CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Leeds

CI/CD
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 -25
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 78 104 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 12.96% 14.17% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.42% 16.75% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 93 31
10th Percentile £390 £325 £425
25th Percentile £430 £388 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -23.91% +4.55%
75th Percentile £544 £515 £638
90th Percentile £585 £599 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

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 541 621 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.87% 84.60% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 407 695
10th Percentile £303 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £658 £717
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -1.00% -6.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £15.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.03% -21.05% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.50 £15.17 £17.82
% change year-on-year +68.09% -14.87% -10.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Leeds

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CI/CD

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 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.87%) AWS
2 20 (25.64%) Azure
3 17 (21.79%) GitHub
4 15 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (19.23%) Serverless
5 12 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (10.26%) GCP
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.41%) Power Automate
11 4 (5.13%) Google Play
11 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.85%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.85%) Slack
13 2 (2.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
13 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) SSL
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.13%) MySQL
4 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.13%) Power BI
4 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.56%) Bigtable
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) DataStage
6 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.28%) SQLite
6 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (26.92%) Git
1 21 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 15 (19.23%) GitLab
3 10 (12.82%) JIRA
4 9 (11.54%) CircleCI
5 6 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.69%) JMeter
5 6 (7.69%) Maven
5 6 (7.69%) Postman
5 6 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 6 (7.69%) Selenium
5 6 (7.69%) TestNG
6 4 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.85%) JUnit
7 3 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.28%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.28%) Log4j
8 1 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 17 (21.79%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Local Government
5 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (33.33%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.10%) Software Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Test Engineer
5 8 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.97%) Architect
6 7 (8.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Senior
7 6 (7.69%) Android Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.13%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) iOS Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.23%) React
2 14 (17.95%) RESTful
3 12 (15.38%) Node.js
4 11 (14.10%) .NET
5 8 (10.26%) Playwright
6 6 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.69%) REST
7 5 (6.41%) Android Jetpack
7 5 (6.41%) Jetpack Compose
8 3 (3.85%) Express.js
8 3 (3.85%) Jest
8 3 (3.85%) Kafka
8 3 (3.85%) pytest
8 3 (3.85%) SwiftUI
9 2 (2.56%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.56%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.56%) Blazor
9 2 (2.56%) PySpark
9 2 (2.56%) Spring
9 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.97%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.85%) NHS
3 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Android
2 5 (6.41%) Linux
3 4 (5.13%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) DevOps
2 36 (46.15%) Agile
3 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (24.36%) Test Automation
5 17 (21.79%) Containerisation
6 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (15.38%) TDD
9 10 (12.82%) Microservices
9 10 (12.82%) Test Strategy
10 9 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
11 7 (8.97%) API Testing
11 7 (8.97%) Clean Code
11 7 (8.97%) Information Architecture
11 7 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.97%) Scrum
12 6 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (7.69%) ETL
12 6 (7.69%) MVVM
12 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) Python
2 17 (21.79%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.95%) Java
3 14 (17.95%) SQL
4 8 (10.26%) Bash
4 8 (10.26%) C#
4 8 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.85%) Bicep
6 3 (3.85%) Scala
6 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.85%) Swift
7 2 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.28%) C++
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) GCIH
5 1 (1.28%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.26%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) WCAG
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.56%) NCSC
4 2 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (2.56%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.28%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (25.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (34.62%) Terraform
2 18 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.69%) Ansible
5 5 (6.41%) Grafana
6 2 (2.56%) Control-M
7 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.28%) Puppet
7 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (5.13%) Splunk
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) Brio
5 2 (2.56%) Databricks
5 2 (2.56%) IBM
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.28%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.28%) Talend
6 1 (1.28%) TIBCO