CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Bristol

CI/CD
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 41 38
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 67 28 40
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 8.19% 3.96% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 4.50% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 13 31
10th Percentile £293 - £413
25th Percentile £429 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £656
90th Percentile £704 £635 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.07% -3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 0
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £119.00 £74.00 -
90th Percentile - £74.18 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -2.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 706 622 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.31% 87.98% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 344 546
10th Percentile £263 £222 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -12.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £650
90th Percentile £725 £742 £703
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 88 117
10th Percentile £15.00 £44.05 £34.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Bristol

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Bristol

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in Bristol

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.43%) Apache
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) GitHub
4 9 (13.43%) GCP
5 8 (11.94%) OpenShift
5 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
6 7 (10.45%) Snowflake
7 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.48%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.48%) Serverless
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (2.99%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.99%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) Power BI
3 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle ODI
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (10.45%) Star Schema
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) GitLab
2 10 (14.93%) Artifactory
2 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.43%) Git
4 7 (10.45%) DBeaver
5 2 (2.99%) CMake
5 2 (2.99%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.49%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.49%) Gradle
6 1 (1.49%) Maven
6 1 (1.49%) Postman
6 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.49%) Selenium
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.96%) Finance
4 3 (4.48%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Military
6 1 (1.49%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Quality Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.97%) System Design Authority
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.48%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) iOS Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Tester
7 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) REST
2 8 (11.94%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (11.94%) React
3 7 (10.45%) Node.js
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.97%) CSS
4 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.97%) HTML
4 4 (5.97%) Spring
5 3 (4.48%) JSON
5 3 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.48%) SwiftUI
5 3 (4.48%) Vue
6 2 (2.99%) .NET
7 1 (1.49%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.49%) CSS3
7 1 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.49%) Middleware
7 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Replication
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.99%) CUDA
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Clustering
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Linux
2 11 (16.42%) Windows
3 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.96%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.97%) Android
5 4 (5.97%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.49%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (1.49%) Unix
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) DevOps
2 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
4 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
5 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (17.91%) DevSecOps
6 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.43%) Analytics
9 9 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (13.43%) ETL
9 9 (13.43%) User Experience
9 9 (13.43%) Workflow
10 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
11 7 (10.45%) API Design
11 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.45%) Dimensional Modelling
12 6 (8.96%) API Integration
12 6 (8.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.79%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 10 (14.93%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.94%) Java
6 7 (10.45%) C++
7 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.46%) Ruby
9 4 (5.97%) C#
10 3 (4.48%) C
11 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.49%) Bash
12 1 (1.49%) Bicep
12 1 (1.49%) Go
12 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (49.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) Degree
4 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.99%) OCA
7 2 (2.99%) OCP
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CSPO
8 1 (1.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 7 (10.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (46.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (37.31%) Terraform
3 15 (22.39%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) Grafana
4 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.96%) SCOM
5 3 (4.48%) Argo
6 2 (2.99%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.99%) Istio
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.99%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) Cilium
7 1 (1.49%) Podman
7 1 (1.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Red Hat
2 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Oracle
3 7 (10.45%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) VMware