GoCD Contracts in the North of England

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for GoCD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GoCD over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 211 239
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 -52
Contract jobs citing GoCD 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.063% 0.086% 0.084%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £425 £558
25th Percentile £500 £426 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £426 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -34.46% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 - £675
90th Percentile - - £683
England median daily rate £488 £426 £650
% change year-on-year +14.44% -34.46% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
North of England

GoCD is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 499 818 1,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.42% 14.01% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 622 808
10th Percentile £375 £350 £356
25th Percentile £418 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 23
10th Percentile £44.09 £37.76 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £40.40 £38.46
Median hourly rate £53.09 £49.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +16.32% +41.67%
75th Percentile £70.31 £55.36 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.15 £59.47 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year +8.33% +17.07% +7.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GoCD in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GoCD in the North of England

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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 GoCD within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +18 3 £525 +23.24% 1
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England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Jest
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana