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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 258 197 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.78% 8.80% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.65% 9.21% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 185 136 225
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,500 £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 £97,528 £87,500
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 3,879 2,140 4,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.82% 95.58% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 1,299 3,427
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,707
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £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 12 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 12 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 -14 1 £74,301 +7.09% 8
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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.16%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) CICS
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (50.78%) Azure
2 118 (45.74%) AWS
3 49 (18.99%) Serverless
4 43 (16.67%) GitHub
5 42 (16.28%) GCP
6 39 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.36%) SaaS
8 18 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.59%) Azure AKS
10 11 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (4.26%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.10%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.49%) Firewall
2 5 (1.94%) VPN
3 4 (1.55%) Network Security
4 3 (1.16%) HTTP
4 3 (1.16%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.39%) LTE
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.02%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.26%) MySQL
5 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.94%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.94%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.16%) GIS
8 3 (1.16%) QGIS
9 2 (0.78%) Big Data
9 2 (0.78%) DB2
9 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.78%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (16.28%) Git
2 22 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.36%) JIRA
4 18 (6.98%) GitLab
5 12 (4.65%) Snyk
6 8 (3.10%) Postman
7 7 (2.71%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.33%) JUnit
9 3 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.16%) fastlane
9 3 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.16%) Maven
9 3 (1.16%) Spock
10 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.78%) Vite
10 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.39%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.34%) Finance
3 22 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.59%) Banking
5 11 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.71%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.94%) Advertising
10 3 (1.16%) French Language
10 3 (1.16%) Games
10 3 (1.16%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.16%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.16%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 113 (43.80%) Senior
2 77 (29.84%) Developer
3 47 (18.22%) Software Engineer
4 44 (17.05%) Senior Developer
5 30 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (11.24%) Java Developer
7 23 (8.91%) Lead
8 22 (8.53%) Architect
9 19 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (6.20%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (5.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (4.65%) Cloud Security Architect
14 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (4.65%) Security Architect
14 12 (4.65%) Senior Architect
14 12 (4.65%) Senior Security Architect
14 12 (4.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (23.26%) .NET
2 46 (17.83%) React
3 31 (12.02%) Spring
4 30 (11.63%) Node.js
4 30 (11.63%) RESTful
5 27 (10.47%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.08%) REST
7 24 (9.30%) CSS
7 24 (9.30%) HTML
8 21 (8.14%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.26%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.88%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.88%) Django
10 10 (3.88%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.88%) Kafka
11 9 (3.49%) Vue
12 6 (2.33%) JWT
12 6 (2.33%) OAuth
13 5 (1.94%) SOAP
13 5 (1.94%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.36%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.65%) Mobile App
6 11 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.71%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.04%) Linux
2 11 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.71%) Android
4 5 (1.94%) Windows
5 2 (0.78%) Debian
5 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (55.81%) DevOps
2 125 (48.45%) Agile
3 85 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (26.36%) Software Engineering
5 67 (25.97%) Microservices
6 66 (25.58%) AI
7 63 (24.42%) TDD
8 56 (21.71%) Containerisation
8 56 (21.71%) Mentoring
9 52 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (18.99%) Scrum
11 43 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 42 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.57%) Clean Code
14 35 (13.57%) Observability
15 34 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (13.18%) SDLC
16 28 (10.85%) Roadmaps
17 27 (10.47%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.97%) Python
2 55 (21.32%) Java
3 52 (20.16%) SQL
4 49 (18.99%) C#
5 41 (15.89%) JavaScript
6 40 (15.50%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.20%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.43%) Bash
9 8 (3.10%) Swift
10 7 (2.71%) Bicep
10 7 (2.71%) Go
11 4 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.55%) PHP
12 3 (1.16%) Groovy
12 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.78%) C
13 2 (0.78%) Scala
13 2 (0.78%) SOQL
13 2 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 19 (7.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.88%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.04%) GRC
2 6 (2.33%) QA
3 4 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (24.81%) Docker
2 15 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.16%) vSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 94 (36.43%) Terraform
2 73 (28.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.53%) Ansible
4 5 (1.94%) Grafana
5 4 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.16%) Rancher
7 2 (0.78%) Packer
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.39%) Istio
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
2 12 (4.65%) Palo Alto
2 12 (4.65%) Tenable
3 11 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.88%) Google
5 7 (2.71%) VMware
6 6 (2.33%) Databricks
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle
8 3 (1.16%) Adobe
8 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.16%) Pega
8 3 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.39%) F5
10 1 (0.39%) HP