Continuous Integration Contracts in the North West

Continuous Integration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 109 107
Rank change year-on-year +25 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 42 26 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 0.96% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.13% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 42
10th Percentile £393 £367 £463
25th Percentile £401 £373 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £606
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -19.59% +1.04%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £650
90th Percentile £642 £588 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Continuous Integration 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 1,755 2,311 2,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.05% 85.25% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,450 1,919
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 263 140
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.09
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.19
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +31 23 £488 -11.36% 63
Cheshire +8 18 £402 +6.35% 34
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 8 (19.05%) Confluence
2 6 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) GitHub
2 9 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 3 (7.14%) Azure
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (4.76%) Apigee
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
2 6 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.76%) ObjectStore
7 1 (2.38%) Big Data
7 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) JIRA
2 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (23.81%) Git
4 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 7 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (14.29%) GitLab
5 6 (14.29%) TeamCity
6 5 (11.90%) Gradle
6 5 (11.90%) JUnit
6 5 (11.90%) Liquibase
6 5 (11.90%) Mockito
7 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.38%) Gatling
8 1 (2.38%) Maven
8 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Electronics
5 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.90%) Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.38%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Kafka
2 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.05%) Swagger
4 7 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 7 (16.67%) React
5 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (14.29%) OAuth
5 6 (14.29%) Spring
6 5 (11.90%) RESTful
7 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
7 4 (9.52%) OpenID
7 4 (9.52%) SAML
8 2 (4.76%) ADO
8 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
9 1 (2.38%) J2EE
9 1 (2.38%) RAML
9 1 (2.38%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
1 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
1 32 (76.19%) DevOps
2 23 (54.76%) Microservices
3 20 (47.62%) Agile
4 17 (40.48%) Containerisation
5 14 (33.33%) Analytics
5 14 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 11 (26.19%) Migration
7 10 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (23.81%) Process Improvement
7 10 (23.81%) Scrum
8 9 (21.43%) Coaching
8 9 (21.43%) Digital Twin
8 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (21.43%) Visualisation
9 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
9 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
10 7 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (14.29%) Perl
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) Kibana
3 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.14%) Istio
4 3 (7.14%) Kustomize
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 6 (14.29%) Splunk
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 4 (9.52%) Cloudera
4 3 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx