CI/CD Contracts in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 62 38 38
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 169 325 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.06% 5.58% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 6.23% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 240 250
10th Percentile £364 £428 £424
25th Percentile £453 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +14.70%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £737 £720
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 19
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £67.80
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
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley -7 110 £605 +0.83% 43
Berkshire +2 93 £605 +10.00% 25
Hampshire -31 30 £550 +10.00% 45
Surrey -28 14 £413 -28.26% 22
Buckinghamshire -3 12 £590 -9.23% 9
West Sussex +3 11 £450 -23.21% 4
Oxfordshire -6 5 £600 -4.76% 10
East Sussex +1 3 £650 -17.72% 5
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.10%) Apache
3 6 (3.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (3.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.59%) Appian
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.07%) Azure
2 40 (23.67%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (17.75%) Entra ID
4 24 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (14.20%) Serverless
5 22 (13.02%) AWS
5 22 (13.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (12.43%) Azure Functions
7 16 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.88%) Azure Storage
8 15 (8.88%) GCP
9 13 (7.69%) GitHub
10 10 (5.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.73%) Azure API Management
11 8 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (4.73%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.14%) IaaS
12 7 (4.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.06%) DNS
2 16 (9.47%) Firewall
3 15 (8.88%) DHCP
4 14 (8.28%) BGP
5 12 (7.10%) VPN
6 11 (6.51%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (6.51%) MPLS
6 11 (6.51%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (5.92%) VSAN
8 3 (1.78%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.78%) IOS XR
8 3 (1.78%) SNA
9 1 (0.59%) HTTP
9 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.59%) SAN
9 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.16%) NoSQL
2 26 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.65%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.51%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.55%) MySQL
7 6 (3.55%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.37%) Big Data
9 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.37%) Metadata
10 3 (1.78%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.59%) Impala
11 1 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.59%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 49 (28.99%) Git
2 29 (17.16%) JIRA
3 27 (15.98%) GitLab
4 17 (10.06%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.51%) Robot Framework
5 11 (6.51%) TestRail
6 9 (5.33%) Visual Studio
7 7 (4.14%) Selenium
8 4 (2.37%) Subversion
9 3 (1.78%) Appium
9 3 (1.78%) JUnit
9 3 (1.78%) Postman
9 3 (1.78%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.78%) TestLink
10 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.18%) JMeter
10 2 (1.18%) Maven
10 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.18%) VersionOne
General
1 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.06%) Finance
4 8 (4.73%) Retail
5 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (2.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.96%) Publishing
6 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.59%) Aviation
7 1 (0.59%) Back Office
7 1 (0.59%) Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Legal
7 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (20.71%) Developer
2 19 (11.24%) Azure Developer
3 18 (10.65%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (8.88%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (8.28%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.28%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.28%) Senior
5 14 (8.28%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.69%) Lead
6 13 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) Architect
8 11 (6.51%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.73%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.14%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.14%) VMware Expert
12 6 (3.55%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.16%) REST
2 23 (13.61%) ARM Templates
3 22 (13.02%) React
4 14 (8.28%) SOAP
4 14 (8.28%) YANG
5 13 (7.69%) .NET
6 11 (6.51%) CSS
6 11 (6.51%) HTML
6 11 (6.51%) NETCONF
6 11 (6.51%) RESTCONF
7 9 (5.33%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.33%) JSON
7 9 (5.33%) Node.js
8 8 (4.73%) Kafka
8 8 (4.73%) XML
9 7 (4.14%) Spring
10 6 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.55%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.55%) YAML
11 5 (2.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 15 (8.88%) PKI
2 15 (8.88%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.51%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.73%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.78%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.59%) Replication
8 1 (0.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.16%) Linux
2 17 (10.06%) Windows
3 16 (9.47%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (8.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.14%) VMS
6 5 (2.96%) Unix
7 2 (1.18%) Android
8 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (65.09%) DevOps
2 88 (52.07%) Agile
3 60 (35.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 34 (20.12%) Scrum
6 31 (18.34%) SDLC
7 30 (17.75%) Containerisation
8 28 (16.57%) Unit Testing
9 25 (14.79%) Full Stack Development
10 24 (14.20%) Microservices
11 23 (13.61%) Security Testing
12 21 (12.43%) Analytics
12 21 (12.43%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (10.65%) Integration Testing
14 18 (10.65%) ITIL
15 17 (10.06%) Identity Management
15 17 (10.06%) RBAC
15 17 (10.06%) Release Management
16 16 (9.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.54%) Python
2 33 (19.53%) C#
3 28 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.79%) SQL
5 21 (12.43%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.06%) Java
7 15 (8.88%) Bicep
7 15 (8.88%) VB
7 15 (8.88%) VBScript
8 11 (6.51%) Bash
9 8 (4.73%) Go
10 5 (2.96%) C++
10 5 (2.96%) PHP
11 4 (2.37%) C
12 3 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.18%) Scala
14 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.20%) Degree
4 22 (13.02%) DV Cleared
5 15 (8.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.96%) AAT
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CCNP
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.96%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.37%) PMO
3 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
4 2 (1.18%) QA
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (20.12%) Docker
2 32 (18.93%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.65%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (8.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (6.51%) VMware NSX
6 9 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (4.14%) vCloud
8 5 (2.96%) vSphere
9 3 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.59%) HDFS
10 1 (0.59%) LXC
Systems Management
1 49 (28.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.79%) Terraform
3 21 (12.43%) Ansible
4 15 (8.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (8.88%) SCCM
4 15 (8.88%) SCOM
4 15 (8.88%) WSUS
5 10 (5.92%) vCenter Server
6 9 (5.33%) Rancher
6 9 (5.33%) vRealize
7 7 (4.14%) Istio
7 7 (4.14%) Packer
8 3 (1.78%) Kibana
9 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.59%) Grafana
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Puppet
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.24%) VMware
3 8 (4.73%) Google
3 8 (4.73%) SAP
4 7 (4.14%) Adobe
5 6 (3.55%) Oracle
6 5 (2.96%) Arqiva
6 5 (2.96%) Ericsson
6 5 (2.96%) Veritas
7 3 (1.78%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco
7 3 (1.78%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.78%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.59%) Databricks
9 1 (0.59%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk