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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 72 44
Rank change year-on-year +48 -28 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 130 62 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.45% 2.24% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 2.74% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 50 105
10th Percentile £357 £320 £370
25th Percentile £411 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -11.63% +8.04%
75th Percentile £535 £616 £625
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
England median daily rate £521 £553 £600
% change year-on-year -5.70% -7.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £67.50 £65.61
% change year-on-year -15.93% +2.89% +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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +34 75 £495 +4.21% 1,440
East Midlands +39 55 £450 +13.21% 1,072
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) Apache
2 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.31%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (2.31%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.54%) JBoss
4 2 (1.54%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) CICS
5 1 (0.77%) Luigi
5 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.54%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.69%) AWS
2 56 (43.08%) Azure
3 32 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (16.15%) GCP
5 20 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 20 (15.38%) Serverless
6 17 (13.08%) GitHub
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
13 6 (4.62%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) HTTP
2 4 (3.08%) Firewall
3 3 (2.31%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.31%) Network Security
3 3 (2.31%) SSL
4 2 (1.54%) DMZ
4 2 (1.54%) Internet
4 2 (1.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.77%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) NoSQL
1 16 (12.31%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.15%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (5.38%) Oracle Database
7 6 (4.62%) MySQL
8 5 (3.85%) Big Data
8 5 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.85%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.08%) Power BI
9 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (29.23%) Git
2 37 (28.46%) Jenkins
3 21 (16.15%) JIRA
4 17 (13.08%) GitLab
5 12 (9.23%) Maven
5 12 (9.23%) SonarQube
6 11 (8.46%) JUnit
7 10 (7.69%) Selenium
8 9 (6.92%) Mockito
9 6 (4.62%) Gradle
10 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.85%) JMeter
10 5 (3.85%) Postman
10 5 (3.85%) TeamCity
11 4 (3.08%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (3.08%) Cypress.io
11 4 (3.08%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (2.31%) Chocolatey
12 3 (2.31%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Finance
3 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Banking
7 6 (4.62%) Retail
8 4 (3.08%) Games
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (36.92%) Developer
2 17 (13.08%) Architect
2 17 (13.08%) Java Developer
3 15 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.23%) Senior
6 8 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Android Developer
7 7 (5.38%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (3.08%) Lead
9 4 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) React Developer
9 4 (3.08%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.92%) RESTful
2 21 (16.15%) .NET
2 21 (16.15%) Spring
3 19 (14.62%) REST
4 17 (13.08%) React
4 17 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 17 (13.08%) Web Services
5 16 (12.31%) Kafka
6 14 (10.77%) Hibernate
6 14 (10.77%) HTML
7 10 (7.69%) CSS
7 10 (7.69%) Node.js
8 8 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.38%) Android Jetpack
9 7 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (5.38%) Jetpack Compose
9 7 (5.38%) JPA
10 6 (4.62%) OAuth
10 6 (4.62%) Redux
10 6 (4.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.85%) PKI
5 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.31%) State Machine
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.54%) IoT
7 2 (1.54%) Replication
7 2 (1.54%) SCADA
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.77%) VSAM
8 1 (0.77%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.92%) Android
2 6 (4.62%) Linux
3 5 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.31%) Windows
5 2 (1.54%) AIX
5 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.85%) DevOps
2 69 (53.08%) Agile
3 39 (30.00%) Microservices
4 37 (28.46%) Test Automation
5 36 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 26 (20.00%) Scrum
7 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (14.62%) ETL
9 18 (13.85%) TDD
10 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.00%) DevSecOps
12 13 (10.00%) Migration
13 12 (9.23%) Analytics
13 12 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (9.23%) Mentoring
14 11 (8.46%) Data Governance
14 11 (8.46%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.00%) Java
2 29 (22.31%) Python
3 27 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 26 (20.00%) SQL
5 20 (15.38%) C#
6 16 (12.31%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.15%) Bash
8 7 (5.38%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.38%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.62%) Scala
10 5 (3.85%) Bicep
11 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.54%) C
12 2 (1.54%) Go
12 2 (1.54%) JSX
12 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.54%) Perl
12 2 (1.54%) R
12 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.77%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 22 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.15%) Degree
4 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.08%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.31%) CEH
7 3 (2.31%) CISSP
8 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) GDPR
3 6 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.85%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (37.69%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 36 (27.69%) Terraform
3 17 (13.08%) Ansible
4 7 (5.38%) Kibana
5 5 (3.85%) Grafana
5 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.85%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 4 (3.08%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.31%) logstash
7 3 (2.31%) Puppet
8 2 (1.54%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.54%) QRadar
9 1 (0.77%) Argo
9 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.77%) Rancher
9 1 (0.77%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.31%) Oracle
3 8 (6.15%) Google
4 6 (4.62%) Databricks
4 6 (4.62%) IBM
4 6 (4.62%) Splunk
5 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.08%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco
6 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.54%) Informatica
7 2 (1.54%) Nintex
7 2 (1.54%) SAP
7 2 (1.54%) Veracode
7 2 (1.54%) VMware
8 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.77%) Teradata