CI/CD Contracts in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 291 300 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.83% 6.29% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.81% 7.34% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 216 317
10th Percentile £383 £422 £413
25th Percentile £411 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -0.67% +1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £640
90th Percentile £711 £825 £700
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £79.43 - -
25th Percentile £84.19 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% +55.56% -5.01%
75th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +1 156 £500 -14.09% 351
Yorkshire +16 110 £510 -5.12% 160
North East +16 28 £506 +8.00% 65
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (4.81%) Confluence
2 11 (3.78%) nginx
3 7 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.41%) Traefik
4 6 (2.06%) Apache
5 5 (1.72%) JBoss
6 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) CICS
8 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.27%) AWS
2 54 (18.56%) Azure
3 33 (11.34%) GitHub
4 32 (11.00%) GCP
5 27 (9.28%) Serverless
6 24 (8.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (5.50%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.44%) AWS Fargate
13 10 (3.44%) Entra ID
14 9 (3.09%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.15%) DNS
2 10 (3.44%) HTTP
2 10 (3.44%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.75%) Firewall
4 5 (1.72%) DHCP
5 3 (1.03%) DMZ
5 3 (1.03%) SAN
6 2 (0.69%) Calico
6 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.69%) SMS
6 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) NAS
7 1 (0.34%) SMTP
7 1 (0.34%) SSH
7 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.09%) MongoDB
2 40 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.50%) MySQL
6 13 (4.47%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (3.09%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.75%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.72%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.72%) Power BI
11 5 (1.72%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.37%) Metadata
12 4 (1.37%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 91 (31.27%) Jenkins
2 73 (25.09%) GitLab
3 53 (18.21%) Git
4 38 (13.06%) JIRA
5 25 (8.59%) JUnit
6 20 (6.87%) Cucumber
7 18 (6.19%) Selenium
8 12 (4.12%) Gradle
9 11 (3.78%) Mockito
10 10 (3.44%) Liquibase
11 9 (3.09%) Jasmine
12 8 (2.75%) Maven
13 7 (2.41%) JMeter
13 7 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.41%) TeamCity
14 6 (2.06%) CA Release Automation
14 6 (2.06%) SonarQube
14 6 (2.06%) Visual Studio
15 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (1.72%) REST Assured
General
1 65 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.21%) Public Sector
3 46 (15.81%) Finance
4 29 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.84%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.47%) Electronics
6 13 (4.47%) Marketing
6 13 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.12%) Banking
8 8 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.06%) Military
9 6 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) French Language
11 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (25.77%) Developer
2 67 (23.02%) Senior
3 60 (20.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (9.62%) Architect
5 21 (7.22%) Java Developer
5 21 (7.22%) Lead
6 20 (6.87%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.84%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Tester
14 8 (2.75%) iOS Developer
14 8 (2.75%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.21%) Kafka
2 37 (12.71%) RESTful
2 37 (12.71%) Spring Boot
3 30 (10.31%) React
4 29 (9.97%) Spring
5 21 (7.22%) OpenAPI
5 21 (7.22%) Swagger
6 18 (6.19%) .NET
7 17 (5.84%) cloud-init
8 15 (5.15%) Node.js
9 14 (4.81%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.47%) REST
11 10 (3.44%) OAuth
12 9 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.09%) HTML
12 9 (3.09%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.75%) CSS
13 8 (2.75%) pytest
13 8 (2.75%) Spring Batch
13 8 (2.75%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (3.78%) PKI
3 9 (3.09%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.06%) NHS
7 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.03%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.03%) Replication
10 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 68 (23.37%) Linux
2 43 (14.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (9.97%) Unix
4 18 (6.19%) CentOS
4 18 (6.19%) Windows
5 14 (4.81%) Android
6 12 (4.12%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.75%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (52.92%) DevOps
2 110 (37.80%) Agile
3 83 (28.52%) Microservices
4 77 (26.46%) Containerisation
5 76 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (22.68%) Continuous Integration
7 62 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 60 (20.62%) Test Automation
9 44 (15.12%) TDD
10 42 (14.43%) Software Engineering
11 30 (10.31%) Mentoring
12 28 (9.62%) SDLC
13 25 (8.59%) Observability
14 24 (8.25%) Cloud Security
14 24 (8.25%) Event-Driven
14 24 (8.25%) Scrum
15 23 (7.90%) BDD
15 23 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (7.22%) Infrastructure Automation
17 20 (6.87%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.64%) Python
2 73 (25.09%) Java
3 65 (22.34%) SQL
4 54 (18.56%) Bash
5 29 (9.97%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.56%) Go
8 16 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.78%) Scala
9 11 (3.78%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.44%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.41%) Perl
12 6 (2.06%) C#
13 4 (1.37%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.37%) Groovy
14 3 (1.03%) Clojure
14 3 (1.03%) Swift
15 2 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.75%) Degree
5 6 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.37%) OCP
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.69%) CCNA
9 2 (0.69%) CCNP
9 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.84%) QA
2 9 (3.09%) NCSC
3 8 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 92 (31.62%) Docker
2 11 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.75%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 109 (37.46%) Kubernetes
2 80 (27.49%) Terraform
3 41 (14.09%) Ansible
4 27 (9.28%) Grafana
5 23 (7.90%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.87%) Packer
6 20 (6.87%) Progress Chef
7 16 (5.50%) Istio
7 16 (5.50%) Kibana
8 9 (3.09%) Consul
8 9 (3.09%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (3.09%) linkerd
8 9 (3.09%) Rancher
8 9 (3.09%) ZABBIX
9 7 (2.41%) HAProxy
9 7 (2.41%) Puppet
10 4 (1.37%) Control-M
10 4 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.03%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.69%) Kiali
Vendors
1 25 (8.59%) Oracle
2 20 (6.87%) Splunk
3 14 (4.81%) SAP
4 13 (4.47%) AppDynamics
4 13 (4.47%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.12%) Databricks
5 12 (4.12%) Google
6 10 (3.44%) VMware
7 9 (3.09%) Okta
7 9 (3.09%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.75%) Apple
8 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.41%) ESET
10 6 (2.06%) Virgin Media
11 5 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.72%) IBM
11 5 (1.72%) Infoblox
11 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.72%) Talend
12 4 (1.37%) Cisco