Continuous Deployment Contracts in the North West

Continuous Deployment
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment 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 103 122 122
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 17 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.54% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.63% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 24
10th Percentile £456 £440 £504
25th Percentile £475 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £659
90th Percentile - £598 £696
England median daily rate £517 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -7.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Continuous Deployment 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 Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the North West

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the North West

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment 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 +23 15 £488 +8.33% 4
Cheshire -2 2 - - 2
Continuous Deployment
England

Continuous Deployment
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 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) GitHub
1 9 (52.94%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) Apigee
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) ObjectStore
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 3 (17.65%) Grunt
3 3 (17.65%) gulp
3 3 (17.65%) Jasmine
3 3 (17.65%) Mocha
4 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.88%) HTML Developer
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
1 6 (35.29%) OAuth
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
2 4 (23.53%) OpenID
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) SAML
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) HTML5
3 3 (17.65%) jQuery
3 3 (17.65%) Mustache
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) Sass
4 2 (11.76%) ADO
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) Swagger
5 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
1 14 (82.35%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
3 9 (52.94%) Analytics
3 9 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (52.94%) Digital Twin
3 9 (52.94%) Visualisation
4 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) RBAC
7 5 (29.41%) ETL
7 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
8 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (23.53%) Data Security
8 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
9 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) WCAG
2 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Istio
3 3 (17.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft