Continuous Integration Contracts in the North West

Continuous Integration
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 95 108
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 -37
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 23 67 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.83% 2.10% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.32% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 52 58
10th Percentile £368 £497 £471
25th Percentile £375 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £638
90th Percentile £575 £673 £691
England median daily rate £575 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Continuous Integration 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 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the North West

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North West

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the North West

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North West

Continuous Integration
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 Integration within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -25 19 £500 -20.00% 25
Cheshire +5 3 £523 -2.56% 5
Lancashire +1 1 £600 -4.00%
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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 (8.70%) nginx
1 2 (8.70%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DMZ
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) Git
3 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
4 5 (21.74%) GitLab
5 4 (17.39%) JIRA
6 3 (13.04%) Selenium
7 2 (8.70%) Gatling
7 2 (8.70%) JMeter
7 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
8 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Senior
1 7 (30.43%) Test Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) RESTful
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
3 4 (17.39%) Kafka
3 4 (17.39%) Web Services
4 3 (13.04%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (8.70%) cloud-init
6 1 (4.35%) .NET
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.35%) AWS SAM
6 1 (4.35%) Jest
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (4.35%) Playwright
6 1 (4.35%) React
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) CentOS
3 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Microservices
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (21.74%) API Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Design Patterns
6 5 (21.74%) TDD
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.04%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) Web Development
9 2 (8.70%) Information Management
9 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
9 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Groovy
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
4 2 (8.70%) Ruby
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Consul
5 2 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (8.70%) Graphite
5 2 (8.70%) HAProxy
5 2 (8.70%) Istio
5 2 (8.70%) linkerd
5 2 (8.70%) Packer
5 2 (8.70%) Podman
5 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) PagerDuty
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Google