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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 120 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 16 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.25% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.30% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 12
10th Percentile £359 - £525
25th Percentile £414 £511 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -12.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £715 £534 £691
90th Percentile £749 - £734
England median daily rate £521 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -12.50% -

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 1,960 2,011 2,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.69% 84.21% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,212 1,841
10th Percentile £280 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £590
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 169 171
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.08
Median hourly rate £27.19 £34.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% -2.26% +60.70%
75th Percentile £56.19 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.63 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -11 9 £675 +29.19% 4
Manchester +4 3 £700 - 22
Merseyside -1 2 £300 - 1
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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Datadog
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
1 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
1 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Appium
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Applications Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Banking Project Manager
6 2 (12.50%) Payments Project Manager
6 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
7 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Release Manager
7 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
1 2 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 5 (31.25%) Data Security
5 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Application Security
6 4 (25.00%) Attestation
6 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) Coaching
7 3 (18.75%) Contract Management
7 3 (18.75%) Kanban
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk