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 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 23 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 293 349 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.35% 6.20% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 6.85% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 268 379
10th Percentile £408 £409 £412
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £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 13
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +10.71%

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 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 May 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 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
North West -2 171 £550 - 147
Yorkshire +16 112 £500 -9.09% 68
North East -19 10 £469 -21.88% 38
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 (5.46%) Apache
1 16 (5.46%) Confluence
2 13 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.05%) nginx
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.68%) Traefik
9 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 128 (43.69%) AWS
2 72 (24.57%) Azure
3 35 (11.95%) GitHub
4 34 (11.60%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (11.26%) GCP
6 29 (9.90%) Amazon S3
6 29 (9.90%) Serverless
7 22 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.78%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.07%) Kong
13 9 (3.07%) Route 53
14 8 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.43%) Firewall
2 49 (16.72%) VPN
3 13 (4.44%) DNS
4 11 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.07%) HTTP
5 9 (3.07%) SSL
6 7 (2.39%) Network Security
7 5 (1.71%) FTP
8 4 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.02%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.68%) Intranet
10 2 (0.68%) IPv4
11 1 (0.34%) DSL
11 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (5.46%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.12%) MySQL
4 11 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.39%) Big Data
8 6 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.05%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.05%) Flink
8 6 (2.05%) Redis
8 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.71%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.02%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.02%) Power BI
10 3 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (22.53%) Git
2 60 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 51 (17.41%) GitLab
4 23 (7.85%) JIRA
5 11 (3.75%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.41%) Travis CI
7 9 (3.07%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.07%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.73%) webpack
9 7 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.71%) Burp Suite
11 5 (1.71%) JMeter
11 5 (1.71%) Mockito
11 5 (1.71%) Selenium
12 4 (1.37%) AppScan
12 4 (1.37%) JUnit
12 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.02%) Maven
General
1 34 (11.60%) Finance
1 34 (11.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.10%) Banking
5 11 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.05%) Legal
7 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.02%) Retail
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (20.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (19.80%) Architect
3 52 (17.75%) Developer
4 47 (16.04%) Lead
5 40 (13.65%) Technical Architect
6 32 (10.92%) Technical Leader
7 28 (9.56%) Lead Architect
8 24 (8.19%) Senior
9 23 (7.85%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 13 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Site Engineer
16 9 (3.07%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (24.23%) Node.js
2 26 (8.87%) React
3 21 (7.17%) REST
4 20 (6.83%) Spring Boot
5 19 (6.48%) JSON
6 18 (6.14%) Spring
7 17 (5.80%) XML
8 15 (5.12%) Kafka
9 14 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (4.78%) Redux
10 12 (4.10%) RESTful
10 12 (4.10%) YAML
11 11 (3.75%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.07%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.73%) .NET
13 8 (2.73%) Express.js
13 8 (2.73%) JPA
13 8 (2.73%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.39%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.29%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.78%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.02%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.68%) NHS
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.43%) Windows
2 46 (15.70%) Android
3 45 (15.36%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.68%) Windows Server
5 33 (11.26%) Linux
6 8 (2.73%) Unix
7 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (62.80%) DevOps
2 131 (44.71%) Agile
3 82 (27.99%) Containerisation
4 64 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (21.50%) Test Automation
6 55 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (18.43%) Continuous Integration
8 46 (15.70%) Design Patterns
9 43 (14.68%) Risk Management
10 42 (14.33%) Security Architecture
10 42 (14.33%) Zero Trust
11 40 (13.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 40 (13.65%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (13.65%) Threat Intelligence
12 39 (13.31%) Microservices
13 34 (11.60%) Scrum
14 27 (9.22%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (8.87%) Continuous Delivery
16 25 (8.53%) Software Engineering
17 24 (8.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (32.08%) Python
2 53 (18.09%) Bash
3 50 (17.06%) Java
4 43 (14.68%) SQL
5 34 (11.60%) PowerShell
6 31 (10.58%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.51%) Go
8 19 (6.48%) C#
9 16 (5.46%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.10%) Ruby
11 9 (3.07%) Scala
12 6 (2.05%) Groovy
12 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.71%) Perl
14 4 (1.37%) Bicep
14 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.02%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.02%) Swift
16 2 (0.68%) C++
16 2 (0.68%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 69 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.07%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (1.71%) Degree
5 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) MCSE
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.97%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
2 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
2 4 (1.37%) SLA
3 3 (1.02%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.68%) NCSC
4 2 (0.68%) NIST
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (29.01%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) HDFS
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 95 (32.42%) Kubernetes
2 84 (28.67%) Terraform
3 56 (19.11%) Ansible
4 26 (8.87%) Grafana
5 25 (8.53%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.83%) Puppet
7 15 (5.12%) Progress Chef
8 12 (4.10%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (3.75%) HP Fortify
10 10 (3.41%) Kibana
11 9 (3.07%) logstash
12 4 (1.37%) Graylog
12 4 (1.37%) Nessus
12 4 (1.37%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.02%) Istio
13 3 (1.02%) Packer
14 2 (0.68%) Consul
14 2 (0.68%) Graphite
14 2 (0.68%) linkerd
14 2 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (7.85%) Splunk
2 15 (5.12%) Google
3 14 (4.78%) EMC
3 14 (4.78%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.73%) Informatica
5 6 (2.05%) IBM
5 6 (2.05%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.05%) Solace
5 6 (2.05%) VMware
6 5 (1.71%) Apple
6 5 (1.71%) Talend
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.37%) Checkmarx
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle
7 4 (1.37%) Veracode
8 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.02%) F5
8 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) Ariba