CI/CD Contracts in Wales

CI/CD
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 24 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 6.54% 5.43% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 6.20% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 22
10th Percentile £356 £479 £364
25th Percentile £425 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £586 £493
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +18.79% +6.66%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £588
90th Percentile £551 £616 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 532 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 76.84% 87.50% 84.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 408 593
10th Percentile £160 £188 £211
25th Percentile £356 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £581 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 29
10th Percentile £11.57 £14.63 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.71 £16.98 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.82 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -19.38% +9.62%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £31.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £49.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Wales

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
South Wales +10 23 £509 -13.23% 16
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) GitHub
2 9 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) MySQL
2 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) Cypress.io
2 11 (45.83%) Postman
3 7 (29.17%) GitLab
4 6 (25.00%) Storybook
5 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (12.50%) Selenium
6 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (8.33%) JMeter
7 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Full Stack Developer
2 7 (29.17%) PHP Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (16.67%) Test Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) React Developer
8 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.17%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) GUI Tester
8 1 (4.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 1 (4.17%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) Vue
2 11 (45.83%) Laravel
3 8 (33.33%) Playwright
3 8 (33.33%) React
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) CSS3
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) HTML5
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) MobX
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) Redux
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Test Automation
2 17 (70.83%) Project Management
3 15 (62.50%) Agile
4 13 (54.17%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (41.67%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
7 7 (29.17%) Analytics
8 6 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
8 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Data Analytics
9 5 (20.83%) DevOps
10 4 (16.67%) Scrum
10 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
11 3 (12.50%) BDD
11 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
11 3 (12.50%) Kanban
11 3 (12.50%) Manual Testing
11 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
12 2 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PHP
1 8 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft