CI/CD Contracts in the South East

CI/CD
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 58 34 42
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 179 321 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.17% 5.69% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 6.39% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 245 227
10th Percentile £363 £456 £435
25th Percentile £438 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% +14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £737 £738
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 19
10th Percentile - £61.36 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £73.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +47.50% -22.48%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £64.13
90th Percentile - - £67.49
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South East

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley -4 117 £605 +0.83% 49
Berkshire -2 101 £605 +7.56% 24
Hampshire -27 31 £500 - 24
Surrey -26 15 £413 -29.79% 14
West Sussex +7 12 £463 -36.64% 11
Buckinghamshire +1 10 £538 -17.31% 12
Oxfordshire -3 6 £600 -4.76% 14
East Sussex +5 3 £475 -11.63% 5
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.47%) Apache
3 8 (4.47%) Confluence
4 6 (3.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Appian
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 6 (3.35%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 93 (51.96%) Azure
2 47 (26.26%) Azure Monitor
3 40 (22.35%) Entra ID
4 29 (16.20%) AWS
5 26 (14.53%) Serverless
6 25 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (12.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (12.85%) Azure Functions
8 21 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (11.17%) Azure Storage
10 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (8.94%) GCP
12 12 (6.70%) GitHub
13 9 (5.03%) OpenShift
14 7 (3.91%) IaaS
14 7 (3.91%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 6 (3.35%) Azure API Management
15 6 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.35%) PaaS
16 5 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.29%) DNS
2 21 (11.73%) Firewall
3 20 (11.17%) DHCP
4 10 (5.59%) BGP
5 8 (4.47%) VPN
6 7 (3.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 7 (3.91%) MPLS
6 7 (3.91%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (3.91%) VSAN
7 3 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.68%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.32%) NoSQL
2 25 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.70%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.35%) MySQL
7 6 (3.35%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.23%) Big Data
9 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.23%) Metadata
10 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.12%) SSDT
12 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.56%) Impala
12 1 (0.56%) Redis
12 1 (0.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 55 (30.73%) Git
2 25 (13.97%) JIRA
3 24 (13.41%) GitLab
4 19 (10.61%) Jenkins
5 14 (7.82%) Selenium
6 7 (3.91%) Robot Framework
6 7 (3.91%) TestRail
7 6 (3.35%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.79%) TestLink
9 4 (2.23%) JUnit
9 4 (2.23%) Subversion
10 3 (1.68%) Appium
10 3 (1.68%) JMeter
10 3 (1.68%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.12%) NUnit
11 2 (1.12%) Postman
11 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.12%) TestNG
11 2 (1.12%) VersionOne
General
1 52 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Finance
4 8 (4.47%) Retail
5 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.79%) Publishing
7 4 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Aviation
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (22.91%) Developer
2 23 (12.85%) Full Stack Developer
3 21 (11.73%) Azure Developer
4 20 (11.17%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (9.50%) Senior
6 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.82%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.82%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
7 13 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 9 (5.03%) Network Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Project Manager
12 8 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (3.91%) Ericsson Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) VMware Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.20%) React
2 26 (14.53%) ARM Templates
3 23 (12.85%) REST
4 13 (7.26%) .NET
5 11 (6.15%) YANG
6 10 (5.59%) Kafka
7 9 (5.03%) HTML
8 8 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (4.47%) JSON
8 8 (4.47%) SOAP
8 8 (4.47%) Spring
8 8 (4.47%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.91%) CSS
9 7 (3.91%) NETCONF
9 7 (3.91%) RESTCONF
9 7 (3.91%) XML
10 6 (3.35%) Node.js
11 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.79%) YAML
12 4 (2.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) PKI
1 20 (11.17%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (10.06%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.59%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.47%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.68%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.56%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (21.79%) Linux
2 25 (13.97%) Windows
3 21 (11.73%) Windows Server
4 20 (11.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (11.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.91%) VMS
6 5 (2.79%) Unix
7 2 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (68.16%) DevOps
2 91 (50.84%) Agile
3 64 (35.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (24.58%) Test Automation
5 33 (18.44%) SDLC
6 30 (16.76%) Full Stack Development
6 30 (16.76%) Microservices
7 29 (16.20%) Containerisation
8 28 (15.64%) Scrum
9 27 (15.08%) Analytics
10 26 (14.53%) ITIL
10 26 (14.53%) Unit Testing
11 25 (13.97%) Release Management
12 22 (12.29%) Identity Management
12 22 (12.29%) RBAC
13 20 (11.17%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (11.17%) Log Analytics
13 20 (11.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (11.17%) Privileged Identity Management
13 20 (11.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.84%) Python
2 35 (19.55%) C#
3 31 (17.32%) PowerShell
4 29 (16.20%) Java
5 21 (11.73%) Bicep
5 21 (11.73%) SQL
6 20 (11.17%) VB
6 20 (11.17%) VBScript
7 18 (10.06%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.26%) Bash
9 9 (5.03%) Go
10 7 (3.91%) C
10 7 (3.91%) C++
11 3 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.20%) Degree
3 29 (16.20%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (4.47%) AAT
6 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.56%) MCSE
8 1 (0.56%) OCP
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.23%) PMO
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) NIST
3 2 (1.12%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (23.46%) Active Directory
2 30 (16.76%) Docker
3 23 (12.85%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (11.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (4.47%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.91%) vCloud
8 5 (2.79%) vSphere
9 1 (0.56%) HDFS
9 1 (0.56%) LXC
Systems Management
1 58 (32.40%) Kubernetes
2 29 (16.20%) Terraform
3 22 (12.29%) Ansible
4 20 (11.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (11.17%) SCCM
4 20 (11.17%) SCOM
4 20 (11.17%) WSUS
5 11 (6.15%) Rancher
6 7 (3.91%) Istio
6 7 (3.91%) Packer
6 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.35%) vRealize
8 4 (2.23%) Grafana
8 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.12%) Argo
9 2 (1.12%) Kibana
9 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.06%) VMware
3 9 (5.03%) Google
3 9 (5.03%) SAP
4 8 (4.47%) Oracle
5 7 (3.91%) Ericsson
6 6 (3.35%) Adobe
7 5 (2.79%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.79%) Veritas
8 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.68%) Cisco
9 3 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.68%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.12%) Splunk
11 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.56%) Databricks
11 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.56%) TIBCO