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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,142 3,666 6,102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.83% 7.68% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 8.54% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,594 4,327
10th Percentile £404 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 65 53
10th Percentile £53.88 £56.17 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.44 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.08 £79.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +0.93% +10.71%

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 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 1,315 £565 -8.13% 578
North of England +2 301 £525 -6.46% 227
South East -21 179 £600 +4.35% 143
North West 0 169 £550 - 143
South West -11 157 £590 -1.67% 112
Yorkshire +18 120 £495 -13.91% 58
Midlands -29 62 £475 -11.30% 108
West Midlands -28 47 £488 -12.36% 78
East of England -24 42 £534 +2.69% 57
East Midlands -8 12 £436 +2.65% 30
North East -17 12 £469 -21.88% 26
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 98 (4.58%) Confluence
2 69 (3.22%) Apache
3 67 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 59 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (1.12%) nginx
7 22 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.84%) SharePoint
9 17 (0.79%) CMS
10 13 (0.61%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.51%) JBoss
12 10 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.42%) IIS
14 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.37%) SAS
15 5 (0.23%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.23%) Appian
15 5 (0.23%) Mule
15 5 (0.23%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) Windchill
4 2 (0.093%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.093%) Trello
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.047%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.33%) Endur
4 6 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.19%) Shopify
7 3 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.14%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.093%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.093%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.047%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.047%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.047%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 777 (36.27%) Azure
2 735 (34.31%) AWS
3 330 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
4 255 (11.90%) Serverless
5 252 (11.76%) GitHub
6 246 (11.48%) GCP
7 152 (7.10%) Entra ID
8 141 (6.58%) Amazon S3
9 130 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
11 85 (3.97%) Azure Functions
12 83 (3.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 77 (3.59%) OpenShift
14 74 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 72 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
16 70 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
17 68 (3.17%) PaaS
18 63 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
19 62 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 60 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 152 (7.10%) Firewall
2 103 (4.81%) VPN
3 72 (3.36%) DNS
4 46 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 37 (1.73%) HTTP
6 31 (1.45%) Network Security
7 29 (1.35%) DHCP
7 29 (1.35%) SSL
8 14 (0.65%) BGP
9 11 (0.51%) Ethernet
10 10 (0.47%) VSAN
10 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.42%) AMQP
11 9 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.42%) MPLS
11 9 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.42%) SAN
12 6 (0.28%) Intranet
12 6 (0.28%) IPsec
12 6 (0.28%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 171 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 91 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 89 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 63 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (2.89%) Data Lake
7 62 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 56 (2.61%) MySQL
9 55 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
10 49 (2.29%) Big Data
11 47 (2.19%) Power BI
12 41 (1.91%) DynamoDB
13 32 (1.49%) Redis
14 30 (1.40%) BigQuery
15 27 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
17 25 (1.17%) Hadoop
18 18 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 496 (23.16%) Jenkins
2 404 (18.86%) Git
3 271 (12.65%) GitLab
4 192 (8.96%) JIRA
5 94 (4.39%) Selenium
6 72 (3.36%) Cypress.io
7 68 (3.17%) Bitbucket
8 65 (3.03%) Postman
9 64 (2.99%) Cucumber
9 64 (2.99%) TeamCity
10 54 (2.52%) JUnit
11 52 (2.43%) SpecFlow
12 49 (2.29%) Visual Studio
13 47 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 42 (1.96%) Artifactory
15 41 (1.91%) SonarQube
16 39 (1.82%) JMeter
17 33 (1.54%) Maven
18 27 (1.26%) Mockito
18 27 (1.26%) NUnit
General
1 447 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 404 (18.86%) Finance
3 182 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 145 (6.77%) Banking
6 65 (3.03%) Front Office
7 54 (2.52%) Retail
8 34 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 31 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 27 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.17%) Law
13 24 (1.12%) Legal
14 19 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 18 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.75%) Marketing
18 15 (0.70%) Back Office
19 13 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 586 (27.36%) Developer
2 348 (16.25%) Senior
3 336 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 227 (10.60%) Architect
5 182 (8.50%) Lead
6 153 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 130 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
8 109 (5.09%) Java Developer
9 108 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 98 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 87 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
12 84 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
13 80 (3.73%) Python Developer
14 73 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 72 (3.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 64 (2.99%) Azure Developer
17 63 (2.94%) Software Developer
18 59 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
19 57 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (12.37%) .NET
2 236 (11.02%) React
3 220 (10.27%) Node.js
4 174 (8.12%) REST
5 145 (6.77%) XML
6 143 (6.68%) Kafka
7 127 (5.93%) HTML
8 123 (5.74%) Spring
9 111 (5.18%) Spring Boot
10 109 (5.09%) CSS
11 106 (4.95%) .NET Core
12 81 (3.78%) .NET Framework
12 81 (3.78%) AngularJS
12 81 (3.78%) RESTful
13 80 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
13 80 (3.73%) JSON
14 76 (3.55%) YAML
15 73 (3.41%) ARM Templates
16 63 (2.94%) GraphQL
17 57 (2.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 80 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 73 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 59 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 55 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
6 54 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 47 (2.19%) Mobile App
9 44 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (1.73%) Derivative
11 35 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (1.54%) PKI
13 31 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (1.40%) Onboarding
15 29 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
18 26 (1.21%) Fixed Income
19 23 (1.07%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 383 (17.88%) Linux
2 176 (8.22%) Windows
3 87 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 80 (3.73%) Android
5 75 (3.50%) Unix
6 64 (2.99%) Apple iOS
7 50 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.17%) CentOS
9 23 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.51%) VMS
12 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.093%) AIX
15 2 (0.093%) Solaris
16 1 (0.047%) Debian
16 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (58.68%) DevOps
2 917 (42.81%) Agile
3 413 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 394 (18.39%) Test Automation
5 369 (17.23%) Continuous Integration
6 320 (14.94%) Software Engineering
7 315 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 311 (14.52%) Microservices
9 295 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
10 293 (13.68%) Scrum
11 234 (10.92%) TDD
12 211 (9.85%) SDLC
13 177 (8.26%) Full Stack Development
14 150 (7.00%) Computer Science
15 147 (6.86%) Migration
16 141 (6.58%) Continuous Deployment
17 140 (6.54%) Continuous Delivery
18 135 (6.30%) Configuration Management
19 128 (5.98%) Analytics
20 124 (5.79%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 754 (35.20%) Python
2 461 (21.52%) Java
3 366 (17.09%) SQL
4 325 (15.17%) PowerShell
5 301 (14.05%) JavaScript
6 293 (13.68%) C#
7 187 (8.73%) Bash
8 169 (7.89%) TypeScript
9 127 (5.93%) Go
10 91 (4.25%) Bicep
11 90 (4.20%) C++
12 79 (3.69%) Shell Script
13 43 (2.01%) Perl
14 42 (1.96%) Kotlin
15 36 (1.68%) Scala
16 31 (1.45%) C
16 31 (1.45%) Ruby
17 22 (1.03%) Groovy
17 22 (1.03%) VBScript
18 20 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 448 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 344 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 177 (8.26%) Degree
4 119 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 94 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 24 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 20 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 18 (0.84%) CISSP
11 12 (0.56%) CISM
12 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.37%) AAT
14 8 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.28%) CISA
17 4 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
18 3 (0.14%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.12%) QA
2 47 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.89%) MISRA
5 19 (0.89%) NIST
6 18 (0.84%) GDPR
7 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.65%) SLA
8 12 (0.56%) WCAG
9 10 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.19%) MiFID
11 4 (0.19%) NCSC
11 4 (0.19%) PMO
12 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.047%) NIST 800
System Software
1 493 (23.02%) Docker
2 182 (8.50%) Active Directory
3 62 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (1.03%) VMware NSX
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 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.14%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) LXC
12 2 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.047%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.047%) Ceph
13 1 (0.047%) NFS
13 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 597 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 552 (25.77%) Terraform
3 343 (16.01%) Ansible
4 128 (5.98%) Grafana
5 114 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 76 (3.55%) Puppet
7 60 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 46 (2.15%) Kibana
9 32 (1.49%) logstash
10 26 (1.21%) PowerCLI
11 21 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
11 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (0.93%) SCCM
12 20 (0.93%) SCOM
12 20 (0.93%) WSUS
13 19 (0.89%) Packer
14 18 (0.84%) Argo
14 18 (0.84%) Consul
15 17 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 322 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.44%) Google
3 92 (4.30%) Oracle
4 72 (3.36%) Splunk
5 60 (2.80%) Databricks
6 58 (2.71%) VMware
7 45 (2.10%) SAP
8 44 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.68%) Atlassian
9 36 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 33 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.45%) IBM
12 29 (1.35%) MuleSoft
13 26 (1.21%) Dell
14 22 (1.03%) HP
15 19 (0.89%) Cisco
16 17 (0.79%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.79%) TIBCO
17 15 (0.70%) EMC
18 14 (0.65%) Adobe