CI/CD Contracts in Cardiff

CI/CD
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 11 26 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.88% 12.26% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 16.15% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 18
10th Percentile £205 £351 £581
25th Percentile £261 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £513 £586
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% -12.54% +26.70%
75th Percentile £565 £551 £600
90th Percentile £631 £650 £604
South Wales median daily rate £540 £519 £586
% change year-on-year +4.05% -11.43% +17.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Cardiff

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 5 (45.45%) WebLogic
2 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 3 (27.27%) nginx
2 3 (27.27%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (9.09%) Confluence
4 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) OCI
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (9.09%) CRM Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) FHIR
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) API Management
2 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) OOD
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) SOA
3 2 (18.18%) Web Development
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) BDD
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CSSLP
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft