CI/CD Contracts in the North East

CI/CD
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 12 28 6
Rank change year-on-year +16 -22 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 28 10 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 8.75% 2.96% 19.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.73% 3.70% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 74
10th Percentile £360 £376 £419
25th Percentile £398 £395 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -21.88% +3.45%
75th Percentile £573 £531 £700
90th Percentile £623 £543 £775
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North East

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North East

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North East

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +10 27 £506 +8.00% 110
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (10.71%) nginx
2 2 (7.14%) Jupyter
2 2 (7.14%) Traefik
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Kong
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) SMS
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.14%) Metadata
2 2 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) GitLab
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.71%) JIRA
4 3 (10.71%) Selenium
5 2 (7.14%) JUnit
5 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
5 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Electronics
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Scala Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) Akka
2 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.14%) cloud-init
3 2 (7.14%) CSS
3 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 2 (7.14%) Play Framework
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) pytest
3 2 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.14%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.14%) CentOS
3 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.86%) BDD
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) API Integration
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (14.29%) SDLC
8 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
8 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) TDD
8 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Grafana
3 6 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Kibana
5 3 (10.71%) Packer
6 2 (7.14%) Consul
6 2 (7.14%) HAProxy
6 2 (7.14%) Istio
6 2 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (7.14%) linkerd
6 2 (7.14%) Rancher
6 2 (7.14%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.71%) New Relic
1 3 (10.71%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Apple
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) ESET
2 2 (7.14%) Okta
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce