CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

CI/CD
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +19 -16 +33
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 65 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 23.13% 6.98% 17.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.99% 7.41% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 7 8
10th Percentile £313 £303 £559
25th Percentile £358 £326 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £356 £586
Median % change year-on-year +20.79% -39.20% +39.40%
75th Percentile £492 £448 £589
90th Percentile £537 £514 £602
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £425 £560
% change year-on-year +4.71% -24.11% +31.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 271 162 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.44% 94.19% 96.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 134 48
10th Percentile £310 £349 £489
25th Percentile £358 £375 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £445 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -23.93% +19.39%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £595
90th Percentile £537 £639 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -11.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.13 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -51.07% +27.27% +52.48%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Knutsford

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Knutsford over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Knutsford

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 11 (16.92%) JBoss
2 10 (15.38%) Apache
3 8 (12.31%) WebSphere
4 7 (10.77%) IIS
4 7 (10.77%) iPlanet
4 7 (10.77%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (7.69%) Confluence
6 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (4.62%) CICS
7 3 (4.62%) nginx
7 3 (4.62%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 41 (63.08%) AWS
2 15 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 10 (15.38%) Azure
4 8 (12.31%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.69%) Serverless
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (4.62%) AWS KMS
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
8 3 (4.62%) npm
9 2 (3.08%) BrowserStack
9 2 (3.08%) GCP
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Kerberos
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) HTTP
2 2 (3.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.85%) Oracle Database
3 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.15%) Big Data
4 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.62%) DB2
5 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (47.69%) Jenkins
2 29 (44.62%) Git
3 18 (27.69%) JIRA
4 14 (21.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (20.00%) GitLab
6 12 (18.46%) SonarQube
7 10 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (15.38%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (13.85%) Selenium
9 8 (12.31%) Cucumber
10 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
10 5 (7.69%) JUnit
10 5 (7.69%) Maven
11 4 (6.15%) MLflow
11 4 (6.15%) TeamCity
12 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
12 3 (4.62%) Grunt
12 3 (4.62%) gulp
12 3 (4.62%) Mockito
13 2 (3.08%) Eclipse
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Java Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Architect
3 10 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Architect
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (4.62%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Tester
7 3 (4.62%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.62%) Spring Boot
2 14 (21.54%) REST
3 10 (15.38%) HTML
3 10 (15.38%) OAuth
4 9 (13.85%) React
4 9 (13.85%) RESTful
4 9 (13.85%) Spring
5 8 (12.31%) JSON
6 7 (10.77%) LDAP
6 7 (10.77%) OpenID
6 7 (10.77%) SAML
7 6 (9.23%) CSS
7 6 (9.23%) Jest
7 6 (9.23%) JMS
7 6 (9.23%) Kafka
7 6 (9.23%) Node.js
7 6 (9.23%) Redux
8 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (6.15%) Flask
8 4 (6.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.62%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.62%) VSAM
5 2 (3.08%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Linux
2 12 (18.46%) Windows
3 8 (12.31%) Unix
4 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.15%) Android
5 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) DevOps
2 22 (33.85%) Test Automation
3 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.15%) Agile
5 16 (24.62%) Microservices
6 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
7 11 (16.92%) Code Quality
8 9 (13.85%) Migration
9 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
9 8 (12.31%) TDD
9 8 (12.31%) Unit Testing
10 7 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (10.77%) SDLC
11 6 (9.23%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 6 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (9.23%) Front End Development
11 6 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) Java
2 21 (32.31%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) Python
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.77%) Groovy
5 7 (10.77%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.69%) Bash
7 4 (6.15%) Perl
7 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.62%) COBOL
8 3 (4.62%) JCL
9 1 (1.54%) REXX
9 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.62%) CISSP
4 2 (3.08%) CISM
4 2 (3.08%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) SEPA
2 10 (15.38%) QA
3 6 (9.23%) ISO 20022
3 6 (9.23%) PSD2
4 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.08%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (40.00%) Docker
2 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (29.23%) Progress Chef
3 7 (10.77%) CA Single Sign-On
3 7 (10.77%) CA Wily
3 7 (10.77%) Kibana
3 7 (10.77%) Tivoli
4 4 (6.15%) Ansible
4 4 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.62%) Terraform
6 2 (3.08%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Oracle
2 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) AppDynamics
4 13 (20.00%) Splunk
5 7 (10.77%) Broadcom
5 7 (10.77%) IBM
6 4 (6.15%) Cloudera
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.15%) Veracode
7 3 (4.62%) Perforce
8 2 (3.08%) Cribl.io
8 2 (3.08%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx