CI/CD Contract Job Trends in South Wales

CI/CD
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 26 26 26
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 9.09% 7.39% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.57% 9.09% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 22
10th Percentile £256 £375 £217
25th Percentile £383 £423 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +10.26% -22.00%
75th Percentile £502 £563 £560
90th Percentile £661 £594 £611
Wales median daily rate £463 £532 £475
% change year-on-year -12.98% +11.89% -24.00%

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 246 286 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 86.01% 81.25% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 144 274
10th Percentile £195 £160 £183
25th Percentile £277 £210 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £648 £642
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 39 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.42 £16.63
25th Percentile £14.23 £19.50 £21.86
Median hourly rate £17.65 £25.00 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -16.20% +49.16%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £53.19
90th Percentile £29.11 £50.75 £55.38
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
% change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in South Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CI/CD

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 15 October 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 -3 20 £475 -10.63% 20
Glamorgan - 5 £263 - 19
Newport +8 1 - - 3
CI/CD
Wales

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Git
2 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 5 (19.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (11.54%) Zephyr
5 2 (7.69%) JMeter
5 2 (7.69%) Subversion
6 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) React
2 4 (15.38%) Spring
2 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
3 3 (11.54%) Entity Framework
3 3 (11.54%) Jest
3 3 (11.54%) Next.js
3 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 3 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.69%) CSS
4 2 (7.69%) Flutter
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (7.69%) PySpark
4 2 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) VMS
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
4 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
4 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
5 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
6 4 (15.38%) API Design
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 3 (11.54%) Case Management
7 3 (11.54%) Integration Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Kanban
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) BDD
8 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (7.69%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) Bash
4 6 (23.08%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) C#
7 2 (7.69%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
8 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.85%) SOQL
8 1 (3.85%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.54%) WCAG
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Firmware
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce