CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 39 24 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 141 261 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.47% 7.52% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 8.38% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 185 154
10th Percentile £475 £419 £411
25th Percentile £513 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.67% +10.16%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £680
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 14
10th Percentile - £53.75 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £73.11 £75.00 £65.53
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,618 3,114 3,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.06% 89.71% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 2,281 2,291
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £594
90th Percentile £700 £723 £674
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 320 200
10th Percentile £13.88 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.43 £20.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £49.13
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +22.13% +14.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.85
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -9 57 £525 -4.55% 59
Gloucestershire -3 32 £625 -3.92% 21
Wiltshire -26 32 £700 +16.67% 10
Dorset +8 7 £400 -8.57% 5
Devon +1 7 £550 -8.33% 13
Somerset -8 2 £538 -21.53% 4
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (18.44%) Confluence
2 9 (6.38%) Apache
3 4 (2.84%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.84%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.59%) AWS
2 46 (32.62%) Azure
3 30 (21.28%) GitHub
4 22 (15.60%) OpenShift
5 18 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.64%) GCP
7 11 (7.80%) Serverless
8 10 (7.09%) PaaS
9 7 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.96%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.13%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.13%) IaaS
12 2 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.42%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.96%) AMQP
3 6 (4.26%) Network Security
4 5 (3.55%) Ethernet
4 5 (3.55%) HTTP
5 4 (2.84%) DNS
5 4 (2.84%) Firewall
5 4 (2.84%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.84%) IPsec
5 4 (2.84%) SAN
5 4 (2.84%) VPN
6 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.67%) InfluxDB
3 7 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.55%) MySQL
5 5 (3.55%) Triplestore
6 4 (2.84%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.13%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.42%) Power BI
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.71%) Parquet
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (44.68%) Jenkins
2 43 (30.50%) JIRA
3 26 (18.44%) Bitbucket
4 22 (15.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (11.35%) GitLab
6 13 (9.22%) GoogleTest
7 11 (7.80%) Visual Studio
8 10 (7.09%) Git
9 9 (6.38%) Artifactory
10 8 (5.67%) Cypress.io
10 8 (5.67%) SonarQube
11 6 (4.26%) NUnit
11 6 (4.26%) Postman
12 5 (3.55%) Eclipse
13 4 (2.84%) Selenium
14 2 (1.42%) Snyk
15 1 (0.71%) Babel
15 1 (0.71%) ESLint
15 1 (0.71%) Vite
15 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 40 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.77%) Aerospace
4 10 (7.09%) Legal
5 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Military
6 5 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Finance
8 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.42%) Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Electronics
9 2 (1.42%) Law
9 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.42%) Marketing
9 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (19.86%) Developer
2 28 (19.86%) Software Engineer
3 17 (12.06%) Java Engineer
3 17 (12.06%) Senior
4 14 (9.93%) C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (9.22%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Architect
8 7 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.82%) .NET
2 23 (16.31%) .NET Core
3 19 (13.48%) REST
4 15 (10.64%) Qt
5 11 (7.80%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (7.80%) YAML
6 10 (7.09%) GraphQL
7 9 (6.38%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (5.67%) React
9 7 (4.96%) CSS
9 7 (4.96%) HTML
9 7 (4.96%) Node.js
10 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.26%) JSON
11 5 (3.55%) Apache Jena
11 5 (3.55%) Kafka
11 5 (3.55%) Playwright
11 5 (3.55%) PostGIS
11 5 (3.55%) Web Services
12 4 (2.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.35%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.42%) PKI
7 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (51.06%) Linux
2 20 (14.18%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (60.28%) DevOps
2 46 (32.62%) Agile
3 42 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 36 (25.53%) Configuration Management
5 33 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (21.99%) Task Automation
7 29 (20.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (16.31%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (16.31%) OO
9 23 (16.31%) OOP
10 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (11.35%) Containerisation
11 16 (11.35%) TDD
12 15 (10.64%) SDLC
13 14 (9.93%) BDD
14 12 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (7.80%) Microservices
15 11 (7.80%) Software Delivery
15 11 (7.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.10%) Python
2 48 (34.04%) PowerShell
3 38 (26.95%) Java
4 21 (14.89%) C++
4 21 (14.89%) SQL
5 16 (11.35%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.51%) Bash
6 12 (8.51%) Go
7 8 (5.67%) C#
7 8 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.96%) C
9 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.55%) SPARQL
11 4 (2.84%) PHP
12 3 (2.13%) Bicep
13 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.71%) Julia
14 1 (0.71%) Perl
14 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (57.45%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 38 (26.95%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.13%) Degree
5 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.64%) MISRA
2 8 (5.67%) QA
3 6 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.55%) NIST
5 4 (2.84%) GDPR
5 4 (2.84%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (30.50%) Docker
2 9 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.38%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.55%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (43.97%) Ansible
2 49 (34.75%) Kubernetes
3 45 (31.91%) Terraform
4 24 (17.02%) PowerCLI
5 15 (10.64%) Grafana
5 15 (10.64%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.38%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.96%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (2.84%) Argo
8 4 (2.84%) OPNET
8 4 (2.84%) Puppet
9 2 (1.42%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (18.44%) Atlassian
2 23 (16.31%) Google
3 22 (15.60%) Dell
3 22 (15.60%) HP
4 18 (12.77%) Microsoft
5 13 (9.22%) VMware
6 4 (2.84%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.84%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.13%) SAP
8 2 (1.42%) Cisco
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle
8 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) Databricks
9 1 (0.71%) IBM