CI/CD Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

CI/CD
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 19 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 7.54% 4.44% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 5.22% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 2
10th Percentile £266 £255 £434
25th Percentile £290 £328 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -7.69% -16.67%
75th Percentile £564 £500 £522
90th Percentile £628 £530 £531
South East median daily rate £500 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -9.91% -3.48% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 115 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 77.78% 85.19% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 77 153
10th Percentile £186 £196 £213
25th Percentile £274 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £720 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.25
25th Percentile £12.63 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.00 £46.96
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -68.06% +116.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.27
90th Percentile £67.50 - £68.55
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £54.56
% change year-on-year -51.22% -15.46% +45.49%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in West Sussex

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in West Sussex over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in West Sussex

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 22 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
Burgess Hill +3 7 £278 +30.59%
Worthing -5 6 £507 -
Crawley -5 5 £550 +22.22% 1
Gatwick - 1 £725 - 5
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) ArcGIS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) MLflow
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Aviation
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Engagement Manager
2 4 (21.05%) SAP Engagement Manager
2 4 (21.05%) SAP Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Engagement Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) REST
2 5 (26.32%) GraphQL
2 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (21.05%) gRPC
4 3 (15.79%) PySpark
4 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
4 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
4 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
5 2 (10.53%) Play Framework
5 2 (10.53%) Spring
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.26%) .NET
6 1 (5.26%) Next.js
6 1 (5.26%) React
6 1 (5.26%) React Native
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) AI
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Machine Learning
3 7 (36.84%) Waterfall
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) BDD
5 4 (21.05%) Change Management
5 4 (21.05%) Data Management
5 4 (21.05%) Kanban
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (21.05%) Project Management
5 4 (21.05%) Project Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Go
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk