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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 33 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 101 173 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.74% 5.26% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 6.38% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 107 173
10th Percentile £355 £475 £419
25th Percentile £413 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £679 £700 £738
England median daily rate £517 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 40 38
10th Percentile £66.80 £65.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £69.49 £65.94 £60.91
Median hourly rate £73.98 £70.00 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +6.78% +0.85%
75th Percentile £78.47 - £70.30
90th Percentile £81.16 £70.40 £76.25
England median hourly rate £59.63 £67.25 £65.61
% change year-on-year -11.34% +2.51% +0.16%

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 1,599 2,710 3,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.85% 82.47% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 1,697 2,209
10th Percentile £213 £258 £313
25th Percentile £363 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 378 308
10th Percentile £17.50 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.38
Median hourly rate £27.64 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £70.25 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -2 47 £469 -11.34% 119
Gloucestershire +7 18 £619 -1.00% 136
Wiltshire +7 11 £600 -14.29% 28
Devon +10 10 £500 -9.09% 43
Dorset +2 7 £575 +43.75% 26
Somerset +1 3 £625 +4.17% 43
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 4 (3.96%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 57 (56.44%) AWS
2 36 (35.64%) Azure
3 18 (17.82%) GCP
4 14 (13.86%) GitHub
5 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.94%) Serverless
7 5 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.95%) SaaS
8 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.98%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) DNS
1 5 (4.95%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) Network Security
2 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) AMQP
4 1 (0.99%) DHCP
4 1 (0.99%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.99%) HTTP
4 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.91%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.98%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.99%) Power BI
7 1 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) GitLab
2 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.89%) Git
4 8 (7.92%) JIRA
5 7 (6.93%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.97%) Selenium
9 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.98%) Storybook
9 2 (1.98%) Vite
9 2 (1.98%) webpack
10 1 (0.99%) Ant
10 1 (0.99%) Appium
10 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.99%) Code Climate
10 1 (0.99%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.99%) Gatling
10 1 (0.99%) Snyk
General
1 36 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Finance
3 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.89%) Manufacturing
6 9 (8.91%) Electronics
6 9 (8.91%) Marketing
6 9 (8.91%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.99%) Aviation
9 1 (0.99%) Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Billing
9 1 (0.99%) Military
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (19.80%) Developer
2 15 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Senior
4 10 (9.90%) Lead
5 8 (7.92%) Applications Support
5 8 (7.92%) Azure Developer
5 8 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) C# Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Administrator
7 6 (5.94%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (5.94%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (3.96%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) CSS
1 16 (15.84%) HTML
2 11 (10.89%) .NET
3 9 (8.91%) Node.js
3 9 (8.91%) RESTful
4 8 (7.92%) React
5 7 (6.93%) AngularJS
5 7 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.95%) REST
7 4 (3.96%) jQuery
8 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.98%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.98%) Kafka
8 2 (1.98%) LAMP
8 2 (1.98%) Playwright
8 2 (1.98%) Redux
8 2 (1.98%) Vue
9 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.99%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.97%) Replication
4 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.98%) Robotics
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (36.63%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Windows
3 7 (6.93%) Unix
4 3 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.98%) CentOS
5 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.53%) DevOps
2 39 (38.61%) Agile
3 30 (29.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 24 (23.76%) Test Automation
6 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.79%) Software Engineering
8 18 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (15.84%) User Experience
10 15 (14.85%) Service Management
11 13 (12.87%) Web Development
12 11 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.89%) TDD
13 10 (9.90%) Computer Science
13 10 (9.90%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (9.90%) Scrum
13 10 (9.90%) Software Delivery
13 10 (9.90%) Task Automation
14 9 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.63%) Python
2 31 (30.69%) JavaScript
3 16 (15.84%) SQL
4 14 (13.86%) C#
5 12 (11.88%) Bash
6 11 (10.89%) Java
7 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.96%) Perl
9 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.98%) C
10 2 (1.98%) Go
10 2 (1.98%) PHP
10 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.99%) C++
11 1 (0.99%) Groovy
11 1 (0.99%) Ruby
11 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (37.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.78%) DV Cleared
3 19 (18.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.90%) Degree
5 9 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.98%) MCSE
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CISSP
8 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.99%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.99%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.97%) NIST
3 3 (2.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (26.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) NFS
3 1 (0.99%) Samba
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (35.64%) Terraform
2 28 (27.72%) Kubernetes
3 26 (25.74%) Ansible
4 15 (14.85%) Puppet
5 9 (8.91%) Grafana
6 7 (6.93%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.97%) Automic
8 1 (0.99%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.99%) Kibana
8 1 (0.99%) logstash
8 1 (0.99%) Nagios
8 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.99%) SELinux
8 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) SAP
2 8 (7.92%) Google
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.95%) VMware
5 4 (3.96%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.96%) SnapLogic
5 4 (3.96%) Splunk
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle
6 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.99%) Citrix
8 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.99%) ESRI
8 1 (0.99%) NetApp
8 1 (0.99%) New Relic
8 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.99%) Pardot
8 1 (0.99%) Rapid7