CI/CD Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

CI/CD
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 19 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 -33
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 95 46 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.03% 10.27% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.75% 11.68% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 36 9
10th Percentile £318 £405 £411
25th Percentile £386 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £625 £575
90th Percentile £598 £648 £680
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +8.61% -16.28% -2.27%

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 603 394 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.41% 87.95% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 207 269
10th Percentile £287 £250 £375
25th Percentile £370 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 +8 95 £475 -10.59% 12
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 9 (9.47%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.26%) Mule
3 4 (4.21%) Apache
4 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.11%) CICS
5 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) GCP
2 43 (45.26%) AWS
3 24 (25.26%) Azure
3 24 (25.26%) GitHub
4 16 (16.84%) Serverless
5 9 (9.47%) CloudBees
6 7 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.11%) Akamai
10 2 (2.11%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (1.05%) Route 53
11 1 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
1 2 (2.11%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.05%) FCoE
2 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.05%) LAN
2 1 (1.05%) Multicast
2 1 (1.05%) NAS
2 1 (1.05%) SAN
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.32%) BigQuery
4 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.16%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.16%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.16%) HBase
5 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) DataStage
7 1 (1.05%) MySQL
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (55.79%) Jenkins
2 29 (30.53%) GitLab
3 26 (27.37%) JIRA
4 18 (18.95%) Liquibase
5 11 (11.58%) Git
6 9 (9.47%) Postman
6 9 (9.47%) SoapUI
7 6 (6.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.21%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.11%) JUnit
9 2 (2.11%) Selenium
9 2 (2.11%) TestNG
10 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 27 (28.42%) Banking
4 13 (13.68%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.11%) Police
7 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.68%) Automation Engineer
3 12 (12.63%) Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) Architect
6 8 (8.42%) Senior
6 8 (8.42%) Test Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Data Protection Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead
10 4 (4.21%) Service Manager
11 3 (3.16%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) RESTful
2 19 (20.00%) REST
3 16 (16.84%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.32%) .NET
4 6 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (5.26%) CSS
5 5 (5.26%) HTML
6 4 (4.21%) Node.js
6 4 (4.21%) React
6 4 (4.21%) Spring
7 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.16%) CSS3
7 3 (3.16%) HTML5
7 3 (3.16%) jQuery
7 3 (3.16%) Middleware
7 3 (3.16%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (2.11%) Express.js
8 2 (2.11%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.11%) LDAP
8 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 11 (11.58%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.42%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 5 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Clustering
7 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.11%) Replication
7 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.05%) IVR
8 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.47%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Unix
3 2 (2.11%) Solaris
3 2 (2.11%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) zOS
4 1 (1.05%) MVS
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (67.37%) DevOps
2 40 (42.11%) Agile
3 35 (36.84%) Microservices
4 28 (29.47%) Containerisation
4 28 (29.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (24.21%) Software Engineering
6 22 (23.16%) Change Management
7 21 (22.11%) Scrum
8 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 19 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (18.95%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (18.95%) Data Security
11 17 (17.89%) Continuous Delivery
11 17 (17.89%) Cost Optimisation
12 16 (16.84%) High Availability
13 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
13 15 (15.79%) Data Protection
13 15 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) Python
2 30 (31.58%) Java
3 21 (22.11%) Go
4 14 (14.74%) Bash
5 13 (13.68%) SQL
6 11 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.47%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.32%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.26%) Groovy
10 3 (3.16%) C#
10 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (15.79%) Degree
1 15 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 10 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 10 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (8.42%) CISM
3 8 (8.42%) CISSP
4 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) QA
2 7 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.37%) NIST
3 6 (6.32%) GDPR
3 6 (6.32%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (30.53%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) HDFS
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.11%) KVM
4 1 (1.05%) NFS
4 1 (1.05%) SRDF
4 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.05%) vSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (41.05%) Kubernetes
2 37 (38.95%) Ansible
3 35 (36.84%) Terraform
4 26 (27.37%) Grafana
5 23 (24.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.37%) Control-M
6 7 (7.37%) NetBackup
7 4 (4.21%) Puppet
8 3 (3.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (3.16%) Istio
8 3 (3.16%) Kiali
9 2 (2.11%) CSIRT
9 2 (2.11%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (2.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (32.63%) Google
2 24 (25.26%) Splunk
3 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.47%) CyberArk
5 8 (8.42%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (8.42%) Red Hat
5 8 (8.42%) Thycotic
6 7 (7.37%) Commvault
6 7 (7.37%) Veritas
7 5 (5.26%) AppDynamics
7 5 (5.26%) Databricks
8 4 (4.21%) F5
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle
8 4 (4.21%) VMware
9 3 (3.16%) xMatters
10 2 (2.11%) Cisco
10 2 (2.11%) EMC
10 2 (2.11%) NetApp
10 2 (2.11%) Tenable
11 1 (1.05%) Genesys