GoCD Contracts in the UK excluding London

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GoCD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoCD over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 395 440
Rank change year-on-year +57 +45 +57
Contract jobs citing GoCD 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.058% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £518 £416
25th Percentile - £545 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £606 £426
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +42.31% -20.74%
75th Percentile - £658 £430
90th Percentile - £679 £517
UK median daily rate £455 £488 £428
% change year-on-year -6.67% +13.90% -23.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

GoCD 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 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GoCD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GoCD in the UK excluding London

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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 GoCD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Scotland - 1 £400 -
GoCD
UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Release Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow