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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 298 385 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.33% 6.63% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 7.31% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 298 373
10th Percentile £414 £413 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £688
England median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -5.01% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +12.07%

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 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
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% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

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 6 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 6 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 0 188 £582 +5.82% 118
Yorkshire +7 100 £520 -5.45% 60
North East -23 10 £469 -21.88% 16
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 (5.37%) Apache
2 13 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.36%) Confluence
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.67%) Traefik
9 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 136 (45.64%) AWS
2 70 (23.49%) Azure
3 34 (11.41%) GitHub
4 33 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
5 29 (9.73%) Serverless
6 28 (9.40%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.72%) GCP
8 22 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.70%) Snowflake
13 13 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.02%) Route 53
15 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.01%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.11%) Firewall
2 47 (15.77%) VPN
3 10 (3.36%) DNS
4 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.01%) HTTP
5 6 (2.01%) Network Security
5 6 (2.01%) SSL
6 5 (1.68%) FTP
7 3 (1.01%) DSL
8 2 (0.67%) Intranet
9 1 (0.34%) DMZ
9 1 (0.34%) IPv4
9 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.72%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.03%) MySQL
5 11 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.35%) Big Data
8 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.01%) Flink
8 6 (2.01%) Redis
8 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.01%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (1.01%) Power BI
11 3 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (21.14%) GitLab
2 54 (18.12%) Git
3 51 (17.11%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.72%) JIRA
5 11 (3.69%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.36%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.68%) webpack
8 7 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.35%) Travis CI
9 6 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.01%) Mockito
9 6 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.68%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.68%) JMeter
10 5 (1.68%) JUnit
10 5 (1.68%) Selenium
11 4 (1.34%) AppScan
11 4 (1.34%) Maven
11 4 (1.34%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (11.74%) Public Sector
2 34 (11.41%) Finance
3 33 (11.07%) Social Skills
4 22 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.02%) Banking
7 6 (2.01%) Legal
8 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.34%) Retail
10 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (19.80%) Developer
1 59 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (19.13%) Architect
3 49 (16.44%) Lead
4 40 (13.42%) Technical Architect
5 32 (10.74%) Senior
5 32 (10.74%) Technical Leader
6 28 (9.40%) Lead Architect
7 23 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (5.70%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.70%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Consultant
15 9 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (27.52%) Node.js
2 24 (8.05%) React
2 24 (8.05%) RESTful
3 22 (7.38%) REST
4 18 (6.04%) Spring Boot
5 16 (5.37%) JSON
5 16 (5.37%) Kafka
6 15 (5.03%) Spring
7 14 (4.70%) Redux
7 14 (4.70%) XML
8 11 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.02%) Hibernate
9 9 (3.02%) YAML
10 8 (2.68%) .NET
10 8 (2.68%) Express.js
10 8 (2.68%) JPA
10 8 (2.68%) Spring Security
11 7 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.35%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.75%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.36%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.01%) PKI
10 2 (0.67%) Clustering
10 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) NHS
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.46%) Windows
2 47 (15.77%) Android
3 46 (15.44%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.43%) Windows Server
5 36 (12.08%) Linux
6 10 (3.36%) Unix
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (59.73%) DevOps
2 139 (46.64%) Agile
3 69 (23.15%) Containerisation
4 60 (20.13%) Design Patterns
5 57 (19.13%) Test Automation
6 55 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (17.79%) Continuous Integration
7 53 (17.79%) Microservices
8 47 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (14.77%) Risk Management
10 42 (14.09%) Security Architecture
10 42 (14.09%) Zero Trust
11 40 (13.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 40 (13.42%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (13.42%) Threat Intelligence
12 31 (10.40%) Scrum
12 31 (10.40%) Software Engineering
13 29 (9.73%) Full Stack Development
14 26 (8.72%) Continuous Delivery
15 25 (8.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 82 (27.52%) Python
2 48 (16.11%) Bash
2 48 (16.11%) Java
3 41 (13.76%) SQL
4 33 (11.07%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.40%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.38%) Go
7 19 (6.38%) C#
8 13 (4.36%) Ruby
9 12 (4.03%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.68%) Scala
11 6 (2.01%) Groovy
12 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.68%) Perl
13 4 (1.34%) Swift
14 3 (1.01%) Bicep
15 2 (0.67%) C
15 2 (0.67%) C++
15 2 (0.67%) Delphi
15 2 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.02%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.34%) Degree
6 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.34%) MCSE
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.74%) QA
2 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) SLA
4 3 (1.01%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) NCSC
5 2 (0.67%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (23.83%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) HDFS
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 94 (31.54%) Terraform
2 81 (27.18%) Kubernetes
3 51 (17.11%) Ansible
4 23 (7.72%) Grafana
5 22 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.03%) Puppet
7 14 (4.70%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.69%) HP Fortify
9 9 (3.02%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.35%) Kibana
11 6 (2.01%) logstash
12 4 (1.34%) Graylog
12 4 (1.34%) Nessus
12 4 (1.34%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.01%) CFEngine
13 3 (1.01%) Istio
13 3 (1.01%) Packer
13 3 (1.01%) PowerBroker
14 2 (0.67%) linkerd
14 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.71%) Splunk
2 15 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.70%) EMC
4 11 (3.69%) Google
5 8 (2.68%) Informatica
6 6 (2.01%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.01%) IBM
6 6 (2.01%) PagerDuty
6 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.01%) Solace
6 6 (2.01%) VMware
7 5 (1.68%) Apple
7 5 (1.68%) Talend
8 4 (1.34%) Checkmarx
8 4 (1.34%) Oracle
8 4 (1.34%) Veracode
9 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.67%) Ariba
10 2 (0.67%) SAP
10 2 (0.67%) Virgin Media