CI/CD Contracts in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 53 33 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 175 315 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.22% 5.64% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 6.32% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 238 244
10th Percentile £363 £457 £426
25th Percentile £456 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +3.60% +11.00%
75th Percentile £644 £654 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £723
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 17
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +57.89% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £63.25
90th Percentile - - £65.22
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -8 113 £605 +0.83% 48
Berkshire -4 96 £605 +7.56% 24
Hampshire -29 32 £550 +10.00% 29
Surrey -24 15 £413 -28.26% 17
West Sussex +5 11 £425 -35.99% 6
Buckinghamshire +2 11 £600 -7.69% 11
Oxfordshire -1 6 £600 -4.76% 13
East Sussex +4 3 £475 -17.39% 4
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.71%) Apache
4 7 (4.00%) Confluence
5 6 (3.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.57%) Appian
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.71%) Azure
2 43 (24.57%) Azure Monitor
3 36 (20.57%) Entra ID
4 28 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (16.00%) Serverless
5 26 (14.86%) AWS
6 25 (14.29%) Azure Functions
7 23 (13.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (9.71%) Azure Storage
10 16 (9.14%) GCP
11 13 (7.43%) GitHub
12 10 (5.71%) OpenShift
13 9 (5.14%) PaaS
14 8 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (4.00%) Azure API Management
15 7 (4.00%) IaaS
15 7 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 6 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.86%) DNS
2 18 (10.29%) Firewall
3 17 (9.71%) DHCP
4 12 (6.86%) BGP
5 10 (5.71%) VPN
6 9 (5.14%) Ethernet VPN
6 9 (5.14%) MPLS
6 9 (5.14%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (4.00%) VSAN
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.71%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.57%) HTTP
9 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.57%) SAN
9 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.86%) NoSQL
2 26 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.71%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.43%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.43%) MySQL
7 6 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.29%) Big Data
9 4 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.29%) Metadata
10 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.57%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.57%) Impala
11 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (29.71%) Git
2 28 (16.00%) JIRA
3 25 (14.29%) GitLab
4 20 (11.43%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.29%) Selenium
6 9 (5.14%) Robot Framework
6 9 (5.14%) TestRail
6 9 (5.14%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.29%) JUnit
7 4 (2.29%) Subversion
7 4 (2.29%) TestLink
8 3 (1.71%) Appium
8 3 (1.71%) JMeter
8 3 (1.71%) Postman
8 3 (1.71%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.14%) NUnit
9 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.14%) VersionOne
General
1 46 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.71%) Finance
4 8 (4.57%) Retail
5 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.86%) Publishing
7 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Back Office
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (24.00%) Developer
2 23 (13.14%) Full Stack Developer
3 22 (12.57%) Azure Developer
4 17 (9.71%) Active Directory Support
4 17 (9.71%) Senior
5 14 (8.00%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.00%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.00%) Support Specialist
6 12 (6.86%) Architect
7 11 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Python Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.14%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Lead
10 8 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (4.00%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.00%) VMware Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.00%) React
2 27 (15.43%) REST
3 25 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 14 (8.00%) .NET
5 13 (7.43%) YANG
6 12 (6.86%) SOAP
7 10 (5.71%) JSON
8 9 (5.14%) HTML
8 9 (5.14%) Kafka
8 9 (5.14%) NETCONF
8 9 (5.14%) RESTCONF
8 9 (5.14%) XML
9 8 (4.57%) CSS
9 8 (4.57%) Spring
9 8 (4.57%) Spring Boot
10 7 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.43%) Node.js
12 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.86%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.86%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.71%) PKI
2 17 (9.71%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.57%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.57%) Replication
9 1 (0.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.00%) Linux
2 22 (12.57%) Windows
3 18 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (9.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.00%) VMS
6 5 (2.86%) Unix
7 2 (1.14%) Android
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (68.00%) DevOps
2 90 (51.43%) Agile
3 61 (34.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (23.43%) Test Automation
5 33 (18.86%) SDLC
6 32 (18.29%) Scrum
7 30 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 30 (17.14%) Microservices
8 29 (16.57%) Full Stack Development
9 27 (15.43%) Unit Testing
10 24 (13.71%) Analytics
11 21 (12.00%) ITIL
12 20 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (11.43%) Release Management
13 19 (10.86%) Identity Management
13 19 (10.86%) RBAC
13 19 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (10.29%) Change Management
14 18 (10.29%) Security Testing
15 17 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.14%) Python
2 35 (20.00%) C#
3 29 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.29%) SQL
5 24 (13.71%) Java
6 18 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.71%) Bicep
7 17 (9.71%) VB
7 17 (9.71%) VBScript
8 13 (7.43%) Bash
9 8 (4.57%) Go
10 5 (2.86%) C
10 5 (2.86%) C++
11 3 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.14%) PHP
12 2 (1.14%) Scala
13 1 (0.57%) Groovy
13 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.43%) Degree
4 26 (14.86%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.43%) AAT
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.86%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.29%) PMO
3 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) NCSC
4 2 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (22.29%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.86%) Docker
3 20 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (9.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (4.57%) VMware NSX
7 7 (4.00%) vCloud
8 5 (2.86%) vSphere
9 1 (0.57%) HDFS
9 1 (0.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 53 (30.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.86%) Terraform
3 21 (12.00%) Ansible
4 17 (9.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (9.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (9.71%) SCCM
4 17 (9.71%) SCOM
4 17 (9.71%) WSUS
5 10 (5.71%) Rancher
6 7 (4.00%) Istio
6 7 (4.00%) Packer
6 7 (4.00%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.43%) vRealize
8 4 (2.29%) Grafana
8 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.14%) Argo
9 2 (1.14%) Kibana
9 2 (1.14%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.71%) VMware
3 9 (5.14%) Google
3 9 (5.14%) SAP
4 8 (4.57%) Oracle
5 7 (4.00%) Adobe
6 6 (3.43%) Ericsson
7 5 (2.86%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.86%) Veritas
8 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.71%) Cisco
9 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.71%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.14%) Splunk
11 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.57%) Dell
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds