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 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 24 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 305 330 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.36% 6.01% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 6.68% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 251 371
10th Percentile £387 £400 £410
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.14% +8.08%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £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% +3.17%

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 4,047 4,941 6,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.38% 90.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,390 4,664
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year - +2.62% +10.74%
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 392 203 257
10th Percentile £11.08 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £26.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +39.47% +6.26%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.09
90th Percentile £63.75 £62.25 £63.00
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 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 6 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 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
North West +1 168 £550 - 138
Yorkshire +17 123 £480 -15.79% 55
North East -13 14 £411 -31.46% 27
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 16 (5.25%) Confluence
2 15 (4.92%) Apache
3 13 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.97%) nginx
7 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.66%) Traefik
10 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 135 (44.26%) AWS
2 76 (24.92%) Azure
3 35 (11.48%) GCP
3 35 (11.48%) GitHub
4 33 (10.82%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (9.51%) Amazon S3
5 29 (9.51%) Serverless
6 22 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (5.25%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (4.59%) Snowflake
11 13 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.95%) Kong
13 8 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (2.62%) Route 53
14 6 (1.97%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.70%) Firewall
2 49 (16.07%) VPN
3 13 (4.26%) DNS
4 11 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.28%) HTTP
6 9 (2.95%) SSL
7 6 (1.97%) FTP
7 6 (1.97%) Network Security
8 4 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.98%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.66%) Intranet
10 2 (0.66%) IPv4
11 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.92%) MySQL
4 11 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.30%) Big Data
8 6 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.97%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.97%) Redis
8 6 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.97%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.64%) Flink
10 3 (0.98%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.98%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (22.62%) Git
2 61 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 54 (17.70%) GitLab
4 21 (6.89%) JIRA
5 11 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.28%) Travis CI
7 9 (2.95%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.95%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.62%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.62%) webpack
9 7 (2.30%) Selenium
10 6 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.64%) Burp Suite
11 5 (1.64%) JMeter
11 5 (1.64%) Mockito
12 4 (1.31%) AppScan
12 4 (1.31%) JUnit
12 4 (1.31%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.98%) Mocha
General
1 38 (12.46%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.82%) Finance
3 32 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.59%) Banking
6 13 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.97%) Legal
8 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.98%) Retail
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (20.00%) Architect
3 51 (16.72%) Developer
4 47 (15.41%) Lead
5 40 (13.11%) Technical Architect
6 32 (10.49%) Technical Leader
7 28 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (9.18%) Lead Architect
8 22 (7.21%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.21%) Senior
9 21 (6.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.26%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.28%) Data Engineer
14 10 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.28%) Node.js
2 27 (8.85%) React
3 20 (6.56%) JSON
3 20 (6.56%) REST
3 20 (6.56%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.90%) Spring
5 17 (5.57%) XML
6 15 (4.92%) Kafka
7 14 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (4.26%) Redux
9 12 (3.93%) YAML
10 11 (3.61%) RESTful
11 10 (3.28%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.95%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.62%) .NET
13 8 (2.62%) Express.js
13 8 (2.62%) JPA
13 8 (2.62%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.30%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.48%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.98%) PKI
9 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.66%) Clustering
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.05%) Windows
2 46 (15.08%) Android
3 45 (14.75%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.10%) Windows Server
5 31 (10.16%) Linux
6 8 (2.62%) Unix
7 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (63.61%) DevOps
2 135 (44.26%) Agile
3 91 (29.84%) Containerisation
4 75 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (22.62%) Test Automation
6 58 (19.02%) Continuous Integration
6 58 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.41%) Design Patterns
8 43 (14.10%) Risk Management
9 42 (13.77%) Microservices
9 42 (13.77%) Security Architecture
9 42 (13.77%) Zero Trust
10 40 (13.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 40 (13.11%) Mobile Device Management
10 40 (13.11%) Threat Intelligence
11 37 (12.13%) Scrum
12 28 (9.18%) Continuous Delivery
12 28 (9.18%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (8.52%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (32.46%) Python
2 58 (19.02%) Bash
3 56 (18.36%) Java
4 44 (14.43%) SQL
5 35 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 32 (10.49%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.21%) Go
8 19 (6.23%) C#
9 18 (5.90%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.93%) Scala
11 10 (3.28%) Ruby
12 6 (1.97%) Groovy
12 6 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.64%) Perl
14 4 (1.31%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.31%) Bicep
14 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.98%) C
15 3 (0.98%) Swift
16 2 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 71 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.92%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (1.64%) Degree
5 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.11%) QA
2 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.64%) GDPR
2 5 (1.64%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.31%) SLA
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 22301
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (30.49%) Docker
2 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) HDFS
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (33.77%) Kubernetes
2 93 (30.49%) Terraform
3 57 (18.69%) Ansible
4 28 (9.18%) Grafana
5 27 (8.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.23%) Puppet
7 14 (4.59%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.93%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (3.61%) HP Fortify
10 10 (3.28%) Kibana
11 9 (2.95%) logstash
12 4 (1.31%) Graylog
12 4 (1.31%) Nessus
12 4 (1.31%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.98%) Istio
13 3 (0.98%) Packer
14 2 (0.66%) Consul
14 2 (0.66%) linkerd
14 2 (0.66%) Podman
14 2 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (7.54%) Splunk
2 17 (5.57%) Google
3 15 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.59%) EMC
5 8 (2.62%) Informatica
6 7 (2.30%) PagerDuty
6 7 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.97%) IBM
7 6 (1.97%) Solace
7 6 (1.97%) VMware
8 5 (1.64%) Apple
8 5 (1.64%) Talend
9 4 (1.31%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.31%) Oracle
9 4 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.31%) Veracode
10 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.98%) F5
10 3 (0.98%) SAP