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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 42 25
Rank change year-on-year +30 -17 +28
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 76 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.36% 2.24% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.43% 2.61% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 9 16
10th Percentile £313 £321 £463
25th Percentile £358 £350 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -20.00% +28.57%
75th Percentile £514 £488 £586
90th Percentile £699 £497 £607
North West median daily rate £496 £634 £550
% change year-on-year -21.77% +15.27% -5.05%

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 566 421 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.03% 85.57% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 283 226
10th Percentile £307 £311 £294
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £646 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 33
10th Percentile - £11.15 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.25 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +2.94% +56.11%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +24 55 £393 +22.43% 7
Macclesfield +6 5 £600 +41.18% 1
Chester - 4 £675 - 12
Wilmslow - 2 £663 - 2
Warrington -5 1 £410 -13.68% 5
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 10 (13.16%) JBoss
2 9 (11.84%) Confluence
3 5 (6.58%) Apache
3 5 (6.58%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.95%) CICS
4 3 (3.95%) nginx
4 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.63%) IIS
5 2 (2.63%) iPlanet
5 2 (2.63%) Mule
5 2 (2.63%) Mule ESB
5 2 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.32%) Camunda
6 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Finacle
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) OpenShift
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.53%) Azure
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.89%) Serverless
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub
6 4 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 4 (5.26%) GCP
6 4 (5.26%) Google Gemini
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) DHCP
2 2 (2.63%) HTTP
2 2 (2.63%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.63%) X.509
3 1 (1.32%) DMZ
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.26%) Neo4j
5 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.95%) DB2
6 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
8 1 (1.32%) Power BI
8 1 (1.32%) Redis
8 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Jenkins
2 27 (35.53%) Git
3 21 (27.63%) JIRA
4 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 12 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 12 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (13.16%) Selenium
6 9 (11.84%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (11.84%) Cucumber
7 8 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (10.53%) TeamCity
8 7 (9.21%) JUnit
9 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
9 6 (7.89%) Maven
10 3 (3.95%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.95%) IntelliJ
10 3 (3.95%) Mockito
11 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
11 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.05%) Finance
4 10 (13.16%) Banking
5 6 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.26%) Legal
6 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Architect
2 11 (14.47%) Senior
3 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 7 (9.21%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Test Architect
8 3 (3.95%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Tester
9 2 (2.63%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (13.16%) Kafka
2 10 (13.16%) RESTful
3 9 (11.84%) React
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
4 8 (10.53%) JSON
4 8 (10.53%) Node.js
4 8 (10.53%) REST
5 7 (9.21%) .NET
5 7 (9.21%) CSS
5 7 (9.21%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (9.21%) HTML
6 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.58%) OAuth
6 5 (6.58%) Web Services
7 4 (5.26%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.26%) HTML5
7 4 (5.26%) Jest
7 4 (5.26%) Redux
7 4 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.26%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) VSAM
4 2 (2.63%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.74%) Linux
2 12 (15.79%) Windows
3 10 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (6.58%) Unix
4 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.26%) Android
5 4 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) DevOps
2 34 (44.74%) Agile
3 27 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (34.21%) Microservices
4 26 (34.21%) Test Automation
5 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (18.42%) SDLC
7 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
7 13 (17.11%) TDD
8 12 (15.79%) Migration
9 9 (11.84%) Configuration Management
9 9 (11.84%) Scrum
10 8 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (10.53%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.21%) API Development
11 7 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.21%) Observability
11 7 (9.21%) Runbook
11 7 (9.21%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.68%) Java
2 28 (36.84%) Python
3 23 (30.26%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.16%) Bash
6 7 (9.21%) Perl
7 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.95%) C#
8 3 (3.95%) COBOL
8 3 (3.95%) JCL
8 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.95%) Scala
9 2 (2.63%) Groovy
9 2 (2.63%) R
9 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.32%) Korn
10 1 (1.32%) REXX
10 1 (1.32%) Ruby
10 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.58%) Degree
2 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.63%) CCNA
3 2 (2.63%) CCNP
3 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) SEPA
2 6 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.63%) PSD2
4 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (32.89%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 31 (40.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 10 (13.16%) Ansible
3 10 (13.16%) Kibana
4 5 (6.58%) Terraform
5 2 (2.63%) CA Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.63%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.63%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.63%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) AppDynamics
1 15 (19.74%) Oracle
2 13 (17.11%) Splunk
3 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.21%) Cloudera
4 7 (9.21%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.58%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
5 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.95%) Veracode
8 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.63%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.63%) Dell
8 2 (2.63%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.63%) IBM
9 1 (1.32%) Ariba
9 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.32%) SAP
9 1 (1.32%) TIBCO