CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

CI/CD
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 49 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 18.77% 9.71% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.49% 10.64% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 5
10th Percentile £338 £325 £417
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £418 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -24.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £600
90th Percentile - £612 £750
North East median daily rate £488 £418 £550
% change year-on-year +16.77% -24.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 188 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.36% 91.26% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 78 103
10th Percentile £185 £321 £350
25th Percentile £372 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -8.49%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £639 £671 £718
North East median daily rate £471 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.56% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Tyne and Wear

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 48 £481 +13.24% 25
CI/CD
North East

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.24%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.94%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) GitHub
2 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
2 5 (10.20%) Serverless
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.04%) dbt
6 1 (2.04%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
2 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) GitLab
2 13 (26.53%) Cucumber
3 11 (22.45%) Git
4 10 (20.41%) REST Assured
5 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
5 9 (18.37%) JIRA
6 6 (12.24%) Postman
6 6 (12.24%) Selenium
7 2 (4.08%) JMeter
7 2 (4.08%) Mocha
8 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.04%) Gatling
8 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.04%) TestRail
General
1 21 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Developer
3 6 (12.24%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Tester
5 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Lead
5 4 (8.16%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Manual Tester
7 2 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) QA Tester
7 2 (4.08%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.45%) REST
2 10 (20.41%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.29%) WireMock
4 5 (10.20%) Keycloak
4 5 (10.20%) Spring
5 4 (8.16%) Node.js
5 4 (8.16%) Playwright
6 3 (6.12%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.08%) Jest
8 1 (2.04%) Akka
8 1 (2.04%) GatsbyJS
8 1 (2.04%) JSON
8 1 (2.04%) Kafka
8 1 (2.04%) Next.js
8 1 (2.04%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.04%) PySpark
8 1 (2.04%) React
8 1 (2.04%) SOAP
8 1 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Test Automation
2 24 (48.98%) Agile
3 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (32.65%) Microservices
4 16 (32.65%) TDD
5 15 (30.61%) BDD
5 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.61%) DevOps
6 11 (22.45%) Functional Testing
6 11 (22.45%) Non-Functional Testing
7 10 (20.41%) Migration
8 9 (18.37%) API Testing
8 9 (18.37%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
9 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (14.29%) Performance Testing
10 7 (14.29%) Validation
11 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.20%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Java
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 13 (26.53%) Bash
4 5 (10.20%) Go
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.16%) Perl
5 4 (8.16%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) Groovy
6 1 (2.04%) Rust
6 1 (2.04%) Scala
6 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) SC Cleared
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.24%) QA
3 3 (6.12%) WCAG
4 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Terraform
2 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.49%) Ansible
4 7 (14.29%) Grafana
5 5 (10.20%) Istio
6 4 (8.16%) Argo
7 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.04%) Kibana
8 1 (2.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Google