CI/CD Contracts in South Wales

CI/CD
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 14 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.83% 8.08% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 10.11% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 27
10th Percentile £481 £352 £481
25th Percentile £513 £461 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £519 £586
Median % change year-on-year +12.91% -11.43% +11.62%
75th Percentile £625 £551 £600
90th Percentile £645 £650 £627
Wales median daily rate £563 £513 £586
% change year-on-year +9.85% -12.54% +11.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 267 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 79.94% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 188 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -3.46%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £669 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
Cardiff -7 9 £543 +6.00% 42
Newport +10 4 £600 -11.11% 5
Gwent - 1 £540 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) WebLogic
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) JBoss
2 3 (21.43%) nginx
2 3 (21.43%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (21.43%) WebSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (7.14%) Confluence
4 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) OCI
5 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (7.14%) CRM Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (7.14%) Angular 2
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) JWT
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) API Management
4 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 3 (21.43%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) OO
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.14%) TOGAF
6 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CSSLP
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) LXC
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Nagios
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft