CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 52 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 115 265 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.63% 7.28% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 8.13% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 182 167
10th Percentile £475 £419 £409
25th Percentile £513 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £700 £666 £631
90th Percentile - £736 £680
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 45 12
10th Percentile £56.90 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £71.11 £70.30 -
90th Percentile £74.44 £75.00 -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -30 33 £525 -4.55% 52
Wiltshire -34 31 £700 +16.67% 13
Gloucestershire +2 30 £625 -3.85% 20
Dorset +7 7 £400 -8.57% 4
Devon 0 7 £550 -8.33% 12
Somerset -4 3 £600 -13.48% 11
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 24 (20.87%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Solr
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.48%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.87%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.65%) AWS
2 36 (31.30%) Azure
3 16 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) GitHub
5 14 (12.17%) OpenShift
6 13 (11.30%) GCP
7 11 (9.57%) Serverless
8 8 (6.96%) PaaS
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.35%) IaaS
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 1 (0.87%) Apigee
13 1 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) AMQP
2 6 (5.22%) Network Security
2 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.48%) DNS
3 4 (3.48%) Firewall
3 4 (3.48%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.48%) IPsec
3 4 (3.48%) SAN
4 3 (2.61%) VPN
5 2 (1.74%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.96%) InfluxDB
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.35%) MySQL
6 4 (3.48%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.61%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.87%) Parquet
9 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (44.35%) Jenkins
2 31 (26.96%) JIRA
3 25 (21.74%) Bitbucket
4 22 (19.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (9.57%) GitLab
6 9 (7.83%) Artifactory
7 8 (6.96%) Cypress.io
7 8 (6.96%) SonarQube
8 7 (6.09%) Git
9 6 (5.22%) GoogleTest
9 6 (5.22%) Visual Studio
10 5 (4.35%) NUnit
11 4 (3.48%) Postman
11 4 (3.48%) Selenium
12 2 (1.74%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.74%) Snyk
13 1 (0.87%) Babel
13 1 (0.87%) ESLint
13 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.65%) Aerospace
4 10 (8.70%) Legal
5 4 (3.48%) Finance
6 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.61%) Law
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Military
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.87%) Back Office
8 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (23.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (22.61%) Developer
3 18 (15.65%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Senior
5 11 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.48%) Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.83%) .NET
2 24 (20.87%) .NET Core
3 14 (12.17%) REST
4 12 (10.43%) YAML
5 11 (9.57%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (6.09%) React
7 6 (5.22%) JSON
7 6 (5.22%) Qt
8 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.48%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (3.48%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (3.48%) Node.js
8 4 (3.48%) Spring
8 4 (3.48%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.48%) Vue
9 3 (2.61%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.61%) Jest
9 3 (2.61%) JPA
9 3 (2.61%) ModSecurity
9 3 (2.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) PKI
6 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (48.70%) Linux
2 16 (13.91%) Windows
3 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.48%) CentOS
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.91%) DevOps
2 34 (29.57%) Configuration Management
3 32 (27.83%) Agile
4 31 (26.96%) Continuous Integration
4 31 (26.96%) Software Engineering
5 27 (23.48%) Task Automation
6 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure Automation
7 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 23 (20.00%) OO
8 23 (20.00%) OOP
9 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.43%) BDD
10 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.43%) SDLC
11 11 (9.57%) Microservices
11 11 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (9.57%) Software Delivery
11 11 (9.57%) TDD
12 9 (7.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.43%) Python
2 47 (40.87%) PowerShell
3 28 (24.35%) Java
4 18 (15.65%) SQL
5 13 (11.30%) Bash
6 12 (10.43%) Go
7 8 (6.96%) C++
7 8 (6.96%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.96%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.09%) C
8 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.35%) C#
10 4 (3.48%) PHP
11 3 (2.61%) Bicep
11 3 (2.61%) Julia
11 3 (2.61%) Perl
12 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.87%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 35 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 34 (29.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) Degree
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) MISRA
3 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) NIST
4 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 4 (3.48%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (28.70%) Docker
2 8 (6.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.96%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (50.43%) Ansible
2 44 (38.26%) Terraform
3 39 (33.91%) Kubernetes
4 23 (20.00%) PowerCLI
5 13 (11.30%) Grafana
5 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.83%) Progress Chef
7 7 (6.09%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.35%) Puppet
9 3 (2.61%) OPNET
10 2 (1.74%) Argo
11 1 (0.87%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.87%) Packer
11 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Atlassian
2 22 (19.13%) Dell
2 22 (19.13%) HP
3 13 (11.30%) Google
3 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.43%) VMware
5 4 (3.48%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) Cisco
8 1 (0.87%) Databricks
8 1 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle