CI/CD Contracts in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 21 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,098 2,096 4,009
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.61% 5.64% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.45% 6.51% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 1,490 2,842
10th Percentile £380 £412 £450
25th Percentile £450 £475 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
75th Percentile £670 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 70
10th Percentile £27.35 £51.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £56.25 £60.91
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £97.41 £72.89 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -2.69% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in England.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +7 1,269 £575 +2.09% 1,479
North of England +6 291 £500 -10.11% 574
South East +27 186 £513 -14.58% 625
North West +1 156 £500 -14.09% 351
Midlands +42 112 £475 - 254
Yorkshire +16 110 £510 -5.12% 160
South West +20 101 £550 -7.56% 232
West Midlands +29 72 £493 +3.79% 144
East of England +26 41 £467 -6.70% 171
East Midlands +34 40 £463 +16.35% 95
North East +16 28 £506 +8.00% 65
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 113 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 91 (4.34%) Apache
3 74 (3.53%) Confluence
4 54 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.91%) nginx
6 15 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.57%) Traefik
8 11 (0.52%) JBoss
8 11 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.48%) CMS
10 8 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.33%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.29%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.29%) SAS
13 5 (0.24%) IIS
13 5 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.19%) Mule
14 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.095%) Trello
4 1 (0.048%) InVision
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.048%) Sketch
4 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Endur
3 3 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.14%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.14%) Shopify
4 2 (0.095%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.048%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.048%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 891 (42.47%) AWS
2 675 (32.17%) Azure
3 296 (14.11%) GitHub
4 262 (12.49%) Azure DevOps
5 257 (12.25%) Serverless
6 244 (11.63%) GCP
7 183 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
8 150 (7.15%) GitHub Actions
9 144 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 143 (6.82%) Amazon S3
11 95 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
13 92 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
14 89 (4.24%) OpenShift
15 78 (3.72%) Azure AKS
16 77 (3.67%) PaaS
17 75 (3.57%) SaaS
18 74 (3.53%) Power Platform
19 73 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
20 72 (3.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.43%) DNS
2 71 (3.38%) Firewall
3 59 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 42 (2.00%) HTTP
5 41 (1.95%) VPN
6 34 (1.62%) Network Security
7 18 (0.86%) VSAN
8 15 (0.71%) 4G
8 15 (0.71%) 5G
8 15 (0.71%) BGP
8 15 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
9 14 (0.67%) DHCP
9 14 (0.67%) SSL
10 13 (0.62%) 5G NR
10 13 (0.62%) LTE
11 12 (0.57%) WAN
12 10 (0.48%) OSPF
12 10 (0.48%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.43%) SMTP
14 7 (0.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (5.34%) Relational Database
3 109 (5.20%) MongoDB
4 100 (4.77%) NoSQL
5 97 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (3.24%) MySQL
9 64 (3.05%) Big Data
10 61 (2.91%) Data Lake
11 58 (2.76%) Power BI
12 53 (2.53%) DynamoDB
13 51 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
15 48 (2.29%) Hadoop
16 41 (1.95%) Apache Iceberg
17 39 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
19 28 (1.33%) Apache Ignite
19 28 (1.33%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 496 (23.64%) Jenkins
2 370 (17.64%) Git
3 304 (14.49%) GitLab
4 183 (8.72%) JIRA
5 106 (5.05%) Selenium
6 88 (4.19%) JUnit
7 58 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 57 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 57 (2.72%) Postman
9 53 (2.53%) TeamCity
10 50 (2.38%) JMeter
11 49 (2.34%) Bitbucket
12 48 (2.29%) Gradle
13 45 (2.14%) Artifactory
14 42 (2.00%) Maven
14 42 (2.00%) SonarQube
15 39 (1.86%) REST Assured
16 37 (1.76%) Mockito
17 30 (1.43%) Liquibase
18 29 (1.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 481 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 462 (22.02%) Finance
3 257 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 188 (8.96%) Banking
6 84 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 75 (3.57%) Front Office
8 65 (3.10%) Investment Banking
9 58 (2.76%) Marketing
10 52 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 45 (2.14%) Electronics
11 45 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 31 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.48%) Military
13 31 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.14%) Retail
15 12 (0.57%) Law
16 11 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 550 (26.22%) Developer
2 375 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 343 (16.35%) Senior
4 202 (9.63%) Architect
5 161 (7.67%) Lead
6 157 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
7 152 (7.24%) Data Engineer
8 121 (5.77%) Software Engineer
9 116 (5.53%) Java Developer
10 115 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
11 110 (5.24%) Senior Developer
12 108 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 104 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
14 100 (4.77%) Python Engineer
15 82 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
16 81 (3.86%) Python Developer
17 73 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
18 60 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
19 58 (2.76%) Test Engineer
20 53 (2.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (12.25%) React
2 222 (10.58%) Kafka
3 205 (9.77%) .NET
4 166 (7.91%) RESTful
5 152 (7.24%) REST
6 139 (6.63%) Spring
7 135 (6.43%) Spring Boot
8 124 (5.91%) HTML
8 124 (5.91%) Node.js
9 114 (5.43%) CSS
10 99 (4.72%) AngularJS
11 69 (3.29%) PySpark
12 66 (3.15%) GraphQL
13 61 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
13 61 (2.91%) Web Services
14 59 (2.81%) FastAPI
15 55 (2.62%) Swagger
16 52 (2.48%) OpenAPI
17 50 (2.38%) .NET Core
18 48 (2.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 87 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 48 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 40 (1.91%) PKI
7 38 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 38 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 35 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.48%) Hedge funds
12 30 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 27 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.24%) Derivative
15 25 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 326 (15.54%) Linux
2 111 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 107 (5.10%) Windows
4 73 (3.48%) Unix
5 46 (2.19%) Android
6 33 (1.57%) CentOS
7 29 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 24 (1.14%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.52%) Solaris
10 7 (0.33%) Rocky
11 6 (0.29%) VMS
12 4 (0.19%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) SUSE
13 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.048%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Debian
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,133 (54.00%) DevOps
2 798 (38.04%) Agile
3 438 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
4 437 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 426 (20.31%) Containerisation
5 426 (20.31%) Test Automation
6 411 (19.59%) Microservices
7 370 (17.64%) Software Engineering
8 325 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
9 210 (10.01%) TDD
10 202 (9.63%) Scrum
11 188 (8.96%) Analytics
12 183 (8.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 170 (8.10%) SDLC
14 165 (7.86%) Mentoring
15 164 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 157 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
17 155 (7.39%) Migration
18 143 (6.82%) Data Engineering
19 142 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 897 (42.76%) Python
2 515 (24.55%) Java
3 449 (21.40%) SQL
4 321 (15.30%) JavaScript
5 229 (10.92%) TypeScript
6 223 (10.63%) C#
7 218 (10.39%) Bash
8 154 (7.34%) PowerShell
9 135 (6.43%) Go
10 73 (3.48%) C++
11 65 (3.10%) Scala
12 59 (2.81%) Shell Script
13 44 (2.10%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.38%) Bicep
14 29 (1.38%) Perl
15 25 (1.19%) Groovy
15 25 (1.19%) Rust
16 23 (1.10%) PL/SQL
17 21 (1.00%) C
17 21 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 447 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 384 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 162 (7.72%) Degree
4 94 (4.48%) AWS Certification
5 81 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 35 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 15 (0.71%) MCSE
14 13 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.52%) CCNP
16 11 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (7.44%) QA
2 61 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 46 (2.19%) GDPR
5 35 (1.67%) NCSC
6 28 (1.33%) NIST
7 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 7 (0.33%) WCAG
13 3 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.14%) HL7
13 3 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.095%) DICOM
14 2 (0.095%) MiFID
System Software
1 611 (29.12%) Docker
2 56 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.14%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.62%) vSphere
7 12 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.43%) NFS
9 5 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.19%) Ceph
10 4 (0.19%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
12 2 (0.095%) OpenDJ
12 2 (0.095%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.095%) RACF
13 1 (0.048%) Lustre
13 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 748 (35.65%) Kubernetes
2 658 (31.36%) Terraform
3 332 (15.82%) Ansible
4 120 (5.72%) Grafana
5 102 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 52 (2.48%) Puppet
7 45 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.81%) Kibana
9 36 (1.72%) Packer
10 35 (1.67%) Argo
11 27 (1.29%) Istio
12 20 (0.95%) Consul
12 20 (0.95%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.91%) Rancher
14 16 (0.76%) HAProxy
15 15 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
16 14 (0.67%) linkerd
16 14 (0.67%) logstash
17 13 (0.62%) Podman
18 12 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 190 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 102 (4.86%) Splunk
3 101 (4.81%) Oracle
4 96 (4.58%) Databricks
5 94 (4.48%) Google
6 65 (3.10%) VMware
7 61 (2.91%) SAP
8 57 (2.72%) Red Hat
9 38 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.76%) Cisco
11 36 (1.72%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.29%) AppDynamics
13 23 (1.10%) MuleSoft
14 21 (1.00%) IBM
15 19 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.86%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.81%) Cloudera
18 16 (0.76%) Apple
18 16 (0.76%) Okta
19 14 (0.67%) CyberArk