CI/CD Contracts in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 55 34
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 171 174 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.69% 3.16% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 3.75% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 105 245
10th Percentile £333 £368 £450
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
England median daily rate £525 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -5.29% -7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £44.51 - £68.50
25th Percentile £46.75 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £64.52 - -
90th Percentile £66.11 - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -5.77% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,644 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.44% 84.36% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,708 3,532
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 220
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £16.78
25th Percentile £15.19 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%

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 9 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 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
Thames Valley +12 87 £500 -17.36% 112
Berkshire +1 66 £500 -17.36% 63
Hampshire +38 42 £520 -5.45% 72
Surrey +21 21 £425 +3.03% 47
Buckinghamshire +23 19 £575 -2.54% 19
West Sussex +11 11 £338 -20.59% 19
Oxfordshire +1 4 £493 -17.92% 36
East Sussex -4 3 £475 - 14
Kent - 2 £575 - 22
Middlesex - 1 - - 5
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 6 (3.51%) Anypoint
2 5 (2.92%) Confluence
3 4 (2.34%) Mule
3 4 (2.34%) Mule ESB
4 3 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.17%) Apache
5 2 (1.17%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.17%) Camunda
5 2 (1.17%) CMS
5 2 (1.17%) IIS
5 2 (1.17%) JBoss
5 2 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.20%) Azure
2 63 (36.84%) AWS
3 30 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (12.87%) GitHub
5 20 (11.70%) GCP
5 20 (11.70%) Serverless
6 14 (8.19%) PaaS
6 14 (8.19%) SaaS
7 13 (7.60%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (6.43%) Azure AKS
9 10 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.26%) IaaS
11 8 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.09%) Azure API Management
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Storage
13 6 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.51%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.51%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) VSAN
2 7 (4.09%) BGP
2 7 (4.09%) Firewall
2 7 (4.09%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.51%) DNS
3 6 (3.51%) VPN
4 5 (2.92%) OSPF
4 5 (2.92%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.92%) WAN
5 4 (2.34%) MPLS
6 3 (1.75%) 4G
6 3 (1.75%) 5G
6 3 (1.75%) 5G NR
6 3 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.75%) LTE
6 3 (1.75%) NGFW
6 3 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.17%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.17%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.68%) MySQL
5 7 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.51%) Redis
7 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.75%) Big Data
9 3 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.75%) Metadata
9 3 (1.75%) SSDT
10 2 (1.17%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.17%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (21.64%) Git
2 20 (11.70%) JIRA
3 16 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.36%) Selenium
4 11 (6.43%) GitLab
5 7 (4.09%) JUnit
6 5 (2.92%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.92%) JMeter
6 5 (2.92%) Subversion
7 4 (2.34%) Appium
7 4 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.34%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.75%) Maven
8 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.17%) Mockito
9 2 (1.17%) Moq
9 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.70%) Telecoms
4 11 (6.43%) Finance
5 5 (2.92%) Electronics
5 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.92%) Marketing
6 2 (1.17%) Billing
6 2 (1.17%) Korean Language
7 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.58%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (22.81%) Developer
2 31 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.70%) Architect
4 16 (9.36%) Senior
5 15 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.43%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Lead
10 8 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.09%) Site Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) .NET Developer
12 6 (3.51%) MuleSoft Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (2.92%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.04%) .NET
2 21 (12.28%) JSON
2 21 (12.28%) REST
3 18 (10.53%) React
3 18 (10.53%) RESTful
4 15 (8.77%) Web Services
5 14 (8.19%) HTML
5 14 (8.19%) Kafka
6 13 (7.60%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.60%) YAML
7 12 (7.02%) CSS
8 11 (6.43%) XML
9 10 (5.85%) .NET Core
10 9 (5.26%) OAuth
10 9 (5.26%) SOAP
10 9 (5.26%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.26%) Vue
11 7 (4.09%) ADO
11 7 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.92%) PKI
7 4 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.17%) Replication
9 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.17%) Wiki
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) NHS
10 1 (0.58%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.60%) Linux
1 13 (7.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.75%) Unix
3 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) CentOS
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (52.05%) DevOps
2 67 (39.18%) Agile
3 43 (25.15%) Test Automation
4 38 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 38 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (21.64%) Scrum
6 35 (20.47%) Microservices
7 33 (19.30%) Software Engineering
8 30 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.94%) DevSecOps
11 17 (9.94%) Migration
11 17 (9.94%) SDLC
12 15 (8.77%) Design Patterns
12 15 (8.77%) OO
12 15 (8.77%) RBAC
13 13 (7.60%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (7.02%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (36.26%) Python
2 42 (24.56%) SQL
3 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.79%) C#
5 23 (13.45%) PowerShell
6 22 (12.87%) Bash
7 20 (11.70%) Java
8 11 (6.43%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.85%) Go
10 6 (3.51%) Bicep
10 6 (3.51%) DataWeave
10 6 (3.51%) PHP
11 5 (2.92%) Rust
12 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.75%) Perl
14 2 (1.17%) Scala
14 2 (1.17%) XPath
15 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.58%) Ruby
15 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.49%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.28%) Degree
4 9 (5.26%) MCSE
4 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.09%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.09%) CCNP
5 7 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.17%) CEH
9 2 (1.17%) CISM
9 2 (1.17%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) CCNA
10 1 (0.58%) CCSP
10 1 (0.58%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) QA
2 12 (7.02%) NIST
3 10 (5.85%) GDPR
3 10 (5.85%) NCSC
4 8 (4.68%) HIPAA
5 6 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.58%) HL7
8 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (22.22%) Docker
2 10 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.09%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.17%) Ceph
6 2 (1.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.58%) NFS
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 33 (19.30%) Terraform
3 18 (10.53%) Ansible
4 7 (4.09%) Grafana
4 7 (4.09%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.51%) CloudHub
6 4 (2.34%) Kibana
7 3 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.17%) Argo
8 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.58%) NSN NetAct
9 1 (0.58%) Packer
9 1 (0.58%) Rancher
9 1 (0.58%) SCCM
9 1 (0.58%) SCOM
9 1 (0.58%) vRealize
9 1 (0.58%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.60%) VMware
3 11 (6.43%) Cisco
3 11 (6.43%) Splunk
4 7 (4.09%) Google
4 7 (4.09%) Palo Alto
4 7 (4.09%) SAP
5 6 (3.51%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.34%) Databricks
6 4 (2.34%) Virgin Media
6 4 (2.34%) Zend
7 3 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle
7 3 (1.75%) UiPath
8 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.17%) Dell
8 2 (1.17%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow