CI/CD Contracts in Cheshire

CI/CD
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 37 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +25
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 45 21 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.02% 4.17% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.32% 4.94% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 16 36
10th Percentile £358 £392 £325
25th Percentile £391 £494 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £499
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +2.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £568 £582 £586
90th Percentile £655 - £638
North West median daily rate £500 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Cheshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Cheshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Cheshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +8 29 £393 -32.47% 6
Macclesfield +15 5 £600 +17.65% 1
Alderley Edge - 2 - - 1
Warrington -7 1 £525 +10.53% 10
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) JBoss
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) nginx
2 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.22%) Camunda
3 1 (2.22%) CICS
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
3 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) Serverless
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (8.89%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.89%) Azure AI
5 4 (8.89%) GCP
5 4 (8.89%) Google Gemini
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (4.44%) DMZ
3 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) Neo4j
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Power BI
6 1 (2.22%) DB2
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 17 (37.78%) Git
3 11 (24.44%) JIRA
4 10 (22.22%) GitLab
5 6 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 6 (13.33%) TeamCity
6 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (6.67%) JUnit
8 2 (4.44%) Selenium
9 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.22%) Gradle
9 1 (2.22%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
9 1 (2.22%) Maven
9 1 (2.22%) NetBeans
9 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Finance
4 6 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Senior
2 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Build Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Build Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) Kafka
2 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 5 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (8.89%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (8.89%) PyTorch
5 4 (8.89%) React
5 4 (8.89%) TensorFlow
6 3 (6.67%) .NET
6 3 (6.67%) CSS
6 3 (6.67%) HTML
6 3 (6.67%) HTML5
6 3 (6.67%) Node.js
6 3 (6.67%) OAuth
7 2 (4.44%) ADO
7 2 (4.44%) CSS3
7 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.44%) Spring
7 2 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.44%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) DevOps
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Microservices
3 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
4 13 (28.89%) SDLC
5 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 9 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (20.00%) Migration
6 8 (17.78%) Code Quality
6 8 (17.78%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (17.78%) Scrum
7 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
7 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (13.33%) Generative AI
8 6 (13.33%) LLM
8 6 (13.33%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) Java
3 10 (22.22%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (4.44%) R
8 1 (2.22%) COBOL
8 1 (2.22%) JCL
8 1 (2.22%) REXX
8 1 (2.22%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) CCNA
2 2 (4.44%) CCNP
2 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (44.44%) Docker
2 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (35.56%) Progress Chef
3 11 (24.44%) Ansible
4 8 (17.78%) Kibana
5 6 (13.33%) Terraform
6 3 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) AppDynamics
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 5 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) Splunk
4 3 (6.67%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.67%) Dell
5 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) TIBCO