CI/CD Contracts in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,183 3,617 6,025
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.87% 7.68% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 8.55% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 2,558 4,267
10th Percentile £400 £450 £439
25th Percentile £463 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £782 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 66 53
10th Percentile £55.10 £54.38 £35.00
25th Percentile £64.69 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +2.77%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.40 £79.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £67.25 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.51% +0.93% +10.57%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -6 1,341 £565 -9.24% 504
North of England 0 310 £525 -6.46% 224
South East -22 181 £600 +2.13% 144
North West -1 167 £550 - 142
South West -8 164 £590 -1.67% 116
Yorkshire +18 127 £475 -17.39% 56
Midlands -32 62 £475 -11.30% 99
West Midlands -31 46 £475 -15.56% 65
East of England -36 40 £534 -2.02% 57
North East -12 16 £411 -31.46% 26
East Midlands -3 14 £436 +2.65% 34
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 98 (4.49%) Confluence
2 68 (3.11%) Apache
3 67 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 58 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.05%) nginx
7 22 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.82%) CMS
8 18 (0.82%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.60%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.46%) JBoss
12 9 (0.41%) IIS
13 8 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.37%) SAS
14 5 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.23%) Appian
14 5 (0.23%) Mule
14 5 (0.23%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) Windchill
4 2 (0.092%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.092%) Trello
5 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.046%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.32%) Endur
4 6 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 6 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.18%) Shopify
7 3 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.14%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.092%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.046%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.046%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.046%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.046%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 797 (36.51%) Azure
2 740 (33.90%) AWS
3 337 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
4 258 (11.82%) GitHub
5 255 (11.68%) Serverless
6 249 (11.41%) GCP
7 155 (7.10%) Entra ID
8 143 (6.55%) Amazon S3
9 127 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 85 (3.89%) Azure Functions
12 83 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 76 (3.48%) OpenShift
14 73 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 72 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
15 72 (3.30%) PaaS
16 71 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
17 64 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 62 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 58 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 152 (6.96%) Firewall
2 102 (4.67%) VPN
3 75 (3.44%) DNS
4 46 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.79%) HTTP
6 31 (1.42%) Network Security
7 29 (1.33%) DHCP
7 29 (1.33%) SSL
8 13 (0.60%) BGP
9 11 (0.50%) AMQP
9 11 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 10 (0.46%) VSAN
10 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.41%) MPLS
11 9 (0.41%) SAN
12 8 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.27%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.27%) IPsec
13 6 (0.27%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 173 (7.92%) NoSQL
3 91 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 90 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
5 88 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (2.89%) Data Lake
8 61 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 57 (2.61%) MySQL
10 56 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 55 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
12 49 (2.24%) Power BI
13 48 (2.20%) Big Data
14 39 (1.79%) DynamoDB
15 32 (1.47%) BigQuery
15 32 (1.47%) Redis
16 26 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
17 24 (1.10%) Hadoop
18 19 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 509 (23.32%) Jenkins
2 414 (18.96%) Git
3 272 (12.46%) GitLab
4 197 (9.02%) JIRA
5 96 (4.40%) Selenium
6 70 (3.21%) Bitbucket
7 69 (3.16%) Cypress.io
8 66 (3.02%) Postman
9 63 (2.89%) Cucumber
9 63 (2.89%) TeamCity
10 54 (2.47%) JUnit
11 53 (2.43%) SpecFlow
12 50 (2.29%) Visual Studio
13 45 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 43 (1.97%) Artifactory
15 42 (1.92%) SonarQube
16 41 (1.88%) JMeter
17 36 (1.65%) Maven
18 27 (1.24%) Appium
18 27 (1.24%) NUnit
General
1 459 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 418 (19.15%) Finance
3 188 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 152 (6.96%) Banking
6 67 (3.07%) Front Office
7 56 (2.57%) Retail
8 35 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 34 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 25 (1.15%) Law
13 24 (1.10%) Legal
14 19 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 19 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.78%) Marketing
17 16 (0.73%) Back Office
18 13 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 596 (27.30%) Developer
2 355 (16.26%) Senior
3 344 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 229 (10.49%) Architect
5 190 (8.70%) Lead
6 156 (7.15%) Senior Developer
7 132 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
8 115 (5.27%) Java Developer
9 114 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 111 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 97 (4.44%) Data Engineer
12 88 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
13 87 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
14 82 (3.76%) Python Developer
15 77 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 75 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
17 65 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
18 64 (2.93%) Azure Developer
19 62 (2.84%) Software Developer
20 59 (2.70%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (12.14%) .NET
2 237 (10.86%) React
3 216 (9.89%) Node.js
4 178 (8.15%) REST
5 150 (6.87%) Kafka
6 146 (6.69%) XML
7 127 (5.82%) HTML
7 127 (5.82%) Spring
8 115 (5.27%) Spring Boot
9 109 (4.99%) CSS
10 101 (4.63%) .NET Core
11 87 (3.99%) RESTful
12 83 (3.80%) .NET Framework
13 82 (3.76%) AngularJS
13 82 (3.76%) JSON
14 78 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
15 75 (3.44%) YAML
16 74 (3.39%) ARM Templates
17 62 (2.84%) GraphQL
18 60 (2.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.69%) Product Ownership
2 80 (3.66%) Public Cloud
3 72 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 61 (2.79%) Algorithms
4 61 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
5 56 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 47 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 45 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.69%) Derivative
11 35 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.42%) PKI
12 31 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 27 (1.24%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 385 (17.64%) Linux
2 177 (8.11%) Windows
3 87 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 81 (3.71%) Android
5 79 (3.62%) Unix
6 63 (2.89%) Apple iOS
7 50 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (1.10%) CentOS
9 23 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.50%) VMS
12 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.092%) AIX
15 2 (0.092%) Solaris
16 1 (0.046%) Debian
16 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,281 (58.68%) DevOps
2 939 (43.01%) Agile
3 426 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 402 (18.42%) Test Automation
5 374 (17.13%) Continuous Integration
6 333 (15.25%) Software Engineering
7 321 (14.70%) Containerisation
8 316 (14.48%) Microservices
9 302 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (13.79%) Scrum
11 235 (10.77%) TDD
12 216 (9.89%) SDLC
13 179 (8.20%) Full Stack Development
14 150 (6.87%) Computer Science
15 148 (6.78%) Migration
16 146 (6.69%) Continuous Deployment
17 141 (6.46%) Continuous Delivery
18 138 (6.32%) Configuration Management
19 130 (5.96%) Analytics
20 128 (5.86%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 760 (34.81%) Python
2 488 (22.35%) Java
3 370 (16.95%) SQL
4 330 (15.12%) PowerShell
5 303 (13.88%) C#
6 301 (13.79%) JavaScript
7 191 (8.75%) Bash
8 173 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 126 (5.77%) Go
10 96 (4.40%) C++
11 92 (4.21%) Bicep
12 83 (3.80%) Shell Script
13 42 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 40 (1.83%) Perl
14 40 (1.83%) Scala
15 31 (1.42%) Ruby
16 30 (1.37%) C
17 27 (1.24%) Groovy
18 22 (1.01%) VBScript
19 20 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 454 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 351 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 177 (8.11%) Degree
4 120 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 93 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 26 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 20 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 19 (0.87%) CISSP
11 14 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.55%) CISM
13 11 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.41%) AAT
15 7 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.27%) CISA
16 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
18 3 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (6.23%) QA
2 48 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.15%) MISRA
5 21 (0.96%) GDPR
5 21 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.87%) NIST
7 14 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.64%) SLA
8 12 (0.55%) WCAG
9 11 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.18%) MiFID
11 4 (0.18%) PMO
12 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.092%) NCSC
14 1 (0.046%) NIST 800
System Software
1 500 (22.90%) Docker
2 183 (8.38%) Active Directory
3 60 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.96%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.41%) HDFS
8 9 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.32%) vCloud
9 7 (0.32%) vSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.046%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.046%) Ceph
12 1 (0.046%) LXC
12 1 (0.046%) NFS
12 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 610 (27.94%) Kubernetes
2 569 (26.07%) Terraform
3 355 (16.26%) Ansible
4 128 (5.86%) Grafana
5 114 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 75 (3.44%) Puppet
7 62 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 46 (2.11%) Kibana
9 32 (1.47%) logstash
10 24 (1.10%) PowerCLI
11 21 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 20 (0.92%) SCCM
12 20 (0.92%) SCOM
12 20 (0.92%) WSUS
13 18 (0.82%) Argo
13 18 (0.82%) Packer
13 18 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (0.78%) Consul
Vendors
1 327 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.69%) Google
3 92 (4.21%) Oracle
4 72 (3.30%) Splunk
5 63 (2.89%) Databricks
6 56 (2.57%) VMware
7 47 (2.15%) SAP
8 45 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 35 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 34 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 30 (1.37%) IBM
13 28 (1.28%) MuleSoft
14 24 (1.10%) Dell
15 20 (0.92%) HP
16 19 (0.87%) Cisco
16 19 (0.87%) CyberArk
17 17 (0.78%) TIBCO
18 15 (0.69%) AppDynamics
18 15 (0.69%) EMC