CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 70 39 45
Rank change year-on-year -31 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 46 114 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.29% 5.16% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 5.88% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 75 112
10th Percentile £305 £450 £401
25th Percentile £328 £491 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £575
90th Percentile £680 £695 £649
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,938 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.24% 87.65% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,313 2,350
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £586
90th Percentile £734 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry +4 14 £550 +4.76% 7
Birmingham -4 11 £500 -20.00% 35
Staffordshire +13 7 £350 - 5
Warwickshire -17 7 £663 +12.77% 10
Worcestershire -10 2 £475 -13.64% 2
Solihull - 2 £275 - 6
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.52%) CMS
1 3 (6.52%) Drupal
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) SAS
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Serverless
5 7 (15.22%) PaaS
6 5 (10.87%) CloudFront
6 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Functions
7 4 (8.70%) IaaS
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 2 (4.35%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) VPN
3 5 (10.87%) Network Security
4 4 (8.70%) Firewall
4 4 (8.70%) SSL
5 1 (2.17%) Extranet
5 1 (2.17%) Intranet
5 1 (2.17%) IPsec
5 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) Impala
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.17%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) Artifactory
4 5 (10.87%) GitLab
5 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 3 (6.52%) NUnit
5 3 (6.52%) Selenium
5 3 (6.52%) Subversion
6 2 (4.35%) Moq
6 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.35%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.17%) Hudson
7 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Retail
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
2 5 (10.87%) React Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Lead
4 3 (6.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Applications Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) React
2 5 (10.87%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) Apollo GraphQL
2 5 (10.87%) Express.js
2 5 (10.87%) GraphQL
2 5 (10.87%) OAuth
2 5 (10.87%) OAuth2
2 5 (10.87%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) SAML
2 5 (10.87%) Spring
3 4 (8.70%) JSON
4 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.35%) Swagger
5 2 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) DevOps
2 17 (36.96%) Agile
3 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 10 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (17.39%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (17.39%) TDD
5 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
5 7 (15.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
5 7 (15.22%) Scrum
5 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (13.04%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.04%) Microservices
6 6 (13.04%) SOA
7 5 (10.87%) Application Security
7 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) Java
2 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.70%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) Perl
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) HiveQL
8 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) HDFS
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Ansible
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.17%) Argo
4 1 (2.17%) Istio
4 1 (2.17%) linkerd
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
4 1 (2.17%) Rancher
4 1 (2.17%) SELinux
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.52%) SAP
5 2 (4.35%) Confluent
6 1 (2.17%) Denodo
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Talend
6 1 (2.17%) VMware