The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
79,707
58,992
35,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
89.58%
88.94%
86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted
56,104
40,492
24,006
10th Percentile
£350
£313
£300
25th Percentile
£444
£405
£391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£550
£500
£475
Median % change year-on-year
+10.00%
+5.26%
-
75th Percentile
£650
£595
£575
90th Percentile
£750
£688
£675
UK excluding London median daily rate
£500
£450
£450
% change year-on-year
+11.11%
-
+2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,730
1,641
1,014
10th Percentile
£13.25
£12.00
£12.50
25th Percentile
£17.00
£15.17
£16.15
Median hourly rate
£29.32
£24.80
£23.00
Median % change year-on-year
+18.23%
+7.80%
+1.10%
75th Percentile
£53.96
£47.50
£46.00
90th Percentile
£67.26
£60.00
£55.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£24.12
£21.50
£21.00
% change year-on-year
+12.19%
+2.38%
-8.04%
CI/CD Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
CI/CD Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.
CI/CD Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 July 2022.
CI/CD Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD.
CI/CD Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 2 July 2022.
CI/CD Top 18 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 2 July 2022. 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
For the 6 months to 2 July 2022, IT contractor jobs citing CI/CD also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for CI/CD.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
