CircleCI Contract Job Trends in Manchester

CircleCI
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.62% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £305 -
% change year-on-year +63.93% - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 202 168 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.72% 16.25% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 117 185
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £515 £588
90th Percentile £618 £615 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -7.41%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CircleCI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

CircleCI job vacancy trend in Manchester

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CircleCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
2 7 (87.50%) Cypress.io
2 7 (87.50%) Git
3 6 (75.00%) JUnit
3 6 (75.00%) Mocha
4 1 (12.50%) Appium
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) TestComplete
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Jest
1 7 (87.50%) Node.js
1 7 (87.50%) Playwright
1 7 (87.50%) React
1 7 (87.50%) REST
2 6 (75.00%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) User Experience
2 7 (87.50%) User Research
3 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (75.00%) UX Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Accessibility
1 7 (87.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform