CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 69 41 43
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 47 115 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.42% 5.14% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 5.85% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 75 113
10th Percentile £310 £450 £400
25th Percentile £339 £491 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.30%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £575
90th Percentile £679 £695 £648
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,965 3,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.93% 87.84% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,334 2,338
10th Percentile £263 £263 £278
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £586
90th Percentile £745 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 63
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £19.93
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry +6 14 £550 +4.76% 10
Birmingham -5 11 £500 -20.00% 38
Warwickshire -12 8 £650 +10.64% 13
Staffordshire +14 7 £350 - 4
Worcestershire -8 2 £475 -13.64% 4
Solihull - 2 £275 - 5
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (6.38%) CMS
1 3 (6.38%) Drupal
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) AWS
3 13 (27.66%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.02%) Serverless
5 7 (14.89%) PaaS
6 6 (12.77%) GCP
7 5 (10.64%) CloudFront
7 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
7 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
8 4 (8.51%) IaaS
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.26%) GitHub
9 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.26%) SaaS
9 2 (4.26%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) DNS
2 7 (14.89%) VPN
3 5 (10.64%) Network Security
4 4 (8.51%) Firewall
4 4 (8.51%) SSL
5 1 (2.13%) Extranet
5 1 (2.13%) Intranet
5 1 (2.13%) IPsec
5 1 (2.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.13%) Impala
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.77%) Artifactory
4 5 (10.64%) GitLab
5 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.38%) JIRA
5 3 (6.38%) NUnit
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) Subversion
6 2 (4.26%) Moq
6 2 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.26%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.13%) Hudson
7 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 5 (10.64%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
2 5 (10.64%) React Developer
2 5 (10.64%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Lead
4 3 (6.38%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Applications Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) React
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) Apollo GraphQL
2 5 (10.64%) Express.js
2 5 (10.64%) GraphQL
2 5 (10.64%) OAuth
2 5 (10.64%) OAuth2
2 5 (10.64%) REST
2 5 (10.64%) SAML
2 5 (10.64%) Spring
3 4 (8.51%) JSON
4 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.26%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.26%) Swagger
5 2 (4.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) DevOps
2 17 (36.17%) Agile
3 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
3 10 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (17.02%) Full Stack Development
4 8 (17.02%) TDD
5 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
5 7 (14.89%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
5 7 (14.89%) Scrum
5 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (12.77%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.77%) Microservices
6 6 (12.77%) SOA
7 5 (10.64%) Application Security
7 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) Java
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.51%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Bash
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) Go
8 1 (2.13%) Groovy
8 1 (2.13%) HiveQL
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Degree
2 9 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) HDFS
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Ansible
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.02%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Argo
4 1 (2.13%) Istio
4 1 (2.13%) linkerd
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) Rancher
4 1 (2.13%) SELinux
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.38%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) Confluent
5 2 (4.26%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Denodo
6 1 (2.13%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.13%) Talend
6 1 (2.13%) VMware