CI/CD Contracts in the North West

CI/CD
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 186 211 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.97% 6.87% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 7.60% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 159 224
10th Percentile £444 £423 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -0.90% +16.84%
75th Percentile £750 £639 £638
90th Percentile £850 £700 £699
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

CI/CD 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 2,295 2,775 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.05% 90.39% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,954 2,592
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 136 172
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.44 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.97 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +47.37% +31.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.43 £49.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North West

CI/CD
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 CI/CD within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +10 154 £606 +10.23% 98
Cheshire -20 14 £510 +2.00% 13
Merseyside +8 7 £493 -6.19% 12
Lancashire -5 6 £625 -10.71% 8
Cumbria -20 1 - -
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
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 7 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.69%) Apache
3 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.08%) nginx
5 2 (1.08%) Traefik
6 1 (0.54%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 87 (46.77%) AWS
2 32 (17.20%) Azure
3 29 (15.59%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (13.44%) Amazon S3
5 22 (11.83%) Serverless
6 18 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.91%) Snowflake
11 10 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.84%) Route 53
13 8 (4.30%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (3.23%) GCP
14 6 (3.23%) GitHub
15 5 (2.69%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (2.15%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.51%) Firewall
1 40 (21.51%) VPN
2 7 (3.76%) Network Security
3 5 (2.69%) FTP
4 4 (2.15%) DNS
5 2 (1.08%) Intranet
5 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.54%) DSL
6 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.22%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.30%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.69%) Big Data
5 5 (2.69%) MySQL
6 4 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.61%) Power BI
7 3 (1.61%) Redis
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.54%) Azkaban
9 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.54%) Metadata
9 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 45 (24.19%) GitLab
2 35 (18.82%) Git
3 19 (10.22%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.84%) JIRA
5 8 (4.30%) webpack
6 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.69%) Mockito
8 4 (2.15%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.15%) JUnit
8 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.61%) Maven
9 3 (1.61%) Mocha
9 3 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.61%) Selenium
10 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.08%) GoCD
10 2 (1.08%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.54%) JMeter
11 1 (0.54%) Mercurial
General
1 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.53%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.76%) Finance
4 6 (3.23%) Legal
5 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.61%) Banking
6 3 (1.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Automotive
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Architect
2 39 (20.97%) Technical Architect
3 38 (20.43%) Developer
4 37 (19.89%) Lead
5 36 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (17.20%) Technical Leader
7 28 (15.05%) Lead Architect
8 27 (14.52%) Senior
9 21 (11.29%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (8.60%) Java Developer
10 16 (8.60%) Software Engineer
11 14 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (4.30%) Data Engineer
14 8 (4.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 8 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (41.40%) Node.js
2 19 (10.22%) React
2 19 (10.22%) RESTful
3 18 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 16 (8.60%) Spring
5 12 (6.45%) Redux
5 12 (6.45%) REST
6 8 (4.30%) .NET
6 8 (4.30%) Express.js
6 8 (4.30%) Hibernate
6 8 (4.30%) JPA
6 8 (4.30%) Spring Security
6 8 (4.30%) XML
7 5 (2.69%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.69%) Jest
7 5 (2.69%) JSON
7 5 (2.69%) React Native
8 4 (2.15%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.15%) Kafka
9 3 (1.61%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.13%) Public Cloud
2 19 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.38%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.61%) PKI
8 2 (1.08%) Clustering
8 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (24.19%) Android
1 45 (24.19%) Windows
2 42 (22.58%) Apple iOS
2 42 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.76%) Linux
4 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.15%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.08%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (53.76%) DevOps
2 89 (47.85%) Agile
3 50 (26.88%) Design Patterns
4 45 (24.19%) Containerisation
5 43 (23.12%) Microservices
6 42 (22.58%) Security Architecture
6 42 (22.58%) Zero Trust
7 40 (21.51%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 40 (21.51%) Mobile Device Management
7 40 (21.51%) Risk Management
7 40 (21.51%) Threat Intelligence
8 37 (19.89%) Test Automation
9 29 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
11 17 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (8.60%) Front End Development
13 15 (8.06%) ETL
13 15 (8.06%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (8.06%) Scrum
14 12 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.51%) Python
2 31 (16.67%) Java
3 26 (13.98%) SQL
4 21 (11.29%) Bash
5 19 (10.22%) C#
6 15 (8.06%) Go
7 13 (6.99%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.30%) Ruby
10 7 (3.76%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.61%) Bicep
12 2 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (1.08%) Delphi
12 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.08%) VBScript
13 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.54%) R
13 1 (0.54%) X++
Qualifications
1 63 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 55 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) Degree
5 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) MCSE
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) SLA
3 3 (1.61%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.08%) NCSC
4 2 (1.08%) NIST
4 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (19.35%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (33.87%) Terraform
2 47 (25.27%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.14%) Ansible
4 7 (3.76%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.15%) Grafana
7 3 (1.61%) Puppet
8 2 (1.08%) Consul
8 2 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.08%) Graphite
8 2 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.08%) Istio
8 2 (1.08%) linkerd
8 2 (1.08%) Packer
8 2 (1.08%) Podman
8 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.08%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.54%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.54%) Nmap
9 1 (0.54%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 11 (5.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.30%) Splunk
3 6 (3.23%) Google
4 5 (2.69%) Apple
4 5 (2.69%) Informatica
4 5 (2.69%) Talend
5 4 (2.15%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.15%) VMware
6 3 (1.61%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle
7 2 (1.08%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.54%) Databricks