CircleCI Contract Job Trends in the North West

CircleCI
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.14% -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.31% 1.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £329 - -
25th Percentile £358 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £305 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% - -
75th Percentile £488 £467 -
90th Percentile £495 £563 -
England median daily rate £510 £600 £611
% change year-on-year -15.00% -1.84% -9.44%

All Development Application Skills
North West

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 381 260 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.36% 12.00% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 159 275
10th Percentile £313 £316 £350
25th Percentile £363 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.62% -1.90%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £613
90th Percentile £635 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 37
10th Percentile £39.00 £39.92 £45.88
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +1.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.71 £80.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CircleCI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

CircleCI job vacancy trend in the North West

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CircleCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the North West

CircleCI
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 CircleCI within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Cheshire -16 3 £358 +17.38%
Manchester - 2 £450 -
CircleCI
England

CircleCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Datadog
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) User Research
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes