CI/CD Contracts in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 868 1,477 1,786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.24% 6.32% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 7.06% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 1,102 1,225
10th Percentile £389 £413 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 60 49
10th Percentile £56.25 £59.98 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.81 £60.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +0.93% +12.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £73.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
North of England -1 301 £550 - 183
North West 0 189 £582 +5.82% 111
South East -19 174 £600 +4.35% 122
South West -17 138 £580 -3.33% 113
Scotland -13 127 £499 +2.31% 74
Yorkshire +11 102 £523 -6.28% 55
Midlands -31 65 £475 -11.71% 77
West Midlands -36 50 £475 -12.04% 58
East of England -17 41 £534 -0.19% 48
Wales +11 24 £509 -13.23% 22
East Midlands +1 12 £398 -6.47% 18
North East -19 10 £469 -21.88% 18
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 53 (6.11%) Confluence
2 37 (4.26%) Apache
3 31 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (2.19%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.15%) nginx
7 8 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.69%) JBoss
9 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.35%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) Drupal
10 3 (0.35%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.12%) Appian
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 323 (37.21%) AWS
2 261 (30.07%) Azure
3 101 (11.64%) Serverless
4 100 (11.52%) GitHub
5 95 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (8.41%) GCP
7 68 (7.83%) Amazon S3
8 67 (7.72%) OpenShift
9 55 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (5.07%) Entra ID
12 40 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (4.15%) Azure Functions
14 30 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (3.23%) PaaS
16 27 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (11.64%) Firewall
2 86 (9.91%) VPN
3 44 (5.07%) DNS
4 28 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.07%) Network Security
6 16 (1.84%) DHCP
6 16 (1.84%) HTTP
6 16 (1.84%) SSL
7 15 (1.73%) BGP
8 11 (1.27%) Ethernet
9 10 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (1.15%) MPLS
9 10 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (1.15%) SAN
10 9 (1.04%) VSAN
11 7 (0.81%) AMQP
12 6 (0.69%) FTP
13 5 (0.58%) IPsec
14 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (7.60%) NoSQL
3 53 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 50 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 44 (5.07%) MySQL
6 34 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (2.07%) Big Data
10 17 (1.96%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.27%) InfluxDB
13 11 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.27%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.15%) Power BI
15 9 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 193 (22.24%) Jenkins
2 160 (18.43%) Git
3 137 (15.78%) GitLab
4 109 (12.56%) JIRA
5 37 (4.26%) Cypress.io
6 33 (3.80%) Bitbucket
7 32 (3.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 31 (3.57%) Selenium
9 29 (3.34%) Visual Studio
10 27 (3.11%) SonarQube
11 24 (2.76%) Cucumber
12 22 (2.53%) Artifactory
12 22 (2.53%) Postman
13 16 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (1.84%) webpack
14 15 (1.73%) JUnit
14 15 (1.73%) TeamCity
15 13 (1.50%) Maven
15 13 (1.50%) Travis CI
16 12 (1.38%) GoogleTest
General
1 170 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.14%) Finance
3 81 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 75 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (2.88%) Banking
7 22 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.19%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.96%) Legal
9 17 (1.96%) Retail
10 12 (1.38%) Military
11 10 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.92%) Back Office
13 8 (0.92%) Electronics
14 5 (0.58%) Law
14 5 (0.58%) Publishing
15 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 222 (25.58%) Developer
2 123 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (10.60%) Architect
4 80 (9.22%) Senior
5 73 (8.41%) Lead
5 73 (8.41%) Software Engineer
6 58 (6.68%) Java Developer
7 48 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
8 44 (5.07%) Technical Architect
9 38 (4.38%) Java Engineer
9 38 (4.38%) Technical Leader
10 37 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
12 32 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
13 31 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 31 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (3.23%) Lead Architect
16 26 (3.00%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (14.29%) Node.js
2 116 (13.36%) React
3 114 (13.13%) REST
4 71 (8.18%) .NET
5 70 (8.06%) Spring
6 68 (7.83%) Spring Boot
7 61 (7.03%) HTML
8 60 (6.91%) CSS
9 49 (5.65%) RESTful
10 41 (4.72%) Kafka
11 38 (4.38%) JSON
12 33 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (3.80%) YAML
13 32 (3.69%) AngularJS
13 32 (3.69%) ARM Templates
14 29 (3.34%) .NET Core
14 29 (3.34%) AWS CDK
14 29 (3.34%) GraphQL
15 27 (3.11%) XML
16 26 (3.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 60 (6.91%) Public Cloud
3 37 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (2.42%) Mobile App
5 21 (2.42%) PKI
6 19 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.58%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.58%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.58%) Verilog
15 4 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 200 (23.04%) Linux
2 125 (14.40%) Windows
3 72 (8.29%) Windows Server
4 48 (5.53%) Android
5 46 (5.30%) Apple iOS
6 38 (4.38%) Unix
7 26 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (1.38%) VMS
11 9 (1.04%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.92%) CentOS
13 7 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.46%) VxWorks
15 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
16 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (56.68%) DevOps
2 408 (47.00%) Agile
3 186 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (19.47%) Continuous Integration
5 167 (19.24%) Test Automation
6 158 (18.20%) Software Engineering
7 141 (16.24%) Microservices
8 138 (15.90%) Containerisation
9 119 (13.71%) Full Stack Development
10 114 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (12.44%) Scrum
12 87 (10.02%) SDLC
13 82 (9.45%) TDD
14 74 (8.53%) Continuous Delivery
15 71 (8.18%) Configuration Management
16 67 (7.72%) Design Patterns
16 67 (7.72%) Unit Testing
17 59 (6.80%) Deployment Automation
18 56 (6.45%) Analytics
19 55 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 278 (32.03%) Python
2 201 (23.16%) Java
3 140 (16.13%) SQL
4 117 (13.48%) PowerShell
5 110 (12.67%) JavaScript
6 100 (11.52%) Bash
7 85 (9.79%) C#
8 84 (9.68%) TypeScript
9 44 (5.07%) Go
10 38 (4.38%) C++
11 28 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.88%) Bicep
12 25 (2.88%) Perl
13 22 (2.53%) Groovy
14 21 (2.42%) C
14 21 (2.42%) Ruby
15 20 (2.30%) VBScript
16 18 (2.07%) Scala
17 16 (1.84%) PHP
17 16 (1.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 208 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 144 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 52 (5.99%) Degree
5 24 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.69%) AAT
9 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.23%) ISEB
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) MCSE
14 1 (0.12%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.95%) QA
2 29 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.96%) MISRA
4 14 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (0.92%) NIST
6 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.69%) GDPR
8 5 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
9 4 (0.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 207 (23.85%) Docker
2 60 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.81%) vCloud
8 6 (0.69%) Firmware
8 6 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.58%) HDFS
9 5 (0.58%) vSphere
10 4 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.35%) LXC
12 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 226 (26.04%) Kubernetes
2 212 (24.42%) Terraform
3 165 (19.01%) Ansible
4 60 (6.91%) Grafana
5 53 (6.11%) Prometheus
6 34 (3.92%) Progress Chef
7 24 (2.76%) Kibana
7 24 (2.76%) PowerCLI
7 24 (2.76%) Puppet
8 18 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
9 16 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.84%) SCCM
9 16 (1.84%) SCOM
9 16 (1.84%) WSUS
10 15 (1.73%) Packer
11 12 (1.38%) Istio
12 11 (1.27%) HP Fortify
12 11 (1.27%) Rancher
13 9 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 93 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.84%) Google
3 40 (4.61%) VMware
4 37 (4.26%) Atlassian
4 37 (4.26%) Splunk
5 29 (3.34%) Oracle
6 23 (2.65%) Dell
7 22 (2.53%) HP
8 18 (2.07%) SAP
9 15 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.61%) EMC
11 12 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.27%) Informatica
13 10 (1.15%) Veritas
14 9 (1.04%) Cisco
14 9 (1.04%) IBM
15 8 (0.92%) Databricks
16 7 (0.81%) Adobe
16 7 (0.81%) F5