CI/CD Contracts in South Wales

CI/CD
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 27 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.96% 5.60% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.93% 6.30% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 23
10th Percentile £352 £481 £413
25th Percentile £461 £562 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +17.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £630 £648
Wales median daily rate £513 £586 £500
% change year-on-year -12.54% +17.20% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 460 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.80% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 351 560
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
% change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cardiff +16 26 £513 -12.54% 17
Newport -1 1 £675 +35.00%
CI/CD
Wales

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) GitHub
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) AWS
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Cypress.io
2 11 (40.74%) Postman
3 7 (25.93%) GitLab
4 5 (18.52%) Storybook
5 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
5 4 (14.81%) Selenium
6 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (7.41%) JMeter
7 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (7.41%) Finance
1 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) PHP Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Test Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (14.81%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.70%) DevOps Specialist
8 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) Vue
2 10 (37.04%) Laravel
3 7 (25.93%) Playwright
3 7 (25.93%) React
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Test Automation
2 17 (62.96%) Agile
3 16 (59.26%) Project Management
4 13 (48.15%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (29.63%) Analytics
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
8 6 (22.22%) Scrum
9 5 (18.52%) Data Analytics
9 5 (18.52%) Objectives and Key Results
9 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
10 4 (14.81%) BDD
10 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
11 3 (11.11%) Kanban
11 3 (11.11%) Manual Testing
11 3 (11.11%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) PHP
2 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace