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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -16
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 182 166 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.90% 7.23% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 7.56% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 154 124 189
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,813 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,250 £97,528 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -

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 2,788 2,196 3,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.03% 95.60% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 1,143 2,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -4 5 £67,500 +28.57% 6
Salford -1 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (50.00%) Azure
2 82 (45.05%) AWS
3 36 (19.78%) GCP
4 27 (14.84%) Serverless
5 20 (10.99%) GitHub
6 17 (9.34%) Azure AKS
6 17 (9.34%) SaaS
7 16 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.59%) Azure Functions
8 12 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) HTTP
2 5 (2.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.10%) SAN
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.55%) DNS
5 1 (0.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) SSH
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.33%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.09%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.59%) MySQL
5 8 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.65%) Power BI
8 3 (1.65%) Redis
8 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.10%) Big Data
9 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.38%) Git
2 11 (6.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.04%) JIRA
3 9 (4.95%) GitLab
4 4 (2.20%) JUnit
5 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.10%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.55%) Ant
7 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) fastlane
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) Locust
7 1 (0.55%) Maven
7 1 (0.55%) NUnit
7 1 (0.55%) Protractor
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.89%) Finance
3 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.75%) Banking
3 5 (2.75%) Games
3 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (2.75%) Retail
4 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.65%) French Language
5 3 (1.65%) Italian Language
5 3 (1.65%) Marketing
5 3 (1.65%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (1.65%) Spanish Language
6 2 (1.10%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.10%) Legal
6 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.10%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Automotive
7 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 70 (38.46%) Senior
2 51 (28.02%) Developer
3 40 (21.98%) Software Engineer
4 24 (13.19%) Lead
5 23 (12.64%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (9.34%) .NET Developer
8 16 (8.79%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.04%) Python Engineer
9 11 (6.04%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (4.95%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Architect
10 9 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Software Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.07%) .NET
2 36 (19.78%) RESTful
3 32 (17.58%) React
4 25 (13.74%) CSS
4 25 (13.74%) HTML
5 24 (13.19%) REST
6 19 (10.44%) AngularJS
6 19 (10.44%) Spring
6 19 (10.44%) Spring Boot
7 17 (9.34%) .NET Core
8 16 (8.79%) .NET Framework
9 13 (7.14%) Node.js
10 12 (6.59%) Django
11 9 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.40%) FastAPI
12 8 (4.40%) Kafka
12 8 (4.40%) Vue
13 6 (3.30%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (3.30%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 46 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) IoT
9 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.34%) Linux
2 7 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.85%) Windows
3 6 (3.30%) Android
4 3 (1.65%) Debian
4 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (52.20%) Agile
2 94 (51.65%) DevOps
3 67 (36.81%) Software Engineering
4 64 (35.16%) Microservices
5 62 (34.07%) Containerisation
6 54 (29.67%) TDD
7 46 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (20.88%) Clean Code
9 33 (18.13%) AI
9 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (17.58%) Scrum
11 31 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (17.03%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.19%) Test Automation
13 23 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (12.09%) SOLID
15 21 (11.54%) User Experience
16 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
17 18 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
18 16 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 56 (30.77%) C#
2 41 (22.53%) Java
3 40 (21.98%) SQL
4 38 (20.88%) Python
5 35 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 32 (17.58%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.40%) Go
8 6 (3.30%) Bicep
8 6 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.20%) PHP
9 4 (2.20%) Swift
10 3 (1.65%) Erlang
10 3 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.10%) Rust
11 2 (1.10%) Scala
12 1 (0.55%) Groovy
12 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (6.04%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.49%) Degree
3 9 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (29.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.20%) vSphere
4 3 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 44 (24.18%) Terraform
3 18 (9.89%) Ansible
4 3 (1.65%) Rancher
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.10%) Grafana
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.10%) Packer
5 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Podman
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.85%) Google
2 7 (3.85%) VMware
3 5 (2.75%) Oracle
4 3 (1.65%) Software AG
4 3 (1.65%) webMethods
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) F5
5 1 (0.55%) Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) HP
5 1 (0.55%) Pega
5 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) WSO2