CI/CD Contracts in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 64 166 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.35% 4.95% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 5.60% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 122 139
10th Percentile £325 £373 £385
25th Percentile £356 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £605 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £554 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.61% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,964 4,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.02% 88.40% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,073 3,221
10th Percentile £237 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £365 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £687 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 113 142
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.84 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.75 £34.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 -32 49 £475 -12.04% 61
East Midlands +5 12 £398 -6.47% 20
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 5 (7.81%) JBoss
2 3 (4.69%) CMS
2 3 (4.69%) Drupal
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 7 (10.94%) PaaS
6 6 (9.38%) GCP
6 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Functions
7 5 (7.81%) CloudFront
7 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.25%) IaaS
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (3.13%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) VPN
3 5 (7.81%) Network Security
4 4 (6.25%) Firewall
4 4 (6.25%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) DSL
5 1 (1.56%) Extranet
5 1 (1.56%) FTP
5 1 (1.56%) Intranet
5 1 (1.56%) IPsec
5 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.56%) Power BI
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Git
2 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.94%) JIRA
4 6 (9.38%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (7.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
6 4 (6.25%) GitLab
7 3 (4.69%) NUnit
7 3 (4.69%) Selenium
7 3 (4.69%) Subversion
8 2 (3.13%) Moq
8 2 (3.13%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.56%) Hudson
9 1 (1.56%) JUnit
9 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Retail
3 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.56%) Electronics
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) React Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) C# Developer
7 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) React
2 8 (12.50%) .NET
2 8 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.38%) Apollo GraphQL
3 6 (9.38%) OAuth
3 6 (9.38%) SAML
3 6 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.81%) Express.js
4 5 (7.81%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.81%) Spring
5 4 (6.25%) JSON
5 4 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.69%) Kafka
6 3 (4.69%) YAML
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.88%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.69%) Unix
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) DevOps
2 23 (35.94%) Agile
3 14 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (18.75%) Microservices
5 11 (17.19%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 10 (15.63%) Scrum
7 9 (14.06%) Code Quality
8 8 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (12.50%) TDD
9 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) DevSecOps
10 6 (9.38%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (7.81%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) SQL
3 9 (14.06%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) C#
5 7 (10.94%) Perl
5 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Go
8 1 (1.56%) Groovy
8 1 (1.56%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) HDFS
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (10.94%) Ansible
3 7 (10.94%) Progress Chef
4 5 (7.81%) Kibana
5 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) Argo
6 1 (1.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.56%) linkerd
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.94%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.81%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.81%) Splunk
4 4 (6.25%) SAP
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.69%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.13%) Confluent
6 2 (3.13%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.56%) Citrix
7 1 (1.56%) Denodo
7 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.56%) Informatica
7 1 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) Sage
7 1 (1.56%) Talend