CI/CD Contracts in Merseyside

CI/CD
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 6 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 3.07% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.91% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £493 £384 £338
25th Percentile £538 £434 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.90% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £638 £530 £550
90th Percentile - £557 -
North West median daily rate £500 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Merseyside

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Merseyside

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Merseyside

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +8 6 £625 +22.55% 20
CI/CD
North West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AIOps
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Talend