CI/CD Contracts in Cardiff

CI/CD
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 26 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.21% 5.65% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.05% 6.42% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 12
10th Percentile £351 £581 £384
25th Percentile £458 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £586 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +26.70% +19.35%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £503
90th Percentile £650 £604 £546
South Wales median daily rate £519 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -11.43% +17.20% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 296 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.06% 88.10% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 233 327
10th Percentile £190 £201 £261
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £538
90th Percentile £644 £630 £643
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
% change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.49%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Cardiff over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) GitHub
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) AWS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MySQL
2 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Cypress.io
2 11 (42.31%) Postman
3 7 (26.92%) GitLab
4 5 (19.23%) Storybook
5 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 4 (15.38%) Selenium
6 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (7.69%) JMeter
7 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) PHP Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Test Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Vue
2 10 (38.46%) Laravel
3 7 (26.92%) Playwright
3 7 (26.92%) React
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Test Automation
2 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) Project Management
3 12 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (34.62%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (30.77%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) Front End Development
7 6 (23.08%) Scrum
8 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
8 5 (19.23%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
9 4 (15.38%) BDD
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
10 3 (11.54%) Kanban
10 3 (11.54%) Line Management
10 3 (11.54%) Manual Testing
10 3 (11.54%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PHP
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace