GoCD Contracts in the UK excluding London

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GoCD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GoCD over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 450 492
Rank change year-on-year +69 +42 -74
Contract jobs citing GoCD 4 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.026% 0.042%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £518 £415 £325
25th Percentile £545 £421 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £426 £538
Median % change year-on-year +42.48% -20.84% +10.26%
75th Percentile £658 £466 £675
90th Percentile £679 £532 -
UK median daily rate £488 £428 £561
% change year-on-year +13.90% -23.74% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

GoCD is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,222 3,314 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,344 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 177 104
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.75 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.75 £78.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GoCD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 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 +27 3 £525 +23.53%
North West +22 3 £525 +23.53%
South West - 1 £688 -
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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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware