CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 126 274 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.96% 7.56% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 8.44% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 192 163
10th Percentile £475 £421 £411
25th Percentile £513 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +15.38% +9.47%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £625
90th Percentile - £738 £680
England median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.55% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 44 12
10th Percentile £61.40 £55.57 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £74.44 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 3,248 3,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.14% 89.65% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,392 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £722 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £16.32 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.18% +9.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £70.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 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
Bristol -23 42 £525 -4.55% 54
Wiltshire -19 33 £700 +16.67% 12
Gloucestershire -2 30 £625 -3.99% 20
Dorset +5 7 £400 -8.57% 4
Devon -4 7 £550 -8.33% 13
Somerset -8 3 £600 -12.41% 6
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 25 (19.84%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) Apache
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Solr
2 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.17%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.79%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.92%) AWS
2 41 (32.54%) Azure
3 19 (15.08%) GitHub
4 18 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.11%) GCP
5 14 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 12 (9.52%) Serverless
7 9 (7.14%) PaaS
8 7 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.97%) IaaS
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.79%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) AMQP
1 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.76%) Network Security
3 4 (3.17%) DNS
3 4 (3.17%) Firewall
3 4 (3.17%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.17%) IPsec
3 4 (3.17%) SAN
4 3 (2.38%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.38%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.35%) InfluxDB
3 7 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.97%) MySQL
6 4 (3.17%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.38%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.59%) Power BI
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.79%) Parquet
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (43.65%) Jenkins
2 36 (28.57%) JIRA
3 25 (19.84%) Bitbucket
4 22 (17.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (8.73%) GitLab
6 9 (7.14%) Artifactory
6 9 (7.14%) GoogleTest
7 8 (6.35%) Cypress.io
7 8 (6.35%) Git
7 8 (6.35%) SonarQube
7 8 (6.35%) Visual Studio
8 6 (4.76%) NUnit
9 5 (3.97%) Postman
10 4 (3.17%) Selenium
11 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.59%) Snyk
13 1 (0.79%) Babel
13 1 (0.79%) ESLint
13 1 (0.79%) Vite
13 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 34 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 10 (7.94%) Legal
5 4 (3.17%) Finance
6 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.38%) Law
6 3 (2.38%) Military
6 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.59%) Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Electronics
7 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.59%) Marketing
7 2 (1.59%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.79%) Back Office
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (23.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (21.43%) Developer
3 23 (18.25%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 14 (11.11%) Senior
5 12 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Architect
8 5 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (3.97%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) Site Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.98%) .NET
2 24 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 14 (11.11%) REST
4 12 (9.52%) YAML
5 11 (8.73%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (7.14%) Qt
7 7 (5.56%) React
8 6 (4.76%) JSON
9 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.97%) Node.js
10 4 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (3.17%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.17%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (3.17%) Playwright
10 4 (3.17%) Spring
10 4 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.17%) Vue
11 3 (2.38%) Jest
11 3 (2.38%) ModSecurity
11 3 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) PKI
6 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (46.83%) Linux
2 17 (13.49%) Windows
3 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.35%) DevOps
2 38 (30.16%) Agile
3 36 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 34 (26.98%) Configuration Management
5 32 (25.40%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (22.22%) Task Automation
7 26 (20.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.25%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (18.25%) OO
9 23 (18.25%) OOP
10 19 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (10.32%) BDD
11 13 (10.32%) TDD
12 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.52%) SDLC
13 11 (8.73%) Microservices
13 11 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (8.73%) Software Delivery
14 10 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) Python
2 47 (37.30%) PowerShell
3 32 (25.40%) Java
4 20 (15.87%) SQL
5 13 (10.32%) Bash
5 13 (10.32%) C++
6 12 (9.52%) Go
7 9 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.56%) C
9 7 (5.56%) C#
10 4 (3.17%) PHP
11 3 (2.38%) Bicep
11 3 (2.38%) Julia
11 3 (2.38%) Perl
12 2 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (57.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 36 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.59%) Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) MISRA
2 8 (6.35%) QA
3 6 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.97%) NIST
5 4 (3.17%) GDPR
5 4 (3.17%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.59%) WCAG
7 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (27.78%) Docker
2 8 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.35%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (47.62%) Ansible
2 46 (36.51%) Terraform
3 41 (32.54%) Kubernetes
4 23 (18.25%) PowerCLI
5 13 (10.32%) Grafana
5 13 (10.32%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (3.97%) Puppet
9 3 (2.38%) OPNET
10 2 (1.59%) Argo
11 1 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.79%) Packer
11 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Atlassian
2 22 (17.46%) Dell
2 22 (17.46%) HP
3 16 (12.70%) Google
4 15 (11.90%) Microsoft
5 12 (9.52%) VMware
6 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.38%) SAP
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle
8 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco
9 1 (0.79%) Databricks
9 1 (0.79%) IBM