CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

CI/CD
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 33 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 54.10% 13.89% 36.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 55.00% 15.15% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 5 5
10th Percentile £525 £575 -
25th Percentile £550 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -12.57% +22.81%
75th Percentile £700 - £725
90th Percentile £750 - £733
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 33 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 98.36% 91.67% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 27 9
10th Percentile - £458 £277
25th Percentile £525 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -9.33% +38.46%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £725
90th Percentile £750 £685 £728
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £21.46 - -
25th Percentile £21.79 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.36 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.04% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.42% -5.24% +29.94%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Herefordshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Ledbury -2 22 £700 +14.38%
Hereford +5 7 £550 -
Ross-on-Wye - 1 £400 - 1
CI/CD
West Midlands

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) GitHub
3 11 (33.33%) Serverless
4 9 (27.27%) AWS
4 9 (27.27%) OpenShift
5 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
6 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (21.21%) Redis
3 4 (12.12%) InfluxDB
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) SonarQube
2 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Site Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Backend Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Python Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (12.12%) React Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) YAML
2 7 (21.21%) FastAPI
2 7 (21.21%) Flask
2 7 (21.21%) GraphQL
2 7 (21.21%) gRPC
2 7 (21.21%) REST
2 7 (21.21%) WebSockets
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
3 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (12.12%) React
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) DevOps
2 23 (69.70%) Containerisation
3 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (30.30%) DevSecOps
4 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (30.30%) Regulatory Compliance
4 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
5 9 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) Configuration Management
6 8 (24.24%) Microservices
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Clean Code
8 4 (12.12%) Observability
8 4 (12.12%) Service Management
8 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
9 2 (6.06%) Domain Models
9 2 (6.06%) Event-Driven
9 2 (6.06%) ITIL
10 1 (3.03%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 13 (39.39%) Python
3 12 (36.36%) Go
4 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.12%) Java
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 31 (93.94%) Security Cleared
2 26 (78.79%) DV Cleared
2 26 (78.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (84.85%) Kubernetes
2 20 (60.61%) Terraform
3 15 (45.45%) Grafana
3 15 (45.45%) Prometheus
4 8 (24.24%) Ansible
4 8 (24.24%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft