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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -30 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 62 147 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.22% 4.52% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 5.16% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 105 166
10th Percentile £325 £370 £389
25th Percentile £356 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £683 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +2.77%

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 2,273 2,848 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.44% 87.66% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,999 3,249
10th Percentile £231 £262 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 136
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.84
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +26.05% +19.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £23.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 June 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 -28 47 £488 -13.33% 75
East Midlands -6 12 £436 +2.65% 29
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 (8.06%) JBoss
2 3 (4.84%) CMS
2 3 (4.84%) Drupal
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) SAS
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) AWS
3 14 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (14.52%) Serverless
5 7 (11.29%) PaaS
6 6 (9.68%) GCP
6 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.06%) CloudFront
7 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 4 (6.45%) IaaS
9 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.23%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) DNS
2 7 (11.29%) VPN
3 5 (8.06%) Network Security
4 4 (6.45%) Firewall
4 4 (6.45%) SSL
5 1 (1.61%) DSL
5 1 (1.61%) Extranet
5 1 (1.61%) Intranet
5 1 (1.61%) IPsec
5 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Relational Database
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.06%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.06%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) MySQL
4 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Impala
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.61%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Git
2 16 (25.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.52%) JIRA
4 7 (11.29%) TeamCity
5 6 (9.68%) Artifactory
5 6 (9.68%) GitLab
6 5 (8.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (8.06%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (8.06%) SonarQube
6 5 (8.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.84%) NUnit
7 3 (4.84%) Selenium
7 3 (4.84%) Subversion
8 2 (3.23%) Moq
8 2 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.23%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.61%) Hudson
9 1 (1.61%) JUnit
9 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Retail
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Java Developer
3 6 (9.68%) React Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Security Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Lead Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Test Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) React
2 7 (11.29%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.68%) .NET
3 6 (9.68%) Apollo GraphQL
3 6 (9.68%) OAuth
3 6 (9.68%) REST
3 6 (9.68%) SAML
3 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (8.06%) Express.js
4 5 (8.06%) OAuth2
4 5 (8.06%) Spring
5 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
6 3 (4.84%) Kafka
7 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.23%) Swagger
7 2 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.19%) Windows
2 9 (14.52%) Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.84%) Unix
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) DevOps
2 21 (33.87%) Agile
3 15 (24.19%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (19.35%) Microservices
5 11 (17.74%) Computer Science
5 11 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (14.52%) TDD
7 8 (12.90%) Code Quality
7 8 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.90%) DevSecOps
7 8 (12.90%) Scrum
8 7 (11.29%) Cloud Security
8 7 (11.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (11.29%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (9.68%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (9.68%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Python
2 9 (14.52%) Java
2 9 (14.52%) SQL
3 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.29%) Perl
5 6 (9.68%) C#
5 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) Go
6 1 (1.61%) Groovy
6 1 (1.61%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Ruby
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) RHCE
7 1 (1.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Docker
2 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) HDFS
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.13%) Ansible
3 8 (12.90%) Progress Chef
3 8 (12.90%) Terraform
4 5 (8.06%) Kibana
5 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) Argo
6 1 (1.61%) Istio
6 1 (1.61%) linkerd
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) Rancher
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.61%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.68%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.06%) AppDynamics
4 5 (8.06%) Splunk
5 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.84%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.84%) SAP
7 2 (3.23%) Confluent
7 2 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.61%) Denodo
8 1 (1.61%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.61%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.61%) Informatica
8 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle
8 1 (1.61%) Sage
8 1 (1.61%) Talend
8 1 (1.61%) VMware