CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Preston

CI/CD
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% -12.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.69 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

CI/CD 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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 45 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 84.52% 90.00% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 24
10th Percentile £177 £400 £333
25th Percentile £400 £475 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £538 £431
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +24.95% +2.21%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £500
90th Percentile £680 £600 £568
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £516 £623
% change year-on-year -12.83% -17.07% +19.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 30
10th Percentile £32.15 £27.58 £20.58
25th Percentile £39.53 £30.68 £39.82
Median hourly rate £41.94 £34.26 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.42% -25.81% +14.57%
75th Percentile £45.84 £59.88 £51.88
90th Percentile £70.56 £67.84 £74.74
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.33%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Preston

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat