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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 175 326 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.17% 5.73% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 6.41% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 243 243
10th Percentile £368 £450 £426
25th Percentile £463 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £725
England median daily rate £558 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 18
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +53.85% -21.05%
75th Percentile - - £62.44
90th Percentile - - £65.51
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +11.39%

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 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 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 8 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 -8 113 £605 +0.83% 45
Berkshire -4 95 £605 +7.56% 26
Hampshire -29 32 £550 +10.00% 42
Surrey -24 15 £413 -28.26% 17
Buckinghamshire -1 12 £590 -9.23% 8
West Sussex +2 11 £425 -29.52% 5
Oxfordshire -1 6 £600 -4.76% 11
East Sussex +6 3 £475 -17.39% 4
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 (9.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.86%) Apache
4 7 (4.00%) Confluence
5 6 (3.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Appian
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 90 (51.43%) Azure
2 41 (23.43%) Azure Monitor
3 34 (19.43%) Entra ID
4 27 (15.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (15.43%) Serverless
5 24 (13.71%) AWS
5 24 (13.71%) Azure Functions
6 23 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 17 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (9.14%) Azure Storage
10 15 (8.57%) GCP
11 13 (7.43%) GitHub
12 8 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.57%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.00%) Azure API Management
13 7 (4.00%) IaaS
13 7 (4.00%) PaaS
13 7 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.29%) DNS
2 17 (9.71%) Firewall
3 16 (9.14%) DHCP
4 14 (8.00%) BGP
5 12 (6.86%) VPN
6 11 (6.29%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (6.29%) MPLS
6 11 (6.29%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (5.71%) VSAN
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.71%) IOS XR
8 3 (1.71%) SNA
9 1 (0.57%) HTTP
9 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.57%) SAN
9 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.43%) NoSQL
2 28 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.43%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.43%) MySQL
7 6 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.29%) Big Data
9 4 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.29%) Metadata
10 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.57%) Impala
11 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (29.14%) Git
2 30 (17.14%) JIRA
3 27 (15.43%) GitLab
4 18 (10.29%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.29%) Robot Framework
5 11 (6.29%) TestRail
6 10 (5.71%) Selenium
7 9 (5.14%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.29%) JUnit
8 4 (2.29%) Subversion
8 4 (2.29%) TestLink
9 3 (1.71%) Appium
9 3 (1.71%) JMeter
9 3 (1.71%) Postman
9 3 (1.71%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.14%) Maven
10 2 (1.14%) NUnit
10 2 (1.14%) TestNG
General
1 45 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.71%) Finance
4 8 (4.57%) Retail
5 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Publishing
6 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.57%) Aviation
7 1 (0.57%) Back Office
7 1 (0.57%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (22.86%) Developer
2 22 (12.57%) Azure Developer
2 22 (12.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 16 (9.14%) Active Directory Support
4 15 (8.57%) Senior
5 14 (8.00%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.00%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.00%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.43%) Network Engineer
7 12 (6.86%) Architect
8 11 (6.29%) Lead
8 11 (6.29%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.14%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 7 (4.00%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) VMware Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.00%) REST
2 26 (14.86%) React
3 24 (13.71%) ARM Templates
4 14 (8.00%) .NET
4 14 (8.00%) SOAP
4 14 (8.00%) YANG
5 11 (6.29%) NETCONF
5 11 (6.29%) RESTCONF
6 9 (5.14%) JSON
6 9 (5.14%) Kafka
7 8 (4.57%) CSS
7 8 (4.57%) HTML
7 8 (4.57%) Spring
7 8 (4.57%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.57%) XML
8 7 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.43%) YAML
10 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.86%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.14%) PKI
2 16 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.57%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Replication
9 1 (0.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.71%) Linux
2 19 (10.86%) Windows
3 17 (9.71%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (9.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.00%) VMS
6 5 (2.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.14%) Android
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (65.71%) DevOps
2 90 (51.43%) Agile
3 61 (34.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (24.00%) Test Automation
5 34 (19.43%) SDLC
6 33 (18.86%) Scrum
7 30 (17.14%) Containerisation
8 29 (16.57%) Microservices
8 29 (16.57%) Unit Testing
9 28 (16.00%) Full Stack Development
10 23 (13.14%) Analytics
11 20 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (11.43%) ITIL
11 20 (11.43%) Security Testing
12 19 (10.86%) Release Management
12 19 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (10.29%) Change Management
13 18 (10.29%) Identity Management
13 18 (10.29%) RBAC
14 17 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.71%) Python
2 34 (19.43%) C#
3 29 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 26 (14.86%) SQL
5 22 (12.57%) Java
6 18 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 16 (9.14%) Bicep
7 16 (9.14%) VB
7 16 (9.14%) VBScript
8 11 (6.29%) Bash
9 8 (4.57%) Go
10 5 (2.86%) C
10 5 (2.86%) C++
11 3 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.14%) PHP
12 2 (1.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.86%) Degree
4 23 (13.14%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.43%) AAT
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.86%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.29%) PMO
3 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) NCSC
4 2 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (21.14%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.86%) Docker
3 19 (10.86%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (9.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (6.29%) VMware NSX
6 10 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (4.00%) vCloud
8 5 (2.86%) vSphere
9 3 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.57%) HDFS
10 1 (0.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 50 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.43%) Terraform
3 22 (12.57%) Ansible
4 16 (9.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (9.14%) SCCM
4 16 (9.14%) SCOM
4 16 (9.14%) WSUS
5 10 (5.71%) Rancher
5 10 (5.71%) vCenter Server
6 9 (5.14%) vRealize
7 7 (4.00%) Istio
7 7 (4.00%) Packer
8 2 (1.14%) Grafana
8 2 (1.14%) Kibana
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.43%) VMware
3 8 (4.57%) Google
3 8 (4.57%) SAP
4 7 (4.00%) Adobe
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle
5 6 (3.43%) Ericsson
6 5 (2.86%) Arqiva
6 5 (2.86%) Veritas
7 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco
8 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.71%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.14%) Splunk
10 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.57%) Dell
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds