CI/CD Contracts in Leeds

CI/CD
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 13 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 58 45 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 12.47% 5.63% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.55% 6.50% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 64
10th Percentile £400 £325 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.04% +10.34%
75th Percentile £688 £615 £700
90th Percentile £750 £634 £775
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -8.89% -6.25% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £84.38 - -
25th Percentile £84.67 - -
Median hourly rate £96.85 - -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) nginx
2 5 (8.62%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (15.52%) Azure
4 7 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (12.07%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.34%) GCP
5 6 (10.34%) Slack
5 6 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.17%) Serverless
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) HTTP
2 6 (10.34%) DNS
2 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.31%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.07%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (12.07%) MySQL
2 7 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.45%) Power Query
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.86%) GitLab
3 12 (20.69%) Git
4 11 (18.97%) JIRA
5 7 (12.07%) Cucumber
5 7 (12.07%) Jasmine
5 7 (12.07%) JUnit
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
6 2 (3.45%) webpack
7 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.45%) Military
4 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Developer
2 20 (34.48%) Senior
3 16 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Lead
9 4 (6.90%) iOS Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Scala Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Architect
10 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Salesforce Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) cloud-init
2 10 (17.24%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) Kafka
3 7 (12.07%) Spring
3 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.34%) Keycloak
4 6 (10.34%) OpenAPI
4 6 (10.34%) Spring Batch
4 6 (10.34%) Spring Security
4 6 (10.34%) Swagger
5 4 (6.90%) Akka
5 4 (6.90%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (5.17%) .NET
6 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.17%) Play Framework
7 2 (3.45%) CSS
7 2 (3.45%) Flask
7 2 (3.45%) HTML
7 2 (3.45%) REST
7 2 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 6 (10.34%) NHS
1 6 (10.34%) PKI
2 5 (8.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.93%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (20.69%) CentOS
3 12 (20.69%) Unix
4 5 (8.62%) Android
4 5 (8.62%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.45%) Windows
6 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) DevOps
2 21 (36.21%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (34.48%) Agile
4 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.69%) Microservices
7 11 (18.97%) BDD
7 11 (18.97%) Cloud Security
7 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 10 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 10 (17.24%) TDD
9 9 (15.52%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (13.79%) Identity Management
10 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
11 7 (12.07%) High Availability
11 7 (12.07%) Kernel Tuning
11 7 (12.07%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) Bash
3 13 (22.41%) SQL
4 12 (20.69%) Go
5 9 (15.52%) Java
6 4 (6.90%) Apex Code
6 4 (6.90%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) C#
7 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 22 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Terraform
2 18 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.69%) Packer
4 7 (12.07%) Grafana
4 7 (12.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.34%) Consul
5 6 (10.34%) Istio
5 6 (10.34%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (10.34%) linkerd
5 6 (10.34%) Rancher
5 6 (10.34%) ZABBIX
6 5 (8.62%) HAProxy
7 4 (6.90%) Kibana
8 3 (5.17%) Ansible
9 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Apple
1 6 (10.34%) Okta
1 6 (10.34%) Splunk
2 5 (8.62%) ESET
3 4 (6.90%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.45%) Brio
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow