CI/CD Contracts in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +42 -27 +16
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 112 65 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.85% 2.36% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 2.87% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 51 128
10th Percentile £391 £325 £373
25th Percentile £419 £356 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.71% +13.26%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +29 72 £493 +3.79% 142
East Midlands +34 40 £463 +16.35% 95
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) JBoss
3 2 (1.79%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.79%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.79%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.96%) AWS
1 47 (41.96%) Azure
2 24 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (15.18%) GCP
4 15 (13.39%) Amazon S3
5 13 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (10.71%) Serverless
7 11 (9.82%) GitHub
8 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (6.25%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.36%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (5.36%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.46%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.46%) SaaS
12 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) HTTP
1 2 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.89%) DSL
2 1 (0.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
2 13 (11.61%) SQL Server
3 12 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.36%) MySQL
7 4 (3.57%) Big Data
7 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.79%) Flink
9 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (23.21%) Git
2 23 (20.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (18.75%) JIRA
4 14 (12.50%) GitLab
5 9 (8.04%) Selenium
6 8 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 7 (6.25%) JUnit
7 7 (6.25%) Maven
8 6 (5.36%) Bitbucket
9 5 (4.46%) JMeter
9 5 (4.46%) Mockito
9 5 (4.46%) Postman
10 4 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.68%) Chocolatey
11 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.68%) Plastic SCM
11 3 (2.68%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.68%) Travis CI
General
1 32 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.39%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Retail
7 4 (3.57%) Games
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (27.68%) Developer
2 17 (15.18%) Architect
3 16 (14.29%) Senior
4 13 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.82%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Data Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Lead
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Android Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Analyst
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (3.57%) Junior Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.86%) .NET
2 13 (11.61%) Kafka
2 13 (11.61%) REST
2 13 (11.61%) RESTful
3 12 (10.71%) React
4 11 (9.82%) HTML
4 11 (9.82%) Spring Boot
5 9 (8.04%) Node.js
6 8 (7.14%) Spring
7 7 (6.25%) CSS
7 7 (6.25%) Hibernate
7 7 (6.25%) Web Services
8 5 (4.46%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.46%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.46%) Jetpack Compose
8 5 (4.46%) jQuery
9 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.57%) J2EE
9 4 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.46%) PKI
3 5 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.89%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 5 (4.46%) Android
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
4 3 (2.68%) Unix
5 2 (1.79%) AIX
5 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) Agile
2 60 (53.57%) DevOps
3 35 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 34 (30.36%) Microservices
5 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.86%) Scrum
7 17 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 16 (14.29%) ETL
8 16 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.50%) Software Delivery
10 14 (12.50%) TDD
11 12 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (9.82%) Data Modelling
12 11 (9.82%) Migration
13 10 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 10 (8.93%) Test Strategy
14 9 (8.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.00%) Python
2 22 (19.64%) Java
2 22 (19.64%) SQL
3 21 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.07%) C#
5 13 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.36%) Bash
7 6 (5.36%) Scala
8 5 (4.46%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.68%) R
10 2 (1.79%) C
10 2 (1.79%) Go
10 2 (1.79%) Perl
10 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.89%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) COBOL
11 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.96%) SC Cleared
1 19 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.93%) Degree
3 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.57%) CEH
5 4 (3.57%) CISSP
5 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.57%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.89%) GIAC
7 1 (0.89%) ISEB
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (30.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 31 (27.68%) Terraform
3 13 (11.61%) Ansible
4 7 (6.25%) Kibana
5 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.68%) logstash
7 2 (1.79%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.79%) Grafana
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.79%) Puppet
7 2 (1.79%) QRadar
8 1 (0.89%) Argo
8 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.89%) Rancher
8 1 (0.89%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Oracle
3 6 (5.36%) Google
3 6 (5.36%) Splunk
4 5 (4.46%) Talend
5 4 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.79%) Nintex
7 2 (1.79%) Veracode
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco
8 1 (0.89%) HP
8 1 (0.89%) IBM
8 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.89%) Perforce
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.89%) Siemens