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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 163 157 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.99% 5.68% 6.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.01% 6.74% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 110 145
10th Percentile £358 £425 £433
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £584 £825 £650
90th Percentile £703 £850 £700
England median daily rate £515 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -7.21% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £70.63 £63.50 -
25th Percentile £71.56 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £73.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 £74.10 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £67.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -6.72% +2.13% +0.16%

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 1,810 2,328 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.23% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,423 1,899
10th Percentile £300 £305 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 263 149
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £19.13 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -8.32% +29.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -4 79 £500 -21.14% 724
Cheshire +33 69 £430 -12.69% 179
Lancashire +8 10 £575 -11.54% 146
Merseyside +1 3 £625 +22.55% 81
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 8 (4.91%) Confluence
2 7 (4.29%) JBoss
2 7 (4.29%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.68%) Apache
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.84%) CICS
5 3 (1.84%) nginx
5 3 (1.84%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.23%) CMS
6 2 (1.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.61%) Camunda
7 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Maximo
2 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (44.17%) AWS
2 31 (19.02%) Azure
3 25 (15.34%) Serverless
4 20 (12.27%) GCP
5 19 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (11.04%) GitHub
7 14 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (5.52%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.07%) Apigee
13 5 (3.07%) npm
14 4 (2.45%) Amazon Glacier
14 4 (2.45%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) Firewall
2 5 (3.07%) DHCP
3 4 (2.45%) Calico
3 4 (2.45%) DNS
4 3 (1.84%) DMZ
4 3 (1.84%) HTTP
5 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
5 1 (0.61%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) Relational Database
2 19 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.66%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.36%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.52%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.29%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.07%) DB2
8 4 (2.45%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.84%) Power BI
10 2 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.23%) Big Data
10 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (33.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.25%) Git
2 33 (20.25%) GitLab
3 26 (15.95%) JIRA
4 17 (10.43%) JUnit
5 12 (7.36%) Gradle
5 12 (7.36%) Selenium
6 11 (6.75%) Mockito
6 11 (6.75%) SonarQube
7 10 (6.13%) Liquibase
7 10 (6.13%) Maven
8 8 (4.91%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (4.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (4.91%) TeamCity
9 7 (4.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (3.68%) Cucumber
11 5 (3.07%) CircleCI
12 4 (2.45%) Bitbucket
12 4 (2.45%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.45%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.63%) Finance
3 30 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.59%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.13%) Electronics
6 10 (6.13%) Marketing
6 10 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.91%) Banking
8 6 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.07%) Retail
10 4 (2.45%) Legal
10 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Military
12 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Developer
2 33 (20.25%) Senior
3 23 (14.11%) Architect
4 18 (11.04%) Software Engineer
5 16 (9.82%) Java Developer
6 15 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Lead
7 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Applications Architect
8 6 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (3.68%) Java Architect
8 6 (3.68%) Java Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.68%) Tester
9 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (3.07%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.86%) Kafka
2 29 (17.79%) React
2 29 (17.79%) Spring Boot
3 20 (12.27%) Spring
4 18 (11.04%) Node.js
5 17 (10.43%) RESTful
6 15 (9.20%) .NET
7 12 (7.36%) OpenAPI
7 12 (7.36%) Swagger
8 9 (5.52%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (5.52%) OAuth
8 9 (5.52%) REST
9 7 (4.29%) GraphQL
9 7 (4.29%) HTML
9 7 (4.29%) JSON
9 7 (4.29%) Playwright
10 6 (3.68%) CSS
11 5 (3.07%) HTML5
11 5 (3.07%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
1 12 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.07%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.45%) Cyberattack
4 4 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.45%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.84%) PKI
5 3 (1.84%) VSAM
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.34%) Linux
2 17 (10.43%) Windows
3 13 (7.98%) Android
4 10 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (6.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.91%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (56.44%) DevOps
2 68 (41.72%) Agile
3 54 (33.13%) Microservices
4 48 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (26.99%) Containerisation
6 36 (22.09%) Test Automation
7 32 (19.63%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (18.40%) Software Engineering
9 27 (16.56%) TDD
10 25 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (14.11%) Migration
12 19 (11.66%) Event-Driven
13 18 (11.04%) SDLC
14 17 (10.43%) Mentoring
15 15 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (9.20%) Scrum
16 14 (8.59%) Code Quality
17 12 (7.36%) Analytics
17 12 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (40.49%) Java
2 58 (35.58%) Python
3 46 (28.22%) SQL
4 22 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.88%) JavaScript
6 15 (9.20%) Bash
7 11 (6.75%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.91%) Perl
9 6 (3.68%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.45%) C#
11 4 (2.45%) Scala
12 3 (1.84%) Clojure
12 3 (1.84%) COBOL
12 3 (1.84%) JCL
13 2 (1.23%) R
14 1 (0.61%) Bicep
14 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.61%) REXX
14 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.84%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.23%) CCNA
6 2 (1.23%) CCNP
6 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CISM
7 1 (0.61%) CISSP
7 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) QA
2 7 (4.29%) SEPA
3 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) NIST
5 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) COBIT
6 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (38.04%) Docker
2 11 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (34.36%) Kubernetes
2 27 (16.56%) Terraform
3 17 (10.43%) Progress Chef
4 15 (9.20%) Ansible
5 10 (6.13%) Kibana
6 5 (3.07%) Grafana
6 5 (3.07%) Istio
7 4 (2.45%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (2.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.61%) Graylog
9 1 (0.61%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.61%) Packer
9 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) SAP
3 10 (6.13%) AppDynamics
3 10 (6.13%) Oracle
4 8 (4.91%) Splunk
5 7 (4.29%) Google
5 7 (4.29%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.68%) IBM
6 6 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.07%) Cloudera
7 5 (3.07%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.07%) Infoblox
8 4 (2.45%) Dell
8 4 (2.45%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.84%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.84%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.23%) Cisco
10 2 (1.23%) Databricks
10 2 (1.23%) ForgeRock