CI/CD Contracts

CI/CD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,491 4,326 7,509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.79% 7.72% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 8.60% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 3,051 5,285
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 70 61
10th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.25 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +0.93% +10.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.20 £79.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% +0.93% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the UK

CI/CD
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -7 2,145 £550 -8.33% 1,214
London -5 1,320 £565 -8.13% 576
UK excluding London -5 887 £534 -2.91% 719
Work from Home -10 861 £550 -8.33% 703
North of England 0 301 £525 -6.25% 222
South East -24 179 £600 +4.35% 131
North West 0 169 £550 - 140
South West -14 155 £590 -1.67% 105
Scotland -5 128 £490 -2.00% 64
Yorkshire +17 120 £495 -13.91% 57
Midlands -30 62 £475 -11.21% 105
West Midlands -28 47 £488 -13.33% 76
East of England -26 42 £534 +2.69% 57
Wales +11 24 £509 -13.23% 21
East Midlands -6 12 £436 +2.65% 29
North East -17 12 £469 -21.88% 25

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 106 (4.26%) Confluence
2 74 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 71 (2.85%) Apache
4 66 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.96%) nginx
6 24 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 20 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 18 (0.72%) CMS
9 14 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 14 (0.56%) JBoss
10 11 (0.44%) IIS
11 10 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
11 10 (0.40%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.36%) SAS
13 8 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.20%) Appian
14 5 (0.20%) Mule
14 5 (0.20%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.20%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) Trello
4 3 (0.12%) Windchill
5 2 (0.080%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.28%) Endur
4 6 (0.24%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.16%) Shopify
6 3 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.12%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.080%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.040%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.040%) Magento
8 1 (0.040%) Maximo
8 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 914 (36.69%) AWS
2 869 (34.89%) Azure
3 366 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
4 307 (12.32%) Serverless
5 296 (11.88%) GitHub
6 291 (11.68%) GCP
7 186 (7.47%) Amazon S3
8 173 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
9 157 (6.30%) Entra ID
10 129 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
11 120 (4.82%) OpenShift
12 107 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 97 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
14 91 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 90 (3.61%) Azure Functions
16 85 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 80 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 75 (3.01%) PaaS
19 73 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (6.66%) Firewall
2 107 (4.30%) VPN
3 73 (2.93%) DNS
4 49 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 46 (1.85%) HTTP
6 37 (1.49%) Network Security
7 32 (1.28%) SSL
8 29 (1.16%) DHCP
9 14 (0.56%) BGP
10 12 (0.48%) SAN
11 11 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.40%) VSAN
12 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.36%) MPLS
13 9 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
14 8 (0.32%) AMQP
14 8 (0.32%) Internet
15 7 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
16 6 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 180 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 137 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 106 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 78 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 73 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
9 72 (2.89%) MySQL
10 68 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 66 (2.65%) Data Lake
12 59 (2.37%) Big Data
13 58 (2.33%) Power BI
14 44 (1.77%) DynamoDB
15 34 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 32 (1.28%) Redis
18 27 (1.08%) Hadoop
18 27 (1.08%) Oracle Database
19 26 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 582 (23.36%) Jenkins
2 471 (18.91%) Git
3 316 (12.69%) GitLab
4 216 (8.67%) JIRA
5 119 (4.78%) Selenium
6 106 (4.26%) Cypress.io
7 82 (3.29%) Cucumber
8 77 (3.09%) Postman
9 71 (2.85%) Bitbucket
10 68 (2.73%) TeamCity
11 66 (2.65%) JUnit
12 54 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 53 (2.13%) SpecFlow
14 52 (2.09%) Maven
15 51 (2.05%) Visual Studio
16 47 (1.89%) Artifactory
16 47 (1.89%) SonarQube
17 44 (1.77%) JMeter
18 32 (1.28%) Mockito
18 32 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 505 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 445 (17.86%) Finance
3 231 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 198 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (6.95%) Banking
6 65 (2.61%) Front Office
7 54 (2.17%) Retail
8 45 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 27 (1.08%) Law
13 25 (1.00%) Legal
14 22 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (0.84%) Back Office
16 19 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.72%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.72%) Electronics
17 18 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 698 (28.02%) Developer
2 387 (15.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 370 (14.85%) Senior
4 260 (10.44%) Architect
5 203 (8.15%) Lead
6 159 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 142 (5.70%) Java Developer
8 141 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 139 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
10 125 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 111 (4.46%) Full Stack Developer
13 97 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
14 90 (3.61%) Python Developer
15 85 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 82 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
17 74 (2.97%) Software Developer
18 73 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
19 68 (2.73%) Java Engineer
20 67 (2.69%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (11.44%) .NET
1 285 (11.44%) React
2 253 (10.16%) Node.js
3 236 (9.47%) REST
4 176 (7.07%) Spring
5 163 (6.54%) HTML
6 158 (6.34%) Kafka
7 154 (6.18%) Spring Boot
8 153 (6.14%) XML
9 149 (5.98%) CSS
10 119 (4.78%) RESTful
11 113 (4.54%) .NET Core
12 103 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 91 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
13 91 (3.65%) JSON
14 87 (3.49%) YAML
15 86 (3.45%) .NET Framework
16 80 (3.21%) ARM Templates
17 70 (2.81%) Web Services
18 68 (2.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.89%) Public Cloud
3 87 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 76 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 64 (2.57%) Algorithms
6 60 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 58 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 53 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 42 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.49%) Derivative
13 36 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 35 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 33 (1.32%) PKI
16 30 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.20%) Onboarding
17 29 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
19 26 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 433 (17.38%) Linux
2 202 (8.11%) Windows
3 99 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.89%) Unix
5 81 (3.25%) Android
6 65 (2.61%) Apple iOS
7 58 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.00%) CentOS
9 24 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.60%) VMS
12 12 (0.48%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.16%) AIX
15 4 (0.16%) Solaris
15 4 (0.16%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.040%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,441 (57.85%) DevOps
2 1,098 (44.08%) Agile
3 505 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 485 (19.47%) Test Automation
5 428 (17.18%) Continuous Integration
6 384 (15.42%) Software Engineering
7 380 (15.25%) Microservices
8 366 (14.69%) Containerisation
9 340 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
10 329 (13.21%) Scrum
11 260 (10.44%) TDD
12 243 (9.76%) SDLC
13 228 (9.15%) Full Stack Development
14 187 (7.51%) Migration
15 172 (6.90%) Analytics
15 172 (6.90%) Computer Science
16 163 (6.54%) Continuous Delivery
17 156 (6.26%) Continuous Deployment
18 154 (6.18%) Unit Testing
19 150 (6.02%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 854 (34.28%) Python
2 564 (22.64%) Java
3 446 (17.90%) SQL
4 363 (14.57%) JavaScript
5 339 (13.61%) PowerShell
6 314 (12.61%) C#
7 224 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 219 (8.79%) Bash
9 139 (5.58%) Go
10 97 (3.89%) Bicep
11 94 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 93 (3.73%) C++
13 58 (2.33%) Perl
14 55 (2.21%) Scala
15 50 (2.01%) Kotlin
16 43 (1.73%) Ruby
17 40 (1.61%) C
18 36 (1.45%) Groovy
19 25 (1.00%) PHP
20 24 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 478 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 367 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 201 (8.07%) Degree
4 122 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 116 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 21 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 20 (0.80%) CISSP
10 20 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 14 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.56%) CISM
12 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.32%) AAT
14 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.24%) CISA
16 5 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.34%) QA
2 62 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.92%) MISRA
5 20 (0.80%) GDPR
5 20 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (0.80%) NIST
6 15 (0.60%) WCAG
7 14 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.56%) SLA
8 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.24%) NCSC
10 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.16%) MiFID
11 4 (0.16%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.16%) PMO
12 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 570 (22.88%) Docker
2 188 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 69 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 23 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 10 (0.40%) vCloud
8 10 (0.40%) vSphere
9 9 (0.36%) HDFS
9 9 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.32%) Firmware
11 4 (0.16%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.12%) LXC
13 1 (0.040%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.040%) Ceph
13 1 (0.040%) NFS
13 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.040%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 669 (26.86%) Kubernetes
2 638 (25.61%) Terraform
3 378 (15.17%) Ansible
4 157 (6.30%) Grafana
5 131 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 81 (3.25%) Puppet
7 65 (2.61%) Progress Chef
8 54 (2.17%) Kibana
9 32 (1.28%) logstash
10 26 (1.04%) PowerCLI
11 23 (0.92%) SCOM
12 22 (0.88%) Packer
12 22 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
13 21 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 21 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
13 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 20 (0.80%) SCCM
14 20 (0.80%) WSUS
15 19 (0.76%) Argo
16 18 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 352 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 157 (6.30%) Google
3 115 (4.62%) Oracle
4 76 (3.05%) Splunk
5 71 (2.85%) Databricks
6 63 (2.53%) VMware
7 50 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 49 (1.97%) SAP
9 45 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 40 (1.61%) Atlassian
11 39 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.49%) IBM
13 32 (1.28%) MuleSoft
14 27 (1.08%) CyberArk
15 26 (1.04%) Dell
16 22 (0.88%) HP
17 20 (0.80%) Cisco
18 18 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
19 17 (0.68%) TIBCO
20 16 (0.64%) AppDynamics