CI/CD Contracts in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 156 193 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.93% 7.01% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 8.12% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 144 182
10th Percentile £389 £446 £413
25th Percentile £405 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £708 £650
90th Percentile £655 £850 £700
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +55.56% -5.01%
75th Percentile £88.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester -1 94 £500 -16.67% 281
Cheshire +20 45 £475 -6.86% 46
Lancashire +6 9 £575 -8.00% 108
Merseyside +3 6 £625 +26.90% 23
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 5 (3.21%) Apache
1 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.21%) Confluence
1 5 (3.21%) JBoss
2 3 (1.92%) nginx
2 3 (1.92%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.92%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.28%) CMS
3 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.28%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) CICS
4 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (46.79%) AWS
2 32 (20.51%) Azure
3 21 (13.46%) GitHub
3 21 (13.46%) Serverless
4 18 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (10.90%) GCP
6 16 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 11 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.77%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.56%) Amazon Glacier
13 4 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.56%) Apigee
13 4 (2.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) DNS
1 7 (4.49%) Firewall
2 5 (3.21%) DHCP
3 3 (1.92%) DMZ
3 3 (1.92%) HTTP
4 2 (1.28%) Calico
4 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.62%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.13%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.49%) MySQL
8 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.21%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.56%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.56%) Neo4j
10 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.28%) Big Data
12 2 (1.28%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (30.13%) Jenkins
2 41 (26.28%) GitLab
3 30 (19.23%) Git
4 18 (11.54%) JIRA
5 16 (10.26%) JUnit
6 12 (7.69%) Gradle
7 11 (7.05%) Mockito
8 10 (6.41%) Liquibase
9 9 (5.77%) Selenium
10 8 (5.13%) Maven
11 7 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
12 6 (3.85%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.85%) SonarQube
12 6 (3.85%) TeamCity
13 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (3.21%) JMeter
14 4 (2.56%) CircleCI
14 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
14 4 (2.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 37 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 26 (16.67%) Finance
4 23 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.97%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.41%) Electronics
6 10 (6.41%) Marketing
6 10 (6.41%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.56%) Banking
8 4 (2.56%) Legal
8 4 (2.56%) Military
8 4 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (26.28%) Senior
2 35 (22.44%) Developer
3 23 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.26%) Architect
5 15 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.41%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Lead
8 9 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.49%) Tester
10 6 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) Java Architect
10 6 (3.85%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.85%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.21%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (24.36%) Kafka
2 26 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 25 (16.03%) React
4 20 (12.82%) RESTful
5 19 (12.18%) Spring
6 15 (9.62%) OpenAPI
6 15 (9.62%) Swagger
7 13 (8.33%) .NET
7 13 (8.33%) Node.js
8 10 (6.41%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.41%) OAuth
9 8 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.21%) ADO
10 5 (3.21%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.21%) Playwright
10 5 (3.21%) REST
11 4 (2.56%) Android Jetpack
11 4 (2.56%) cloud-init
11 4 (2.56%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.77%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.92%) PKI
6 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.59%) Linux
2 17 (10.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (8.33%) Windows
4 9 (5.77%) Unix
5 8 (5.13%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.85%) Android
7 4 (2.56%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (54.49%) DevOps
2 59 (37.82%) Agile
3 54 (34.62%) Microservices
4 53 (33.97%) Containerisation
5 40 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (24.36%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (20.51%) Test Automation
8 31 (19.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 25 (16.03%) TDD
11 22 (14.10%) Event-Driven
12 20 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (12.18%) Migration
13 19 (12.18%) SDLC
14 18 (11.54%) Analytics
15 14 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (8.97%) Continuous Deployment
15 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
16 13 (8.33%) Configuration Management
16 13 (8.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.59%) Python
2 52 (33.33%) Java
3 49 (31.41%) SQL
4 23 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 21 (13.46%) Bash
6 16 (10.26%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.85%) Perl
9 5 (3.21%) Go
9 5 (3.21%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.56%) Scala
11 3 (1.92%) Clojure
11 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.28%) C#
12 2 (1.28%) R
12 2 (1.28%) Swift
13 1 (0.64%) COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) JCL
13 1 (0.64%) REXX
13 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.49%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.28%) CCNA
6 2 (1.28%) CCNP
6 2 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) QA
2 8 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.28%) GDPR
3 2 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) COBIT
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (41.03%) Docker
2 9 (5.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 37 (23.72%) Terraform
3 16 (10.26%) Progress Chef
4 15 (9.62%) Ansible
5 8 (5.13%) Grafana
5 8 (5.13%) Kibana
5 8 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.85%) Istio
7 5 (3.21%) Packer
8 4 (2.56%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.92%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.28%) Puppet
11 1 (0.64%) Consul
11 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.64%) Graylog
11 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.64%) linkerd
11 1 (0.64%) Rancher
11 1 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (8.97%) Oracle
2 11 (7.05%) SAP
3 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 8 (5.13%) Databricks
5 6 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.85%) Splunk
5 6 (3.85%) Virgin Media
6 5 (3.21%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.21%) Google
6 5 (3.21%) Infoblox
6 5 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.21%) Talend
7 4 (2.56%) Dell
8 3 (1.92%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.92%) Informatica
9 2 (1.28%) Cisco
9 2 (1.28%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.28%) PagerDuty