CI/CD Contracts in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 24 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 307 350 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.61% 6.26% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 6.91% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 271 375
10th Percentile £417 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +2 186 £582 +5.82% 124
Yorkshire +14 111 £498 -10.76% 49
North East -21 10 £469 -21.88% 24
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 16 (5.21%) Apache
1 16 (5.21%) Confluence
2 13 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.95%) nginx
6 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.65%) Traefik
9 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 143 (46.58%) AWS
2 72 (23.45%) Azure
3 35 (11.40%) GitHub
4 34 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (10.75%) GCP
6 29 (9.45%) Amazon S3
6 29 (9.45%) Serverless
7 22 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.56%) Snowflake
13 9 (2.93%) Kong
13 9 (2.93%) Route 53
14 8 (2.61%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.95%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.59%) Firewall
2 49 (15.96%) VPN
3 13 (4.23%) DNS
4 11 (3.58%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.93%) HTTP
5 9 (2.93%) SSL
6 7 (2.28%) Network Security
7 5 (1.63%) FTP
8 4 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.98%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.65%) Intranet
10 2 (0.65%) IPv4
11 1 (0.33%) DSL
11 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.47%) MongoDB
2 19 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.89%) MySQL
5 11 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.93%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.28%) Big Data
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.95%) Flink
9 6 (1.95%) Redis
9 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.63%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.98%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.98%) Power BI
11 3 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 66 (21.50%) Git
1 66 (21.50%) GitLab
2 60 (19.54%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.49%) JIRA
4 11 (3.58%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.26%) Travis CI
6 9 (2.93%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.93%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.61%) webpack
8 7 (2.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.63%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.63%) JMeter
10 5 (1.63%) Mockito
10 5 (1.63%) Selenium
11 4 (1.30%) AppScan
11 4 (1.30%) JUnit
11 4 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.98%) Mocha
General
1 34 (11.07%) Finance
1 34 (11.07%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.10%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.91%) Banking
5 11 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.95%) Legal
7 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.98%) Retail
9 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Local Government
10 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (18.89%) Architect
2 58 (18.89%) Developer
3 47 (15.31%) Lead
4 40 (13.03%) Technical Architect
5 32 (10.42%) Technical Leader
6 31 (10.10%) Senior
7 28 (9.12%) Lead Architect
8 23 (7.49%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (6.84%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.54%) Java Developer
12 16 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
16 10 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (3.26%) Site Engineer
17 9 (2.93%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (27.69%) Node.js
2 27 (8.79%) RESTful
3 26 (8.47%) React
4 21 (6.84%) REST
5 20 (6.51%) Spring Boot
6 19 (6.19%) JSON
7 18 (5.86%) Spring
8 17 (5.54%) XML
9 15 (4.89%) Kafka
10 14 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (4.56%) Redux
11 12 (3.91%) YAML
12 11 (3.58%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.93%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.61%) .NET
14 8 (2.61%) Express.js
14 8 (2.61%) JPA
14 8 (2.61%) Spring Security
15 7 (2.28%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (2.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.73%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.93%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.98%) PKI
10 2 (0.65%) Clustering
10 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.65%) NHS
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.33%) Replication
11 1 (0.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.59%) Windows
2 46 (14.98%) Android
3 44 (14.33%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.01%) Windows Server
5 33 (10.75%) Linux
6 8 (2.61%) Unix
7 5 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.65%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (59.93%) DevOps
2 140 (45.60%) Agile
3 82 (26.71%) Containerisation
4 64 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (20.52%) Test Automation
6 60 (19.54%) Design Patterns
7 55 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
7 55 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (17.59%) Microservices
9 43 (14.01%) Risk Management
10 42 (13.68%) Security Architecture
10 42 (13.68%) Zero Trust
11 40 (13.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 40 (13.03%) Mobile Device Management
11 40 (13.03%) Threat Intelligence
12 34 (11.07%) Scrum
12 34 (11.07%) Software Engineering
13 27 (8.79%) Full Stack Development
14 26 (8.47%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (7.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (30.62%) Python
2 54 (17.59%) Java
3 53 (17.26%) Bash
4 43 (14.01%) SQL
5 34 (11.07%) PowerShell
6 31 (10.10%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.17%) Go
8 19 (6.19%) C#
9 16 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.91%) Ruby
11 9 (2.93%) Scala
12 6 (1.95%) Groovy
12 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.63%) Perl
14 4 (1.30%) Bicep
14 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.98%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.65%) C++
16 2 (0.65%) Delphi
16 2 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 73 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.93%) AWS Certification
3 9 (2.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.63%) Degree
6 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) MCSE
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.38%) QA
2 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.30%) GDPR
2 4 (1.30%) HIPAA
2 4 (1.30%) SLA
3 3 (0.98%) ISO 22301
3 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.65%) NCSC
4 2 (0.65%) NIST
4 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (27.69%) Docker
2 7 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) HDFS
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (32.25%) Terraform
2 95 (30.94%) Kubernetes
3 56 (18.24%) Ansible
4 26 (8.47%) Grafana
5 25 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.51%) Puppet
7 15 (4.89%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.91%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (3.58%) HP Fortify
10 10 (3.26%) Kibana
11 9 (2.93%) logstash
12 4 (1.30%) Graylog
12 4 (1.30%) Nessus
12 4 (1.30%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.98%) Istio
13 3 (0.98%) Packer
14 2 (0.65%) Consul
14 2 (0.65%) linkerd
14 2 (0.65%) Podman
14 2 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (7.49%) Splunk
2 15 (4.89%) Google
2 15 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.56%) EMC
4 8 (2.61%) Informatica
5 6 (1.95%) IBM
5 6 (1.95%) PagerDuty
5 6 (1.95%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.95%) Solace
5 6 (1.95%) VMware
6 5 (1.63%) Apple
6 5 (1.63%) Talend
7 4 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.30%) Checkmarx
7 4 (1.30%) Oracle
7 4 (1.30%) Veracode
8 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.98%) F5
8 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.65%) SAP