CI/CD Contracts in Cheltenham

CI/CD
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +22 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 13 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 18.31% 8.30% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.21% 9.95% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 10
10th Percentile - £519 £442
25th Percentile £525 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £663
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -11.39% +39.58%
75th Percentile £613 £632 £738
90th Percentile £650 £719 £751
Gloucestershire median daily rate £638 £600 £538
% change year-on-year +6.25% +11.63% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £70.00 £79.00
% change year-on-year - -11.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 211 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.87% 83.40% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 106 96
10th Percentile £387 £375 £366
25th Percentile £525 £494 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £733 £668 £700
90th Percentile £752 £725 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 7
10th Percentile - £47.13 £23.85
25th Percentile - £70.13 £27.38
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% +328.57%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.80
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +68.75% -48.72% +140.74%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Cheltenham

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Cheltenham

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) npm
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
1 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Cucumber
2 4 (30.77%) Cypress.io
3 3 (23.08%) GitLab
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Test Leader
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Software Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
6 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (7.69%) Data Science
8 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
8 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
8 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) C
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle