CircleCI Contracts

CircleCI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CircleCI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CircleCI 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 522 553 588
Rank change year-on-year +31 +35 -87
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 53 129 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 1.60% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 101 210
10th Percentile £425 £500 £500
25th Percentile £525 £575 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% - +22.73%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £775
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -11.14% +33.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

CircleCI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CircleCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Daily rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Hourly rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CircleCI within the UK 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
England +11 48 £617 -8.56% 33
London +25 31 £644 -4.63% 15
Work from Home +82 16 £622 -14.21% 21
UK excluding London +38 14 £622 -11.14% 20
North of England +21 10 £625 -10.71% 13
Yorkshire +15 9 £625 -10.71% 11
Scotland - 2 £400 - 2
South East - 2 £350 - 1
North West - 1 £550 - 2

CircleCI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) AWS
2 34 (64.15%) GitHub
3 24 (45.28%) Azure
4 18 (33.96%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (32.08%) GCP
6 9 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (16.98%) Kong
7 8 (15.09%) Serverless
8 6 (11.32%) Amazon S3
8 6 (11.32%) Apigee
8 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.89%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 1 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
12 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) DNS
1 11 (20.75%) TCP/IP
2 10 (18.87%) Firewall
3 9 (16.98%) HTTP
3 9 (16.98%) VPN
4 3 (5.66%) BIG-IP
4 3 (5.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (5.66%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (5.66%) SSL
5 1 (1.89%) DHCP
5 1 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) DynamoDB
1 10 (18.87%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (13.21%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) DB2
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.89%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (45.28%) Jenkins
2 20 (37.74%) GitLab
3 14 (26.42%) Git
4 12 (22.64%) Travis CI
5 11 (20.75%) JIRA
6 9 (16.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (13.21%) Gradle
8 6 (11.32%) JUnit
9 5 (9.43%) Mercurial
10 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
10 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.66%) Selenium
11 2 (3.77%) RStudio
12 1 (1.89%) Appium
12 1 (1.89%) Darcs
12 1 (1.89%) fastlane
12 1 (1.89%) GoCD
12 1 (1.89%) Jaeger
12 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
12 1 (1.89%) XCUITest
General
1 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.55%) Law
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Front Office
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Android Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Python Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Java Pricing Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) Pricing Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.19%) REST
2 12 (22.64%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (20.75%) RESTful
4 9 (16.98%) JSON
4 9 (16.98%) XML
4 9 (16.98%) YAML
5 8 (15.09%) Node.js
6 7 (13.21%) Spring
7 6 (11.32%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (9.43%) Dagger
8 5 (9.43%) Jetpack Compose
8 5 (9.43%) RAML
8 5 (9.43%) React
9 4 (7.55%) Django
9 4 (7.55%) GraphQL
9 4 (7.55%) OkHttp
9 4 (7.55%) pytest
9 4 (7.55%) RxJava
9 4 (7.55%) Web Services
9 4 (7.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Data Structures
2 8 (15.09%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (13.21%) Legacy Code
3 7 (13.21%) Virtual Team
4 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
5 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.89%) CBDC
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.89%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.89%) PKI
7 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Android
2 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 24 (45.28%) Agile
3 21 (39.62%) DevOps
4 18 (33.96%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
6 13 (24.53%) Open Source
6 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (24.53%) Scrum
7 12 (22.64%) DevSecOps
8 11 (20.75%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (20.75%) Microservices
8 11 (20.75%) Secure Coding
9 10 (18.87%) Task Automation
10 9 (16.98%) API Integration
10 9 (16.98%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (16.98%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (16.98%) Project Management
10 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (16.98%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) SQL
3 12 (22.64%) Bash
4 11 (20.75%) Java
5 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
6 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
6 8 (15.09%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.55%) Go
7 4 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.66%) ActionScript
8 3 (5.66%) C#
9 2 (3.77%) R
9 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.89%) C
10 1 (1.89%) C++
10 1 (1.89%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.89%) Ruby
10 1 (1.89%) Rust
10 1 (1.89%) Scala
10 1 (1.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
1 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (39.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Ceph
2 1 (1.89%) NFS
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) Kubernetes
1 23 (43.40%) Terraform
2 18 (33.96%) Ansible
3 13 (24.53%) Grafana
3 13 (24.53%) Prometheus
4 12 (22.64%) Progress Chef
4 12 (22.64%) Puppet
5 10 (18.87%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (18.87%) Kibana
5 10 (18.87%) logstash
6 1 (1.89%) CASB
6 1 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.89%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.89%) Mesos
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Splunk
2 5 (9.43%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.66%) F5
3 3 (5.66%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) VMware