GoCD Contracts

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GoCD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCD over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 690 817
Rank change year-on-year +113 +127 -97
Contract jobs citing GoCD 7 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.013% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.13% 0.089% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 25
10th Percentile £365 - £355
25th Percentile £425 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £428 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -18.48% +13.51%
75th Percentile £550 £430 £600
90th Percentile £663 £436 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £420 £538
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.86% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

GoCD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,289 7,896 15,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.22% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,531 5,574 10,996
10th Percentile £355 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 223 200
10th Percentile £31.48 £45.24 £37.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £82.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GoCD over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoCD within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +88 7 £450 +7.14%
London - 4 £450 -
UK excluding London +27 3 £525 +25.00%
North of England +15 3 £525 +25.00%
North West +13 3 £525 +25.00%
Work from Home +116 2 - -

GoCD
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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mart
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
3 1 (14.29%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Active Listening
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Ceph
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Mesos
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft