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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 23 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 169 199 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.17% 6.57% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 7.32% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 148 230
10th Percentile £444 £421 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £788 £638 £638
90th Percentile £850 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £63.50 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £78.38
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +2.77%

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 2,330 2,719 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.10% 89.71% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,906 2,612
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 143 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.59 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +5 144 £600 +9.09% 104
Cheshire -24 13 £493 -6.19% 11
Merseyside +15 6 £510 -0.49% 17
Lancashire -7 2 £650 -7.14% 6
Cumbria - 1 - - 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 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.96%) Apache
3 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.37%) Confluence
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (1.18%) Traefik
6 1 (0.59%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.83%) AWS
2 33 (19.53%) Azure
3 28 (16.57%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (14.79%) Amazon S3
5 21 (12.43%) Serverless
6 17 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.88%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (8.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.51%) Snowflake
12 9 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (4.73%) Route 53
14 6 (3.55%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (3.55%) GCP
15 5 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (2.96%) GitHub
16 4 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.67%) Firewall
1 40 (23.67%) VPN
2 6 (3.55%) Network Security
3 5 (2.96%) FTP
4 4 (2.37%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) Intranet
5 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.73%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.55%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.96%) Big Data
6 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.37%) MySQL
7 3 (1.78%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.78%) Power BI
7 3 (1.78%) Redis
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.59%) Azkaban
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.59%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (20.71%) Git
2 31 (18.34%) GitLab
3 17 (10.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.73%) webpack
5 7 (4.14%) JIRA
6 6 (3.55%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.96%) Mockito
8 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.37%) JUnit
8 4 (2.37%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.78%) Maven
9 3 (1.78%) Mocha
9 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.78%) Selenium
10 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.18%) GoCD
10 2 (1.18%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.59%) RStudio
11 1 (0.59%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (9.47%) Public Sector
2 13 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.55%) Finance
3 6 (3.55%) Legal
4 5 (2.96%) Manufacturing
4 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (1.78%) Banking
5 3 (1.78%) Retail
6 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.59%) Automotive
6 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (30.18%) Architect
2 39 (23.08%) Technical Architect
3 37 (21.89%) Lead
4 36 (21.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (18.93%) Technical Leader
6 30 (17.75%) Developer
7 28 (16.57%) Lead Architect
8 19 (11.24%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (11.24%) Senior
9 13 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) Java Developer
10 12 (7.10%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.33%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 7 (4.14%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (4.14%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (37.28%) Node.js
2 20 (11.83%) React
3 18 (10.65%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.47%) Spring
5 12 (7.10%) Redux
6 11 (6.51%) REST
7 8 (4.73%) .NET
7 8 (4.73%) Express.js
7 8 (4.73%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.73%) JPA
7 8 (4.73%) Spring Security
7 8 (4.73%) XML
8 6 (3.55%) JSON
9 5 (2.96%) Jest
9 5 (2.96%) React Native
10 4 (2.37%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.37%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.37%) Kafka
11 3 (1.78%) Android Jetpack
11 3 (1.78%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.16%) Public Cloud
2 19 (11.24%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.92%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.78%) PKI
6 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.18%) Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.63%) Android
2 43 (25.44%) Windows
3 42 (24.85%) Apple iOS
3 42 (24.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.96%) Linux
5 4 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.78%) Unix
7 2 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.18%) CentOS
8 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.99%) DevOps
2 79 (46.75%) Agile
3 45 (26.63%) Containerisation
4 42 (24.85%) Security Architecture
4 42 (24.85%) Zero Trust
5 40 (23.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 40 (23.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 40 (23.67%) Risk Management
5 40 (23.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 37 (21.89%) Test Automation
7 33 (19.53%) Design Patterns
8 29 (17.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.98%) Microservices
10 16 (9.47%) Front End Development
10 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.47%) Software Engineering
11 15 (8.88%) ETL
11 15 (8.88%) Full Stack Development
11 15 (8.88%) Scrum
12 13 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.67%) Python
2 28 (16.57%) Java
2 28 (16.57%) SQL
3 20 (11.83%) Bash
4 19 (11.24%) C#
5 15 (8.88%) Go
6 13 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.92%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.55%) Ruby
10 3 (1.78%) Bicep
11 2 (1.18%) C++
11 2 (1.18%) Delphi
11 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.18%) VBScript
12 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.59%) R
12 1 (0.59%) X++
Qualifications
1 59 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 56 (33.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.73%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.18%) Degree
4 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.24%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) SLA
3 3 (1.78%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (21.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (28.99%) Terraform
2 47 (27.81%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.06%) Ansible
4 7 (4.14%) HP Fortify
5 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.37%) Grafana
7 2 (1.18%) Consul
7 2 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.18%) Graphite
7 2 (1.18%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.18%) Istio
7 2 (1.18%) linkerd
7 2 (1.18%) Packer
7 2 (1.18%) Podman
7 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.59%) Nmap
8 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (6.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.73%) Splunk
3 6 (3.55%) Google
4 5 (2.96%) Apple
4 5 (2.96%) Informatica
4 5 (2.96%) Talend
5 4 (2.37%) VMware
6 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.78%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.18%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle
7 2 (1.18%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow