CI/CD Contract Job Trends in the North East

CI/CD
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 33 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 11.66% 6.10% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 7.04% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 13
10th Percentile £322 - £350
25th Percentile £400 £325 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £410 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -31.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £775
90th Percentile £573 £540 £835
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year - -12.75% +13.74%

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 231 213 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.63% 86.59% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 99 168
10th Percentile £200 £303 £313
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.01% -9.76%
75th Percentile £572 £572 £600
90th Percentile £625 £684 £720
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 10
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.25 £16.93
25th Percentile £13.37 £17.75 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +77.62% +48.57%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.40 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CI/CD

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +5 27 £450 +9.76% 25
Durham - 1 - - 5
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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) CMS
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Serverless
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.03%) Azure
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.03%) dbt
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.03%) Flink
1 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 8 (24.24%) JIRA
3 7 (21.21%) Git
3 7 (21.21%) GitLab
4 5 (15.15%) Cucumber
5 4 (12.12%) Selenium
6 3 (9.09%) Postman
7 1 (3.03%) Appium
7 1 (3.03%) Gatling
7 1 (3.03%) JMeter
7 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.03%) TestRail
General
1 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (12.12%) Senior
2 4 (12.12%) Test Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Tester
3 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) QA Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) QA Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) Playwright
3 1 (3.03%) Akka
3 1 (3.03%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Next.js
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Swagger
3 1 (3.03%) WireMock
3 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (39.39%) Agile
3 11 (33.33%) Migration
4 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
4 10 (30.30%) Validation
5 8 (24.24%) GitOps
6 7 (21.21%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (15.15%) TDD
9 4 (12.12%) BDD
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (12.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (12.12%) Microservices
9 4 (12.12%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.12%) Refactoring
9 4 (12.12%) Secrets Management
9 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Bash
3 7 (21.21%) Java
4 5 (15.15%) Go
5 4 (12.12%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Terraform
2 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 14 (42.42%) Ansible
4 9 (27.27%) Istio
5 8 (24.24%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Kibana
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.06%) Salesforce