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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 24 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 298 375 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.35% 6.57% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 7.24% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 291 373
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £688
England median daily rate £558 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -5.01% -
75th Percentile £73.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile £74.10 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +11.39%

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 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 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 8 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 +1 190 £582 +5.82% 117
Yorkshire +12 98 £510 -8.52% 63
North East -21 10 £469 -21.88% 16
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 (5.37%) Apache
2 13 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.36%) Confluence
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.67%) Traefik
9 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.31%) AWS
2 67 (22.48%) Azure
3 33 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
3 33 (11.07%) GitHub
4 29 (9.73%) Serverless
5 28 (9.40%) Amazon S3
6 26 (8.72%) GCP
7 22 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.70%) Snowflake
13 13 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.02%) Route 53
15 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (2.01%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.78%) Firewall
2 46 (15.44%) VPN
3 10 (3.36%) DNS
4 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.01%) HTTP
5 6 (2.01%) Network Security
5 6 (2.01%) SSL
6 5 (1.68%) FTP
7 2 (0.67%) DSL
7 2 (0.67%) Intranet
8 1 (0.34%) IPv4
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.72%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.03%) MySQL
5 11 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.35%) Big Data
8 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.01%) Flink
8 6 (2.01%) Redis
8 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.01%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (1.01%) Power BI
11 3 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 64 (21.48%) GitLab
2 54 (18.12%) Git
3 51 (17.11%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.05%) JIRA
5 11 (3.69%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.36%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.68%) webpack
8 7 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.35%) Travis CI
9 6 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.01%) Mockito
9 6 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.68%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.68%) JMeter
10 5 (1.68%) JUnit
10 5 (1.68%) Selenium
11 4 (1.34%) AppScan
11 4 (1.34%) Maven
11 4 (1.34%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (11.41%) Finance
2 33 (11.07%) Public Sector
2 33 (11.07%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.36%) Banking
4 10 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.01%) Legal
6 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.34%) Retail
8 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Automotive
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (19.46%) Developer
3 57 (19.13%) Architect
4 48 (16.11%) Lead
5 40 (13.42%) Technical Architect
6 33 (11.07%) Senior
7 32 (10.74%) Technical Leader
8 28 (9.40%) Lead Architect
9 23 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (7.05%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (5.70%) Java Developer
13 16 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 10 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (3.02%) Data Engineer
17 9 (3.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (28.86%) Node.js
2 28 (9.40%) React
3 23 (7.72%) RESTful
4 22 (7.38%) REST
5 21 (7.05%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.04%) Spring
7 16 (5.37%) JSON
7 16 (5.37%) Kafka
8 14 (4.70%) Redux
8 14 (4.70%) XML
9 11 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.02%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.02%) YAML
11 8 (2.68%) .NET
11 8 (2.68%) Express.js
11 8 (2.68%) JPA
11 8 (2.68%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (2.35%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.42%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.36%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.01%) PKI
10 2 (0.67%) Clustering
10 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) NHS
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.79%) Windows
2 46 (15.44%) Android
3 45 (15.10%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.43%) Windows Server
5 35 (11.74%) Linux
6 9 (3.02%) Unix
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (59.40%) DevOps
2 140 (46.98%) Agile
3 70 (23.49%) Containerisation
4 60 (20.13%) Design Patterns
4 60 (20.13%) Test Automation
5 58 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (18.46%) Microservices
7 52 (17.45%) Continuous Integration
8 45 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.43%) Risk Management
10 42 (14.09%) Security Architecture
10 42 (14.09%) Zero Trust
11 40 (13.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 40 (13.42%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (13.42%) Threat Intelligence
12 35 (11.74%) Software Engineering
13 31 (10.40%) Scrum
14 29 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (8.72%) Continuous Delivery
16 24 (8.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 83 (27.85%) Python
2 50 (16.78%) Java
3 49 (16.44%) Bash
4 41 (13.76%) SQL
5 33 (11.07%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.06%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.38%) Go
8 19 (6.38%) C#
9 16 (5.37%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.36%) Ruby
11 8 (2.68%) Scala
12 6 (2.01%) Groovy
13 5 (1.68%) Perl
14 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.01%) Bicep
15 3 (1.01%) Swift
16 2 (0.67%) C++
16 2 (0.67%) Delphi
16 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.02%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.68%) Degree
6 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) MCSE
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.74%) QA
2 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) SLA
4 3 (1.01%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) NCSC
5 2 (0.67%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (24.16%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) HDFS
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 93 (31.21%) Terraform
2 83 (27.85%) Kubernetes
3 50 (16.78%) Ansible
4 23 (7.72%) Grafana
5 22 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.70%) Puppet
7 13 (4.36%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.69%) HP Fortify
9 9 (3.02%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.35%) Kibana
11 6 (2.01%) logstash
12 4 (1.34%) Graylog
12 4 (1.34%) Nessus
12 4 (1.34%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.01%) Istio
13 3 (1.01%) Packer
14 2 (0.67%) Consul
14 2 (0.67%) linkerd
14 2 (0.67%) PowerBroker
14 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.71%) Splunk
2 14 (4.70%) EMC
2 14 (4.70%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.36%) Google
4 8 (2.68%) Informatica
5 6 (2.01%) IBM
5 6 (2.01%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.01%) Solace
5 6 (2.01%) VMware
6 5 (1.68%) Apple
6 5 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.68%) Talend
7 4 (1.34%) Checkmarx
7 4 (1.34%) Oracle
7 4 (1.34%) Veracode
8 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.67%) Ariba
9 2 (0.67%) SAP
9 2 (0.67%) Virgin Media