CI/CD Contracts with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 893 2,063 4,058
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.92% 8.21% 9.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 9.15% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 1,541 2,973
10th Percentile £405 £450 £425
25th Percentile £466 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 27
10th Percentile £50.88 £52.94 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.31 £65.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +16.67% +34.08%
75th Percentile £70.63 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.50 £69.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +40.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

CI/CD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

CI/CD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 30 (3.36%) Confluence
2 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.12%) nginx
7 9 (1.01%) Apache
8 8 (0.90%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.67%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.67%) CMS
10 5 (0.56%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.56%) IIS
10 5 (0.56%) JBoss
10 5 (0.56%) Mule
10 5 (0.56%) Mule ESB
11 4 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.34%) WordPress
13 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 6 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.45%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 339 (37.96%) AWS
2 331 (37.07%) Azure
3 148 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (13.55%) Serverless
5 107 (11.98%) GCP
6 97 (10.86%) GitHub
7 69 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 57 (6.38%) Entra ID
10 43 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (4.59%) Azure Functions
12 39 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (4.14%) OpenShift
14 36 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (3.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.29%) Firewall
2 35 (3.92%) DNS
3 33 (3.70%) VPN
4 18 (2.02%) Network Security
5 17 (1.90%) DHCP
6 16 (1.79%) HTTP
7 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.56%) BGP
8 5 (0.56%) SAN
9 4 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.45%) Intranet
9 4 (0.45%) IPsec
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.34%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.34%) IPv4
10 3 (0.34%) SSL
10 3 (0.34%) VSAN
10 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 63 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 47 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.58%) MySQL
6 31 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 30 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (2.91%) Data Lake
10 22 (2.46%) Big Data
11 19 (2.13%) DynamoDB
11 19 (2.13%) Power BI
12 16 (1.79%) Redis
13 15 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.68%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.57%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 190 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 150 (16.80%) Git
3 121 (13.55%) GitLab
4 68 (7.61%) JIRA
5 47 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 45 (5.04%) Selenium
7 40 (4.48%) Cypress.io
8 35 (3.92%) JUnit
9 26 (2.91%) SpecFlow
10 23 (2.58%) JMeter
10 23 (2.58%) Mockito
11 22 (2.46%) Postman
12 21 (2.35%) Bitbucket
13 20 (2.24%) Maven
13 20 (2.24%) TeamCity
13 20 (2.24%) Visual Studio
14 15 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (1.68%) TestNG
15 14 (1.57%) WebDriver
General
1 196 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 173 (19.37%) Finance
3 115 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 58 (6.49%) Banking
5 53 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.58%) Retail
7 19 (2.13%) Front Office
8 16 (1.79%) Law
9 15 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.34%) Marketing
11 12 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.78%) Publishing
14 7 (0.78%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.67%) Back Office
15 6 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 265 (29.68%) Developer
2 144 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 137 (15.34%) Senior
4 78 (8.73%) Architect
4 78 (8.73%) Lead
5 66 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
6 61 (6.83%) Senior Developer
7 59 (6.61%) Java Developer
8 53 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
9 50 (5.60%) Data Engineer
10 46 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
11 45 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.37%) Software Developer
14 36 (4.03%) Azure Developer
15 31 (3.47%) Consultant
16 30 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 29 (3.25%) Python Engineer
18 27 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
19 25 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (10.86%) React
2 93 (10.41%) .NET
3 92 (10.30%) REST
4 88 (9.85%) Node.js
5 62 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 59 (6.61%) XML
7 57 (6.38%) CSS
8 54 (6.05%) HTML
8 54 (6.05%) Spring
9 52 (5.82%) ARM Templates
9 52 (5.82%) RESTful
10 45 (5.04%) Kafka
11 42 (4.70%) JSON
11 42 (4.70%) YAML
12 36 (4.03%) .NET Framework
13 34 (3.81%) AngularJS
14 33 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (2.91%) .NET Core
17 25 (2.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 24 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.24%) PKI
8 19 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.34%) Credit Derivative
12 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.67%) Contactless
15 6 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 143 (16.01%) Linux
2 92 (10.30%) Windows
3 46 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.70%) Unix
5 19 (2.13%) Android
6 18 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.23%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.12%) CentOS
10 7 (0.78%) VMS
11 5 (0.56%) Solaris
12 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 2 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (62.04%) DevOps
2 379 (42.44%) Agile
3 205 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (18.70%) Test Automation
5 138 (15.45%) Microservices
6 126 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (13.66%) Continuous Integration
8 105 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 104 (11.65%) Scrum
10 99 (11.09%) Software Engineering
11 94 (10.53%) SDLC
12 90 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
13 76 (8.51%) Analytics
14 73 (8.17%) Migration
15 65 (7.28%) TDD
16 55 (6.16%) Continuous Deployment
17 52 (5.82%) ETL
18 46 (5.15%) Continuous Delivery
19 45 (5.04%) Computer Science
20 44 (4.93%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 298 (33.37%) Python
2 202 (22.62%) Java
3 167 (18.70%) SQL
4 130 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 123 (13.77%) C#
6 117 (13.10%) PowerShell
7 79 (8.85%) TypeScript
8 73 (8.17%) Bash
9 49 (5.49%) Bicep
10 48 (5.38%) Go
11 31 (3.47%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.91%) Perl
13 20 (2.24%) Scala
14 18 (2.02%) Ruby
15 17 (1.90%) C++
15 17 (1.90%) VBScript
16 16 (1.79%) VB
17 11 (1.23%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.23%) PHP
18 10 (1.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 157 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.05%) Degree
4 30 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.67%) CISSP
11 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.45%) CISM
13 3 (0.34%) CRISC
13 3 (0.34%) ISEB
13 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.27%) QA
2 30 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.57%) NIST
4 12 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.12%) SLA
6 7 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.56%) GDPR
7 5 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 3 (0.34%) WCAG
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 177 (19.82%) Docker
2 72 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.34%) vCloud
9 3 (0.34%) vSphere
10 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 237 (26.54%) Terraform
2 219 (24.52%) Kubernetes
3 116 (12.99%) Ansible
4 65 (7.28%) Grafana
5 55 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.14%) Puppet
7 27 (3.02%) Kibana
8 23 (2.58%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.13%) SCOM
11 16 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.79%) SCCM
11 16 (1.79%) WSUS
12 15 (1.68%) Consul
13 12 (1.34%) logstash
14 8 (0.90%) Packer
14 8 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.56%) Argo
15 5 (0.56%) CloudHub
16 4 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 134 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.04%) Oracle
3 30 (3.36%) Google
4 29 (3.25%) Databricks
5 26 (2.91%) Splunk
6 23 (2.58%) IBM
7 19 (2.13%) VMware
8 18 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.90%) SAP
10 16 (1.79%) CyberArk
10 16 (1.79%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.34%) BeyondTrust
11 12 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.34%) SaltStack
12 10 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.01%) Cisco
14 8 (0.90%) Adobe
14 8 (0.90%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.90%) Genesys
14 8 (0.90%) TOWER Software