CI/CD Contracts in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,128 3,775 6,166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.85% 7.79% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 8.65% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 2,673 4,365
10th Percentile £406 £450 £449
25th Percentile £475 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 67 54
10th Percentile £55.00 £57.38 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.75 £60.91 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +10.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.70 £79.28
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +26.83%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -6 1,316 £563 -9.64% 712
North of England +3 293 £550 -0.90% 253
South East -23 176 £600 +4.35% 251
North West -2 171 £550 - 147
South West -16 145 £585 -2.50% 127
Yorkshire +16 112 £500 -9.09% 68
Midlands -37 64 £475 -11.71% 109
West Midlands -26 49 £475 -13.64% 80
East of England -21 39 £534 +1.23% 62
East Midlands -3 12 £398 -6.47% 28
North East -19 10 £469 -21.88% 39
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 91 (4.28%) Confluence
2 70 (3.29%) Apache
3 64 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 59 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.41%) nginx
6 29 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.80%) SharePoint
9 16 (0.75%) CMS
10 12 (0.56%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
11 11 (0.52%) JBoss
12 9 (0.42%) SAS
13 8 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.38%) IIS
13 8 (0.38%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.23%) Appian
14 5 (0.23%) Mule
14 5 (0.23%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) Windchill
4 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.047%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.047%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.33%) Endur
4 6 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.19%) Shopify
7 3 (0.14%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.094%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.094%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.047%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.047%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.047%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.047%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 765 (35.95%) Azure
2 748 (35.15%) AWS
3 332 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
4 264 (12.41%) Serverless
5 253 (11.89%) GitHub
6 236 (11.09%) GCP
7 146 (6.86%) Entra ID
8 141 (6.63%) Amazon S3
9 135 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (4.23%) Azure Functions
12 84 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 77 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 74 (3.48%) PaaS
15 73 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
16 70 (3.29%) OpenShift
17 67 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 67 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
18 66 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (6.81%) Firewall
2 102 (4.79%) VPN
3 67 (3.15%) DNS
4 45 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 38 (1.79%) HTTP
6 35 (1.64%) Network Security
7 30 (1.41%) SSL
8 26 (1.22%) DHCP
9 16 (0.75%) BGP
10 11 (0.52%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.52%) MPLS
10 11 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.47%) VSAN
11 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.42%) SAN
13 7 (0.33%) AMQP
13 7 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.28%) IPsec
14 6 (0.28%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 168 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 94 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 79 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
7 62 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 60 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
8 60 (2.82%) Data Lake
9 59 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (2.58%) Big Data
11 53 (2.49%) MySQL
12 46 (2.16%) Power BI
13 43 (2.02%) DynamoDB
14 31 (1.46%) Redis
15 29 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
17 22 (1.03%) Hadoop
18 17 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 496 (23.31%) Jenkins
2 400 (18.80%) Git
3 265 (12.45%) GitLab
4 185 (8.69%) JIRA
5 96 (4.51%) Selenium
6 76 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 74 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 69 (3.24%) Bitbucket
9 67 (3.15%) Postman
10 65 (3.05%) TeamCity
11 55 (2.58%) JUnit
12 52 (2.44%) SpecFlow
12 52 (2.44%) Visual Studio
13 48 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 43 (2.02%) SonarQube
15 41 (1.93%) Maven
16 40 (1.88%) JMeter
17 39 (1.83%) Artifactory
18 29 (1.36%) Appium
19 28 (1.32%) Mockito
General
1 448 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 403 (18.94%) Finance
3 174 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 131 (6.16%) Banking
5 65 (3.05%) Front Office
6 55 (2.58%) Retail
7 37 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 27 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.27%) Law
10 25 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.13%) Legal
12 23 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 23 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 19 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 19 (0.89%) Marketing
14 17 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.75%) Back Office
16 13 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 594 (27.91%) Developer
2 340 (15.98%) Senior
3 333 (15.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (9.87%) Architect
5 188 (8.83%) Lead
6 147 (6.91%) Senior Developer
7 129 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 113 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 106 (4.98%) Java Developer
10 102 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 97 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 92 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
13 87 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
14 83 (3.90%) Python Developer
15 74 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
17 65 (3.05%) Software Developer
18 64 (3.01%) Azure Developer
19 57 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
20 56 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (12.31%) .NET
2 240 (11.28%) React
3 234 (11.00%) Node.js
4 179 (8.41%) REST
5 147 (6.91%) XML
6 135 (6.34%) Kafka
7 126 (5.92%) HTML
8 124 (5.83%) Spring
9 111 (5.22%) Spring Boot
10 109 (5.12%) CSS
11 106 (4.98%) .NET Core
12 86 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
12 86 (4.04%) JSON
13 82 (3.85%) AngularJS
14 79 (3.71%) RESTful
15 78 (3.67%) .NET Framework
16 73 (3.43%) YAML
17 69 (3.24%) ARM Templates
18 63 (2.96%) GraphQL
19 58 (2.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 83 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 72 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 56 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 56 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 50 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
7 46 (2.16%) Mobile App
8 43 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 36 (1.69%) Derivative
11 31 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 30 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 29 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.36%) PKI
14 28 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 22 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 376 (17.67%) Linux
2 183 (8.60%) Windows
3 87 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 78 (3.67%) Android
5 75 (3.52%) Unix
6 64 (3.01%) Apple iOS
7 48 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (1.50%) CentOS
9 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.66%) VMS
12 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.094%) AIX
15 2 (0.094%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.094%) Solaris
16 1 (0.047%) Debian
16 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,233 (57.94%) DevOps
2 899 (42.25%) Agile
3 394 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 394 (18.52%) Test Automation
4 367 (17.25%) Continuous Integration
5 311 (14.61%) Software Engineering
6 303 (14.24%) Containerisation
7 300 (14.10%) Microservices
8 291 (13.67%) Scrum
9 289 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
10 233 (10.95%) TDD
11 205 (9.63%) SDLC
12 182 (8.55%) Full Stack Development
13 148 (6.95%) Computer Science
14 144 (6.77%) Continuous Deployment
14 144 (6.77%) Migration
15 136 (6.39%) Continuous Delivery
16 132 (6.20%) Configuration Management
17 120 (5.64%) Analytics
18 117 (5.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 757 (35.57%) Python
2 449 (21.10%) Java
3 386 (18.14%) SQL
4 319 (14.99%) PowerShell
5 312 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 295 (13.86%) C#
7 181 (8.51%) Bash
8 179 (8.41%) TypeScript
9 122 (5.73%) Go
10 86 (4.04%) Bicep
11 79 (3.71%) Shell Script
12 77 (3.62%) C++
13 43 (2.02%) Kotlin
14 42 (1.97%) Perl
15 32 (1.50%) Ruby
15 32 (1.50%) Scala
16 28 (1.32%) C
17 22 (1.03%) Groovy
18 21 (0.99%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 446 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 344 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 169 (7.94%) Degree
4 114 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 94 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 20 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 16 (0.75%) CISSP
12 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.47%) CISM
13 10 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.33%) AAT
15 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.28%) CISA
17 3 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.39%) QA
2 41 (1.93%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.89%) NIST
6 15 (0.70%) MISRA
6 15 (0.70%) SLA
7 14 (0.66%) GDPR
8 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.56%) WCAG
9 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.23%) NCSC
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.19%) MiFID
11 4 (0.19%) PMO
12 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.047%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.047%) NIST 800
System Software
1 478 (22.46%) Docker
2 176 (8.27%) Active Directory
3 66 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 9 (0.42%) HDFS
7 9 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.33%) vCloud
8 7 (0.33%) vSphere
9 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.14%) LXC
10 2 (0.094%) Firmware
11 1 (0.047%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.047%) Ceph
11 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.047%) NFS
11 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 572 (26.88%) Kubernetes
2 549 (25.80%) Terraform
3 334 (15.70%) Ansible
4 130 (6.11%) Grafana
5 119 (5.59%) Prometheus
6 75 (3.52%) Puppet
7 61 (2.87%) Progress Chef
8 51 (2.40%) Kibana
9 34 (1.60%) logstash
10 24 (1.13%) Packer
10 24 (1.13%) PowerCLI
11 23 (1.08%) Consul
12 21 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
14 18 (0.85%) Argo
14 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.80%) SCCM
15 17 (0.80%) SCOM
15 17 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 326 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 122 (5.73%) Google
3 91 (4.28%) Oracle
4 76 (3.57%) Splunk
5 61 (2.87%) Databricks
6 60 (2.82%) VMware
7 44 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 41 (1.93%) SAP
9 37 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 35 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 35 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 33 (1.55%) IBM
12 29 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 26 (1.22%) Dell
14 22 (1.03%) HP
15 17 (0.80%) Cisco
15 17 (0.80%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.80%) TIBCO
16 15 (0.70%) Adobe
16 15 (0.70%) EMC