CI/CD Contracts in Gloucestershire

CI/CD
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 20 34 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.13% 7.49% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 8.76% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 31
10th Percentile £525 £475 £468
25th Percentile £544 £523 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +5.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £681 £631 £653
90th Percentile £700 £706 £738
South West median daily rate £520 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -9.96% -3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £75.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £79.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% -11.39% -
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.70% +0.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 388 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.77% 85.46% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 219 277
10th Percentile £221 £363 £375
25th Percentile £363 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £638 £675
90th Percentile £771 £738 £749
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 36 49
10th Percentile £23.25 £25.25 £32.40
25th Percentile £31.50 £30.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -45.21% +124.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £83.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £83.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +21.96%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Gloucestershire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Gloucestershire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Gloucestershire

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Gloucestershire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cheltenham +21 13 £550 -8.33% 14
Gloucester +8 5 £700 +64.71% 16
CI/CD
South West

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) npm
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) AMQP
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (15.00%) Git
5 2 (10.00%) Maven
5 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Software Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) CentOS
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (35.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (15.00%) Observability
8 2 (10.00%) ETL
8 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
8 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) C
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (85.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) CCSP
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Ansible
3 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) NetApp