CI/CD Contracts in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 301 366 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.44% 6.41% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 7.07% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 281 372
10th Percentile £417 £413 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £78.38
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,176 6,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.65% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,584 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.88
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +51.84% +3.15%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

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 12 May 2024.

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
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 12 May 2024. 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 +1 189 £582 +5.82% 109
Yorkshire +12 102 £523 -7.52% 53
North East -19 10 £469 -21.88% 18
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 16 (5.32%) Apache
2 15 (4.98%) Confluence
3 13 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.66%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.99%) nginx
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.66%) Traefik
10 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.51%) AWS
2 69 (22.92%) Azure
3 35 (11.63%) GitHub
4 33 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (9.63%) Serverless
6 28 (9.30%) Amazon S3
7 27 (8.97%) GCP
8 22 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 9 (2.99%) Route 53
14 8 (2.66%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.66%) Kong
15 6 (1.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.61%) Firewall
2 48 (15.95%) VPN
3 12 (3.99%) DNS
4 10 (3.32%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.66%) HTTP
5 8 (2.66%) SSL
6 7 (2.33%) Network Security
7 5 (1.66%) FTP
8 3 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.66%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.66%) DSL
9 2 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.66%) Intranet
9 2 (0.66%) IPv4
10 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.64%) MongoDB
2 18 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.98%) MySQL
5 11 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.33%) Big Data
8 6 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.99%) Flink
8 6 (1.99%) Redis
8 6 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.00%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (1.00%) Power BI
11 3 (1.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (21.93%) GitLab
2 56 (18.60%) Git
3 54 (17.94%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.64%) JIRA
5 11 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.99%) Travis CI
7 8 (2.66%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.66%) webpack
8 7 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.66%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.66%) JMeter
10 5 (1.66%) Mockito
10 5 (1.66%) Selenium
11 4 (1.33%) AppScan
11 4 (1.33%) JUnit
11 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.00%) Maven
General
1 35 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.30%) Finance
3 33 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.32%) Banking
5 10 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.99%) Legal
7 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.00%) Retail
9 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Local Government
10 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (20.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (19.27%) Architect
2 58 (19.27%) Developer
3 48 (15.95%) Lead
4 40 (13.29%) Technical Architect
5 32 (10.63%) Senior
5 32 (10.63%) Technical Leader
6 28 (9.30%) Lead Architect
7 23 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Site Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (28.24%) Node.js
2 27 (8.97%) React
3 23 (7.64%) RESTful
4 21 (6.98%) REST
5 20 (6.64%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.98%) JSON
6 18 (5.98%) Spring
7 16 (5.32%) XML
8 15 (4.98%) Kafka
9 14 (4.65%) Redux
10 13 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (3.65%) YAML
12 9 (2.99%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.66%) .NET
13 8 (2.66%) Express.js
13 8 (2.66%) JPA
13 8 (2.66%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.33%) FastAPI
14 7 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.29%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.32%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.00%) PKI
9 2 (0.66%) Clustering
9 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) NHS
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.60%) Windows
2 46 (15.28%) Android
3 45 (14.95%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 36 (11.96%) Linux
6 9 (2.99%) Unix
7 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (60.13%) DevOps
2 141 (46.84%) Agile
3 73 (24.25%) Containerisation
4 62 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (19.93%) Design Patterns
5 60 (19.93%) Test Automation
6 54 (17.94%) Continuous Integration
6 54 (17.94%) Microservices
7 47 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 42 (13.95%) Security Architecture
9 42 (13.95%) Zero Trust
10 40 (13.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 40 (13.29%) Mobile Device Management
10 40 (13.29%) Threat Intelligence
11 34 (11.30%) Software Engineering
12 33 (10.96%) Scrum
13 28 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
14 26 (8.64%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.24%) Python
2 52 (17.28%) Bash
3 50 (16.61%) Java
4 42 (13.95%) SQL
5 32 (10.63%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.63%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.31%) Go
8 19 (6.31%) C#
9 16 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.32%) Ruby
11 9 (2.99%) Scala
12 6 (1.99%) Groovy
13 5 (1.66%) Perl
14 4 (1.33%) Bicep
14 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.00%) Swift
16 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.66%) C++
16 2 (0.66%) Delphi
16 2 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 9 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.66%) Degree
6 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) MCSE
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.29%) QA
2 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.33%) SLA
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (25.25%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) HDFS
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 98 (32.56%) Terraform
2 85 (28.24%) Kubernetes
3 52 (17.28%) Ansible
4 25 (8.31%) Grafana
5 24 (7.97%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.32%) Puppet
7 15 (4.98%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.65%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (3.65%) HP Fortify
9 9 (2.99%) Kibana
10 8 (2.66%) logstash
11 4 (1.33%) Graylog
11 4 (1.33%) Nessus
11 4 (1.33%) WebInspect
12 3 (1.00%) Istio
12 3 (1.00%) Packer
13 2 (0.66%) linkerd
13 2 (0.66%) Podman
13 2 (0.66%) PowerBroker
13 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (7.31%) Splunk
2 15 (4.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.65%) EMC
4 10 (3.32%) Google
5 8 (2.66%) Informatica
6 6 (1.99%) IBM
6 6 (1.99%) PagerDuty
6 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.99%) Solace
6 6 (1.99%) VMware
7 5 (1.66%) Apple
7 5 (1.66%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.66%) Talend
8 4 (1.33%) Checkmarx
8 4 (1.33%) Oracle
8 4 (1.33%) Veracode
9 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) Ariba
10 2 (0.66%) SAP