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 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 32 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 861 1,891 3,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.88% 7.85% 9.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 8.75% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 1,433 2,894
10th Percentile £405 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 37
10th Percentile £50.05 £51.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +9.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.70 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +0.93% +10.71%

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 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 40 (4.65%) Confluence
2 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.39%) Apache
6 9 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.81%) nginx
8 6 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.70%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.70%) CMS
9 5 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.58%) IIS
9 5 (0.58%) JBoss
9 5 (0.58%) Mule
9 5 (0.58%) Mule ESB
9 5 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.35%) WordPress
12 2 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
3 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.23%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 325 (37.75%) Azure
2 315 (36.59%) AWS
3 141 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (12.78%) GCP
5 108 (12.54%) Serverless
6 98 (11.38%) GitHub
7 63 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.97%) Entra ID
9 59 (6.85%) Amazon S3
10 46 (5.34%) OpenShift
11 45 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (3.95%) Azure Functions
15 33 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.41%) Firewall
2 43 (4.99%) DNS
3 36 (4.18%) VPN
4 22 (2.56%) DHCP
5 19 (2.21%) HTTP
6 18 (2.09%) Network Security
7 14 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.58%) BGP
8 5 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (0.58%) SAN
9 4 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.46%) Intranet
9 4 (0.46%) IPsec
9 4 (0.46%) SSL
9 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.35%) Internet
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 61 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.34%) MongoDB
4 44 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (3.37%) MySQL
8 28 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (2.90%) Data Lake
10 21 (2.44%) Big Data
10 21 (2.44%) Power BI
11 17 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.63%) Redis
14 13 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.51%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 190 (22.07%) Jenkins
2 148 (17.19%) Git
3 115 (13.36%) GitLab
4 74 (8.59%) JIRA
5 43 (4.99%) Selenium
6 40 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 36 (4.18%) Cypress.io
8 34 (3.95%) JUnit
9 27 (3.14%) Bitbucket
10 24 (2.79%) JMeter
11 23 (2.67%) Postman
11 23 (2.67%) SpecFlow
12 21 (2.44%) Mockito
13 19 (2.21%) TeamCity
14 18 (2.09%) Artifactory
15 16 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 16 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
16 15 (1.74%) Visual Studio
17 14 (1.63%) Maven
18 13 (1.51%) TestNG
General
1 199 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 166 (19.28%) Finance
3 104 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.67%) Banking
5 55 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.44%) Retail
7 18 (2.09%) Front Office
8 15 (1.74%) Law
9 12 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.05%) Marketing
12 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.93%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.81%) Publishing
15 6 (0.70%) Back Office
16 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 241 (27.99%) Developer
2 143 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (16.03%) Senior
4 79 (9.18%) Architect
5 70 (8.13%) Lead
6 60 (6.97%) Senior Developer
7 56 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
7 56 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
8 52 (6.04%) Data Engineer
8 52 (6.04%) Java Developer
9 42 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
10 41 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
11 38 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 37 (4.30%) Software Developer
13 30 (3.48%) Azure Developer
13 30 (3.48%) Python Engineer
14 29 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
16 26 (3.02%) Consultant
16 26 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.15%) React
2 92 (10.69%) REST
3 85 (9.87%) .NET
4 80 (9.29%) Node.js
5 60 (6.97%) Spring Boot
6 58 (6.74%) CSS
7 57 (6.62%) XML
8 56 (6.50%) HTML
9 53 (6.16%) ARM Templates
10 52 (6.04%) RESTful
10 52 (6.04%) Spring
11 51 (5.92%) Kafka
12 40 (4.65%) JSON
13 34 (3.95%) .NET Framework
14 33 (3.83%) YAML
15 30 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (3.14%) AngularJS
16 27 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (2.90%) GraphQL
17 25 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 41 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 29 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 29 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.14%) Public Cloud
6 23 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 23 (2.67%) PKI
7 21 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
11 12 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.70%) Contactless
14 6 (0.70%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
14 6 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (16.14%) Linux
2 84 (9.76%) Windows
3 46 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.60%) Unix
5 22 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (2.44%) Android
7 18 (2.09%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.58%) CentOS
11 3 (0.35%) VMS
11 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.23%) AIX
12 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.23%) Solaris
12 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (63.88%) DevOps
2 375 (43.55%) Agile
3 207 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (19.51%) Test Automation
5 132 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (14.98%) Microservices
7 123 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 122 (14.17%) Containerisation
9 106 (12.31%) Scrum
10 100 (11.61%) Software Engineering
11 91 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
12 88 (10.22%) SDLC
13 82 (9.52%) Analytics
14 72 (8.36%) Migration
15 60 (6.97%) TDD
16 55 (6.39%) Continuous Deployment
17 49 (5.69%) ETL
18 46 (5.34%) Task Automation
19 45 (5.23%) Continuous Delivery
19 45 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 286 (33.22%) Python
2 195 (22.65%) Java
3 153 (17.77%) SQL
4 128 (14.87%) JavaScript
5 119 (13.82%) PowerShell
6 112 (13.01%) C#
7 72 (8.36%) Bash
8 71 (8.25%) TypeScript
9 56 (6.50%) Bicep
10 49 (5.69%) Go
11 29 (3.37%) Shell Script
12 23 (2.67%) Perl
12 23 (2.67%) Scala
13 22 (2.56%) C++
14 21 (2.44%) VBScript
15 20 (2.32%) VB
16 12 (1.39%) Groovy
16 12 (1.39%) Ruby
17 11 (1.28%) Kotlin
18 10 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 136 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 118 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.20%) Degree
4 31 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.93%) CISSP
10 7 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.70%) CISM
12 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.46%) CRISC
14 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.23%) ISEB
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.39%) QA
2 27 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.86%) NIST
4 13 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.16%) SLA
7 9 (1.05%) GDPR
8 7 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 196 (22.76%) Docker
2 76 (8.83%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 7 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.35%) vCloud
9 3 (0.35%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 240 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 225 (26.13%) Terraform
3 110 (12.78%) Ansible
4 68 (7.90%) Grafana
5 54 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.90%) Puppet
7 23 (2.67%) SCOM
8 22 (2.56%) Kibana
9 20 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (2.32%) SCCM
9 20 (2.32%) WSUS
10 16 (1.86%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.51%) Consul
12 10 (1.16%) logstash
13 8 (0.93%) Argo
14 5 (0.58%) CloudHub
14 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.46%) Packer
16 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 128 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.65%) Oracle
3 37 (4.30%) Google
4 33 (3.83%) Databricks
5 27 (3.14%) Splunk
6 23 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.97%) IBM
8 16 (1.86%) CyberArk
8 16 (1.86%) SAP
8 16 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.74%) VMware
10 12 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
10 12 (1.39%) SaltStack
11 11 (1.28%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.16%) Cisco
13 9 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.93%) Adobe
14 8 (0.93%) Confluent
15 6 (0.70%) EMC