GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 706 815
Rank change year-on-year +116 +109 -139
Contract jobs citing GoCD 8 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.022% 0.038%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 29
10th Percentile £375 - £385
25th Percentile £425 £426 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £428 £563
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% -23.91% +12.50%
75th Percentile £658 - £669
90th Percentile £716 - £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £606 £426 £538
% change year-on-year +42.31% -20.74% +10.26%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GoCD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GoCD in the UK

GoCD
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +130 8 £488 +14.44% 2
UK excluding London +63 4 £606 +42.31% 2
London - 4 £450 - 1
North of England +31 3 £525 +23.24% 1
North West +14 3 £525 +23.24% 1
Work from Home +125 2 - - 3
South West - 1 £688 -

GoCD
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
3 1 (12.50%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Ceph
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Mesos
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) VMware