 8 (1.99%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) CCNA
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) MCSE
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.97%) QA
2 17 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.99%) GRC
4 10 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.99%) WCAG
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) GDPR
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 133 (33.08%) Docker
2 19 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.49%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.75%) Ceph
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (33.08%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.94%) Ansible
3 20 (4.98%) Grafana
3 20 (4.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.74%) Argo
5 7 (1.74%) Istio
5 7 (1.74%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.49%) Podman
7 4 (1.00%) linkerd
7 4 (1.00%) Packer
8 3 (0.75%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.75%) Puppet
8 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.25%) Opsview
Vendors
1 57 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.47%) Splunk
3 19 (4.73%) Google
4 14 (3.48%) Databricks
5 13 (3.23%) Adobe
5 13 (3.23%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (2.74%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.74%) Tenable
7 10 (2.49%) VMware
8 8 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.49%) Mistral
9 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.24%) F5
11 4 (1.00%) Oracle
11 4 (1.00%) YouTube
12 3 (0.75%) Dell
12 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.75%) Thales