CircleCI Contracts in the UK excluding London

CircleCI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CircleCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CircleCI over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 355 426
Rank change year-on-year +16 +71 +49
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 24 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.087% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.13% 0.73% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 6
10th Percentile £384 £386 £409
25th Percentile £440 £424 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £622 £544
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +14.39% -3.29%
75th Percentile £734 £645 £672
90th Percentile £738 £649 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £606 £675
% change year-on-year +3.09% -10.19% -3.57%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,131 2,181 2,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 11.81% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,377 1,947
10th Percentile £308 £341 £350
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £619 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 184 174
10th Percentile £22.05 £40.00 £46.18
25th Percentile £51.53 £52.19 £51.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.44
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +5.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £74.84
90th Percentile £82.96 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £64.69
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +17.61%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CircleCI in the UK excluding London

CircleCI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CircleCI in the UK excluding London

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the UK excluding London

CircleCI
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 CircleCI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
North of England -6 14 £440 -29.60% 13
Scotland +4 9 £723 +80.63%
Yorkshire -4 9 £426 -31.80% 10
North West +1 5 £500 -19.97% 2
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 3
Midlands - 1 £575 - 9
CircleCI
UK

CircleCI
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 9 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
1 12 (50.00%) GitHub
1 12 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Apigee
4 4 (16.67%) Google Play
5 2 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Datadog
6 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.17%) npm
6 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Database
3 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (25.00%) GitLab
4 5 (20.83%) JIRA
5 4 (16.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) Gradle
6 1 (4.17%) JUnit
6 1 (4.17%) Maven
6 1 (4.17%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) Snyk
6 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
1 10 (41.67%) Technical Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Lead
2 7 (29.17%) Lead Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Technical Leader
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Android Developer
5 3 (12.50%) iOS Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Digital Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Digital Technical Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (20.83%) Node.js
3 4 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (16.67%) OAuth
4 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.50%) Playwright
4 3 (12.50%) Puppeteer
4 3 (12.50%) React
4 3 (12.50%) SwiftUI
5 2 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.33%) Swagger
6 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.17%) JSON
6 1 (4.17%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (29.17%) Mobile App
3 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Android
2 3 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 9 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 9 (37.50%) TDD
5 7 (29.17%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (29.17%) User Experience
6 6 (25.00%) API Development
6 6 (25.00%) IT Strategy
6 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Case Management
7 5 (20.83%) Information Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Line Management
7 5 (20.83%) MVVM
7 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) Kotlin
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) Swift
6 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (62.50%) Grafana
2 15 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 15 (62.50%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Podman
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Google
2 8 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk