CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 35 46
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 48 146 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.50% 5.97% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 6.78% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 100 101
10th Percentile £325 £450 £389
25th Percentile £363 £513 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% +13.14%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £625
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £40.80
25th Percentile - - £46.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £57.00
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £71.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +40.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,606 2,153 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.56% 88.06% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,064 1,481 2,428
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £408 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +18.18%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £575
90th Percentile £729 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 45 71
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.00 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £34.25 £36.65 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.55% +53.01% -0.19%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Birmingham +6 16 £450 -26.53% 26
Warwickshire 0 11 £675 +31.71% 6
Coventry -3 11 £650 +23.81% 6
Staffordshire - 5 £350 - 6
Solihull - 2 £275 - 2
Worcestershire -10 1 £475 -26.92%
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.25%) CMS
1 3 (6.25%) Drupal
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) SAS
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 17 (35.42%) AWS
3 14 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) GCP
4 7 (14.58%) Serverless
5 6 (12.50%) PaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Functions
6 5 (10.42%) CloudFront
6 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.25%) IaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure App Service
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
8 2 (4.17%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) DNS
2 6 (12.50%) VPN
3 5 (10.42%) Network Security
4 4 (8.33%) SSL
5 3 (6.25%) Firewall
6 1 (2.08%) Extranet
6 1 (2.08%) FTP
6 1 (2.08%) Intranet
6 1 (2.08%) IPsec
6 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Big Data
4 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.08%) Impala
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
5 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Git
2 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) NUnit
4 3 (6.25%) Selenium
4 3 (6.25%) Subversion
5 2 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) Moq
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) Hudson
6 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Retail
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Developer
2 7 (14.58%) React Developer
3 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) React
2 7 (14.58%) .NET
3 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 5 (10.42%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (10.42%) Express.js
4 5 (10.42%) OAuth
4 5 (10.42%) OAuth2
4 5 (10.42%) SAML
4 5 (10.42%) Spring
5 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.33%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.25%) JSON
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (4.17%) SOAP
7 2 (4.17%) YAML
8 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
8 1 (2.08%) Node.js
8 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) DevOps
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (16.67%) Scrum
5 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
5 7 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.58%) TDD
6 6 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (10.42%) Defensive Programming
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.42%) Microservices
7 5 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Task Automation
7 5 (10.42%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) C#
3 6 (12.50%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) C++
6 1 (2.08%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) Groovy
6 1 (2.08%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) HDFS
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Ansible
1 7 (14.58%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) Argo
3 1 (2.08%) Istio
3 1 (2.08%) linkerd
3 1 (2.08%) Packer
3 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.08%) SELinux
3 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) SAP
3 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
4 2 (4.17%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Cadence
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) Denodo
5 1 (2.08%) Informatica
5 1 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Talend