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 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 39 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 145 257 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.58% 7.41% 6.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.52% 8.26% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 182 154
10th Percentile £475 £419 £411
25th Percentile £513 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £680
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 14
10th Percentile - £53.75 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £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 £73.11 £75.00 £65.53
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
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 2,626 3,113 3,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.71% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,274 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £313 £297
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
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 343 317 207
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.40 £20.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.76% +10.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.29
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 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 20 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 20 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 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
Bristol -9 58 £525 -2.33% 52
Gloucestershire +3 34 £625 -3.85% 27
Wiltshire -22 32 £700 +16.67% 14
Dorset +8 7 £400 -8.57% 8
Devon +2 7 £550 -8.33% 9
Somerset -9 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 (17.93%) Confluence
2 9 (6.21%) Apache
3 4 (2.76%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.76%) nginx
4 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.62%) AWS
2 48 (33.10%) Azure
3 30 (20.69%) GitHub
4 22 (15.17%) OpenShift
5 18 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.03%) GCP
7 11 (7.59%) Serverless
8 10 (6.90%) PaaS
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.07%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.07%) IaaS
12 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.83%) AMQP
3 6 (4.14%) Network Security
4 5 (3.45%) DNS
4 5 (3.45%) Ethernet
4 5 (3.45%) HTTP
4 5 (3.45%) VPN
5 4 (2.76%) Firewall
5 4 (2.76%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.76%) IPsec
5 4 (2.76%) SAN
6 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.69%) 5G
7 1 (0.69%) DHCP
7 1 (0.69%) LTE
7 1 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.21%) InfluxDB
1 9 (6.21%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.45%) MySQL
4 5 (3.45%) Triplestore
5 4 (2.76%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.07%) CockroachDB
6 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.69%) Parquet
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (44.14%) Jenkins
2 43 (29.66%) JIRA
3 26 (17.93%) Bitbucket
4 22 (15.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (11.03%) GitLab
6 13 (8.97%) GoogleTest
7 11 (7.59%) Git
7 11 (7.59%) Visual Studio
8 9 (6.21%) Artifactory
9 8 (5.52%) Cypress.io
9 8 (5.52%) SonarQube
10 6 (4.14%) NUnit
10 6 (4.14%) Postman
11 5 (3.45%) Eclipse
12 4 (2.76%) Selenium
13 2 (1.38%) Snyk
14 1 (0.69%) Babel
14 1 (0.69%) ESLint
14 1 (0.69%) Vite
14 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 41 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.41%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.90%) Legal
5 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Finance
6 5 (3.45%) Military
6 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.38%) Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Electronics
8 2 (1.38%) Law
8 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.38%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.69%) Back Office
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (24.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (20.00%) Developer
2 29 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 17 (11.72%) Java Engineer
3 17 (11.72%) Senior
4 14 (9.66%) C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Architect
9 7 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Senior Test Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.14%) .NET
2 23 (15.86%) .NET Core
3 19 (13.10%) REST
4 15 (10.34%) Qt
5 11 (7.59%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (7.59%) YAML
6 10 (6.90%) GraphQL
7 9 (6.21%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (6.21%) React
8 7 (4.83%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.83%) CSS
8 7 (4.83%) HTML
8 7 (4.83%) Node.js
9 6 (4.14%) JSON
10 5 (3.45%) Apache Jena
10 5 (3.45%) Kafka
10 5 (3.45%) PostGIS
10 5 (3.45%) Spring
10 5 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.38%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (49.66%) Linux
2 21 (14.48%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (58.62%) DevOps
2 47 (32.41%) Agile
3 43 (29.66%) Software Engineering
4 36 (24.83%) Configuration Management
5 34 (23.45%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (21.38%) Task Automation
7 29 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.55%) OO
9 24 (16.55%) OOP
10 23 (15.86%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (11.72%) Containerisation
13 16 (11.03%) TDD
14 15 (10.34%) SDLC
15 14 (9.66%) BDD
16 12 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (8.28%) Test Automation
17 11 (7.59%) Microservices
17 11 (7.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (46.21%) Python
2 49 (33.79%) PowerShell
3 39 (26.90%) Java
4 21 (14.48%) C++
4 21 (14.48%) SQL
5 16 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.28%) Bash
6 12 (8.28%) Go
7 8 (5.52%) C
7 8 (5.52%) C#
7 8 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.14%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.45%) SPARQL
10 4 (2.76%) PHP
11 3 (2.07%) Bicep
12 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.69%) Julia
13 1 (0.69%) Perl
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 83 (57.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.07%) Degree
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) MISRA
2 8 (5.52%) QA
3 6 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.14%) NIST
4 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.76%) GDPR
5 4 (2.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (31.72%) Docker
2 9 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.21%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (42.76%) Ansible
2 52 (35.86%) Kubernetes
3 45 (31.03%) Terraform
4 24 (16.55%) PowerCLI
5 15 (10.34%) Grafana
5 15 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.21%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.83%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (2.76%) Argo
8 4 (2.76%) OPNET
8 4 (2.76%) Puppet
9 2 (1.38%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.69%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (17.93%) Atlassian
2 24 (16.55%) Google
3 22 (15.17%) Dell
3 22 (15.17%) HP
4 18 (12.41%) Microsoft
5 13 (8.97%) VMware
6 4 (2.76%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.07%) SAP
8 2 (1.38%) Cisco
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle
8 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.69%) Databricks
9 1 (0.69%) IBM