CircleCI Contracts

CircleCI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 550 549
Rank change year-on-year +67 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 36 50 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.88% 0.97% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 127
10th Percentile £431 £419 £494
25th Percentile £440 £513 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +1.89%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £738
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £586 £675
% change year-on-year -14.68% -13.19% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CircleCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Daily rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Hourly rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +51 32 £550 -8.33% 56
London +29 23 £550 -8.33% 36
Work from Home +54 20 £575 +4.55% 34
UK excluding London +45 4 £500 -14.68% 23
North of England +24 4 £500 -20.00% 10
North West +14 4 £500 -9.09% 5

CircleCI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Shopify
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) AWS
1 21 (58.33%) GitHub
1 21 (58.33%) GitHub Actions
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 11 (30.56%) GCP
4 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (19.44%) Sentry
6 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Apigee
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Run
8 3 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.56%) BigCommerce
9 2 (5.56%) Datadog
9 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.56%) Figma
9 2 (5.56%) Serverless
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.11%) Redis
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (36.11%) GitLab
3 6 (16.67%) JMeter
4 5 (13.89%) JIRA
5 4 (11.11%) Appium
5 4 (11.11%) Gatling
5 4 (11.11%) NeoLoad
5 4 (11.11%) Selenium
5 4 (11.11%) SpecFlow
5 4 (11.11%) Terragrunt
6 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.56%) Git
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.78%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Military
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Architect
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Python Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Developer in Test
6 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.33%) GCP Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Node.js
2 8 (22.22%) React
3 7 (19.44%) GraphQL
4 6 (16.67%) Playwright
5 5 (13.89%) RESTful
6 4 (11.11%) CSS
6 4 (11.11%) Django
6 4 (11.11%) Express.js
6 4 (11.11%) HTML
6 4 (11.11%) Play Framework
6 4 (11.11%) REST
7 3 (8.33%) JPA
7 3 (8.33%) OAuth
8 2 (5.56%) Kafka
8 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
8 2 (5.56%) Puppeteer
8 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.56%) Redux
8 2 (5.56%) Swagger
8 2 (5.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Blog
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 18 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (36.11%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 12 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
6 8 (22.22%) Microservices
6 8 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) API Development
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (16.67%) Observability
9 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.89%) IT Strategy
9 5 (13.89%) Task Automation
9 5 (13.89%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 17 (47.22%) Python
3 16 (44.44%) Java
4 15 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (22.22%) SQL
6 6 (16.67%) Kotlin
6 6 (16.67%) Ruby
7 4 (11.11%) Bash
7 4 (11.11%) C#
7 4 (11.11%) C++
7 4 (11.11%) PHP
7 4 (11.11%) Scala
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) FedRAMP
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Terraform
2 19 (52.78%) Kubernetes
3 12 (33.33%) Grafana
4 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (16.67%) Ansible
6 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.56%) Puppet
6 2 (5.56%) Salt
7 1 (2.78%) Consul
7 1 (2.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe
3 2 (5.56%) New Relic
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) Sitecore