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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 16 28 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.14% 6.59% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 9.18% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 23
10th Percentile £256 £383 £463
25th Percentile £405 £442 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £509 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -11.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £586
90th Percentile £675 £551 £600
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -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 280 305 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 90.03% 71.76% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 192 357
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £296 £288 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £551 £586
90th Percentile £623 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 27
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.75 £15.68
25th Percentile £14.81 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +3.82% -2.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.88 £24.38
90th Percentile £40.05 £82.75 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -5 16 £513 +0.44% 82
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 6 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) JBoss
2 3 (18.75%) nginx
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (18.75%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) OCI
5 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Subversion
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (6.25%) CRM Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.25%) Anaconda
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) JWT
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) VMS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) SOA
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) API Management
4 3 (18.75%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (6.25%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) LXC
3 2 (12.50%) Firmware
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) IBM