CI/CD Contracts in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,130 3,766 6,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.85% 7.82% 8.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 8.67% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,671 4,328
10th Percentile £406 £450 £450
25th Percentile £475 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 67 56
10th Percentile £55.00 £59.92 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.75 £60.91 £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +11.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.70 £80.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in England.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in England.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -6 1,305 £563 -9.64% 509
North of England +3 307 £550 - 192
North West +2 186 £582 +5.82% 124
South East -20 175 £600 +4.35% 117
South West -15 141 £585 -2.50% 121
Yorkshire +14 111 £498 -10.76% 48
Midlands -27 64 £475 -11.67% 93
West Midlands -24 49 £475 -12.04% 65
East of England -21 41 £534 +1.23% 47
East Midlands -6 12 £398 -6.47% 27
North East -21 10 £469 -21.88% 21
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 90 (4.23%) Confluence
2 70 (3.29%) Apache
3 62 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 58 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.41%) nginx
6 28 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 16 (0.75%) CMS
9 13 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
10 12 (0.56%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.52%) JBoss
12 9 (0.42%) SAS
13 8 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.38%) IIS
14 7 (0.33%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.28%) Tornado
16 5 (0.23%) Apache Solr
16 5 (0.23%) Mule
16 5 (0.23%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.14%) Windchill
5 1 (0.047%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.047%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.28%) Endur
3 6 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.094%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.094%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.047%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.047%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.047%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.047%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 761 (35.73%) Azure
2 760 (35.68%) AWS
3 330 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
4 264 (12.39%) Serverless
5 251 (11.78%) GitHub
6 232 (10.89%) GCP
7 143 (6.71%) Entra ID
8 137 (6.43%) Amazon S3
9 135 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
10 109 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (4.32%) Azure Functions
12 84 (3.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 77 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 73 (3.43%) PaaS
15 71 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
16 70 (3.29%) OpenShift
17 67 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 65 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
18 65 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (6.81%) Firewall
2 101 (4.74%) VPN
3 66 (3.10%) DNS
4 44 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 38 (1.78%) HTTP
6 35 (1.64%) Network Security
7 30 (1.41%) SSL
8 25 (1.17%) DHCP
9 16 (0.75%) BGP
10 11 (0.52%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.52%) MPLS
11 10 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.47%) VSAN
12 9 (0.42%) SAN
12 9 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.33%) AMQP
13 7 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.28%) Intranet
14 6 (0.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 169 (7.93%) NoSQL
3 110 (5.16%) MongoDB
4 94 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 76 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
7 63 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 59 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
8 59 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 57 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
10 56 (2.63%) Big Data
11 52 (2.44%) MySQL
12 44 (2.07%) Power BI
13 41 (1.92%) DynamoDB
14 31 (1.46%) Redis
15 29 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.31%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
17 22 (1.03%) Hadoop
18 17 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 492 (23.10%) Jenkins
2 395 (18.54%) Git
3 276 (12.96%) GitLab
4 184 (8.64%) JIRA
5 96 (4.51%) Selenium
6 74 (3.47%) Cucumber
6 74 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 69 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 65 (3.05%) TeamCity
9 61 (2.86%) Postman
10 55 (2.58%) JUnit
11 52 (2.44%) SpecFlow
11 52 (2.44%) Visual Studio
12 48 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 43 (2.02%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.92%) Maven
15 40 (1.88%) JMeter
16 38 (1.78%) Artifactory
17 28 (1.31%) Appium
17 28 (1.31%) Mockito
General
1 443 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 397 (18.64%) Finance
3 180 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 172 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.20%) Banking
6 62 (2.91%) Front Office
7 54 (2.54%) Retail
8 39 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (1.27%) Law
11 26 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.13%) Legal
13 23 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 19 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.89%) Marketing
15 17 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.70%) Back Office
17 13 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 594 (27.89%) Developer
2 340 (15.96%) Senior
3 332 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 209 (9.81%) Architect
5 188 (8.83%) Lead
6 145 (6.81%) Senior Developer
7 129 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 113 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 110 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 107 (5.02%) Java Developer
11 95 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 91 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
13 87 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
14 80 (3.76%) Python Developer
15 74 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
17 64 (3.00%) Software Developer
18 63 (2.96%) Azure Developer
19 56 (2.63%) Technical Architect
20 55 (2.58%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (12.30%) .NET
2 251 (11.78%) Node.js
3 239 (11.22%) React
4 179 (8.40%) REST
5 146 (6.85%) XML
6 138 (6.48%) Kafka
7 124 (5.82%) HTML
8 121 (5.68%) Spring
9 110 (5.16%) Spring Boot
10 107 (5.02%) .NET Core
10 107 (5.02%) CSS
11 96 (4.51%) RESTful
12 86 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
12 86 (4.04%) JSON
13 79 (3.71%) AngularJS
14 78 (3.66%) .NET Framework
15 72 (3.38%) YAML
16 69 (3.24%) ARM Templates
17 63 (2.96%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 134 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 81 (3.80%) Public Cloud
3 74 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 56 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (2.58%) Algorithms
6 51 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 50 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 45 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 43 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.69%) Derivative
12 30 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 29 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 29 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.36%) PKI
14 28 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 26 (1.22%) Fixed Income
17 22 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 376 (17.65%) Linux
2 186 (8.73%) Windows
3 87 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 78 (3.66%) Android
5 75 (3.52%) Unix
6 63 (2.96%) Apple iOS
7 49 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (1.50%) CentOS
9 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.66%) VMS
12 12 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.094%) AIX
15 2 (0.094%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.094%) Solaris
16 1 (0.047%) Debian
16 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,231 (57.79%) DevOps
2 901 (42.30%) Agile
3 390 (18.31%) Test Automation
4 385 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 363 (17.04%) Continuous Integration
6 316 (14.84%) Software Engineering
7 315 (14.79%) Microservices
8 295 (13.85%) Containerisation
9 288 (13.52%) Scrum
10 287 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 229 (10.75%) TDD
12 206 (9.67%) SDLC
13 181 (8.50%) Full Stack Development
14 145 (6.81%) Computer Science
15 141 (6.62%) Continuous Deployment
16 140 (6.57%) Migration
17 137 (6.43%) Continuous Delivery
18 136 (6.38%) Configuration Management
19 131 (6.15%) Design Patterns
20 116 (5.45%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 748 (35.12%) Python
2 447 (20.99%) Java
3 380 (17.84%) SQL
4 317 (14.88%) PowerShell
5 315 (14.79%) JavaScript
6 293 (13.76%) C#
7 183 (8.59%) TypeScript
8 179 (8.40%) Bash
9 126 (5.92%) Go
10 85 (3.99%) Bicep
11 80 (3.76%) C++
12 78 (3.66%) Shell Script
13 43 (2.02%) Kotlin
13 43 (2.02%) Perl
14 33 (1.55%) Ruby
15 32 (1.50%) Scala
16 27 (1.27%) C
17 22 (1.03%) Groovy
17 22 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 451 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 346 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.79%) Degree
4 113 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 91 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 20 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 17 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.66%) CISSP
11 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.38%) CISM
14 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.28%) AAT
16 4 (0.19%) CISA
17 3 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (6.24%) QA
2 39 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.85%) NIST
6 15 (0.70%) MISRA
6 15 (0.70%) SLA
7 14 (0.66%) GDPR
8 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.52%) WCAG
10 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.23%) NCSC
12 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.19%) MiFID
12 4 (0.19%) PMO
13 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.047%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 470 (22.07%) Docker
2 173 (8.12%) Active Directory
3 66 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.42%) HDFS
8 9 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.33%) vCloud
9 7 (0.33%) vSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.14%) LXC
11 2 (0.094%) Firmware
12 1 (0.047%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.047%) Ceph
12 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.047%) NFS
12 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 570 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 555 (26.06%) Terraform
3 332 (15.59%) Ansible
4 128 (6.01%) Grafana
5 117 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 75 (3.52%) Puppet
7 61 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 51 (2.39%) Kibana
9 34 (1.60%) logstash
10 24 (1.13%) Packer
10 24 (1.13%) PowerCLI
11 23 (1.08%) Consul
12 21 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
14 18 (0.85%) Argo
14 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.80%) Istio
15 17 (0.80%) SCCM
15 17 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 323 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.63%) Google
3 92 (4.32%) Oracle
4 75 (3.52%) Splunk
5 60 (2.82%) Databricks
5 60 (2.82%) VMware
6 42 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 40 (1.88%) SAP
8 38 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 35 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 35 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 33 (1.55%) IBM
11 31 (1.46%) MuleSoft
12 26 (1.22%) Dell
13 22 (1.03%) HP
14 17 (0.80%) Cisco
14 17 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 17 (0.80%) TIBCO
15 15 (0.70%) EMC
16 14 (0.66%) Adobe