Continuous Delivery Contracts in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery 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 54 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% 0.20% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.24% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £361 - £476
25th Percentile £365 £511 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £523 £680
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -23.16% +66.67%
75th Percentile £715 £534 -
90th Percentile - - £682
North West median daily rate £539 £524 £563
% change year-on-year +2.82% -6.89% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Continuous Delivery 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%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery 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 - 2 £363 -
Continuous Delivery
North West

Continuous Delivery
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Banking Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Payments Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow