CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 49 24
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 +5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 101 121 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.02% 3.78% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 4.56% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 90 185
10th Percentile £355 £475 £419
25th Percentile £417 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £636 £700 £669
90th Percentile £700 - £733
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 43
10th Percentile £65.38 £59.60 £54.96
25th Percentile £65.94 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £72.30 - £70.30
90th Percentile £78.70 £74.44 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +18 42 £469 -10.67% 138
Gloucestershire +10 21 £613 -2.00% 178
Wiltshire +11 11 £600 -14.29% 62
Dorset +8 11 £441 +10.25% 63
Somerset +6 6 £618 +2.92% 69
Devon +12 5 £513 -6.82% 117
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.94%) Apache
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) Confluence
3 3 (2.97%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 51 (50.50%) AWS
2 30 (29.70%) Azure
3 16 (15.84%) GCP
4 10 (9.90%) GitHub
5 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.93%) SaaS
7 5 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.96%) Serverless
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.98%) Datadog
10 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.99%) IaaS
11 1 (0.99%) PaaS
11 1 (0.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) DNS
2 4 (3.96%) Firewall
3 3 (2.97%) Network Security
3 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.98%) VPN
5 1 (0.99%) DHCP
5 1 (0.99%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.99%) HTTP
5 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.97%) Big Data
4 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 13 (12.87%) JIRA
3 12 (11.88%) Git
4 11 (10.89%) GitLab
5 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.98%) NUnit
8 2 (1.98%) Postman
8 2 (1.98%) Selenium
9 1 (0.99%) Ant
9 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.99%) Gatling
9 1 (0.99%) JMeter
9 1 (0.99%) MLflow
9 1 (0.99%) Storybook
9 1 (0.99%) Vite
9 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 36 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.78%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.82%) Finance
4 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.88%) Electronics
5 12 (11.88%) Manufacturing
5 12 (11.88%) Marketing
5 12 (11.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.98%) Aviation
8 1 (0.99%) Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Billing
8 1 (0.99%) Law
8 1 (0.99%) Local Government
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (18.81%) Developer
2 16 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.85%) Senior
4 9 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Lead
5 8 (7.92%) Applications Support
5 8 (7.92%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Azure Developer
7 6 (5.94%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (5.94%) C# Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Administrator
8 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) CSS
1 17 (16.83%) HTML
2 11 (10.89%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (9.90%) .NET
4 9 (8.91%) React
5 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.93%) Node.js
6 7 (6.93%) RESTful
7 5 (4.95%) Spring
7 5 (4.95%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.96%) jQuery
9 3 (2.97%) REST
9 3 (2.97%) YAML
10 2 (1.98%) HTML5
10 2 (1.98%) Kafka
10 2 (1.98%) LAMP
10 2 (1.98%) Middleware
10 2 (1.98%) Playwright
10 2 (1.98%) Redux
11 1 (0.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.68%) Linux
2 14 (13.86%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.55%) DevOps
2 40 (39.60%) Agile
3 26 (25.74%) Containerisation
3 26 (25.74%) Software Engineering
4 24 (23.76%) Test Automation
5 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.80%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (17.82%) Service Management
9 15 (14.85%) User Experience
10 14 (13.86%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (12.87%) Web Development
12 12 (11.88%) Digital Marketing
12 12 (11.88%) Programme Management
12 12 (11.88%) TDD
13 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.89%) ITSM
13 11 (10.89%) Scrum
13 11 (10.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) Python
2 27 (26.73%) JavaScript
3 22 (21.78%) Java
4 17 (16.83%) SQL
5 10 (9.90%) Bash
6 9 (8.91%) C#
7 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.95%) C++
8 5 (4.95%) Perl
9 3 (2.97%) C
9 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.98%) Go
10 2 (1.98%) PHP
10 2 (1.98%) Ruby
11 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 43 (42.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (21.78%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.89%) Degree
5 10 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (8.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.99%) CISSP
9 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.99%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) MCITP
9 1 (0.99%) RHCE
9 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (31.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.99%) NFS
3 1 (0.99%) Samba
3 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (34.65%) Terraform
2 32 (31.68%) Kubernetes
3 24 (23.76%) Ansible
4 11 (10.89%) Puppet
5 10 (9.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.92%) Grafana
7 3 (2.97%) Automic
7 3 (2.97%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.97%) Kibana
7 3 (2.97%) logstash
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.99%) Nagios
9 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.99%) SELinux
9 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.99%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) SAP
2 10 (9.90%) Google
3 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.96%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.96%) SnapLogic
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.97%) Splunk
7 2 (1.98%) Cisco
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle
8 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.99%) Citrix
8 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.99%) ESRI
8 1 (0.99%) New Relic
8 1 (0.99%) Pardot
8 1 (0.99%) Rapid7