CI/CD Contracts in Manchester

CI/CD
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 14 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 94 154 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.15% 10.15% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 11.66% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 116 113
10th Percentile £400 £447 £463
25th Percentile £442 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £545 £825 £650
90th Percentile £716 £850 £698
North West median daily rate £500 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +55.56% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +17.86% +55.56% -5.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Manchester

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Manchester

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Manchester

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Manchester

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford -3 1 £300 -29.41% 8
Altrincham - 1 - - 13
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.13%) Apache
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.13%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.06%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.87%) AWS
2 22 (23.40%) Azure
3 19 (20.21%) GitHub
4 18 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.64%) GCP
6 10 (10.64%) Serverless
7 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.32%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.26%) Apigee
9 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.19%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (2.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) Calico
2 2 (2.13%) DHCP
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.06%) DMZ
3 1 (1.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (13.83%) Relational Database
3 11 (11.70%) MongoDB
4 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.38%) MySQL
6 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.26%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.13%) Big Data
8 2 (2.13%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.13%) Metadata
8 2 (2.13%) ObjectStore
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (29.79%) GitLab
2 27 (28.72%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.83%) JUnit
4 12 (12.77%) Git
5 11 (11.70%) Gradle
5 11 (11.70%) Mockito
6 10 (10.64%) Liquibase
7 7 (7.45%) JIRA
7 7 (7.45%) Maven
7 7 (7.45%) Selenium
8 6 (6.38%) Cucumber
9 5 (5.32%) JMeter
10 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
10 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.26%) LoadRunner
11 3 (3.19%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.13%) Jasmine
12 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.15%) Finance
4 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Electronics
5 10 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.64%) Marketing
5 10 (10.64%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.19%) Military
7 2 (2.13%) Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Senior
2 26 (27.66%) Developer
3 15 (15.96%) Software Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Tester
9 5 (5.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) React Developer
9 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Lead
10 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.79%) Kafka
2 21 (22.34%) React
3 17 (18.09%) Spring Boot
4 16 (17.02%) Spring
5 14 (14.89%) OpenAPI
5 14 (14.89%) Swagger
6 13 (13.83%) RESTful
7 10 (10.64%) Node.js
8 7 (7.45%) OAuth
9 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.32%) Playwright
10 4 (4.26%) .NET
10 4 (4.26%) Android Jetpack
10 4 (4.26%) cloud-init
10 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.26%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.26%) OpenID
10 4 (4.26%) SAML
11 3 (3.19%) ADO
11 3 (3.19%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.06%) PKI
5 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.38%) Android
3 6 (6.38%) Unix
4 4 (4.26%) CentOS
5 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) Windows
5 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.06%) DevOps
2 35 (37.23%) Containerisation
3 33 (35.11%) Agile
4 29 (30.85%) Microservices
5 28 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (27.66%) Software Engineering
7 24 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (25.53%) Test Automation
8 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.21%) TDD
9 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (13.83%) Analytics
11 12 (12.77%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (11.70%) Event-Driven
13 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (10.64%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (10.64%) Migration
13 10 (10.64%) Programme Management
14 9 (9.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (9.57%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.36%) Python
1 37 (39.36%) SQL
2 30 (31.91%) Java
3 22 (23.40%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.70%) Bash
5 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.26%) Go
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.19%) Clojure
8 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) QA
2 7 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) COBIT
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (40.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (38.30%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.60%) Terraform
3 7 (7.45%) Grafana
3 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.38%) Istio
5 5 (5.32%) Packer
6 3 (3.19%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.13%) Ansible
8 1 (1.06%) Consul
8 1 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.06%) Graylog
8 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.06%) linkerd
8 1 (1.06%) Puppet
8 1 (1.06%) Rancher
8 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) SAP
2 9 (9.57%) Oracle
3 8 (8.51%) Databricks
4 5 (5.32%) Google
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.19%) Informatica
6 3 (3.19%) Talend
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.06%) BMC
8 1 (1.06%) Confluent
8 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.06%) Dell
8 1 (1.06%) New Relic
8 1 (1.06%) Okta
8 1 (1.06%) Remedy
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk