GoCD Contract Job Trends

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GoCD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 - 583
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing GoCD 5 0 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% - 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.090% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £486 - £442
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.64%
75th Percentile £521 - £538
90th Percentile £531 - £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 - £465
% change year-on-year - - +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Development Application Skills
UK

GoCD 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 5,548 4,540 5,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.26% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 2,860 3,982
10th Percentile £337 £340 £363
25th Percentile £408 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £694 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 92 215
10th Percentile £39.00 £36.75 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GoCD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GoCD job vacancy trend in the UK

GoCD
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GoCD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GoCD

GoCD
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GoCD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GoCD

GoCD
Top 7 Contract Job 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 16 December 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 - 5 £505 -
London - 3 £525 -
UK excluding London - 2 £496 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £505 -
South West - 1 £488 -
West Midlands - 1 £505 -

GoCD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Rust Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Green IT
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Memory Management
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) R
2 2 (40.00%) Rust
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) rkt
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) FreeIPA
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware