CI/CD Contracts with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 903 2,136 4,102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.91% 8.26% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 9.19% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 1,597 3,016
10th Percentile £405 £442 £425
25th Percentile £467 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £675
90th Percentile £725 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 31 28
10th Percentile £50.05 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £40.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +34.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.91
90th Percentile £69.50 - £69.06
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

CI/CD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

CI/CD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (3.10%) Confluence
2 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.11%) nginx
7 9 (1.00%) Apache
8 8 (0.89%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.66%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.55%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.55%) CMS
10 5 (0.55%) IIS
10 5 (0.55%) JBoss
10 5 (0.55%) Mule
10 5 (0.55%) Mule ESB
10 5 (0.55%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.33%) WordPress
13 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (0.44%) Loan IQ
2 4 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 350 (38.76%) AWS
2 332 (36.77%) Azure
3 148 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (13.95%) Serverless
5 108 (11.96%) GCP
6 98 (10.85%) GitHub
7 72 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 53 (5.87%) Entra ID
10 44 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (4.65%) Azure Functions
13 40 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (4.43%) OpenShift
14 37 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (7.86%) Firewall
2 35 (3.88%) DNS
3 33 (3.65%) VPN
4 18 (1.99%) Network Security
5 16 (1.77%) DHCP
5 16 (1.77%) HTTP
6 13 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.55%) BGP
7 5 (0.55%) DSL
7 5 (0.55%) SAN
8 4 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.44%) Intranet
8 4 (0.44%) IPsec
8 4 (0.44%) SSL
9 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.33%) IOS XR
9 3 (0.33%) IPv4
9 3 (0.33%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 63 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.20%) MongoDB
4 45 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (3.32%) MySQL
6 29 (3.21%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.10%) Big Data
10 19 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.10%) Power BI
11 15 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.44%) Redis
14 12 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 192 (21.26%) Jenkins
2 148 (16.39%) Git
3 122 (13.51%) GitLab
4 69 (7.64%) JIRA
5 50 (5.54%) Cucumber
6 49 (5.43%) Selenium
7 43 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 35 (3.88%) JUnit
9 28 (3.10%) SpecFlow
10 22 (2.44%) Mockito
11 21 (2.33%) Maven
11 21 (2.33%) Postman
11 21 (2.33%) Visual Studio
12 20 (2.21%) Bitbucket
13 19 (2.10%) JMeter
13 19 (2.10%) TeamCity
14 16 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.77%) TestNG
15 15 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 14 (1.55%) WebDriver
General
1 195 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 183 (20.27%) Finance
3 129 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 59 (6.53%) Banking
5 57 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.66%) Retail
7 23 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.10%) Front Office
9 17 (1.88%) Law
10 16 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.66%) Marketing
12 13 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.00%) Electronics
16 7 (0.78%) Publishing
17 6 (0.66%) Back Office
17 6 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 265 (29.35%) Developer
2 143 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (13.73%) Senior
4 82 (9.08%) Architect
5 80 (8.86%) Lead
6 66 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
7 59 (6.53%) Java Developer
8 56 (6.20%) Senior Developer
9 55 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (5.20%) Data Engineer
10 47 (5.20%) Full Stack Developer
11 43 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
12 40 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 38 (4.21%) Software Developer
14 37 (4.10%) Consultant
15 34 (3.77%) Azure Developer
15 34 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
16 28 (3.10%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 26 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (10.74%) REST
2 94 (10.41%) React
3 86 (9.52%) .NET
4 85 (9.41%) Node.js
5 62 (6.87%) CSS
6 61 (6.76%) Spring Boot
7 58 (6.42%) HTML
8 55 (6.09%) XML
9 53 (5.87%) Spring
10 52 (5.76%) RESTful
11 50 (5.54%) ARM Templates
12 43 (4.76%) JSON
13 41 (4.54%) Kafka
14 39 (4.32%) YAML
15 37 (4.10%) AngularJS
16 34 (3.77%) .NET Framework
17 32 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
18 28 (3.10%) .NET Core
18 28 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
19 27 (2.99%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.43%) Product Ownership
2 36 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 27 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 22 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.99%) PKI
9 16 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
12 12 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.89%) IVR
15 7 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.66%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 146 (16.17%) Linux
2 94 (10.41%) Windows
3 47 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.65%) Unix
5 19 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.88%) Android
6 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (1.66%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.11%) CentOS
10 6 (0.66%) VMS
11 5 (0.55%) Solaris
12 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 2 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (61.46%) DevOps
2 375 (41.53%) Agile
3 209 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (18.49%) Test Automation
5 136 (15.06%) Microservices
6 128 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
8 103 (11.41%) Containerisation
9 98 (10.85%) Scrum
10 94 (10.41%) SDLC
10 94 (10.41%) Software Engineering
11 87 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
12 78 (8.64%) Migration
13 72 (7.97%) Analytics
14 69 (7.64%) TDD
15 56 (6.20%) Continuous Deployment
16 50 (5.54%) ETL
17 49 (5.43%) Configuration Management
18 47 (5.20%) Continuous Delivery
19 46 (5.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 299 (33.11%) Python
2 201 (22.26%) Java
3 164 (18.16%) SQL
4 128 (14.17%) JavaScript
5 116 (12.85%) C#
6 108 (11.96%) PowerShell
7 75 (8.31%) Bash
8 73 (8.08%) TypeScript
9 47 (5.20%) Go
10 41 (4.54%) Bicep
11 30 (3.32%) Shell Script
12 27 (2.99%) Perl
13 22 (2.44%) Ruby
14 19 (2.10%) Scala
15 17 (1.88%) C++
16 16 (1.77%) VBScript
17 15 (1.66%) VB
18 13 (1.44%) PHP
19 12 (1.33%) Kotlin
20 10 (1.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 159 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.20%) Degree
4 27 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.78%) CISSP
11 6 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.44%) CISM
14 3 (0.33%) CRISC
14 3 (0.33%) ISEB
14 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.20%) QA
2 36 (3.99%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.55%) NIST
4 12 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.11%) SLA
6 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.55%) GDPR
7 5 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.55%) NCSC
8 4 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.44%) WCAG
9 3 (0.33%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 170 (18.83%) Docker
2 67 (7.42%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.33%) vCloud
9 3 (0.33%) vSphere
10 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) IAG
Systems Management
1 241 (26.69%) Terraform
2 209 (23.15%) Kubernetes
3 120 (13.29%) Ansible
4 66 (7.31%) Grafana
5 51 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 33 (3.65%) Puppet
7 27 (2.99%) Kibana
7 27 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.99%) SCOM
10 15 (1.66%) Consul
10 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.66%) SCCM
10 15 (1.66%) WSUS
11 12 (1.33%) logstash
12 9 (1.00%) Packer
13 7 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.55%) Argo
14 5 (0.55%) CloudHub
14 5 (0.55%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 130 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.98%) Oracle
3 29 (3.21%) Google
4 26 (2.88%) Databricks
4 26 (2.88%) Splunk
5 24 (2.66%) IBM
6 20 (2.21%) SAP
6 20 (2.21%) VMware
7 17 (1.88%) CyberArk
7 17 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.44%) BeyondTrust
9 13 (1.44%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.33%) Genesys
10 12 (1.33%) SaltStack
11 11 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.11%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.00%) Cisco
13 9 (1.00%) TOWER Software
14 8 (0.89%) Adobe