CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Southampton

CI/CD
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 8 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 5.88% - 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £458 - £451
25th Percentile £469 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.11%
75th Percentile £513 - £504
90th Percentile - - £583
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% -3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 116 104 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.29% 66.67% 84.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 71 115
10th Percentile £170 £200 £265
25th Percentile £333 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £604
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £18.75
25th Percentile £31.06 - £22.69
Median hourly rate £64.75 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.06% +196.30% +47.38%
75th Percentile £72.63 - £32.63
90th Percentile £74.00 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £66.68 £55.00
% change year-on-year -62.28% +21.23% +46.67%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Southampton

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) HP UFT
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (12.50%) Escalation Management
4 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Rsyslog
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow