Continuous Delivery Contracts in Manchester

Continuous Delivery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery 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 75 92 99
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 4 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.26% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.30% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £497
25th Percentile - £500 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile - £550 £642
90th Percentile - - £684
North West median daily rate £539 £524 £563
% change year-on-year +2.82% -6.89% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Continuous Delivery 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%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Manchester

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Manchester

Continuous Delivery
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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Slack
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) OWASP
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Active Listening
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft