CI/CD Contracts in the East Midlands

CI/CD
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 48 12 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.57% 1.56% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 1.99% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 9 29
10th Percentile £326 - £360
25th Percentile £391 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £398 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -6.47% -10.53%
75th Percentile £515 £488 £500
90th Percentile £537 £535 £590
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 483 604 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.25% 78.44% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 408 689
10th Percentile £212 £200 £206
25th Percentile £326 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £411 £455
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -9.78% +3.41%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 56 61
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.80
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £24.18 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £32.56 £38.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Northamptonshire +11 27 £420 +10.53% 18
Leicestershire - 9 £469 - 22
Nottinghamshire +12 8 £500 - 36
Derbyshire - 4 £700 - 17
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) JBoss
3 2 (4.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.08%) CICS
4 1 (2.08%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 13 (27.08%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) GCP
5 6 (12.50%) Serverless
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.42%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) SaaS
7 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.17%) BrowserStack
8 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) HTTP
2 3 (6.25%) HTTPS
2 3 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
3 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.17%) Big Data
5 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.17%) Flink
5 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.17%) Parquet
6 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Git
2 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 11 (22.92%) JIRA
4 7 (14.58%) Selenium
4 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
5 6 (12.50%) Maven
6 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (8.33%) JUnit
6 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (6.25%) Chocolatey
7 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.25%) IntelliJ
7 3 (6.25%) TeamCity
8 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.17%) GitLab
8 2 (4.17%) Gradle
8 2 (4.17%) Mockito
8 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (12.50%) Android Developer
3 6 (12.50%) Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) .NET
1 11 (22.92%) RESTful
2 10 (20.83%) React
3 9 (18.75%) HTML
3 9 (18.75%) Kafka
3 9 (18.75%) REST
3 9 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 8 (16.67%) Spring
5 7 (14.58%) CSS
5 7 (14.58%) Web Services
6 6 (12.50%) Android Jetpack
6 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 6 (12.50%) Jetpack Compose
7 5 (10.42%) JPA
8 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
8 4 (8.33%) J2EE
8 4 (8.33%) Node.js
9 3 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (6.25%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) State Machine
4 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Android
2 4 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) AIX
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Agile
2 23 (47.92%) DevOps
3 20 (41.67%) Microservices
4 17 (35.42%) Test Automation
5 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (20.83%) Scrum
8 8 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.58%) ETL
9 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.58%) TDD
10 6 (12.50%) Android Development
10 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.50%) Unit Testing
11 5 (10.42%) API Development
11 5 (10.42%) Code Quality
11 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (25.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) C#
3 10 (20.83%) Python
4 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.50%) Kotlin
6 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.33%) Scala
8 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.17%) C
9 2 (4.17%) Perl
10 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.08%) Bash
10 1 (2.08%) Bicep
10 1 (2.08%) COBOL
10 1 (2.08%) JCL
10 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
5 2 (4.17%) CA Wily
5 2 (4.17%) Kibana
5 2 (4.17%) Puppet
5 2 (4.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.33%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (4.17%) Databricks
5 2 (4.17%) IBM
5 2 (4.17%) Nintex
5 2 (4.17%) Ping Identity
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.17%) Veracode
5 2 (4.17%) VMware
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.08%) Perforce
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce