CI/CD Contracts in Wales

CI/CD
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 32 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -23
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 23 31 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.07% 5.02% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 5.76% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 21
10th Percentile £356 £481 £413
25th Percentile £444 £556 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +17.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £551 £623 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 538 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.31% 87.06% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 415 597
10th Percentile £160 £190 £200
25th Percentile £356 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 29
10th Percentile £11.57 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.71 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £19.82 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £51.75 £24.38 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.25 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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
South Wales +10 22 £509 -13.23% 18
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) GitHub
2 8 (34.78%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MySQL
2 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Cypress.io
2 11 (47.83%) Postman
3 7 (30.43%) GitLab
4 5 (21.74%) Storybook
5 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (13.04%) Selenium
6 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
6 2 (8.70%) JMeter
7 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.35%) Finance
1 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
1 1 (4.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Full Stack Developer
2 7 (30.43%) PHP Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (17.39%) Test Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) React Developer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Vue
2 10 (43.48%) Laravel
3 8 (34.78%) React
4 7 (30.43%) Playwright
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) CSS3
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) HTML5
5 1 (4.35%) Kafka
5 1 (4.35%) MobX
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) Redux
5 1 (4.35%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Test Automation
2 16 (69.57%) Project Management
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (43.48%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (30.43%) Analytics
6 7 (30.43%) Front End Development
7 5 (21.74%) Data Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) DevOps
7 5 (21.74%) Objectives and Key Results
7 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
9 3 (13.04%) BDD
9 3 (13.04%) Kanban
9 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
10 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
10 2 (8.70%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PHP
2 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft