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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 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 2,510 4,277 7,493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.83% 7.71% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 8.60% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 3,018 5,282
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 £697
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 70 61
10th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.69 £60.91 £50.77
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +0.93% +10.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.80 £79.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +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 36,767 49,750 79,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.37% 89.73% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,536 34,430 55,867
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,657 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 2,167 £550 -8.33% 1,133
London -6 1,333 £565 -9.32% 505
UK excluding London -6 895 £534 -3.00% 706
Work from Home -10 854 £550 -8.33% 709
North of England +1 301 £525 -6.71% 221
South East -20 178 £600 +4.35% 136
North West -1 167 £550 - 138
South West -10 166 £585 -2.50% 109
Scotland -5 126 £495 -1.00% 64
Yorkshire +18 120 £490 -14.78% 55
Midlands -33 62 £475 -11.21% 95
West Midlands -25 46 £475 -15.56% 65
East of England -23 41 £534 +2.69% 46
Wales +12 24 £509 -13.23% 21
North East -16 14 £411 -31.46% 28
East Midlands -5 13 £436 +2.65% 30

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
1 105 (4.18%) Confluence
2 73 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 70 (2.79%) Apache
4 68 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.96%) nginx
6 24 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 20 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 19 (0.76%) CMS
9 14 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 14 (0.56%) JBoss
10 12 (0.48%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.44%) IIS
12 9 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.36%) SAS
13 8 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
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 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) Trello
3 3 (0.12%) Windchill
4 2 (0.080%) Gliffy
5 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%) Distributed Ledger
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%) 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%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.040%) Maximo
8 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 911 (36.29%) AWS
2 879 (35.02%) Azure
3 371 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 305 (12.15%) Serverless
5 300 (11.95%) GitHub
6 291 (11.59%) GCP
7 187 (7.45%) Amazon S3
8 169 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
9 159 (6.33%) Entra ID
10 129 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
11 120 (4.78%) OpenShift
12 106 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 96 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
14 91 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
14 91 (3.63%) Azure Functions
15 86 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 79 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 77 (3.07%) PaaS
18 75 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
19 71 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 165 (6.57%) Firewall
2 107 (4.26%) VPN
3 75 (2.99%) DNS
4 50 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.91%) HTTP
6 37 (1.47%) Network Security
7 32 (1.27%) SSL
8 29 (1.16%) DHCP
9 14 (0.56%) BGP
10 12 (0.48%) SAN
11 11 (0.44%) AMQP
11 11 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.40%) MPLS
12 10 (0.40%) VSAN
12 10 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
14 8 (0.32%) Internet
15 6 (0.24%) IPv4
15 6 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 180 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 139 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
4 110 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 106 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 78 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
8 72 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
9 71 (2.83%) MySQL
10 68 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (2.67%) Data Lake
12 59 (2.35%) Big Data
13 56 (2.23%) Power BI
14 43 (1.71%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (1.31%) BigQuery
16 32 (1.27%) Redis
17 28 (1.12%) Oracle Database
18 26 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
18 26 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 585 (23.31%) Jenkins
2 478 (19.04%) Git
3 314 (12.51%) GitLab
4 221 (8.80%) JIRA
5 119 (4.74%) Selenium
6 103 (4.10%) Cypress.io
7 80 (3.19%) Cucumber
8 78 (3.11%) Postman
9 71 (2.83%) Bitbucket
10 68 (2.71%) TeamCity
11 66 (2.63%) JUnit
12 54 (2.15%) SpecFlow
13 53 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 51 (2.03%) Maven
14 51 (2.03%) Visual Studio
15 48 (1.91%) Artifactory
15 48 (1.91%) SonarQube
16 45 (1.79%) JMeter
17 33 (1.31%) Mockito
18 31 (1.24%) WebDriver
General
1 511 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 451 (17.97%) Finance
3 228 (9.08%) Public Sector
4 201 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (7.05%) Banking
6 68 (2.71%) Front Office
7 54 (2.15%) Retail
8 43 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 25 (1.00%) Law
12 25 (1.00%) Legal
13 22 (0.88%) Back Office
14 21 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 21 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (0.76%) Marketing
16 18 (0.72%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.72%) Electronics
16 18 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 704 (28.05%) Developer
2 388 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 373 (14.86%) Senior
4 263 (10.48%) Architect
5 204 (8.13%) Lead
6 161 (6.41%) Senior Developer
7 146 (5.82%) Java Developer
8 140 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
9 139 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
10 129 (5.14%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.82%) Data Engineer
12 113 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
13 98 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 91 (3.63%) Python Developer
15 87 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 84 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 74 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
18 73 (2.91%) Java Engineer
19 72 (2.87%) Software Developer
20 67 (2.67%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (11.47%) React
2 286 (11.39%) .NET
3 249 (9.92%) Node.js
4 238 (9.48%) REST
5 177 (7.05%) Spring
6 163 (6.49%) HTML
7 162 (6.45%) Kafka
8 157 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 154 (6.14%) XML
10 148 (5.90%) CSS
11 121 (4.82%) RESTful
12 111 (4.42%) .NET Core
13 105 (4.18%) AngularJS
14 92 (3.67%) JSON
15 89 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
16 87 (3.47%) .NET Framework
17 86 (3.43%) YAML
18 81 (3.23%) ARM Templates
19 71 (2.83%) Web Services
20 67 (2.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 96 (3.82%) Public Cloud
3 85 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 78 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 66 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 61 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 53 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 51 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 42 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 41 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 38 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.47%) Derivative
13 36 (1.43%) Data Centre
14 32 (1.27%) PKI
15 30 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 30 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.20%) Onboarding
15 30 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.08%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 434 (17.29%) Linux
2 203 (8.09%) Windows
3 99 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 96 (3.82%) Unix
5 83 (3.31%) Android
6 65 (2.59%) Apple iOS
7 58 (2.31%) 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 11 (0.44%) 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 1,460 (58.17%) DevOps
2 1,111 (44.26%) Agile
3 509 (20.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 493 (19.64%) Test Automation
5 427 (17.01%) Continuous Integration
6 393 (15.66%) Software Engineering
7 379 (15.10%) Microservices
8 366 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 341 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
10 332 (13.23%) Scrum
11 259 (10.32%) TDD
12 250 (9.96%) SDLC
13 231 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
14 186 (7.41%) Migration
15 171 (6.81%) Analytics
16 170 (6.77%) Computer Science
17 163 (6.49%) Continuous Delivery
18 158 (6.29%) Unit Testing
19 156 (6.22%) Continuous Deployment
20 152 (6.06%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 860 (34.26%) Python
2 579 (23.07%) Java
3 446 (17.77%) SQL
4 356 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 341 (13.59%) PowerShell
6 322 (12.83%) C#
7 224 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 221 (8.80%) Bash
9 139 (5.54%) Go
10 99 (3.94%) C++
11 97 (3.86%) Bicep
12 94 (3.75%) Shell Script
13 58 (2.31%) Scala
14 55 (2.19%) Perl
15 50 (1.99%) Kotlin
16 42 (1.67%) Ruby
17 40 (1.59%) C
18 36 (1.43%) Groovy
19 25 (1.00%) PHP
20 24 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 473 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 362 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 199 (7.93%) Degree
4 124 (4.94%) DV Cleared
5 114 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.92%) 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
11 14 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.32%) AAT
14 6 (0.24%) CISA
14 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.49%) QA
2 63 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.16%) MISRA
5 21 (0.84%) GDPR
5 21 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.80%) NIST
7 16 (0.64%) WCAG
8 14 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 14 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.56%) SLA
9 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.20%) NCSC
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
1 573 (22.83%) Docker
2 189 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 67 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.96%) 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 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.080%) 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
1 677 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 645 (25.70%) Terraform
3 386 (15.38%) Ansible
4 156 (6.22%) Grafana
5 131 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 81 (3.23%) Puppet
7 66 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 54 (2.15%) Kibana
9 32 (1.27%) logstash
10 25 (1.00%) 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
1 356 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.41%) Google
3 115 (4.58%) Oracle
4 76 (3.03%) Splunk
5 72 (2.87%) Databricks
6 62 (2.47%) VMware
7 49 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 48 (1.91%) SAP
9 45 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.55%) Atlassian
10 39 (1.55%) Red Hat
11 37 (1.47%) IBM
12 32 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.16%) CyberArk
14 25 (1.00%) Dell
15 21 (0.84%) HP
16 20 (0.80%) Cisco
17 18 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
18 17 (0.68%) TIBCO
19 16 (0.64%) AppDynamics