Continuous Delivery Contracts in the North West

Continuous Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery 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 108 132 130
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 12 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.18% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.21% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 18
10th Percentile £361 £501 £459
25th Percentile £365 £503 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £524 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -6.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £715 £546 £674
90th Percentile - £548 £685
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Continuous Delivery 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%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the North West

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the North West

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the North West

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery 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 +17 4 - - 41
Cheshire +3 4 £539 +3.06% 21
Merseyside - 3 - - 8
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Slack
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jasmine
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Change and Release Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Release Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Batch
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Security
1 2 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Release Management
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) OWASP
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft