CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 60 36 43
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 49 126 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.59% 5.57% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 6.30% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 85 111
10th Percentile £275 £450 £389
25th Percentile £327 £494 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £661 £638 £575
90th Percentile £676 £683 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,585 1,999 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.86% 88.33% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,366 2,339
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.06% +15.88%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 66
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.71 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +22.42% +3.63%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.13
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +3 14 £450 -28.00% 31
Coventry +5 13 £550 +4.76% 7
Warwickshire -3 10 £650 +16.85% 15
Staffordshire +11 6 £350 - 3
Solihull - 2 £275 - 1
Worcestershire -8 1 £475 -24.00% 1
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.12%) CMS
1 3 (6.12%) Drupal
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) SAS
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) PaaS
3 7 (14.29%) Serverless
4 6 (12.24%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) CloudFront
5 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.16%) IaaS
7 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) DNS
2 7 (14.29%) VPN
3 5 (10.20%) Network Security
4 4 (8.16%) Firewall
4 4 (8.16%) SSL
5 1 (2.04%) Extranet
5 1 (2.04%) Intranet
5 1 (2.04%) IPsec
5 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.08%) MySQL
4 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (2.04%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.04%) Redis
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Git
2 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.16%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) NUnit
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
5 3 (6.12%) Subversion
6 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.08%) JIRA
6 2 (4.08%) Moq
6 2 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.08%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.04%) Hudson
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (12.24%) React Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Java Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.08%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) React
2 6 (12.24%) .NET
3 5 (10.20%) Apollo GraphQL
3 5 (10.20%) Express.js
3 5 (10.20%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.20%) OAuth
3 5 (10.20%) OAuth2
3 5 (10.20%) SAML
3 5 (10.20%) Spring
4 4 (8.16%) JSON
5 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.12%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (4.08%) Kafka
6 2 (4.08%) YAML
7 1 (2.04%) CSS
7 1 (2.04%) SOAP
7 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) DevOps
2 18 (36.73%) Agile
3 10 (20.41%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
4 9 (18.37%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 7 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.29%) Scrum
5 7 (14.29%) TDD
6 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
6 6 (12.24%) Incident Response
6 6 (12.24%) Microservices
6 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Data Security
7 5 (10.20%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (10.20%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) C#
5 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
7 1 (2.04%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 8 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) HDFS
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Ansible
2 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) Argo
4 1 (2.04%) Istio
4 1 (2.04%) linkerd
4 1 (2.04%) Packer
4 1 (2.04%) Puppet
4 1 (2.04%) Rancher
4 1 (2.04%) SELinux
4 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) Confluent
5 2 (4.08%) Databricks
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.04%) Citrix
6 1 (2.04%) Denodo
6 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) VMware