CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

CI/CD
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 17 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 160 26 16
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 22.70% 8.33% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.67% 9.03% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 25 12
10th Percentile £316 £425 £445
25th Percentile £410 £481 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £491
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.96% -21.08%
75th Percentile £525 £623 £588
90th Percentile £550 £665 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £491
% change year-on-year -13.64% +11.96% -20.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 288 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.89% 92.31% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 163 234
10th Percentile £316 £220 £385
25th Percentile £401 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £724
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £545
% change year-on-year -6.80% -5.50% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +60.71%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Sheffield

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Sheffield

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 23 (14.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) Mule
3 4 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.88%) Apache
4 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.25%) CICS
5 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.25%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 87 (54.38%) GCP
2 80 (50.00%) AWS
3 42 (26.25%) Azure
4 32 (20.00%) Serverless
5 28 (17.50%) GitHub
6 27 (16.88%) OpenShift
7 9 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.63%) AWS KMS
7 9 (5.63%) CloudBees
8 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.13%) SaaS
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.25%) Akamai
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.25%) ChatGPT
10 2 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) DNS
3 2 (1.25%) SSL
3 2 (1.25%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.63%) DHCP
4 1 (0.63%) FCoE
4 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.63%) HTTP
4 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.63%) LAN
4 1 (0.63%) NAS
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) SAN
4 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) VSAN
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (21.88%) NoSQL
2 34 (21.25%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.13%) MySQL
5 3 (1.88%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.88%) HBase
5 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) DataStage
7 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 61 (38.13%) GitLab
3 54 (33.75%) JIRA
4 29 (18.13%) Liquibase
5 15 (9.38%) Postman
5 15 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (8.13%) Git
7 9 (5.63%) SoapUI
8 8 (5.00%) Selenium
9 6 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.75%) REST Assured
10 5 (3.13%) TestRail
11 3 (1.88%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.25%) JUnit
12 2 (1.25%) TestNG
13 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.63%) Gradle
13 1 (0.63%) Maven
General
1 76 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 57 (35.63%) Finance
3 53 (33.13%) Banking
4 28 (17.50%) Financial Institution
5 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.25%) Police
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (13.13%) Developer
3 20 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (11.25%) Analyst
4 18 (11.25%) GCP Engineer
4 18 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 16 (10.00%) Senior
6 14 (8.75%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
9 8 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Test Analyst
10 7 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Lead
10 7 (4.38%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.75%) REST
2 41 (25.63%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (22.50%) RESTful
4 18 (11.25%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (6.25%) .NET
5 10 (6.25%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.38%) LDAP
7 5 (3.13%) OpenID
7 5 (3.13%) SailPoint
7 5 (3.13%) Spring
7 5 (3.13%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.50%) CSS
8 4 (2.50%) HTML
8 4 (2.50%) Middleware
9 3 (1.88%) jQuery
9 3 (1.88%) Node.js
9 3 (1.88%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.25%) MEAN Stack
10 2 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.75%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (20.63%) Cloud Native
3 31 (19.38%) Public Cloud
4 20 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (2.50%) PKI
11 2 (1.25%) Clustering
11 2 (1.25%) Derivative
11 2 (1.25%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.25%) Replication
11 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
12 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (33.75%) Linux
2 2 (1.25%) Solaris
2 2 (1.25%) VMS
2 2 (1.25%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) zOS
3 1 (0.63%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (74.38%) DevOps
2 68 (42.50%) Containerisation
3 64 (40.00%) Agile
4 55 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (30.00%) Microservices
6 38 (23.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 37 (23.13%) Change Management
7 37 (23.13%) Test Automation
8 35 (21.88%) High Availability
8 35 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 32 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (18.75%) Software Engineering
12 29 (18.13%) Continuous Delivery
12 29 (18.13%) Data Security
13 28 (17.50%) Cost Optimisation
13 28 (17.50%) Cryptography
14 27 (16.88%) Non-Functional Testing
15 25 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (56.25%) Python
2 38 (23.75%) Go
3 32 (20.00%) Java
4 27 (16.88%) Bash
5 22 (13.75%) SQL
6 11 (6.88%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.38%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.13%) PHP
9 4 (2.50%) Groovy
10 2 (1.25%) C#
10 2 (1.25%) Rust
10 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (20.00%) Degree
2 30 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (18.75%) Master's Degree
3 13 (8.13%) CISM
3 13 (8.13%) CISSP
4 11 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.25%) ISTQB
6 8 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.50%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.63%) CCSK
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) QA
2 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.38%) NIST
3 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 54 (33.75%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) KVM
3 3 (1.88%) HDFS
3 3 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.63%) NFS
5 1 (0.63%) SRDF
5 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 83 (51.88%) Ansible
3 75 (46.88%) Terraform
4 58 (36.25%) Grafana
4 58 (36.25%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.25%) Control-M
5 10 (6.25%) IBM Guardium
5 10 (6.25%) Nessus
5 10 (6.25%) NetBackup
6 8 (5.00%) Puppet
7 3 (1.88%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (1.25%) Argo
8 2 (1.25%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.25%) Kiali
8 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (25.00%) Splunk
2 36 (22.50%) Google
3 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.13%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.25%) Commvault
5 10 (6.25%) Tenable
6 9 (5.63%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.63%) Veritas
7 8 (5.00%) BeyondTrust
7 8 (5.00%) Thycotic
8 7 (4.38%) Sonatype
9 6 (3.75%) VMware
10 5 (3.13%) F5
10 5 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.88%) Cisco
11 3 (1.88%) Oracle
12 2 (1.25%) Calypso
12 2 (1.25%) Databricks
12 2 (1.25%) EMC
12 2 (1.25%) NetApp