CI/CD Contracts in the Midlands

CI/CD
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 69 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 64 159 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.38% 4.84% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 5.48% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 116 154
10th Percentile £325 £371 £389
25th Percentile £356 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £498
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +8.09% +10.56%
75th Percentile £606 £618 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.13% +0.93% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,214 2,900 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.21% 88.33% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,032 3,228
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 107 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +14.01%
75th Percentile £33.25 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -24 49 £475 -12.04% 60
East Midlands -6 12 £398 -6.47% 23
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (7.81%) JBoss
2 3 (4.69%) CMS
2 3 (4.69%) Drupal
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Azure
2 23 (35.94%) AWS
3 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 7 (10.94%) PaaS
6 6 (9.38%) GCP
6 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.81%) CloudFront
7 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 4 (6.25%) IaaS
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
10 2 (3.13%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) VPN
3 5 (7.81%) Network Security
4 4 (6.25%) Firewall
4 4 (6.25%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) DSL
5 1 (1.56%) Extranet
5 1 (1.56%) Intranet
5 1 (1.56%) IPsec
5 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
5 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.56%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Git
2 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.50%) JIRA
4 7 (10.94%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.81%) Artifactory
5 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (7.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (7.81%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.25%) GitLab
7 3 (4.69%) NUnit
7 3 (4.69%) Selenium
7 3 (4.69%) Subversion
8 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.13%) Moq
8 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.13%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.56%) Hudson
9 1 (1.56%) JUnit
9 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Retail
3 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) React Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) React
2 7 (10.94%) .NET
2 7 (10.94%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.38%) Apollo GraphQL
3 6 (9.38%) OAuth
3 6 (9.38%) SAML
3 6 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.81%) Express.js
4 5 (7.81%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.81%) Spring
5 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.25%) JSON
5 4 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) Kafka
7 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.13%) YAML
8 1 (1.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.56%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.69%) Unix
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) DevOps
2 23 (35.94%) Agile
3 15 (23.44%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (18.75%) Microservices
5 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 9 (14.06%) Scrum
7 8 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 8 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (12.50%) TDD
8 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
8 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (10.94%) DevSecOps
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) Python
2 11 (17.19%) SQL
3 9 (14.06%) Java
4 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.94%) C#
5 7 (10.94%) Perl
6 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) Bicep
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) Go
7 1 (1.56%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby
7 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (26.56%) Docker
2 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) HDFS
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Ansible
2 8 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (7.81%) Kibana
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) Argo
5 1 (1.56%) Istio
5 1 (1.56%) linkerd
5 1 (1.56%) Packer
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.56%) Rancher
5 1 (1.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.81%) AppDynamics
4 5 (7.81%) Splunk
5 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.69%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.69%) SAP
7 2 (3.13%) Confluent
7 2 (3.13%) Databricks
7 2 (3.13%) Google
8 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.56%) Citrix
8 1 (1.56%) Denodo
8 1 (1.56%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.56%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.56%) Sage
8 1 (1.56%) Talend
8 1 (1.56%) VMware