CI/CD Contracts with Work from Home Options

CI/CD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 32 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 888 2,014 4,004
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.00% 8.17% 9.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 9.11% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 1,514 2,916
10th Percentile £405 £450 £425
25th Percentile £466 £500 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £636 £676 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 36
10th Percentile £50.88 £52.94 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.31 £65.00 £44.38
Median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £64.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.16% +42.50%
75th Percentile £70.63 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.50 £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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

CI/CD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CI/CD trend for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

CI/CD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CI/CD.

CI/CD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

CI/CD hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 34 (3.83%) Confluence
2 22 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.35%) Apache
6 11 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.13%) nginx
8 8 (0.90%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.68%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.68%) CMS
10 5 (0.56%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.56%) IIS
10 5 (0.56%) JBoss
10 5 (0.56%) Mule
10 5 (0.56%) Mule ESB
11 4 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.34%) WordPress
13 2 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.11%) Magento
6 1 (0.11%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 340 (38.29%) AWS
2 334 (37.61%) Azure
3 143 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (12.95%) Serverless
5 114 (12.84%) GCP
6 96 (10.81%) GitHub
7 67 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.76%) Entra ID
9 57 (6.42%) Amazon S3
10 44 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (4.84%) OpenShift
12 42 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
14 38 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (4.28%) Azure Functions
15 36 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (3.49%) PaaS
19 30 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.56%) Firewall
2 38 (4.28%) DNS
3 34 (3.83%) VPN
4 20 (2.25%) HTTP
5 19 (2.14%) Network Security
6 18 (2.03%) DHCP
7 13 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.56%) BGP
8 5 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (0.56%) SAN
9 4 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.45%) Intranet
9 4 (0.45%) IPsec
9 4 (0.45%) SSL
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.34%) IPv4
10 3 (0.34%) LAN
10 3 (0.34%) SNMP
10 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 63 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 48 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.60%) MySQL
6 31 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
6 31 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 30 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (2.93%) Big Data
10 24 (2.70%) Data Lake
11 20 (2.25%) Power BI
12 17 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.91%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.80%) Redis
14 15 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (1.58%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (1.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 191 (21.51%) Jenkins
2 154 (17.34%) Git
3 120 (13.51%) GitLab
4 70 (7.88%) JIRA
5 45 (5.07%) Cucumber
5 45 (5.07%) Selenium
6 39 (4.39%) Cypress.io
7 34 (3.83%) JUnit
8 23 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.59%) JMeter
8 23 (2.59%) SpecFlow
9 22 (2.48%) Mockito
9 22 (2.48%) Postman
10 20 (2.25%) TeamCity
11 19 (2.14%) Visual Studio
12 16 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (1.80%) Maven
13 15 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (1.69%) TestNG
14 14 (1.58%) Artifactory
General
1 194 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 170 (19.14%) Finance
3 113 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.42%) Banking
5 54 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.48%) Retail
7 18 (2.03%) Front Office
8 16 (1.80%) Law
9 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.13%) Marketing
13 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.79%) Publishing
14 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.68%) Back Office
16 4 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 252 (28.38%) Developer
2 149 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 139 (15.65%) Senior
4 80 (9.01%) Architect
5 74 (8.33%) Lead
6 63 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
7 59 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 54 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
9 53 (5.97%) Java Developer
10 51 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 47 (5.29%) Full Stack Developer
12 43 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
13 40 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 38 (4.28%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.72%) Azure Developer
16 32 (3.60%) Python Engineer
17 30 (3.38%) Consultant
18 29 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
19 27 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
20 26 (2.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.04%) React
2 91 (10.25%) REST
3 88 (9.91%) Node.js
4 87 (9.80%) .NET
5 60 (6.76%) XML
6 58 (6.53%) CSS
6 58 (6.53%) Spring Boot
7 55 (6.19%) HTML
8 54 (6.08%) RESTful
9 53 (5.97%) ARM Templates
10 51 (5.74%) Spring
11 49 (5.52%) Kafka
12 43 (4.84%) JSON
13 36 (4.05%) YAML
14 34 (3.83%) .NET Framework
14 34 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (3.38%) AngularJS
16 28 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (2.82%) GraphQL
17 25 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.63%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.38%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 27 (3.04%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 25 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.36%) PKI
8 19 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.14%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.35%) Credit Derivative
12 11 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.90%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.68%) Contactless
15 6 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 144 (16.22%) Linux
2 87 (9.80%) Windows
3 46 (5.18%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.49%) Unix
5 20 (2.25%) Android
6 19 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (2.03%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (1.13%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.01%) CentOS
11 4 (0.45%) VMS
12 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.23%) Solaris
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (62.73%) DevOps
2 372 (41.89%) Agile
3 205 (23.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (19.14%) Test Automation
5 137 (15.43%) Microservices
6 130 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (13.63%) Continuous Integration
8 114 (12.84%) Containerisation
9 103 (11.60%) Scrum
10 102 (11.49%) Software Engineering
11 92 (10.36%) Full Stack Development
11 92 (10.36%) SDLC
12 78 (8.78%) Analytics
13 71 (8.00%) Migration
14 63 (7.09%) TDD
15 54 (6.08%) ETL
16 53 (5.97%) Continuous Deployment
17 47 (5.29%) Continuous Delivery
18 46 (5.18%) Computer Science
19 45 (5.07%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 300 (33.78%) Python
2 197 (22.18%) Java
3 168 (18.92%) SQL
4 134 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 117 (13.18%) C#
7 78 (8.78%) TypeScript
8 75 (8.45%) Bash
9 52 (5.86%) Bicep
10 49 (5.52%) Go
11 32 (3.60%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.82%) Perl
13 21 (2.36%) Scala
14 18 (2.03%) VBScript
15 17 (1.91%) C++
15 17 (1.91%) VB
16 16 (1.80%) Ruby
17 11 (1.24%) Groovy
17 11 (1.24%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 148 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 125 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.09%) Degree
4 31 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.90%) CISSP
11 6 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.56%) CISM
13 3 (0.34%) CRISC
13 3 (0.34%) ISEB
13 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.23%) CEH
14 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.42%) QA
2 27 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.80%) NIST
4 12 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.13%) SLA
7 8 (0.90%) GDPR
8 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.34%) PMO
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (21.17%) Docker
2 75 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 7 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.34%) vCloud
9 3 (0.34%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 232 (26.13%) Terraform
2 231 (26.01%) Kubernetes
3 115 (12.95%) Ansible
4 69 (7.77%) Grafana
5 59 (6.64%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.15%) Puppet
7 27 (3.04%) Kibana
8 22 (2.48%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (2.25%) SCOM
11 17 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (1.91%) SCCM
11 17 (1.91%) WSUS
12 15 (1.69%) Consul
13 12 (1.35%) logstash
14 7 (0.79%) Argo
14 7 (0.79%) Packer
14 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.56%) CloudHub
16 4 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 134 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.73%) Oracle
3 35 (3.94%) Google
4 31 (3.49%) Databricks
5 29 (3.27%) Splunk
6 20 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.14%) IBM
8 17 (1.91%) VMware
9 16 (1.80%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.69%) SAP
10 15 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
11 12 (1.35%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.24%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.13%) Cisco
13 10 (1.13%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.01%) Genesys
15 8 (0.90%) Adobe
15 8 (0.90%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.79%) TOWER Software