CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

CI/CD
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 15 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 61 24 4
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.71% 12.12% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.89% 12.97% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 18 3
10th Percentile £350 £387 £450
25th Percentile £425 £410 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £575
90th Percentile £599 £633 £590
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 185 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.57% 93.43% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 93 100
10th Percentile £178 £280 £248
25th Percentile £364 £354 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £579 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Newcastle upon Tyne

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) GitHub
3 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (13.11%) Serverless
5 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.48%) Azure
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (9.84%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.28%) dbt
10 2 (3.28%) GCP
10 2 (3.28%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.28%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) Metadata
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (42.62%) GitLab
2 14 (22.95%) Cucumber
2 14 (22.95%) Git
3 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
3 11 (18.03%) REST Assured
4 9 (14.75%) JIRA
5 7 (11.48%) Postman
6 5 (8.20%) Selenium
7 4 (6.56%) JMeter
8 3 (4.92%) Gatling
9 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.28%) Mocha
9 2 (3.28%) TestRail
10 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (45.90%) Public Sector
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 1 (1.64%) Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Test Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Lead
3 8 (13.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (9.84%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Tester
7 3 (4.92%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (4.92%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) QA Test Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) REST
2 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
3 8 (13.11%) Spring
3 8 (13.11%) WireMock
4 7 (11.48%) Node.js
5 5 (8.20%) Keycloak
5 5 (8.20%) Playwright
6 4 (6.56%) Gherkin
6 4 (6.56%) Kafka
7 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.28%) Akka
8 2 (3.28%) Express.js
8 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.28%) Jest
8 2 (3.28%) Next.js
8 2 (3.28%) PySpark
8 2 (3.28%) React
9 1 (1.64%) JSON
9 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Agile
2 30 (49.18%) Test Automation
3 29 (47.54%) DevOps
4 28 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (37.70%) Containerisation
6 21 (34.43%) TDD
7 19 (31.15%) Microservices
8 17 (27.87%) BDD
9 14 (22.95%) Functional Testing
10 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
10 12 (19.67%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (16.39%) Migration
11 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
12 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (14.75%) Validation
13 8 (13.11%) API Testing
13 8 (13.11%) Performance Testing
13 8 (13.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) Java
2 21 (34.43%) Python
3 14 (22.95%) Bash
4 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) SQL
6 5 (8.20%) Go
7 3 (4.92%) Bicep
7 3 (4.92%) Perl
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (45.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (44.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
2 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) WCAG
4 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (39.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (49.18%) Terraform
2 21 (34.43%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.03%) Ansible
4 10 (16.39%) Grafana
5 6 (9.84%) Istio
5 6 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.20%) Argo
7 2 (3.28%) Kibana
8 1 (1.64%) Icinga
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.92%) Databricks
3 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) UiPath