CI/CD Contracts in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 11 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.92% - 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% - 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile £225 - £563
25th Percentile £325 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £650
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 112 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.68% 76.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 79
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £355 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £506 £413
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +22.73% -5.71%
75th Percentile £532 £581 £508
90th Percentile £625 £663 £626
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Northern Ireland

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 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
County Antrim - 11 £425 - 51
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (9.09%) Anypoint
1 1 (9.09%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (9.09%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Front Office
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Software Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Java Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) React
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Avro
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JMS
3 1 (9.09%) JWT
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) RAML
3 1 (9.09%) SAML
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Derivative
1 7 (63.64%) Equities
1 7 (63.64%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Clean Code
3 7 (63.64%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (54.55%) User Experience
5 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
5 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Culture Change
7 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) DataWeave
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) TIBCO