CI/CD Contracts in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 44 44
Rank change year-on-year -32 0 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 63 146 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.20% 4.51% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 5.15% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 104 169
10th Percentile £325 £370 £389
25th Percentile £356 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +7.10% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £47.50
75th Percentile £65.63 - £53.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,331 2,837 4,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.50% 87.62% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 1,993 3,263
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £357 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £699 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 99 136
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £10.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.76 £13.84
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £44.25 £24.13
90th Percentile £55.00 £59.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands -34 46 £475 -15.56% 66
East Midlands -4 14 £436 +2.65% 31
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (7.94%) JBoss
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Drupal
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) SAS
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) AWS
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.46%) Serverless
4 7 (11.11%) PaaS
5 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.94%) CloudFront
6 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
6 5 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.35%) IaaS
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.17%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) DNS
2 7 (11.11%) VPN
3 5 (7.94%) Network Security
4 4 (6.35%) Firewall
4 4 (6.35%) SSL
5 1 (1.59%) DSL
5 1 (1.59%) Extranet
5 1 (1.59%) Intranet
5 1 (1.59%) IPsec
5 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.94%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.59%) Impala
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Git
2 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.29%) JIRA
4 7 (11.11%) TeamCity
5 6 (9.52%) Artifactory
5 6 (9.52%) GitLab
6 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
6 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (7.94%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.76%) NUnit
7 3 (4.76%) Selenium
7 3 (4.76%) Subversion
8 2 (3.17%) Gradle
8 2 (3.17%) Maven
8 2 (3.17%) Moq
8 2 (3.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.17%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.59%) Hudson
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Retail
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.52%) React Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.17%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Environment Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Test Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) React
2 7 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) .NET
3 6 (9.52%) Apollo GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) OAuth
3 6 (9.52%) REST
3 6 (9.52%) SAML
3 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.94%) Express.js
4 5 (7.94%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.94%) Spring
5 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.35%) JSON
6 3 (4.76%) Kafka
7 2 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.17%) OpenAPI
7 2 (3.17%) Swagger
7 2 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 11 (17.46%) Linux
3 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) DevOps
2 21 (33.33%) Agile
3 15 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (19.05%) Microservices
5 11 (17.46%) Computer Science
5 11 (17.46%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (14.29%) TDD
7 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
7 8 (12.70%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.70%) DevSecOps
7 8 (12.70%) Scrum
8 7 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 7 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (11.11%) Migration
8 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (9.52%) SOA
9 6 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) Python
2 11 (17.46%) Java
3 9 (14.29%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.11%) Perl
6 6 (9.52%) C#
6 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.76%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) Go
8 1 (1.59%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Ruby
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Degree
2 10 (15.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) RHCE
7 1 (1.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (31.75%) Docker
2 11 (17.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.05%) Ansible
3 10 (15.87%) Terraform
4 8 (12.70%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.94%) Kibana
6 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.59%) Argo
7 1 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (1.59%) linkerd
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) Rancher
7 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.59%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.94%) AppDynamics
4 5 (7.94%) Splunk
5 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.76%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.76%) SAP
7 2 (3.17%) Confluent
8 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.59%) Denodo
8 1 (1.59%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.59%) Google
8 1 (1.59%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.59%) Informatica
8 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle
8 1 (1.59%) Sage
8 1 (1.59%) Talend
8 1 (1.59%) VMware