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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 35 43
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 181 323 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.18% 5.70% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 6.40% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 247 231
10th Percentile £363 £457 £438
25th Percentile £425 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £738
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 19
10th Percentile - £62.50 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.00% -22.48%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £64.13
90th Percentile - - £67.49
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +3.17%

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 4,709 5,046 6,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.72% 89.03% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,463 4,726
10th Percentile £255 £249 £238
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +0.40% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 220 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.64% -13.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.25 £48.04
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £63.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 8 June 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 8 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
Thames Valley -7 119 £605 +0.83% 60
Berkshire +3 104 £605 +5.22% 29
Hampshire -27 31 £488 -2.50% 29
Surrey -25 15 £413 -29.79% 14
West Sussex +7 12 £500 -31.51% 10
Buckinghamshire -2 9 £475 -26.92% 15
Oxfordshire -4 6 £600 -4.76% 17
East Sussex +4 3 £475 -11.63% 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 21 (11.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.42%) Apache
3 8 (4.42%) Confluence
4 6 (3.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.10%) CMS
6 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) Appian
7 1 (0.55%) JBoss
7 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.31%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (50.83%) Azure
2 48 (26.52%) Azure Monitor
3 40 (22.10%) Entra ID
4 27 (14.92%) AWS
5 26 (14.36%) Serverless
6 25 (13.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (12.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (12.71%) Azure Functions
8 21 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (11.60%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (11.05%) Azure Storage
10 17 (9.39%) GCP
11 12 (6.63%) GitHub
12 9 (4.97%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.87%) IaaS
13 7 (3.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (3.31%) Azure API Management
14 6 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.31%) PaaS
15 5 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.15%) DNS
2 21 (11.60%) Firewall
3 20 (11.05%) DHCP
4 9 (4.97%) BGP
5 7 (3.87%) VPN
5 7 (3.87%) VSAN
6 6 (3.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (3.31%) MPLS
6 6 (3.31%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.66%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.57%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.18%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.63%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.31%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.31%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.76%) MySQL
9 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.21%) Big Data
9 4 (2.21%) Metadata
10 3 (1.66%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.10%) SSDT
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.55%) Impala
12 1 (0.55%) Power BI
12 1 (0.55%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 55 (30.39%) Git
2 24 (13.26%) JIRA
3 23 (12.71%) GitLab
4 19 (10.50%) Jenkins
5 14 (7.73%) Selenium
6 6 (3.31%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.31%) TestLink
6 6 (3.31%) TestRail
6 6 (3.31%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.21%) JUnit
7 4 (2.21%) Subversion
8 3 (1.66%) Appium
8 3 (1.66%) JMeter
8 3 (1.66%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.10%) NUnit
9 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.10%) TestNG
9 2 (1.10%) VersionOne
General
1 54 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.73%) Finance
4 8 (4.42%) Retail
5 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.76%) Publishing
7 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Aviation
9 1 (0.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (22.10%) Developer
2 23 (12.71%) Full Stack Developer
3 21 (11.60%) Azure Developer
4 20 (11.05%) Active Directory Support
5 16 (8.84%) Senior
6 14 (7.73%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.73%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.73%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.18%) Architect
8 12 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 9 (4.97%) Project Manager
12 8 (4.42%) Ericsson Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Network Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) Lead
13 7 (3.87%) VMware Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.02%) React
2 26 (14.36%) ARM Templates
3 22 (12.15%) REST
4 13 (7.18%) .NET
5 12 (6.63%) Kafka
6 10 (5.52%) YANG
7 8 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (4.42%) HTML
7 8 (4.42%) JSON
7 8 (4.42%) Spring
7 8 (4.42%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.87%) SOAP
8 7 (3.87%) XML
9 6 (3.31%) CSS
9 6 (3.31%) NETCONF
9 6 (3.31%) Node.js
9 6 (3.31%) RESTCONF
10 5 (2.76%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.21%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.05%) PKI
1 20 (11.05%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (9.94%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.66%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.55%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.55%) Linux
2 25 (13.81%) Windows
3 21 (11.60%) Windows Server
4 20 (11.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (11.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.87%) VMS
6 5 (2.76%) Unix
7 2 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (67.96%) DevOps
2 90 (49.72%) Agile
3 65 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (24.31%) Test Automation
5 35 (19.34%) SDLC
6 30 (16.57%) Full Stack Development
6 30 (16.57%) Microservices
7 28 (15.47%) Containerisation
8 27 (14.92%) Analytics
9 26 (14.36%) ITIL
9 26 (14.36%) Release Management
9 26 (14.36%) Scrum
10 25 (13.81%) Unit Testing
11 22 (12.15%) Identity Management
12 21 (11.60%) RBAC
13 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.05%) Log Analytics
13 20 (11.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (11.05%) Privileged Identity Management
13 20 (11.05%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (33.15%) Python
2 35 (19.34%) C#
3 34 (18.78%) PowerShell
4 32 (17.68%) Java
5 22 (12.15%) Bicep
6 21 (11.60%) SQL
7 20 (11.05%) VB
7 20 (11.05%) VBScript
8 19 (10.50%) JavaScript
9 15 (8.29%) Bash
10 10 (5.52%) C++
10 10 (5.52%) Go
11 8 (4.42%) C
12 4 (2.21%) Scala
13 3 (1.66%) Groovy
13 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.10%) PHP
14 2 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.02%) Degree
3 29 (16.02%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 9 (4.97%) AAT
6 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) OCP
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.21%) PMO
3 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
3 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.10%) NIST
3 2 (1.10%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 28 (15.47%) Docker
3 22 (12.15%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (11.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (4.42%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.87%) vCloud
8 5 (2.76%) vSphere
9 1 (0.55%) HDFS
9 1 (0.55%) LXC
Systems Management
1 60 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.13%) Terraform
3 21 (11.60%) Ansible
4 20 (11.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (11.05%) SCCM
4 20 (11.05%) SCOM
4 20 (11.05%) WSUS
5 11 (6.08%) Rancher
6 7 (3.87%) Istio
6 7 (3.87%) Packer
6 7 (3.87%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.31%) vRealize
8 4 (2.21%) Grafana
8 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.10%) Argo
9 2 (1.10%) Kibana
9 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.39%) VMware
3 11 (6.08%) Google
4 9 (4.97%) SAP
5 8 (4.42%) Ericsson
5 8 (4.42%) Oracle
6 6 (3.31%) Adobe
7 5 (2.76%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.76%) Veritas
8 4 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.66%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.66%) Cisco
9 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.66%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.66%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.10%) Splunk
11 1 (0.55%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.55%) Dell
11 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.55%) IBM