CI/CD Contracts in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 25 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 310 327 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.44% 5.99% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.67% 6.65% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 248 361
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +5.90% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £713 £688
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 £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,040 4,914 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.94% 90.05% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,382 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 205 254
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.72 £13.53
Median hourly rate £20.77 £25.00 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +31.27% +6.93%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.48 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.39 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -1 167 £550 - 142
Yorkshire +18 127 £475 -17.39% 56
North East -12 16 £411 -31.46% 26
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (5.48%) Confluence
2 15 (4.84%) Apache
3 13 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.61%) nginx
7 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.97%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.32%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 137 (44.19%) AWS
2 79 (25.48%) Azure
3 35 (11.29%) GCP
3 35 (11.29%) GitHub
4 31 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (9.35%) Amazon S3
5 29 (9.35%) Serverless
6 22 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.52%) Snowflake
11 13 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.90%) Kong
13 8 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (2.58%) Route 53
14 6 (1.94%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 55 (17.74%) Firewall
2 49 (15.81%) VPN
3 12 (3.87%) DNS
4 10 (3.23%) HTTP
4 10 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.90%) SSL
6 6 (1.94%) FTP
6 6 (1.94%) Network Security
7 4 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.97%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.65%) Intranet
9 2 (0.65%) IPv4
10 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.32%) SMS
10 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.16%) MySQL
4 12 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.26%) Big Data
8 6 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.94%) Redis
8 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.61%) Flink
10 3 (0.97%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.97%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 68 (21.94%) Git
2 62 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 54 (17.42%) GitLab
4 22 (7.10%) JIRA
5 11 (3.55%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.23%) Travis CI
7 9 (2.90%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.90%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.58%) webpack
9 7 (2.26%) Selenium
10 6 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.61%) Burp Suite
11 5 (1.61%) JMeter
11 5 (1.61%) Mockito
12 4 (1.29%) AppScan
12 4 (1.29%) JUnit
12 4 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.97%) Maven
General
1 40 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (10.65%) Finance
3 25 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.52%) Banking
6 6 (1.94%) Legal
7 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.97%) Retail
9 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.32%) Automotive
10 1 (0.32%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Local Government
10 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (19.68%) Architect
3 51 (16.45%) Developer
4 48 (15.48%) Lead
5 40 (12.90%) Technical Architect
6 32 (10.32%) Technical Leader
7 28 (9.03%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.03%) Lead Architect
8 22 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.10%) Senior
9 21 (6.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.52%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 10 (3.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.90%) Node.js
2 28 (9.03%) React
3 20 (6.45%) JSON
3 20 (6.45%) REST
3 20 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.81%) Spring
5 17 (5.48%) XML
6 16 (5.16%) Kafka
7 14 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (4.19%) Redux
8 13 (4.19%) RESTful
9 12 (3.87%) YAML
10 10 (3.23%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.90%) Hibernate
12 8 (2.58%) .NET
12 8 (2.58%) Express.js
12 8 (2.58%) JPA
12 8 (2.58%) Spring Security
13 7 (2.26%) GraphQL
13 7 (2.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.29%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.52%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.65%) NHS
11 2 (0.65%) PKI
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
12 1 (0.32%) Clustering
12 1 (0.32%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.32%) Replication
12 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.77%) Windows
2 46 (14.84%) Android
3 45 (14.52%) Apple iOS
4 43 (13.87%) Windows Server
5 31 (10.00%) Linux
6 9 (2.90%) Unix
7 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (62.90%) DevOps
2 137 (44.19%) Agile
3 92 (29.68%) Containerisation
4 76 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (22.26%) Test Automation
6 59 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (18.71%) Continuous Integration
8 47 (15.16%) Design Patterns
9 43 (13.87%) Risk Management
10 42 (13.55%) Microservices
10 42 (13.55%) Security Architecture
10 42 (13.55%) Zero Trust
11 40 (12.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 40 (12.90%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (12.90%) Threat Intelligence
12 39 (12.58%) Scrum
13 30 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
14 28 (9.03%) Continuous Delivery
14 28 (9.03%) Software Engineering
15 26 (8.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (31.61%) Python
2 58 (18.71%) Java
3 56 (18.06%) Bash
4 46 (14.84%) SQL
5 35 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.65%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.77%) Go
8 19 (6.13%) C#
8 19 (6.13%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.87%) Scala
10 9 (2.90%) Ruby
11 6 (1.94%) Groovy
11 6 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.61%) Perl
13 4 (1.29%) ActionScript
13 4 (1.29%) Bicep
13 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.97%) C
14 3 (0.97%) Swift
15 2 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 74 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 70 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.16%) AWS Certification
3 16 (5.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (1.61%) Degree
5 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.90%) QA
2 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.94%) GDPR
2 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.29%) SLA
4 3 (0.97%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.65%) NIST
5 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (30.65%) Docker
2 7 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.65%) HDFS
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 105 (33.87%) Kubernetes
2 93 (30.00%) Terraform
3 59 (19.03%) Ansible
4 30 (9.68%) Grafana
5 28 (9.03%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.13%) Puppet
7 15 (4.84%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.55%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (3.55%) HP Fortify
9 10 (3.23%) Kibana
10 9 (2.90%) logstash
11 4 (1.29%) Graylog
11 4 (1.29%) Nessus
11 4 (1.29%) WebInspect
12 2 (0.65%) Istio
12 2 (0.65%) Kiali
12 2 (0.65%) Packer
13 1 (0.32%) Anchore
13 1 (0.32%) linkerd
13 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (7.42%) Splunk
2 18 (5.81%) Google
3 15 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.52%) EMC
5 8 (2.58%) Informatica
6 7 (2.26%) PagerDuty
6 7 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.94%) IBM
7 6 (1.94%) Solace
8 5 (1.61%) Apple
8 5 (1.61%) Talend
8 5 (1.61%) VMware
9 4 (1.29%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.29%) Oracle
9 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.29%) Veracode
10 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.97%) F5
10 3 (0.97%) SAP