CI/CD Contracts in Wales

CI/CD
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 19 33 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 28 30 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.98% 4.75% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.83% 5.51% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 21
10th Percentile £353 £481 £413
25th Percentile £450 £559 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +17.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £627 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 544 847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.05% 86.21% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 419 616
10th Percentile £172 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £570 £569 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -24.74% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales +13 27 £519 -11.43% 19
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) GitHub
2 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) AWS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MySQL
2 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) Cypress.io
2 11 (39.29%) Postman
3 7 (25.00%) GitLab
4 5 (17.86%) Storybook
5 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 4 (14.29%) Selenium
6 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 2 (7.14%) JMeter
7 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (7.14%) Finance
1 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 7 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) React Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Automation Tester
8 1 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (3.57%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Vue
2 10 (35.71%) Laravel
3 8 (28.57%) React
4 7 (25.00%) Playwright
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) CSS3
5 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) HTML5
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) MobX
5 1 (3.57%) Next.js
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) Redux
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Test Automation
2 18 (64.29%) Agile
3 16 (57.14%) Project Management
4 13 (46.43%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (35.71%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (32.14%) DevOps
7 8 (28.57%) Analytics
8 7 (25.00%) Front End Development
8 7 (25.00%) Scrum
9 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
9 5 (17.86%) Objectives and Key Results
9 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
10 4 (14.29%) BDD
10 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (14.29%) Test Strategy
11 3 (10.71%) Kanban
11 3 (10.71%) Manual Testing
11 3 (10.71%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PHP
2 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace