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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,085 2,144 3,641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.60% 5.83% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 6.80% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 1,509 2,570
10th Percentile £367 £406 £450
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 65
10th Percentile £39.76 £53.88 £56.17
25th Percentile £49.24 £63.44 £60.91
Median hourly rate £56.75 £67.50 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +2.89% +0.93%
75th Percentile £67.63 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.48 £73.08 £79.80
UK median hourly rate £59.63 £66.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -9.66% +0.60% +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 22,122 31,544 42,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.81% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,378 20,598 30,002
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 2,306 1,516
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.04 £16.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +3 1,219 £550 -2.65% 1,602
North of England +4 302 £485 -9.77% 635
South East +29 176 £500 -16.67% 391
North West +1 158 £496 -9.82% 399
Midlands +54 132 £463 -2.63% 249
Yorkshire +11 121 £475 -5.00% 180
South West +5 99 £525 -11.02% 233
West Midlands +36 76 £498 +2.05% 161
East Midlands +43 56 £455 +4.18% 84
East of England +34 56 £465 -12.92% 146
North East +14 27 £455 -2.93% 59
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 99 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.79%) Apache
3 62 (2.97%) Confluence
4 53 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.86%) nginx
6 15 (0.72%) JBoss
7 13 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.43%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.38%) CMS
11 8 (0.38%) IIS
11 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.29%) Mule
12 6 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.19%) Camunda
14 4 (0.19%) Mule ESB
14 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.096%) Trello
4 1 (0.048%) InVision
4 1 (0.048%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.048%) Sketch
4 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.048%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 14 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
2 12 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.19%) Endur
6 3 (0.14%) Maximo
6 3 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
7 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.096%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.096%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.096%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.048%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.048%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 898 (43.07%) AWS
2 718 (34.44%) Azure
3 331 (15.88%) GitHub
4 280 (13.43%) GCP
5 264 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
6 252 (12.09%) Serverless
7 178 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 176 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
9 133 (6.38%) Amazon S3
10 120 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 82 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 79 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (3.74%) OpenShift
14 75 (3.60%) Azure AKS
15 74 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 68 (3.26%) Power Platform
17 68 (3.26%) SaaS
18 67 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
19 63 (3.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.65%) Firewall
2 64 (3.07%) DNS
3 47 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 46 (2.21%) VPN
5 39 (1.87%) HTTP
6 38 (1.82%) Network Security
7 24 (1.15%) SSL
8 15 (0.72%) BGP
9 14 (0.67%) HTTPS
10 13 (0.62%) WAN
11 12 (0.58%) OSPF
12 11 (0.53%) DHCP
12 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.53%) VSAN
13 8 (0.38%) SMTP
14 7 (0.34%) LAN
14 7 (0.34%) SAN
15 6 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
15 6 (0.29%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 112 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 97 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 76 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 72 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (2.93%) Big Data
9 60 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.73%) MySQL
11 55 (2.64%) Data Lake
12 53 (2.54%) Power BI
13 44 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 44 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
14 41 (1.97%) BigQuery
14 41 (1.97%) Hadoop
15 39 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
16 31 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
17 26 (1.25%) Oracle Database
17 26 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 507 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 381 (18.27%) Git
3 294 (14.10%) GitLab
4 182 (8.73%) JIRA
5 107 (5.13%) Selenium
6 83 (3.98%) JUnit
7 63 (3.02%) Cypress.io
8 59 (2.83%) SonarQube
9 58 (2.78%) TeamCity
10 57 (2.73%) Postman
11 55 (2.64%) JMeter
11 55 (2.64%) Maven
12 53 (2.54%) Gradle
13 49 (2.35%) Cucumber
14 48 (2.30%) REST Assured
15 47 (2.25%) Bitbucket
16 46 (2.21%) Artifactory
17 42 (2.01%) Mockito
18 36 (1.73%) CircleCI
19 33 (1.58%) Liquibase
General
1 546 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 453 (21.73%) Finance
3 279 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 188 (9.02%) Banking
6 68 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 56 (2.69%) Investment Banking
8 55 (2.64%) Marketing
9 50 (2.40%) Front Office
10 49 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 47 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (1.92%) Electronics
13 39 (1.87%) Military
14 34 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.49%) Retail
16 27 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.58%) Law
19 12 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 571 (27.39%) Developer
2 329 (15.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 305 (14.63%) Senior
4 214 (10.26%) Architect
5 142 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
6 139 (6.67%) Lead
7 131 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 122 (5.85%) Java Developer
9 113 (5.42%) Software Engineer
10 107 (5.13%) Senior Developer
11 103 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
12 98 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
13 87 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 83 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 81 (3.88%) Python Developer
16 79 (3.79%) Python Engineer
17 78 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
18 63 (3.02%) Test Engineer
19 58 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
20 55 (2.64%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (12.52%) React
2 203 (9.74%) Kafka
3 198 (9.50%) .NET
4 171 (8.20%) REST
5 169 (8.11%) RESTful
6 143 (6.86%) Spring
7 139 (6.67%) Node.js
8 130 (6.24%) Spring Boot
9 129 (6.19%) HTML
10 116 (5.56%) CSS
11 102 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 87 (4.17%) Web Services
13 71 (3.41%) GraphQL
14 63 (3.02%) PySpark
15 56 (2.69%) OAuth
16 55 (2.64%) FastAPI
17 54 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
18 53 (2.54%) JSON
19 52 (2.49%) .NET Core
20 45 (2.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 93 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 60 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 55 (2.64%) Public Cloud
6 42 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 39 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 36 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 34 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 31 (1.49%) Hedge funds
13 29 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.25%) Derivative
15 25 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.20%) PKI
16 24 (1.15%) Data Centre
17 23 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 292 (14.00%) Linux
2 105 (5.04%) Windows
3 66 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (2.78%) Android
5 55 (2.64%) Unix
6 32 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.58%) Solaris
9 8 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.34%) VMS
11 6 (0.29%) Rocky
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.14%) SUSE
14 2 (0.096%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (53.48%) DevOps
2 790 (37.89%) Agile
3 460 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 457 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
5 428 (20.53%) Test Automation
6 426 (20.43%) Containerisation
7 401 (19.23%) Microservices
8 340 (16.31%) Software Engineering
9 285 (13.67%) Continuous Integration
10 221 (10.60%) Scrum
11 214 (10.26%) TDD
12 188 (9.02%) Migration
13 186 (8.92%) Analytics
14 177 (8.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 169 (8.11%) Mentoring
16 158 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence
17 156 (7.48%) SDLC
18 153 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 153 (7.34%) Data Pipeline
19 142 (6.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 870 (41.73%) Python
2 554 (26.57%) Java
3 456 (21.87%) SQL
4 354 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 234 (11.22%) C#
6 226 (10.84%) TypeScript
7 207 (9.93%) Bash
8 154 (7.39%) PowerShell
9 102 (4.89%) Go
10 81 (3.88%) C++
11 68 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 57 (2.73%) Kotlin
13 56 (2.69%) Scala
14 40 (1.92%) Bicep
15 34 (1.63%) Perl
16 32 (1.53%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.34%) Groovy
18 26 (1.25%) Rust
19 21 (1.01%) PHP
19 21 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 419 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 360 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 152 (7.29%) Degree
4 81 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 76 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.62%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
15 12 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.30%) QA
2 70 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.97%) GDPR
4 60 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 28 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 22 (1.06%) NCSC
8 21 (1.01%) NIST
9 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.62%) WCAG
11 9 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
14 6 (0.29%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.19%) HL7
17 2 (0.096%) DICOM
17 2 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 600 (28.78%) Docker
2 56 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.82%) vSphere
6 12 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.24%) NFS
10 4 (0.19%) Ceph
10 4 (0.19%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.14%) OpenDJ
11 3 (0.14%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.096%) RACF
12 2 (0.096%) zsh
13 1 (0.048%) Samba
Systems Management
1 729 (34.96%) Kubernetes
2 630 (30.22%) Terraform
3 318 (15.25%) Ansible
4 116 (5.56%) Grafana
5 98 (4.70%) Prometheus
6 61 (2.93%) Puppet
7 46 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.87%) Argo
9 38 (1.82%) Kibana
10 17 (0.82%) Istio
11 14 (0.67%) Packer
11 14 (0.67%) Podman
12 13 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.58%) QRadar
14 11 (0.53%) logstash
15 9 (0.43%) CloudHub
15 9 (0.43%) Control-M
15 9 (0.43%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.43%) Nmap
15 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 211 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 104 (4.99%) Oracle
3 102 (4.89%) Google
4 98 (4.70%) Databricks
5 88 (4.22%) Splunk
6 58 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 55 (2.64%) SAP
8 48 (2.30%) VMware
9 42 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 33 (1.58%) IBM
12 26 (1.25%) Cisco
13 25 (1.20%) AppDynamics
14 24 (1.15%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.06%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.72%) Qualys
17 14 (0.67%) Cloudera
17 14 (0.67%) Dell
18 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
18 13 (0.62%) Fortinet