CI/CD Contract Job Trends in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 908 310 317
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 13.38% 9.02% 6.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.90% 10.05% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 236 221
10th Percentile £363 £358 £390
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -6.25%
75th Percentile £581 £556 £645
90th Percentile £650 £650 £825
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 3
10th Percentile £53.38 £71.25 £63.50
25th Percentile £62.75 £73.13 £65.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £82.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £76.75 £93.65 £73.50
90th Percentile £92.50 £96.59 £74.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -14.82% +6.70%

All Process & 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 5,712 3,084 4,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.19% 89.78% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 1,991 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £276 £300
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £583 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 158 397
10th Percentile £16.18 £12.82 £11.10
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.93 £12.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% +19.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.90 £76.63 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the North of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 13 June 2026.

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

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CI/CD

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 13 June 2026.

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 13 June 2026. 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
Yorkshire +8 479 £514 +8.21% 70
North West +9 345 £500 - 185
North East +6 99 £426 -2.18% 35
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 62 (6.83%) Confluence
2 49 (5.40%) Apache Spark
3 35 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (3.52%) Apache
5 19 (2.09%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.98%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 416 (45.81%) AWS
2 333 (36.67%) Azure
3 219 (24.12%) GCP
4 189 (20.81%) GitHub
5 98 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (10.35%) Serverless
7 88 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (6.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 47 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (4.96%) OpenShift
11 35 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 35 (3.85%) IaaS
12 33 (3.63%) Power Platform
13 30 (3.30%) OCI
14 29 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (2.97%) Azure AKS
16 25 (2.75%) SaaS
17 24 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (2.64%) PaaS
18 22 (2.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.71%) Firewall
2 44 (4.85%) DNS
3 29 (3.19%) Network Security
4 28 (3.08%) BIG-IP
5 27 (2.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 20 (2.20%) BGP
7 19 (2.09%) Ethernet VPN
7 19 (2.09%) OSPF
7 19 (2.09%) SD-WAN
7 19 (2.09%) VXLAN
7 19 (2.09%) WAN
8 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 13 (1.43%) VPN
9 12 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.32%) WLAN
10 10 (1.10%) SAN
10 10 (1.10%) SSL
11 8 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 6 (0.66%) NAS
12 6 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 38 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 35 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.31%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.09%) Power BI
10 18 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 15 (1.65%) Hadoop
12 15 (1.65%) Metadata
13 14 (1.54%) Big Data
13 14 (1.54%) MySQL
14 11 (1.21%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.21%) DocumentDB
14 11 (1.21%) Redis
15 10 (1.10%) Neo4j
16 9 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 224 (24.67%) Jenkins
2 166 (18.28%) GitLab
3 137 (15.09%) JIRA
4 126 (13.88%) Git
5 49 (5.40%) Selenium
6 36 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 32 (3.52%) REST Assured
8 24 (2.64%) Gatling
9 22 (2.42%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.31%) Maven
10 21 (2.31%) Postman
11 20 (2.20%) JUnit
12 16 (1.76%) Gradle
12 16 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (1.65%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.32%) JMeter
15 11 (1.21%) Serenity BDD
16 9 (0.99%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.88%) fastlane
18 7 (0.77%) Mocha
General
1 248 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 162 (17.84%) Finance
3 141 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 74 (8.15%) Banking
5 71 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.76%) Retail
9 15 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.65%) Military
10 14 (1.54%) Legal
11 10 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.10%) Publishing
12 9 (0.99%) Law
13 5 (0.55%) Aviation
13 5 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.55%) Police
14 4 (0.44%) Games
15 3 (0.33%) Advertising
15 3 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 185 (20.37%) Developer
2 156 (17.18%) Senior
3 124 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (10.90%) Lead
5 93 (10.24%) Architect
6 60 (6.61%) Software Engineer
7 48 (5.29%) Data Engineer
8 47 (5.18%) Java Developer
9 42 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.52%) Test Engineer
11 34 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (3.63%) Python Developer
13 32 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
13 32 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
14 30 (3.30%) Security Engineer
15 27 (2.97%) Consultant
16 26 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.91%) REST
2 88 (9.69%) Spring Boot
3 85 (9.36%) Spring
4 83 (9.14%) Kafka
5 75 (8.26%) React
6 68 (7.49%) RESTful
7 63 (6.94%) Node.js
8 51 (5.62%) YAML
9 48 (5.29%) Playwright
10 46 (5.07%) OpenTelemetry
11 45 (4.96%) .NET
12 33 (3.63%) OAuth
13 31 (3.41%) OpenID
14 30 (3.30%) JSON
14 30 (3.30%) PySpark
15 26 (2.86%) AngularJS
16 25 (2.75%) OAuth2
17 22 (2.42%) HTML
17 22 (2.42%) JWT
18 20 (2.20%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 199 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.49%) Product Ownership
3 45 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 45 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.09%) NHS
9 17 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.32%) Replication
14 10 (1.10%) Clustering
14 10 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.57%) Linux
2 41 (4.52%) Windows
3 34 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.54%) Unix
5 10 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.99%) CentOS
7 7 (0.77%) Android
7 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.77%) VMS
8 5 (0.55%) AIX
9 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (61.01%) DevOps
2 339 (37.33%) Agile
3 297 (32.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (22.80%) Test Automation
5 183 (20.15%) Containerisation
5 183 (20.15%) Observability
6 177 (19.49%) Microservices
7 153 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (13.66%) Software Engineering
9 116 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 104 (11.45%) Migration
11 103 (11.34%) DevSecOps
12 97 (10.68%) Roadmaps
13 96 (10.57%) AI
14 85 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
15 84 (9.25%) Scrum
16 83 (9.14%) Analytics
17 82 (9.03%) Event-Driven
18 79 (8.70%) Cloud Security
18 79 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 379 (41.74%) Python
2 230 (25.33%) Java
3 165 (18.17%) SQL
4 88 (9.69%) Bash
5 71 (7.82%) JavaScript
6 65 (7.16%) PowerShell
6 65 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 41 (4.52%) C#
8 32 (3.52%) Go
9 24 (2.64%) Scala
10 20 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 19 (2.09%) Bicep
12 17 (1.87%) Groovy
12 17 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.10%) ActionScript
13 10 (1.10%) Ruby
14 9 (0.99%) Perl
14 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 143 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (4.41%) Degree
5 33 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.86%) CISSP
8 20 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.54%) CCSP
10 14 (1.54%) CISM
11 9 (0.99%) RHCE
12 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.55%) OCP
13 5 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.44%) IBM Certification
14 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.83%) Accessibility
2 39 (4.30%) QA
3 38 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.85%) WCAG
5 28 (3.08%) GDPR
6 11 (1.21%) NIST
7 8 (0.88%) FINRA
7 8 (0.88%) MiFID
7 8 (0.88%) SLA
8 7 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.55%) PSD2
9 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.55%) SEPA
10 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 234 (25.77%) Docker
2 20 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.98%) vSphere
4 17 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.76%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.32%) Active Directory
7 6 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.55%) RACF
9 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
9 4 (0.44%) SRDF
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.22%) NFS
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.11%) Ceph
12 1 (0.11%) Squid
12 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 321 (35.35%) Terraform
2 281 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 142 (15.64%) Ansible
4 95 (10.46%) Grafana
5 80 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 33 (3.63%) Argo
7 20 (2.20%) Istio
8 18 (1.98%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.76%) Control-M
9 16 (1.76%) Puppet
10 14 (1.54%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.54%) Nessus
11 13 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.77%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.77%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.77%) Packer
14 5 (0.55%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.55%) Kiali
14 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 103 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.70%) Google
3 62 (6.83%) Splunk
4 56 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 40 (4.41%) Databricks
5 40 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.30%) F5
7 28 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 26 (2.86%) VMware
9 24 (2.64%) Oracle
10 22 (2.42%) Pure Storage
11 20 (2.20%) Palo Alto
12 19 (2.09%) Aruba
13 18 (1.98%) Arista
13 18 (1.98%) Sonatype
14 15 (1.65%) Tenable
15 12 (1.32%) OpenAI
15 12 (1.32%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.10%) IBM
17 9 (0.99%) Trend Micro