CI/CD Contracts in South Yorkshire

CI/CD
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 9 16 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 50 46 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.40% 10.07% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.04% 11.25% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 24
10th Percentile £385 £397 £450
25th Percentile £420 £429 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £449 £644
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% -30.25% +17.05%
75th Percentile £591 £623 £700
90th Percentile £678 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £538 £565
% change year-on-year -5.12% -4.87% +5.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in South Yorkshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in South Yorkshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in South Yorkshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +1 43 £500 +10.38% 80
CI/CD
Yorkshire

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) GCP
3 8 (16.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) Azure
5 3 (6.00%) CloudBees
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.00%) OCI
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) SMTP
2 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) Hazelcast
5 2 (4.00%) InfluxDB
5 2 (4.00%) MySQL
5 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.00%) Big Data
6 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (46.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) JIRA
5 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.00%) Selenium
5 4 (8.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (4.00%) Jaeger
6 2 (4.00%) JMeter
6 2 (4.00%) Postman
6 2 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Database Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) React Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Administrator
7 1 (2.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (8.00%) REST
1 4 (8.00%) RESTful
2 3 (6.00%) Kafka
2 3 (6.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) gRPC
3 2 (4.00%) pytest
3 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) CSS3
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) HTML5
4 1 (2.00%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) Spring
4 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Android
3 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) AIX
4 1 (2.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) DevOps
2 20 (40.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Microservices
4 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (22.00%) Test Automation
6 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.00%) Change Management
7 7 (14.00%) Design Patterns
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.00%) Observability
7 7 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 6 (12.00%) Data Protection
8 6 (12.00%) TDD
9 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 13 (26.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.00%) Java
3 8 (16.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 5 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.00%) Groovy
7 3 (6.00%) Go
7 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.00%) SQL
8 2 (4.00%) ActionScript
8 2 (4.00%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.00%) Korn
9 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (8.00%) OCP
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.00%) IBM Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) vSphere
3 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (38.00%) Ansible
3 12 (24.00%) Terraform
4 6 (12.00%) Grafana
5 4 (8.00%) Control-M
5 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) Istio
6 2 (4.00%) Kiali
6 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.00%) vRealize
7 1 (2.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 9 (18.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Splunk
4 4 (8.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (8.00%) Google
5 3 (6.00%) IBM
5 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.00%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.00%) Brocade
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
6 2 (4.00%) EMC
6 2 (4.00%) HP
6 2 (4.00%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (4.00%) xMatters
7 1 (2.00%) BMC
7 1 (2.00%) Databricks
7 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace