CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 60 32 50
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 49 142 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.55% 5.97% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 6.74% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 100 102
10th Percentile £315 £450 £385
25th Percentile £339 £509 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £493
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +9.64% +9.44%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £555
90th Percentile £688 £675 £636
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham 0 15 £450 -26.53% 31
Warwickshire +1 12 £675 +22.73% 10
Coventry -2 12 £600 +14.29% 5
Staffordshire +11 5 £350 - 1
Solihull - 2 £275 - 2
Worcestershire -9 1 £475 -24.00%
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.12%) CMS
1 3 (6.12%) Drupal
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) SAS
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
3 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) PaaS
4 7 (14.29%) Serverless
5 6 (12.24%) GCP
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Functions
6 5 (10.20%) CloudFront
6 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (8.16%) IaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.08%) Azure App Service
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) DNS
2 7 (14.29%) VPN
3 5 (10.20%) Network Security
4 4 (8.16%) Firewall
4 4 (8.16%) SSL
5 1 (2.04%) Extranet
5 1 (2.04%) FTP
5 1 (2.04%) Intranet
5 1 (2.04%) IPsec
5 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) Big Data
3 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) MySQL
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Git
2 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.16%) Artifactory
3 4 (8.16%) GitLab
4 3 (6.12%) NUnit
4 3 (6.12%) Selenium
4 3 (6.12%) Subversion
5 2 (4.08%) JIRA
5 2 (4.08%) Moq
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) Hudson
6 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
6 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Electronics
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (12.24%) React Developer
2 6 (12.24%) Senior
3 5 (10.20%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Java Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.12%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) React
2 7 (14.29%) .NET
3 6 (12.24%) GraphQL
4 5 (10.20%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (10.20%) Express.js
4 5 (10.20%) OAuth
4 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
4 5 (10.20%) SAML
4 5 (10.20%) Spring
5 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.16%) JSON
6 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.12%) REST
6 3 (6.12%) YAML
7 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (4.08%) SOAP
8 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
8 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) DevOps
2 18 (36.73%) Agile
3 10 (20.41%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
4 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (16.33%) Scrum
5 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 7 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.29%) TDD
6 6 (12.24%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (12.24%) Microservices
6 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Application Security
7 5 (10.20%) DevSecOps
7 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
7 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) C#
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) HDFS
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Terraform
2 7 (14.29%) Ansible
3 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Argo
4 1 (2.04%) Istio
4 1 (2.04%) linkerd
4 1 (2.04%) Packer
4 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) SELinux
4 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.16%) SAP
3 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.04%) Cadence
5 1 (2.04%) Citrix
5 1 (2.04%) Confluent
5 1 (2.04%) Denodo
5 1 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Talend