CI/CD Contracts in the South West

CI/CD
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 22 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 164 243 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.01% 7.18% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 8.06% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 173 149
10th Percentile £475 £419 £412
25th Percentile £513 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £670
90th Percentile £700 £736 £692
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 40 15
10th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £69.06 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.38
90th Percentile - £75.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +2.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the South West

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -3 67 £525 +11.11% 53
Gloucestershire 0 38 £625 -3.85% 25
Wiltshire -23 37 £700 +16.67% 11
Dorset +7 8 £400 -8.57% 5
Devon 0 7 £550 -8.33% 9
Somerset -14 3 £600 -12.41% 10
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (15.85%) Confluence
2 9 (5.49%) Apache
3 4 (2.44%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.44%) nginx
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.76%) AWS
2 51 (31.10%) Azure
3 38 (23.17%) GitHub
4 27 (16.46%) OpenShift
5 18 (10.98%) GCP
6 17 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.32%) PaaS
8 11 (6.71%) Serverless
9 7 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.27%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.44%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.44%) IaaS
12 3 (1.83%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.22%) Slack
14 1 (0.61%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.10%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.88%) AMQP
3 7 (4.27%) Network Security
3 7 (4.27%) VPN
4 5 (3.05%) DNS
4 5 (3.05%) Ethernet
4 5 (3.05%) HTTP
5 4 (2.44%) Firewall
5 4 (2.44%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.44%) IPsec
5 4 (2.44%) SAN
6 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.61%) 5G
7 1 (0.61%) DHCP
7 1 (0.61%) LTE
7 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.10%) InfluxDB
2 9 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.05%) Triplestore
5 4 (2.44%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.44%) MySQL
6 3 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.83%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.22%) Big Data
7 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.22%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) Metadata
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.61%) Power BI
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (44.51%) Jenkins
2 53 (32.32%) JIRA
3 26 (15.85%) Bitbucket
4 23 (14.02%) GoogleTest
5 20 (12.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 17 (10.37%) GitLab
7 11 (6.71%) Git
7 11 (6.71%) Visual Studio
8 10 (6.10%) Cypress.io
9 9 (5.49%) Artifactory
10 8 (4.88%) SonarQube
11 6 (3.66%) NUnit
11 6 (3.66%) Postman
12 5 (3.05%) Eclipse
12 5 (3.05%) Selenium
13 2 (1.22%) Snyk
14 1 (0.61%) Babel
14 1 (0.61%) ESLint
14 1 (0.61%) Vite
14 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 43 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.98%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.10%) Legal
5 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.66%) Finance
8 5 (3.05%) Military
9 3 (1.83%) Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.22%) Electronics
10 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.61%) Law
11 1 (0.61%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (23.78%) Software Engineer
2 36 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (18.29%) Developer
4 25 (15.24%) Java Engineer
5 21 (12.80%) Java Software Engineer
6 18 (10.98%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (10.37%) Senior
8 15 (9.15%) Architect
9 10 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Test Engineer
14 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.56%) .NET
2 25 (15.24%) Qt
3 23 (14.02%) .NET Core
4 19 (11.59%) REST
5 12 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (6.10%) GraphQL
6 10 (6.10%) YAML
7 9 (5.49%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (5.49%) React
8 8 (4.88%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.88%) Kafka
9 7 (4.27%) CSS
9 7 (4.27%) HTML
9 7 (4.27%) Node.js
10 6 (3.66%) ModSecurity
10 6 (3.66%) Spring
11 5 (3.05%) Apache Jena
11 5 (3.05%) Playwright
11 5 (3.05%) PostGIS
11 5 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.46%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (15.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.66%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.44%) PKI
8 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (50.61%) Linux
2 20 (12.20%) Windows
3 6 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.15%) DevOps
2 67 (40.85%) Agile
3 55 (33.54%) Software Engineering
4 35 (21.34%) Configuration Management
4 35 (21.34%) Continuous Integration
5 29 (17.68%) Infrastructure Automation
5 29 (17.68%) Task Automation
6 28 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (13.41%) OO
8 22 (13.41%) OOP
9 21 (12.80%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (10.98%) Containerisation
10 18 (10.98%) SDLC
11 17 (10.37%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.76%) TDD
13 15 (9.15%) Microservices
14 14 (8.54%) BDD
15 13 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (7.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (48.17%) Python
2 56 (34.15%) Java
3 48 (29.27%) PowerShell
4 31 (18.90%) C++
5 20 (12.20%) SQL
6 17 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.54%) Bash
8 13 (7.93%) C#
8 13 (7.93%) Go
9 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.27%) C
10 7 (4.27%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.05%) SPARQL
12 4 (2.44%) PHP
13 3 (1.83%) Bicep
13 3 (1.83%) Perl
14 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.61%) Julia
15 1 (0.61%) Rust
15 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (54.27%) Security Cleared
2 46 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 44 (26.83%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.05%) Degree
5 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.24%) MISRA
2 11 (6.71%) QA
3 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.66%) NIST
4 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.44%) GDPR
5 4 (2.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (31.10%) Docker
2 10 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.10%) VMware NSX
3 7 (4.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (40.24%) Ansible
2 57 (34.76%) Kubernetes
3 49 (29.88%) Terraform
4 24 (14.63%) PowerCLI
5 14 (8.54%) Grafana
5 14 (8.54%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.10%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.88%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.66%) OPNET
9 4 (2.44%) Argo
10 3 (1.83%) Puppet
11 2 (1.22%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.61%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 1 (0.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (21.95%) Google
2 26 (15.85%) Atlassian
3 20 (12.20%) Dell
3 20 (12.20%) HP
3 20 (12.20%) Microsoft
4 15 (9.15%) VMware
5 4 (2.44%) Cisco
5 4 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle
6 3 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.61%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) NetIQ
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow