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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 155 250 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.77% 7.39% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 8.26% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 178 148
10th Percentile £475 £420 £421
25th Percentile £513 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £682
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 41 15
10th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £65.94 £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 £71.33 £75.50 £65.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +2.77%

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 2,671 3,026 3,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.16% 89.45% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,197 2,337
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 316 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.36 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.91 £69.12
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
Bristol -10 60 £525 +5.00% 42
Gloucestershire +2 37 £625 -3.85% 28
Wiltshire -24 36 £700 +16.67% 9
Dorset +7 8 £400 -8.57% 7
Devon -2 7 £550 -8.33% 9
Somerset -12 3 £600 -12.41% 9
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 28 (18.06%) Confluence
2 9 (5.81%) Apache
3 4 (2.58%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.58%) nginx
4 2 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.42%) AWS
2 50 (32.26%) Azure
3 32 (20.65%) GitHub
4 27 (17.42%) OpenShift
5 18 (11.61%) GCP
6 17 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.74%) PaaS
8 11 (7.10%) Serverless
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.58%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.58%) IaaS
12 3 (1.94%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.29%) Slack
14 1 (0.65%) Google Container Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.16%) AMQP
3 7 (4.52%) Network Security
3 7 (4.52%) VPN
4 5 (3.23%) DNS
4 5 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 5 (3.23%) HTTP
5 4 (2.58%) Firewall
5 4 (2.58%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.58%) IPsec
5 4 (2.58%) SAN
6 2 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) 5G
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) LTE
7 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.45%) InfluxDB
2 9 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.23%) MySQL
4 5 (3.23%) Triplestore
5 4 (2.58%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.94%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.29%) Big Data
7 2 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Power BI
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (44.52%) Jenkins
2 49 (31.61%) JIRA
3 28 (18.06%) Bitbucket
4 22 (14.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 17 (10.97%) GoogleTest
6 14 (9.03%) GitLab
7 12 (7.74%) Git
8 11 (7.10%) Visual Studio
9 10 (6.45%) Cypress.io
10 9 (5.81%) Artifactory
11 8 (5.16%) SonarQube
12 6 (3.87%) NUnit
12 6 (3.87%) Postman
13 5 (3.23%) Eclipse
13 5 (3.23%) Selenium
14 2 (1.29%) Snyk
15 1 (0.65%) Babel
15 1 (0.65%) ESLint
15 1 (0.65%) Vite
15 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 42 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.61%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.45%) Legal
5 9 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.87%) Finance
7 5 (3.23%) Military
7 5 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.29%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 35 (22.58%) Software Engineer
2 28 (18.06%) Developer
3 21 (13.55%) Java Engineer
4 17 (10.97%) Java Software Engineer
4 17 (10.97%) Senior
5 16 (10.32%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (8.39%) Architect
7 10 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Senior Test Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (25.16%) .NET
2 25 (16.13%) .NET Core
3 19 (12.26%) Qt
3 19 (12.26%) REST
4 12 (7.74%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 10 (6.45%) YAML
6 9 (5.81%) Apache NiFi
6 9 (5.81%) React
7 8 (5.16%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.16%) Kafka
8 7 (4.52%) CSS
8 7 (4.52%) HTML
8 7 (4.52%) Node.js
9 6 (3.87%) ModSecurity
9 6 (3.87%) Spring
10 5 (3.23%) Playwright
10 5 (3.23%) PostGIS
10 5 (3.23%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.55%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.16%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.58%) PKI
8 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (51.61%) Linux
2 20 (12.90%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.42%) DevOps
2 57 (36.77%) Agile
3 49 (31.61%) Software Engineering
4 37 (23.87%) Configuration Management
5 34 (21.94%) Continuous Integration
6 31 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 31 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 29 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.48%) OO
8 24 (15.48%) OOP
9 23 (14.84%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (11.61%) Containerisation
12 16 (10.32%) SDLC
12 16 (10.32%) TDD
13 15 (9.68%) Microservices
14 14 (9.03%) BDD
14 14 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (9.03%) Test Automation
15 12 (7.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (47.74%) Python
2 50 (32.26%) PowerShell
3 47 (30.32%) Java
4 25 (16.13%) C++
5 20 (12.90%) SQL
6 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.03%) Bash
8 13 (8.39%) Go
9 10 (6.45%) C#
10 8 (5.16%) C
10 8 (5.16%) TypeScript
11 7 (4.52%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.23%) SPARQL
13 4 (2.58%) PHP
14 3 (1.94%) Bicep
14 3 (1.94%) Perl
15 2 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.65%) Julia
16 1 (0.65%) Rust
16 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (57.42%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.68%) SC Cleared
3 42 (27.10%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.26%) MISRA
2 8 (5.16%) QA
3 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.87%) NIST
4 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.58%) GDPR
5 4 (2.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (32.90%) Docker
2 11 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.10%) VMware NSX
3 7 (4.52%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (41.94%) Ansible
2 57 (36.77%) Kubernetes
3 48 (30.97%) Terraform
4 26 (16.77%) PowerCLI
5 15 (9.68%) Grafana
5 15 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.45%) Progress Chef
7 8 (5.16%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.87%) OPNET
9 4 (2.58%) Argo
9 4 (2.58%) Puppet
10 2 (1.29%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.65%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (19.35%) Google
2 28 (18.06%) Atlassian
3 22 (14.19%) Dell
3 22 (14.19%) HP
4 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 15 (9.68%) VMware
6 4 (2.58%) Cisco
6 4 (2.58%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.94%) Oracle
7 3 (1.94%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) NetIQ
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow