GoCD Contracts in England

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GoCD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCD over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 534 614
Rank change year-on-year +30 +80 +149
Contract jobs citing GoCD 3 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.076% 0.071% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £460 £345 -
25th Percentile £468 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.65% -18.10%
75th Percentile £516 £475 £440
90th Percentile £529 - -
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +5.83% +4.65% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Development Application Skills
England

GoCD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,970 4,255 6,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.38% 12.61% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,752 2,841 4,401
10th Percentile £321 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.72%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 207 208
10th Percentile £40.68 £32.48 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.02 £52.50 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.53 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GoCD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GoCD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GoCD in England.

Daily rate trend for GoCD in England

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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 GoCD within the England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 +17 1 £525 +16.67% 2
South West - 1 £488 - 1
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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) FreeIPA
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Pega
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware