CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 22 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 150 254 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.73% 7.42% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 8.29% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 178 149
10th Percentile £475 £418 £411
25th Percentile £513 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £680
England median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 14
10th Percentile £65.00 £54.36 -
25th Percentile £65.31 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £72.22 £75.00 £65.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,617 3,064 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.56% 89.54% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,236 2,299
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 316 208
10th Percentile £13.90 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.19 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +22.88% +10.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.74 £69.26
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Bristol -16 60 £525 - 46
Gloucestershire -2 36 £625 -3.85% 24
Wiltshire -19 32 £700 +16.67% 9
Dorset +10 8 £400 -8.57% 5
Devon -1 7 £550 -8.33% 8
Somerset -12 3 £600 -12.41% 9
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (17.33%) Confluence
2 9 (6.00%) Apache
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.67%) nginx
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.67%) AWS
2 49 (32.67%) Azure
3 32 (21.33%) GitHub
4 24 (16.00%) OpenShift
5 18 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (10.67%) GCP
7 10 (6.67%) PaaS
7 10 (6.67%) Serverless
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.00%) IaaS
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.67%) AMQP
3 6 (4.00%) Network Security
4 5 (3.33%) DNS
4 5 (3.33%) Ethernet
4 5 (3.33%) HTTP
4 5 (3.33%) VPN
5 4 (2.67%) Firewall
5 4 (2.67%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.67%) IPsec
5 4 (2.67%) SAN
6 2 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.67%) 5G
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) LTE
7 1 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) InfluxDB
1 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.33%) MySQL
3 5 (3.33%) Triplestore
4 4 (2.67%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.00%) CockroachDB
5 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.33%) Big Data
6 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.33%) Power BI
7 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (44.67%) Jenkins
2 46 (30.67%) JIRA
3 26 (17.33%) Bitbucket
4 22 (14.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (10.67%) GitLab
6 15 (10.00%) GoogleTest
7 12 (8.00%) Git
8 11 (7.33%) Visual Studio
9 10 (6.67%) Cypress.io
10 9 (6.00%) Artifactory
11 8 (5.33%) SonarQube
12 6 (4.00%) NUnit
12 6 (4.00%) Postman
13 5 (3.33%) Eclipse
13 5 (3.33%) Selenium
14 2 (1.33%) Snyk
15 1 (0.67%) Babel
15 1 (0.67%) ESLint
15 1 (0.67%) Vite
15 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 42 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.00%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.67%) Legal
5 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.33%) Finance
6 5 (3.33%) Military
6 5 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Banking
7 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.33%) Electronics
8 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Law
8 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (1.33%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
9 1 (0.67%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (22.00%) Software Engineer
3 30 (20.00%) Developer
4 19 (12.67%) Java Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Senior
6 15 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Architect
10 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.67%) .NET
2 25 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 19 (12.67%) REST
4 17 (11.33%) Qt
5 11 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (6.67%) GraphQL
6 10 (6.67%) YAML
7 9 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (6.00%) React
8 8 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.67%) CSS
9 7 (4.67%) HTML
9 7 (4.67%) Kafka
9 7 (4.67%) Node.js
10 6 (4.00%) Spring
11 5 (3.33%) Apache Jena
11 5 (3.33%) JSON
11 5 (3.33%) PostGIS
11 5 (3.33%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (11.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.33%) PKI
8 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (50.67%) Linux
2 21 (14.00%) Windows
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (57.33%) DevOps
2 53 (35.33%) Agile
3 47 (31.33%) Software Engineering
4 36 (24.00%) Configuration Management
5 34 (22.67%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (20.67%) Task Automation
7 29 (19.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (16.00%) OO
8 24 (16.00%) OOP
9 23 (15.33%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.67%) SDLC
12 16 (10.67%) TDD
13 14 (9.33%) BDD
13 14 (9.33%) Microservices
13 14 (9.33%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (7.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.33%) Python
2 49 (32.67%) PowerShell
3 44 (29.33%) Java
4 23 (15.33%) C++
5 21 (14.00%) SQL
6 18 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.33%) Bash
8 12 (8.00%) Go
9 10 (6.67%) C#
10 8 (5.33%) C
10 8 (5.33%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.00%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.33%) SPARQL
13 4 (2.67%) PHP
14 3 (2.00%) Bicep
14 3 (2.00%) Perl
15 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.67%) Julia
16 1 (0.67%) Rust
16 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.00%) DV Cleared
2 42 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.00%) Degree
5 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.33%) MISRA
2 8 (5.33%) QA
3 6 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.00%) NIST
4 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.67%) GDPR
5 4 (2.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (32.00%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (41.33%) Ansible
2 54 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 45 (30.00%) Terraform
4 24 (16.00%) PowerCLI
5 15 (10.00%) Grafana
5 15 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.00%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.67%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (2.67%) Argo
8 4 (2.67%) OPNET
8 4 (2.67%) Puppet
9 2 (1.33%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (17.33%) Atlassian
1 26 (17.33%) Google
2 22 (14.67%) Dell
2 22 (14.67%) HP
3 18 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.67%) VMware
5 4 (2.67%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.00%) SAP
7 2 (1.33%) Cisco
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) IBM