CI/CD Contracts in the North of England

CI/CD
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 301 335 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.34% 6.04% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 6.71% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 254 370
10th Percentile £400 £404 £410
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +5.40% +10.94%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £63.50 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £73.50 - £78.38
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the North of England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 West +2 169 £550 - 141
Yorkshire +19 120 £495 -13.91% 57
North East -17 12 £469 -21.88% 24
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (5.32%) Apache
1 16 (5.32%) Confluence
2 13 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.99%) nginx
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.66%) Traefik
9 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 132 (43.85%) AWS
2 76 (25.25%) Azure
3 36 (11.96%) GitHub
4 35 (11.63%) GCP
5 33 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (9.63%) Amazon S3
6 29 (9.63%) Serverless
7 22 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.65%) Snowflake
12 13 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.99%) Kong
15 8 (2.66%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.66%) Route 53
16 6 (1.99%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 54 (17.94%) Firewall
2 49 (16.28%) VPN
3 13 (4.32%) DNS
4 11 (3.65%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.99%) HTTP
5 9 (2.99%) SSL
6 6 (1.99%) Network Security
7 5 (1.66%) FTP
8 4 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.00%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.66%) Intranet
10 2 (0.66%) IPv4
11 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.98%) MySQL
4 11 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.32%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.33%) Big Data
8 6 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.99%) Flink
8 6 (1.99%) Redis
8 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.66%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.00%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.00%) Power BI
10 3 (1.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 67 (22.26%) Git
2 59 (19.60%) Jenkins
3 53 (17.61%) GitLab
4 21 (6.98%) JIRA
5 11 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (3.32%) Travis CI
7 9 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.66%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.66%) webpack
9 6 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.66%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.66%) JMeter
10 5 (1.66%) Mockito
10 5 (1.66%) Selenium
11 4 (1.33%) AppScan
11 4 (1.33%) JUnit
11 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.00%) Maven
General
1 35 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.96%) Finance
3 30 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.65%) Banking
6 13 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.99%) Legal
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.00%) Retail
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (21.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 62 (20.60%) Architect
3 52 (17.28%) Developer
4 47 (15.61%) Lead
5 40 (13.29%) Technical Architect
6 32 (10.63%) Technical Leader
7 28 (9.30%) Lead Architect
8 23 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (7.64%) Senior
9 18 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Data Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Site Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.59%) Node.js
2 28 (9.30%) React
3 20 (6.64%) JSON
3 20 (6.64%) REST
3 20 (6.64%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.98%) Spring
5 17 (5.65%) XML
6 15 (4.98%) Kafka
7 14 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.65%) Redux
8 12 (3.99%) RESTful
8 12 (3.99%) YAML
9 11 (3.65%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.99%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.66%) .NET
11 8 (2.66%) Express.js
11 8 (2.66%) JPA
11 8 (2.66%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.63%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.00%) PKI
9 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.66%) Clustering
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.33%) Replication
11 1 (0.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.28%) Windows
2 46 (15.28%) Android
3 45 (14.95%) Apple iOS
4 43 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 32 (10.63%) Linux
6 8 (2.66%) Unix
7 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (63.12%) DevOps
2 133 (44.19%) Agile
3 86 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 70 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (22.26%) Test Automation
6 56 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
6 56 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.61%) Design Patterns
8 43 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 42 (13.95%) Microservices
9 42 (13.95%) Security Architecture
9 42 (13.95%) Zero Trust
10 40 (13.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 40 (13.29%) Mobile Device Management
10 40 (13.29%) Threat Intelligence
11 35 (11.63%) Scrum
12 28 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (8.64%) Continuous Delivery
13 26 (8.64%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 97 (32.23%) Python
2 55 (18.27%) Bash
3 54 (17.94%) Java
4 46 (15.28%) SQL
5 35 (11.63%) PowerShell
6 32 (10.63%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.31%) Go
8 19 (6.31%) C#
9 18 (5.98%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.32%) Ruby
10 10 (3.32%) Scala
11 6 (1.99%) Groovy
11 6 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.66%) Perl
13 4 (1.33%) Bicep
13 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.00%) C
14 3 (1.00%) Swift
15 2 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.32%) AWS Certification
3 10 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (1.66%) Degree
5 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.62%) QA
2 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.66%) GDPR
2 5 (1.66%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.33%) SLA
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (29.57%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) HDFS
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (32.89%) Kubernetes
2 89 (29.57%) Terraform
3 57 (18.94%) Ansible
4 28 (9.30%) Grafana
5 27 (8.97%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.31%) Puppet
7 14 (4.65%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.99%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (3.65%) HP Fortify
10 10 (3.32%) Kibana
11 9 (2.99%) logstash
12 4 (1.33%) Graylog
12 4 (1.33%) Nessus
12 4 (1.33%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.00%) Istio
13 3 (1.00%) Packer
14 2 (0.66%) Consul
14 2 (0.66%) Graphite
14 2 (0.66%) linkerd
14 2 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (7.64%) Splunk
2 17 (5.65%) Google
3 15 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.65%) EMC
5 8 (2.66%) Informatica
6 7 (2.33%) PagerDuty
6 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.99%) IBM
7 6 (1.99%) Solace
7 6 (1.99%) VMware
8 5 (1.66%) Apple
8 5 (1.66%) Talend
9 4 (1.33%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.33%) Oracle
9 4 (1.33%) Veracode
10 3 (1.00%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.00%) Databricks
10 3 (1.00%) F5
10 3 (1.00%) Salesforce