CI/CD Contracts in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 177 333 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.20% 5.76% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 6.44% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 248 249
10th Percentile £370 £450 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £644 £671 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
England median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.55% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 19
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -19.03%
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £67.80
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,677 5,168 6,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.68% 89.46% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 3,591 4,723
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £62.92
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley -5 114 £605 +0.83% 52
Berkshire -1 96 £605 +7.56% 32
Hampshire -25 32 £550 +10.00% 46
Surrey -26 15 £413 -28.26% 20
West Sussex +5 12 £438 -27.45% 5
Buckinghamshire -1 12 £590 -9.23% 8
Oxfordshire -3 6 £600 -4.76% 12
East Sussex +3 3 £650 -17.72% 8
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (9.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.04%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.78%) Apache
4 7 (3.95%) Confluence
5 6 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.56%) Appian
7 1 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.39%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (51.98%) Azure
2 42 (23.73%) Azure Monitor
3 32 (18.08%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (14.12%) Serverless
5 24 (13.56%) AWS
6 23 (12.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.43%) Azure Functions
8 17 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (9.04%) Azure Storage
10 15 (8.47%) GCP
11 14 (7.91%) GitHub
12 10 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (4.52%) Azure API Management
13 8 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.52%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.95%) IaaS
14 7 (3.95%) PaaS
14 7 (3.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.17%) DNS
2 17 (9.60%) Firewall
3 16 (9.04%) DHCP
4 14 (7.91%) BGP
5 12 (6.78%) VPN
6 11 (6.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (6.21%) MPLS
6 11 (6.21%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (5.65%) VSAN
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.69%) IOS XR
8 3 (1.69%) SNA
9 1 (0.56%) HTTP
9 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.56%) SAN
9 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.51%) NoSQL
2 28 (15.82%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.39%) MySQL
7 6 (3.39%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.26%) Big Data
9 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.26%) Metadata
10 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.56%) Impala
11 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (28.81%) Git
2 30 (16.95%) JIRA
3 28 (15.82%) GitLab
4 19 (10.73%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.21%) Robot Framework
5 11 (6.21%) TestRail
6 9 (5.08%) Visual Studio
7 7 (3.95%) Selenium
8 4 (2.26%) JUnit
8 4 (2.26%) Subversion
8 4 (2.26%) TestLink
9 3 (1.69%) Appium
9 3 (1.69%) JMeter
9 3 (1.69%) Postman
9 3 (1.69%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.13%) Maven
10 2 (1.13%) NUnit
10 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.13%) TestNG
General
1 44 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.60%) Finance
4 8 (4.52%) Retail
5 5 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.82%) Publishing
6 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Aviation
7 1 (0.56%) Back Office
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Legal
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (20.90%) Developer
2 20 (11.30%) Azure Developer
3 19 (10.73%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (9.04%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (8.47%) Lead
6 14 (7.91%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.91%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.91%) Senior
6 14 (7.91%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.34%) Network Engineer
8 12 (6.78%) Architect
9 11 (6.21%) Test Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Project Manager
11 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.95%) Senior Architect
12 7 (3.95%) VMware Expert
13 6 (3.39%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.38%) REST
2 24 (13.56%) ARM Templates
3 23 (12.99%) React
4 14 (7.91%) .NET
4 14 (7.91%) SOAP
4 14 (7.91%) YANG
5 11 (6.21%) CSS
5 11 (6.21%) HTML
5 11 (6.21%) NETCONF
5 11 (6.21%) RESTCONF
6 9 (5.08%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.08%) JSON
6 9 (5.08%) Kafka
6 9 (5.08%) Node.js
7 8 (4.52%) Spring
7 8 (4.52%) XML
8 7 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.95%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.39%) YAML
10 5 (2.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.04%) PKI
2 16 (9.04%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.69%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.51%) Linux
2 19 (10.73%) Windows
3 17 (9.60%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (9.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.95%) VMS
6 5 (2.82%) Unix
7 2 (1.13%) Android
8 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (65.54%) DevOps
2 92 (51.98%) Agile
3 61 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (23.73%) Test Automation
5 34 (19.21%) Scrum
6 32 (18.08%) SDLC
7 30 (16.95%) Containerisation
7 30 (16.95%) Unit Testing
8 26 (14.69%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (14.69%) Microservices
9 23 (12.99%) Analytics
9 23 (12.99%) Security Testing
10 22 (12.43%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (11.30%) ITIL
12 19 (10.73%) Release Management
12 19 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (10.17%) Identity Management
13 18 (10.17%) Integration Testing
13 18 (10.17%) RBAC
14 16 (9.04%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.64%) Python
2 34 (19.21%) C#
3 29 (16.38%) PowerShell
4 26 (14.69%) SQL
5 21 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.17%) Java
7 16 (9.04%) Bicep
7 16 (9.04%) VB
7 16 (9.04%) VBScript
8 11 (6.21%) Bash
9 9 (5.08%) Go
10 5 (2.82%) C++
10 5 (2.82%) PHP
11 4 (2.26%) C
12 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.13%) Scala
14 1 (0.56%) Groovy
14 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) Degree
4 23 (12.99%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.39%) AAT
8 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.82%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.26%) PMO
3 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) NCSC
4 2 (1.13%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (19.21%) Active Directory
1 34 (19.21%) Docker
2 19 (10.73%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (9.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (6.21%) VMware NSX
5 10 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (3.95%) vCloud
7 5 (2.82%) vSphere
8 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.56%) HDFS
9 1 (0.56%) LXC
Systems Management
1 52 (29.38%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.25%) Terraform
3 22 (12.43%) Ansible
4 16 (9.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (9.04%) SCCM
4 16 (9.04%) SCOM
4 16 (9.04%) WSUS
5 10 (5.65%) Rancher
5 10 (5.65%) vCenter Server
6 9 (5.08%) vRealize
7 7 (3.95%) Istio
7 7 (3.95%) Packer
8 2 (1.13%) Grafana
8 2 (1.13%) Kibana
8 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.30%) VMware
3 8 (4.52%) Google
3 8 (4.52%) SAP
4 7 (3.95%) Adobe
4 7 (3.95%) Oracle
5 6 (3.39%) Ericsson
6 5 (2.82%) Arqiva
6 5 (2.82%) Veritas
7 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.69%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.13%) Splunk
10 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) Databricks
10 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace