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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 78 134 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 8.43% 9.27% 7.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 10.76% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 93 106
10th Percentile - £429 £463
25th Percentile £400 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £546 £825 £650
90th Percentile £711 £850 £700
North West median daily rate £489 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £70.63 £63.50 -
25th Percentile £71.56 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £73.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 £74.10 -
North West median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.93% - -

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 816 1,245 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.22% 86.10% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 818 1,185
10th Percentile £306 £321 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £679 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.28% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 49
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.48 £14.52
25th Percentile £20.39 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% +15.56% +23.29%
75th Percentile £73.44 £57.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £84.93 £72.90 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £27.75 £30.54
% change year-on-year +14.88% -9.14% +29.71%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -2 1 £300 -29.41% 3
Altrincham - 1 - - 24
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 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.13%) WebSphere
1 4 (5.13%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.87%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) Azure
3 15 (19.23%) GitHub
4 13 (16.67%) GCP
4 13 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (16.67%) Serverless
5 12 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.41%) Apigee
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.13%) IBM Cloud
9 4 (5.13%) npm
10 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (2.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Calico
2 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) DHCP
4 1 (1.28%) DMZ
4 1 (1.28%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) HTTP
4 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.41%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.56%) Big Data
8 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.56%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.56%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.56%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.28%) Metadata
9 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 19 (24.36%) GitLab
3 11 (14.10%) Gradle
3 11 (14.10%) JUnit
4 10 (12.82%) Liquibase
4 10 (12.82%) Mockito
5 9 (11.54%) Git
5 9 (11.54%) JIRA
6 6 (7.69%) Maven
7 5 (6.41%) CircleCI
8 4 (5.13%) Selenium
9 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.85%) JMeter
9 3 (3.85%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.28%) MLflow
11 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.92%) Finance
3 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.82%) Electronics
4 10 (12.82%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.82%) Marketing
4 10 (12.82%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (32.05%) Developer
2 20 (25.64%) Senior
3 15 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.41%) React Developer
7 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Android Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Software Tester
9 3 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.21%) Kafka
2 20 (25.64%) React
3 15 (19.23%) Spring
4 14 (17.95%) Spring Boot
5 13 (16.67%) Node.js
6 12 (15.38%) OpenAPI
6 12 (15.38%) Swagger
7 8 (10.26%) RESTful
8 6 (7.69%) .NET
8 6 (7.69%) OAuth
8 6 (7.69%) Playwright
9 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.13%) Android Jetpack
10 4 (5.13%) FastAPI
11 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.85%) AWS CDK
11 3 (3.85%) Puppeteer
11 3 (3.85%) REST
12 2 (2.56%) Android SDK
12 2 (2.56%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Android
2 8 (10.26%) Linux
3 4 (5.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.56%) Windows
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) DevOps
2 35 (44.87%) Agile
3 27 (34.62%) Containerisation
4 25 (32.05%) Software Engineering
5 24 (30.77%) Microservices
6 17 (21.79%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (21.79%) TDD
7 15 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.82%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (12.82%) Event-Driven
8 10 (12.82%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.82%) Migration
8 10 (12.82%) Programme Management
9 9 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (10.26%) Clean Code
11 7 (8.97%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) Java
2 27 (34.62%) SQL
3 23 (29.49%) Python
4 21 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 5 (6.41%) Bash
7 5 (6.41%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.85%) C#
8 3 (3.85%) Clojure
8 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.28%) Perl
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.28%) CISM
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) NIST
2 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) COBIT
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (44.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.79%) Terraform
3 5 (6.41%) Grafana
3 5 (6.41%) Istio
4 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.28%) Graylog
6 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.28%) Packer
6 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) SAP
2 6 (7.69%) Google
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.13%) IBM
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (3.85%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.28%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.28%) BMC
7 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.28%) Dell
7 1 (1.28%) Remedy
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow