Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 9 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.31% 1.03% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.17% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £373 £375 -
25th Percentile £417 £405 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -13.71% -
75th Percentile £695 £502 £538
90th Percentile £743 £531 -
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £608
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.93% +10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £61.00 -

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 607 429 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.36% 88.45% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 252 219
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £571 £558
90th Percentile £688 £649 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 21
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.10 £17.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.85 £27.39 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +5.33% +66.03%
75th Percentile £40.75 £35.00 £35.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £64.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -7.04% +47.92%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 November 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 29 November 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 5 £429 -5.30%
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Warrington - 1 £475 -
Continuous Delivery
North West

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Datadog
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) X.509
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
2 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) ESLint
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) Flutter
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Blog
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Application Security
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Contract Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Informatics
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) OWASP
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Xamarin