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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -25
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 358 203 274
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.76% 8.82% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 9.29% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 265 129 225
10th Percentile £49,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £87,500
North West median annual salary £69,305 £68,505 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.17% +9.61% -10.36%

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 4,513 2,185 4,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.65% 94.92% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,576 1,243 3,548
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,164 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,763 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +3.53% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +15 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +3 5 £51,000 -
Bolton +15 1 £35,000 - 1
Salford -19 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 13 (3.63%) Confluence
2 9 (2.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.56%) CICS
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (49.16%) AWS
2 170 (47.49%) Azure
3 70 (19.55%) GitHub
4 63 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (17.04%) Serverless
6 53 (14.80%) GCP
7 32 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (7.54%) SaaS
9 19 (5.31%) Power Platform
10 17 (4.75%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.91%) Azure AKS
13 13 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.79%) Pulumi
16 9 (2.51%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.35%) Firewall
2 6 (1.68%) Network Security
2 6 (1.68%) VPN
3 5 (1.40%) SAN
4 2 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.82%) NoSQL
2 24 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.51%) MySQL
5 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.96%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.68%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.68%) Power BI
8 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.84%) GIS
9 3 (0.84%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.84%) QGIS
9 3 (0.84%) Redis
10 2 (0.56%) Db2
10 2 (0.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (14.25%) Git
2 35 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.54%) GitLab
4 23 (6.42%) JIRA
5 12 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (3.35%) Postman
5 12 (3.35%) Snyk
6 10 (2.79%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.23%) Maven
8 7 (1.96%) fastlane
9 6 (1.68%) JUnit
9 6 (1.68%) Spock
10 4 (1.12%) Selenium
10 4 (1.12%) Storybook
10 4 (1.12%) Vite
11 3 (0.84%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.84%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.56%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.56%) XCUITest
General
1 67 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.80%) Finance
3 24 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.59%) Banking
5 18 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.79%) Marketing
8 8 (2.23%) Retail
9 7 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.96%) Games
9 7 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.96%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.40%) Advertising
11 4 (1.12%) Publishing
12 3 (0.84%) French Language
12 3 (0.84%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.84%) Law
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.84%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 148 (41.34%) Senior
2 97 (27.09%) Developer
3 53 (14.80%) Senior Developer
4 49 (13.69%) Software Engineer
5 43 (12.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (11.17%) Lead
7 32 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 31 (8.66%) Java Developer
9 27 (7.54%) Architect
10 19 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (4.75%) GCP Engineer
13 16 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.19%) .NET Developer
14 15 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
15 14 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.44%) .NET
2 60 (16.76%) React
3 45 (12.57%) Node.js
4 41 (11.45%) Spring
5 34 (9.50%) Spring Boot
6 32 (8.94%) AngularJS
7 29 (8.10%) CSS
7 29 (8.10%) HTML
8 28 (7.82%) REST
9 26 (7.26%) RESTful
10 25 (6.98%) Vue
11 20 (5.59%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.91%) Kafka
13 10 (2.79%) Django
13 10 (2.79%) JWT
13 10 (2.79%) OAuth
14 9 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 9 (2.51%) .NET Framework
14 9 (2.51%) LangChain
14 9 (2.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 80 (22.35%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.59%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.47%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.91%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.56%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.59%) Linux
2 15 (4.19%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.79%) Android
4 6 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (0.56%) Debian
5 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (58.10%) DevOps
2 153 (42.74%) Agile
3 123 (34.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 108 (30.17%) AI
5 86 (24.02%) Microservices
5 86 (24.02%) Software Engineering
6 83 (23.18%) Mentoring
7 75 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (20.39%) Containerisation
9 70 (19.55%) Test Automation
10 69 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (18.44%) TDD
12 65 (18.16%) Observability
13 64 (17.88%) Platform Engineering
14 55 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (14.80%) Scrum
16 45 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
17 44 (12.29%) SDLC
18 43 (12.01%) Clean Code
19 42 (11.73%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 113 (31.56%) Python
2 73 (20.39%) SQL
3 72 (20.11%) Java
4 60 (16.76%) C#
5 59 (16.48%) JavaScript
6 57 (15.92%) TypeScript
7 29 (8.10%) Bash
8 27 (7.54%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.35%) Swift
10 10 (2.79%) Bicep
10 10 (2.79%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.23%) Go
12 5 (1.40%) PHP
13 4 (1.12%) Groovy
13 4 (1.12%) Scala
14 3 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.84%) SOQL
14 3 (0.84%) SOSL
15 2 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 39 (10.89%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.19%) Degree
4 13 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.31%) QA
2 13 (3.63%) GRC
3 6 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.12%) WCAG
5 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (25.14%) Docker
2 19 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 132 (36.87%) Terraform
2 104 (29.05%) Kubernetes
3 29 (8.10%) Ansible
4 14 (3.91%) Grafana
5 12 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.68%) Argo
7 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.12%) Istio
8 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.84%) linkerd
10 2 (0.56%) Packer
10 2 (0.56%) Puppet
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.19%) Google
3 13 (3.63%) Databricks
4 12 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (3.35%) Palo Alto
4 12 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.35%) Splunk
4 12 (3.35%) Tenable
5 10 (2.79%) VMware
6 9 (2.51%) Adobe
7 6 (1.68%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.68%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.40%) Oracle
9 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.84%) Pega
10 1 (0.28%) F5
10 1 (0.28%) HP
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow