CI/CD Contracts in South Wales

CI/CD
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 25 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 23 31 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.06% 6.49% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 7.35% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 19
10th Percentile £356 £476 £363
25th Percentile £461 £522 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £586 £487
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +20.42% +8.14%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £588
90th Percentile £551 £600 £641
Wales median daily rate £509 £586 £487
% change year-on-year -13.23% +20.42% +8.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 422 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.61% 88.28% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 321 532
10th Percentile £143 £190 £263
25th Percentile £313 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.61%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £490 £488
% change year-on-year - +0.51% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 22
10th Percentile £11.45 £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -15.11% +3.99%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £86.90 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £21.37
% change year-on-year +5.68% -15.11% +6.85%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in South Wales

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cardiff +12 23 £511 -12.88% 11
CI/CD
Wales

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) GitHub
2 9 (39.13%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MySQL
2 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) Cypress.io
2 11 (47.83%) Postman
3 7 (30.43%) GitLab
4 6 (26.09%) Storybook
5 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (8.70%) JMeter
6 2 (8.70%) Selenium
7 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.35%) Banking
1 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) PHP Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) React Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) Vue
2 11 (47.83%) Laravel
3 8 (34.78%) Playwright
4 7 (30.43%) React
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
6 1 (4.35%) .NET
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Beam
6 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Test Automation
2 17 (73.91%) Project Management
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
3 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (39.13%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (34.78%) Front End Development
6 7 (30.43%) Analytics
7 6 (26.09%) Objectives and Key Results
7 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
7 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
8 5 (21.74%) Data Analytics
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
10 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
10 3 (13.04%) Kanban
10 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
10 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
10 3 (13.04%) Scrum
11 2 (8.70%) BDD
11 2 (8.70%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PHP
1 8 (34.78%) TypeScript
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (69.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Confluent
2 1 (4.35%) Google