CI/CD Contracts in Wales

CI/CD
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 18 28 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.14% 7.09% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 9.00% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 27
10th Percentile £232 £353 £481
25th Percentile £404 £450 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £513 £586
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -12.54% +17.20%
75th Percentile £606 £551 £600
90th Percentile £636 £650 £627
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Wales.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales -4 16 £540 +4.05% 153
Dyfed - 1 £400 - 1
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 5 (27.78%) WebLogic
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) JBoss
2 3 (16.67%) nginx
2 3 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) OCI
6 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 3 (16.67%) Serverless
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Adabas
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.56%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) FHIR
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Angular 2
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) HTML5
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) JWT
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Microservices
5 4 (22.22%) OO
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) API Management
6 3 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 3 (16.67%) SOA
6 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 2 (11.11%) OOD
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 1 (5.56%) Natural
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CSSLP
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) LXC
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft