CI/CD Contracts in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 37 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 875 1,452 1,798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.31% 6.31% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 7.05% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 1,083 1,240
10th Percentile £390 £413 £410
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 59 50
10th Percentile £56.25 £59.96 £35.00
25th Percentile £63.44 £60.91 £46.44
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +0.93% +12.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.03 £67.84
90th Percentile £72.69 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK excluding London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +3 307 £550 - 191
North West +2 186 £582 +5.82% 123
South East -20 175 £600 +4.35% 118
South West -15 141 £585 -2.50% 121
Scotland -11 127 £500 +2.56% 72
Yorkshire +14 111 £498 -10.76% 48
Midlands -27 64 £475 -11.67% 91
West Midlands -24 49 £475 -12.04% 63
East of England -21 41 £534 +1.23% 47
Wales +9 24 £509 -13.23% 25
East Midlands -6 12 £398 -6.47% 27
North East -21 10 £469 -21.88% 21
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 54 (6.17%) Confluence
2 37 (4.23%) Apache
3 30 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (2.17%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.14%) nginx
7 8 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.69%) JBoss
9 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Drupal
10 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.23%) Traefik
12 1 (0.11%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.11%) Appian
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 332 (37.94%) AWS
2 266 (30.40%) Azure
3 103 (11.77%) GitHub
4 101 (11.54%) Serverless
5 94 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (9.03%) GCP
7 70 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.00%) OpenShift
8 56 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
8 56 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
9 46 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 41 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (4.00%) Azure Functions
12 31 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 28 (3.20%) PaaS
14 26 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 103 (11.77%) Firewall
2 86 (9.83%) VPN
3 46 (5.26%) DNS
4 27 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.06%) Network Security
6 17 (1.94%) DHCP
7 16 (1.83%) HTTP
8 15 (1.71%) SSL
9 14 (1.60%) BGP
10 11 (1.26%) Ethernet
11 10 (1.14%) SAN
12 9 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (1.03%) MPLS
12 9 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.80%) AMQP
13 7 (0.80%) VSAN
14 5 (0.57%) FTP
14 5 (0.57%) IPsec
15 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
15 4 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.66%) NoSQL
1 67 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.94%) MongoDB
3 49 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 44 (5.03%) MySQL
5 35 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 29 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (2.06%) Big Data
9 16 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.26%) InfluxDB
12 11 (1.26%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.26%) Power BI
12 11 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 166 (18.97%) Git
3 137 (15.66%) GitLab
4 112 (12.80%) JIRA
5 38 (4.34%) Cypress.io
6 33 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 33 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 32 (3.66%) Selenium
8 29 (3.31%) Visual Studio
9 27 (3.09%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.74%) Cucumber
11 22 (2.51%) Artifactory
11 22 (2.51%) Postman
12 16 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (1.83%) webpack
13 15 (1.71%) JUnit
13 15 (1.71%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.60%) Travis CI
15 13 (1.49%) GoogleTest
15 13 (1.49%) Maven
General
1 168 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.06%) Finance
3 81 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.97%) Banking
7 22 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.94%) Legal
9 17 (1.94%) Retail
10 12 (1.37%) Military
11 10 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.91%) Back Office
13 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.80%) Electronics
15 6 (0.69%) Law
16 5 (0.57%) Publishing
17 3 (0.34%) Automotive
17 3 (0.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 223 (25.49%) Developer
2 126 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (10.51%) Architect
4 81 (9.26%) Senior
5 73 (8.34%) Software Engineer
6 69 (7.89%) Lead
7 60 (6.86%) Java Developer
8 48 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 46 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 44 (5.03%) Technical Architect
11 38 (4.34%) Java Engineer
11 38 (4.34%) Technical Leader
12 35 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (3.54%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
17 28 (3.20%) Lead Architect
18 26 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (14.17%) Node.js
2 118 (13.49%) React
3 112 (12.80%) REST
4 72 (8.23%) Spring
5 70 (8.00%) .NET
6 68 (7.77%) Spring Boot
7 62 (7.09%) HTML
8 60 (6.86%) CSS
9 53 (6.06%) RESTful
10 42 (4.80%) Kafka
11 39 (4.46%) JSON
12 33 (3.77%) ARM Templates
12 33 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (3.77%) GraphQL
13 31 (3.54%) AngularJS
13 31 (3.54%) YAML
14 29 (3.31%) .NET Core
14 29 (3.31%) AWS CDK
15 28 (3.20%) XML
16 26 (2.97%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 36 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (2.51%) PKI
6 21 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.57%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.57%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.57%) Verilog
16 4 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 198 (22.63%) Linux
2 125 (14.29%) Windows
3 73 (8.34%) Windows Server
4 48 (5.49%) Android
5 45 (5.14%) Apple iOS
6 35 (4.00%) Unix
7 26 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (1.37%) VMS
11 8 (0.91%) CentOS
11 8 (0.91%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.46%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (57.14%) DevOps
2 408 (46.63%) Agile
3 184 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (19.31%) Continuous Integration
4 169 (19.31%) Test Automation
5 159 (18.17%) Software Engineering
6 149 (17.03%) Containerisation
7 141 (16.11%) Microservices
8 122 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (13.83%) Full Stack Development
10 108 (12.34%) Scrum
11 89 (10.17%) SDLC
12 81 (9.26%) TDD
13 73 (8.34%) Configuration Management
13 73 (8.34%) Continuous Delivery
14 69 (7.89%) Design Patterns
15 65 (7.43%) Unit Testing
16 57 (6.51%) Deployment Automation
17 56 (6.40%) Analytics
18 54 (6.17%) OO
Programming Languages
1 284 (32.46%) Python
2 207 (23.66%) Java
3 142 (16.23%) SQL
4 120 (13.71%) PowerShell
5 110 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 98 (11.20%) Bash
7 85 (9.71%) C#
8 83 (9.49%) TypeScript
9 44 (5.03%) Go
10 40 (4.57%) C++
11 29 (3.31%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.97%) Bicep
13 21 (2.40%) C
13 21 (2.40%) Groovy
13 21 (2.40%) Perl
13 21 (2.40%) VBScript
14 20 (2.29%) Ruby
15 18 (2.06%) Scala
16 17 (1.94%) VB
17 16 (1.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 208 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 142 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 53 (6.06%) Degree
5 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.69%) AAT
9 6 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.23%) ISEB
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) MCSE
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.00%) QA
2 27 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.17%) MISRA
4 14 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (1.14%) GDPR
6 8 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.91%) NIST
7 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.46%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
9 4 (0.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 217 (24.80%) Docker
2 62 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.94%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.80%) vCloud
7 6 (0.69%) Firmware
8 5 (0.57%) vSphere
9 4 (0.46%) HDFS
9 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.34%) LXC
11 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 240 (27.43%) Kubernetes
2 209 (23.89%) Terraform
3 168 (19.20%) Ansible
4 63 (7.20%) Grafana
5 56 (6.40%) Prometheus
6 34 (3.89%) Progress Chef
7 27 (3.09%) Puppet
8 25 (2.86%) Kibana
9 24 (2.74%) PowerCLI
10 19 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
11 17 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (1.94%) SCCM
11 17 (1.94%) SCOM
11 17 (1.94%) WSUS
12 14 (1.60%) Packer
13 12 (1.37%) Istio
14 11 (1.26%) HP Fortify
14 11 (1.26%) Rancher
15 9 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 94 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.60%) Google
3 38 (4.34%) VMware
4 37 (4.23%) Splunk
5 36 (4.11%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.20%) Oracle
7 23 (2.63%) Dell
8 22 (2.51%) HP
9 17 (1.94%) SAP
10 15 (1.71%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.60%) EMC
12 11 (1.26%) Informatica
12 11 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.14%) Veritas
14 9 (1.03%) Cisco
14 9 (1.03%) IBM
15 8 (0.91%) Databricks
16 7 (0.80%) Adobe
17 6 (0.69%) Ericsson