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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -22
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 320 203 275
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.34% 8.95% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 9.38% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 238 129 226
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £60,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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% -10.00%

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 4,265 2,164 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.13% 95.41% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,366 1,224 3,594
10th Percentile £32,875 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,502 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +7.62% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,184 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £81,250
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 11 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 11 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 +14 13 £67,500 - 1
Cheadle - 4 £63,750 -
Ashton-under-Lyne +4 3 £51,000 - 2
Salford -15 1 £74,301 +7.09% 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 10 (3.13%) Confluence
2 8 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.94%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 160 (50.00%) AWS
2 156 (48.75%) Azure
3 62 (19.38%) GitHub
4 55 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (17.19%) Serverless
5 51 (15.94%) GCP
6 26 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.19%) SaaS
8 15 (4.69%) Azure AKS
9 13 (4.06%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (3.75%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.81%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.81%) Pulumi
13 8 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.44%) Firewall
2 6 (1.88%) Network Security
2 6 (1.88%) VPN
3 4 (1.25%) SAN
4 2 (0.63%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) LTE
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.75%) NoSQL
2 23 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.81%) MySQL
6 6 (1.88%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.88%) Power BI
7 5 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.56%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.94%) GIS
9 3 (0.94%) QGIS
10 2 (0.63%) Big Data
10 2 (0.63%) Db2
10 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (14.06%) Git
2 31 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.50%) GitLab
4 21 (6.56%) JIRA
5 12 (3.75%) Snyk
6 9 (2.81%) Postman
7 8 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.19%) Maven
9 5 (1.56%) fastlane
9 5 (1.56%) JUnit
10 4 (1.25%) Spock
10 4 (1.25%) Vite
11 3 (0.94%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.94%) Storybook
12 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.63%) Selenium
12 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.63%) XCUITest
General
1 63 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.44%) Finance
3 24 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.63%) Banking
5 14 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.50%) Marketing
7 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.19%) Retail Banking
8 6 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.56%) Advertising
10 3 (0.94%) French Language
10 3 (0.94%) Games
10 3 (0.94%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.94%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.94%) Publishing
10 3 (0.94%) Retail
10 3 (0.94%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (41.56%) Senior
2 88 (27.50%) Developer
3 50 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 47 (14.69%) Senior Developer
5 43 (13.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (10.94%) Lead
7 30 (9.38%) Java Developer
8 25 (7.81%) Architect
8 25 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) .NET Developer
13 14 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.75%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (19.69%) .NET
2 55 (17.19%) React
3 40 (12.50%) Node.js
4 34 (10.63%) Spring
5 29 (9.06%) Spring Boot
6 27 (8.44%) CSS
6 27 (8.44%) HTML
6 27 (8.44%) REST
7 26 (8.13%) AngularJS
7 26 (8.13%) RESTful
8 21 (6.56%) Vue
9 18 (5.63%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.13%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.13%) Django
10 10 (3.13%) JWT
10 10 (3.13%) Kafka
10 10 (3.13%) OAuth
11 9 (2.81%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.50%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.38%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.19%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.63%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.00%) Linux
2 13 (4.06%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.13%) Android
4 5 (1.56%) Windows
5 2 (0.63%) Debian
5 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (57.81%) DevOps
2 138 (43.13%) Agile
3 117 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (29.69%) AI
5 81 (25.31%) Microservices
6 78 (24.38%) Software Engineering
7 74 (23.13%) Mentoring
8 64 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 63 (19.69%) TDD
10 62 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (18.13%) Test Automation
12 55 (17.19%) Platform Engineering
13 53 (16.56%) Observability
14 52 (16.25%) Scrum
15 49 (15.31%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (12.50%) SDLC
17 39 (12.19%) Clean Code
18 38 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
19 34 (10.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 98 (30.63%) Python
2 65 (20.31%) Java
2 65 (20.31%) SQL
3 55 (17.19%) C#
4 52 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 48 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.88%) Bash
8 10 (3.13%) Swift
9 9 (2.81%) Bicep
10 8 (2.50%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.19%) Go
12 5 (1.56%) PHP
13 4 (1.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.25%) Scala
14 3 (0.94%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.94%) SOQL
14 3 (0.94%) SOSL
15 2 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.06%) Degree
4 9 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.06%) GRC
2 11 (3.44%) QA
3 6 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) WCAG
6 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (23.75%) Docker
2 19 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (38.75%) Terraform
2 91 (28.44%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.13%) Ansible
4 9 (2.81%) Grafana
5 8 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.94%) Argo
7 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) Istio
8 2 (0.63%) Packer
8 2 (0.63%) Rancher
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.31%) linkerd
9 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.38%) Google
3 12 (3.75%) CrowdStrike
3 12 (3.75%) Palo Alto
3 12 (3.75%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.75%) Tenable
4 10 (3.13%) Databricks
4 10 (3.13%) VMware
5 8 (2.50%) Adobe
6 6 (1.88%) Splunk
7 5 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.25%) Oracle
9 3 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.94%) Pega
10 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.31%) F5
10 1 (0.31%) HP
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow