CI/CD Contracts in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 63 174 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.31% 5.06% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 5.72% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 130 138
10th Percentile £325 £373 £384
25th Percentile £356 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £493
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +9.24% +9.44%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £673 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands -28 49 £475 -12.04% 52
East Midlands -1 11 £398 -6.47% 26
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (7.94%) JBoss
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Drupal
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.59%) SAS
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) AWS
3 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.11%) PaaS
4 7 (11.11%) Serverless
5 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Functions
6 5 (7.94%) CloudFront
6 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.35%) IaaS
8 3 (4.76%) GitHub
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) DNS
2 7 (11.11%) VPN
3 5 (7.94%) Network Security
4 4 (6.35%) Firewall
4 4 (6.35%) SSL
5 1 (1.59%) Extranet
5 1 (1.59%) FTP
5 1 (1.59%) Intranet
5 1 (1.59%) IPsec
5 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.94%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.17%) Big Data
5 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.59%) Power BI
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) Git
2 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (7.94%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.35%) Artifactory
6 4 (6.35%) GitLab
7 3 (4.76%) NUnit
7 3 (4.76%) Selenium
7 3 (4.76%) Subversion
8 2 (3.17%) JUnit
8 2 (3.17%) Moq
9 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.59%) Hudson
9 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Retail
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Senior
4 7 (11.11%) React Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
8 3 (4.76%) Architect
8 3 (4.76%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) React
2 8 (12.70%) .NET
2 8 (12.70%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) Apollo GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) OAuth
3 6 (9.52%) SAML
3 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.94%) Express.js
4 5 (7.94%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.94%) Spring
5 4 (6.35%) JSON
5 4 (6.35%) REST
6 3 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.76%) YAML
7 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.17%) Kafka
7 2 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
5 1 (1.59%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
2 9 (14.29%) Linux
3 5 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) DevOps
2 22 (34.92%) Agile
3 15 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (19.05%) Microservices
5 11 (17.46%) Scrum
6 10 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (12.70%) Computer Science
7 8 (12.70%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (12.70%) TDD
8 7 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 7 (11.11%) Code Quality
8 7 (11.11%) Migration
8 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (9.52%) DevSecOps
9 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 9 (14.29%) Java
3 8 (12.70%) SQL
4 7 (11.11%) C#
4 7 (11.11%) Perl
4 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Bicep
7 1 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) Go
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
7 1 (1.59%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
2 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Terraform
3 7 (11.11%) Ansible
4 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.94%) Kibana
6 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.59%) Argo
7 1 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (1.59%) linkerd
7 1 (1.59%) Packer
7 1 (1.59%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.94%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.35%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.76%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.17%) Databricks
6 2 (3.17%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) Cadence
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix
7 1 (1.59%) Confluent
7 1 (1.59%) Denodo
7 1 (1.59%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.59%) Informatica
7 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Talend