Continuous Delivery Contracts in the North West

Continuous Delivery
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 131 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 5 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.87% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.95% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 38
10th Percentile £501 £460 £396
25th Percentile £503 £498 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +3.53% +11.84%
75th Percentile £546 £668 £625
90th Percentile £548 £685 £665
England median daily rate £550 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Continuous Delivery 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 2,301 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.18% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,009 2,591
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 £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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
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 7 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 +6 4 £525 -6.67% 9
Cheshire -1 1 £523 -23.16% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GoCD
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (20.00%) Dagger
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (20.00%) RxJava
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware