Continuous Integration Contracts in the North of England

Continuous Integration
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 117 113
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -35
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 73 108 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.56% 1.86% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.05% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 82 97
10th Percentile £375 £485 £458
25th Percentile £425 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% +17.95%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £686 £688
England median daily rate £553 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -5.96% -2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Continuous Integration 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 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
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% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
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 Continuous Integration within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Yorkshire +36 46 £475 -16.67% 21
North West -14 22 £500 -16.67% 33
North East +10 5 £488 -33.85% 2
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
2 5 (6.85%) nginx
3 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.11%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.74%) Traefik
5 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) AWS
2 30 (41.10%) Azure
3 17 (23.29%) GitHub
4 14 (19.18%) GCP
5 11 (15.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.22%) Apigee
7 6 (8.22%) Kong
8 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.85%) Serverless
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.11%) CloudBees
10 3 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.44%) HTTP
2 11 (15.07%) Firewall
3 8 (10.96%) DNS
3 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.59%) VPN
5 1 (1.37%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.22%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (8.22%) MySQL
4 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.11%) ClickHouse
5 3 (4.11%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (39.73%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) Git
2 19 (26.03%) GitLab
3 12 (16.44%) JIRA
4 11 (15.07%) Cucumber
5 7 (9.59%) JMeter
6 6 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (8.22%) CircleCI
6 6 (8.22%) Selenium
6 6 (8.22%) Travis CI
7 5 (6.85%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.48%) AppScan
8 4 (5.48%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.48%) Gatling
8 4 (5.48%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.37%) Maven
9 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (27.40%) Finance
2 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
6 1 (1.37%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Senior
4 9 (12.33%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Consultant
6 5 (6.85%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead
7 4 (5.48%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Storage Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Automation Tester
9 2 (2.74%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) RESTful
2 10 (13.70%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (13.70%) Kafka
3 8 (10.96%) Node.js
4 7 (9.59%) JSON
4 7 (9.59%) Web Services
5 6 (8.22%) XML
5 6 (8.22%) YAML
6 5 (6.85%) REST
7 4 (5.48%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (5.48%) CSS
7 4 (5.48%) HTML
8 3 (4.11%) Apache Beam
8 3 (4.11%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.11%) Keycloak
8 3 (4.11%) SignalR
9 2 (2.74%) cloud-init
10 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.37%) AWS SAM
10 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.85%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.74%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) PKI
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.37%) NHS
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Linux
2 9 (12.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.48%) Mac OS X
3 4 (5.48%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) CentOS
4 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (72.60%) CI/CD
2 52 (71.23%) DevOps
3 42 (57.53%) Agile
4 25 (34.25%) Continuous Delivery
5 21 (28.77%) Containerisation
6 18 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (23.29%) Performance Analysis
8 16 (21.92%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (20.55%) Build Automation
10 13 (17.81%) ITIL
10 13 (17.81%) Test Automation
10 13 (17.81%) Validation
11 12 (16.44%) Scrum
12 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
12 10 (13.70%) Project Management
13 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
14 8 (10.96%) Microservices
14 8 (10.96%) TDD
15 7 (9.59%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) Python
2 20 (27.40%) Bash
2 20 (27.40%) PowerShell
3 16 (21.92%) Java
4 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) Scala
6 7 (9.59%) Groovy
7 5 (6.85%) Go
7 5 (6.85%) Perl
7 5 (6.85%) Ruby
8 4 (5.48%) C#
8 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.48%) SQL
9 2 (2.74%) PHP
10 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (38.36%) Terraform
2 26 (35.62%) Ansible
3 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
4 18 (24.66%) Grafana
4 18 (24.66%) Prometheus
5 13 (17.81%) Puppet
6 12 (16.44%) Progress Chef
7 8 (10.96%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (8.22%) Kibana
8 6 (8.22%) logstash
9 4 (5.48%) Graylog
9 4 (5.48%) HP Fortify
9 4 (5.48%) Nessus
9 4 (5.48%) WebInspect
10 2 (2.74%) Consul
10 2 (2.74%) Graphite
10 2 (2.74%) HAProxy
10 2 (2.74%) linkerd
10 2 (2.74%) Packer
10 2 (2.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) EMC
2 12 (16.44%) Splunk
3 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.22%) PagerDuty
5 4 (5.48%) Checkmarx
5 4 (5.48%) Veracode
5 4 (5.48%) VMware
6 2 (2.74%) Google
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Brio
7 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.37%) Veritas
7 1 (1.37%) Zscaler