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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 532 558
Rank change year-on-year +52 +26 +34
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 45 53 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.07% 1.03% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 103
10th Percentile £431 £425 £495
25th Percentile £458 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -10.19% +0.37%
75th Percentile £689 £678 £738
90th Percentile £734 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £622 £700
% change year-on-year -19.61% -11.14% +33.33%
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 4,193 5,144 8,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.55% 12.01% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 3,468 5,710
10th Percentile £340 £352 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 219 227
10th Percentile £21.27 £27.65 £44.86
25th Percentile £46.44 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.06 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.66 £77.60 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 29 May 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 29 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
England +61 41 £600 -2.04% 96
London +54 30 £575 -6.12% 60
Work from Home +48 23 £600 -3.54% 80
UK excluding London +53 5 £500 -19.61% 60
North West +9 5 £500 -9.09% 14
North of England +4 5 £500 -20.00% 19

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 (2.22%) CMS
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Shopify
2 1 (2.22%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) GitHub
2 28 (62.22%) GitHub Actions
3 27 (60.00%) AWS
4 14 (31.11%) Azure
5 12 (26.67%) GCP
6 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) Sentry
8 5 (11.11%) Apigee
9 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.67%) Cloud Run
10 3 (6.67%) Figma
10 3 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.44%) BigCommerce
11 2 (4.44%) Datadog
11 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.44%) Serverless
12 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.89%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) JIRA
4 6 (13.33%) JMeter
5 4 (8.89%) Appium
5 4 (8.89%) Gatling
5 4 (8.89%) NeoLoad
5 4 (8.89%) Selenium
5 4 (8.89%) SpecFlow
6 3 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.67%) Git
6 3 (6.67%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.22%) Postman
7 1 (2.22%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.22%) WebStorm
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Military
4 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Senior
2 17 (37.78%) Architect
3 14 (31.11%) Developer
4 13 (28.89%) Technical Architect
5 9 (20.00%) Senior Architect
5 9 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Developer in Test
7 4 (8.89%) Python Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) Node.js
2 9 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 9 (20.00%) React
3 7 (15.56%) Playwright
4 6 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) CSS
5 4 (8.89%) HTML
5 4 (8.89%) OAuth
5 4 (8.89%) Play Framework
6 3 (6.67%) Django
6 3 (6.67%) Express.js
6 3 (6.67%) JPA
6 3 (6.67%) Puppeteer
6 3 (6.67%) Redux
6 3 (6.67%) REST
7 2 (4.44%) Kafka
7 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.44%) Swagger
7 2 (4.44%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Blog
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 27 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (42.22%) DevOps
4 17 (37.78%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (35.56%) Microservices
6 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
7 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
8 12 (26.67%) Agile
8 12 (26.67%) API Development
9 11 (24.44%) Domain-Driven Design
9 11 (24.44%) TDD
10 10 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (22.22%) Event-Driven
10 10 (22.22%) Front End Development
10 10 (22.22%) Software Architecture
11 9 (20.00%) IT Strategy
11 9 (20.00%) Observability
11 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
12 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) TypeScript
2 25 (55.56%) Java
3 17 (37.78%) Python
4 16 (35.56%) JavaScript
5 14 (31.11%) Kotlin
6 9 (20.00%) SQL
7 6 (13.33%) Ruby
8 5 (11.11%) Bash
9 4 (8.89%) C#
9 4 (8.89%) C++
9 4 (8.89%) PHP
9 4 (8.89%) Scala
10 1 (2.22%) Go
10 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (51.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (48.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) FedRAMP
4 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Terraform
2 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (44.44%) Grafana
4 17 (37.78%) Prometheus
5 6 (13.33%) Ansible
6 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.44%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) Salt
7 1 (2.22%) Consul
7 1 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
4 2 (4.44%) New Relic
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.22%) Dell