CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Leicester

CI/CD
Leicestershire > Leicester

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 13.41% 1.19% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 1.43% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £456 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -20.00% +40.54%
75th Percentile £469 £530 -
90th Percentile £491 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £520 £510
% change year-on-year -11.06% +1.96% +10.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 70 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 70.73% 83.33% 82.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 81
10th Percentile £197 £258 £288
25th Percentile £360 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -15.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £491 £525 £588
90th Percentile £525 £652 £724
Leicestershire median daily rate £386 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -9.12% - +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.78
25th Percentile - - £18.94
Median hourly rate £13.84 - £39.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +124.29%
75th Percentile - - £58.25
90th Percentile - - £62.30
Leicestershire median hourly rate £20.90 £22.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +8.33% +13.51%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Leicester

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Android Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Android Jetpack
1 8 (72.73%) Jetpack Compose
1 8 (72.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Android Development
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
2 8 (72.73%) Scrum
2 8 (72.73%) TDD
2 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
3 6 (54.55%) API Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Kotlin
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle