CI/CD Contracts in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 21 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 188 229 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.97% 7.22% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 7.96% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 173 222
10th Percentile £444 £413 £413
25th Percentile £503 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £722 £650 £648
90th Percentile £850 £700 £700
England median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.55% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -5.01% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,328 2,877 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.70% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,043 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.44
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Manchester +7 154 £600 +8.11% 94
Cheshire -20 16 £510 +2.00% 20
Merseyside +8 7 £493 -6.19% 11
Lancashire -8 6 £625 -10.71% 6
Cumbria -22 1 - -
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.66%) Apache
3 5 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.13%) Confluence
4 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 2 (1.06%) Traefik
6 1 (0.53%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 89 (47.34%) AWS
2 36 (19.15%) Azure
3 29 (15.43%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (13.30%) Amazon S3
5 22 (11.70%) Serverless
6 18 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.98%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (7.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.85%) Snowflake
11 10 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.79%) Route 53
13 8 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (3.72%) GCP
14 7 (3.72%) GitHub
15 6 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
16 5 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
17 4 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 41 (21.81%) Firewall
1 41 (21.81%) VPN
2 6 (3.19%) Network Security
3 5 (2.66%) FTP
4 4 (2.13%) DNS
5 3 (1.60%) DSL
6 2 (1.06%) Intranet
6 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.11%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.66%) Big Data
4 5 (2.66%) MySQL
5 4 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Power BI
6 3 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) Azkaban
8 1 (0.53%) Metadata
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (23.40%) GitLab
2 35 (18.62%) Git
3 20 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.91%) JIRA
5 8 (4.26%) webpack
6 6 (3.19%) Mockito
6 6 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.66%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.66%) JUnit
8 4 (2.13%) Maven
8 4 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.60%) Mocha
9 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.60%) Selenium
10 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.06%) GoCD
10 2 (1.06%) Gradle
10 2 (1.06%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (13.30%) Public Sector
2 16 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.26%) Finance
4 6 (3.19%) Legal
5 5 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.13%) Retail
7 2 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Automotive
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (26.06%) Architect
2 40 (21.28%) Developer
3 39 (20.74%) Technical Architect
4 38 (20.21%) Lead
5 37 (19.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (17.02%) Technical Leader
7 28 (14.89%) Lead Architect
7 28 (14.89%) Senior
8 21 (11.17%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (8.51%) Java Developer
10 14 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (6.38%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.26%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 8 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.36%) Node.js
2 20 (10.64%) RESTful
3 17 (9.04%) React
4 16 (8.51%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.91%) REST
5 13 (6.91%) Spring
6 12 (6.38%) Redux
7 8 (4.26%) .NET
7 8 (4.26%) Express.js
7 8 (4.26%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.26%) JPA
7 8 (4.26%) Spring Security
7 8 (4.26%) XML
8 5 (2.66%) Jest
8 5 (2.66%) JSON
8 5 (2.66%) Kafka
8 5 (2.66%) React Native
9 3 (1.60%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (1.60%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.60%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.02%) Public Cloud
2 19 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.32%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
8 2 (1.06%) Clustering
8 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.06%) Windows
2 46 (24.47%) Android
3 42 (22.34%) Apple iOS
3 42 (22.34%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.32%) Linux
5 6 (3.19%) Unix
6 4 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.06%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.26%) DevOps
2 91 (48.40%) Agile
3 50 (26.60%) Design Patterns
4 44 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 42 (22.34%) Microservices
5 42 (22.34%) Security Architecture
5 42 (22.34%) Zero Trust
6 41 (21.81%) Risk Management
7 40 (21.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 40 (21.28%) Mobile Device Management
7 40 (21.28%) Threat Intelligence
8 35 (18.62%) Test Automation
9 25 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (12.23%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.04%) Front End Development
12 17 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (7.98%) ETL
13 15 (7.98%) Scrum
14 13 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.74%) Python
2 30 (15.96%) Java
3 25 (13.30%) SQL
4 20 (10.64%) Bash
5 19 (10.11%) C#
6 15 (7.98%) Go
6 15 (7.98%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.79%) Ruby
8 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.06%) Bicep
9 2 (1.06%) C++
9 2 (1.06%) Delphi
9 2 (1.06%) VBScript
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 65 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.53%) Degree
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) MCSE
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.11%) QA
2 4 (2.13%) SLA
3 3 (1.60%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.06%) NCSC
4 2 (1.06%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (18.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (32.98%) Terraform
2 45 (23.94%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.11%) Ansible
4 7 (3.72%) HP Fortify
5 6 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.66%) Puppet
7 4 (2.13%) Grafana
7 4 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.60%) CFEngine
8 3 (1.60%) PowerBroker
9 2 (1.06%) Consul
9 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.06%) Graphite
9 2 (1.06%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.06%) Istio
9 2 (1.06%) linkerd
9 2 (1.06%) Packer
9 2 (1.06%) Podman
9 2 (1.06%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.53%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.26%) Splunk
3 7 (3.72%) Google
4 6 (3.19%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.66%) Apple
5 5 (2.66%) Informatica
5 5 (2.66%) Talend
6 4 (2.13%) VMware
7 3 (1.60%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle
8 2 (1.06%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.53%) Confluent
9 1 (0.53%) Databricks
9 1 (0.53%) New Relic