CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Dorset

CI/CD
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 -31
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 7 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 6.80% 7.50% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 8.49% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £262 - -
25th Percentile - £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -53.04% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £280 £588 £525
90th Percentile £457 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 106 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 87.38% 88.33% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 62 133
10th Percentile £185 £310 £176
25th Percentile £260 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.30% +8.59%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £638
90th Percentile £566 £700 £685
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 48
10th Percentile £14.88 £14.41 £18.87
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £47.84
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +13.00%
75th Percentile £15.75 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £19.10 £43.84 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Dorset

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Dorset over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Dorset

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 29 September 2025. 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
Bournemouth +1 5 £270 - 2
Poole - 1 - -
CI/CD
South West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Code Climate
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (14.29%) API Design
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle