Continuous Integration Contracts in Cheshire

Continuous Integration
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration 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 47 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 11 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 0.60% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 0.71% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £386 - £473
25th Percentile - £511 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £523 £536
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% -2.56% +7.79%
75th Percentile £402 £534 £595
90th Percentile £715 - £609
North West median daily rate £475 £511 £600
% change year-on-year -7.09% -14.79% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Continuous Integration 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 Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in Cheshire

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in Cheshire

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in Cheshire

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in Cheshire

Continuous Integration
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 Integration 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 - 7 £393 - 1
Alderley Edge - 2 - -
Continuous Integration
North West

Continuous Integration
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 (45.45%) JBoss
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) Git
3 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (45.45%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
3 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (45.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) ADO
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
4 6 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
5 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
5 5 (45.45%) Migration
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Scrum
7 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 3 (27.27%) Change Management
7 3 (27.27%) Observability
7 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
7 3 (27.27%) Runbook
7 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
8 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Kibana
2 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) AppDynamics
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
3 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
3 2 (18.18%) Infoblox
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow