CI/CD Contracts in Reading

CI/CD
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 31 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 87 69 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.30% 6.63% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 7.37% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 52 38
10th Percentile £500 £451 £371
25th Percentile £575 £506 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +11.22% +13.89%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £598
90th Percentile £675 £750 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,074 936 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.18% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 620 824
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.64%) Apache
2 11 (12.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.15%) Appian
4 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (67.82%) Azure
2 41 (47.13%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (34.48%) Entra ID
4 23 (26.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (25.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 21 (24.14%) Serverless
7 18 (20.69%) Azure Functions
8 16 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (17.24%) Azure Storage
10 12 (13.79%) AWS
11 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (11.49%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (10.34%) GCP
14 7 (8.05%) OpenShift
15 5 (5.75%) Azure API Management
15 5 (5.75%) Azure Cognitive Search
15 5 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) DNS
1 16 (18.39%) Firewall
2 15 (17.24%) DHCP
3 12 (13.79%) VPN
4 11 (12.64%) BGP
4 11 (12.64%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (12.64%) MPLS
4 11 (12.64%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (8.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.48%) NoSQL
2 14 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.64%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.15%) Big Data
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (31.03%) Git
2 12 (13.79%) JIRA
3 11 (12.64%) GitLab
3 11 (12.64%) Robot Framework
3 11 (12.64%) TestRail
4 7 (8.05%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.60%) Selenium
5 4 (4.60%) TestLink
6 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.15%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.15%) Appium
7 1 (1.15%) JUnit
7 1 (1.15%) Mockito
7 1 (1.15%) MSTest
7 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.15%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Finance
3 5 (5.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Full Stack Developer
3 18 (20.69%) Azure Developer
4 15 (17.24%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (16.09%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (16.09%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (16.09%) Support Specialist
6 10 (11.49%) Network Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Lead
8 7 (8.05%) VMware Expert
9 6 (6.90%) Designer
9 6 (6.90%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Lead Designer
11 4 (4.60%) Ericsson Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Integration Developer
12 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
13 2 (2.30%) Architect
13 2 (2.30%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) ARM Templates
2 19 (21.84%) React
3 17 (19.54%) REST
4 14 (16.09%) SOAP
5 11 (12.64%) NETCONF
5 11 (12.64%) RESTCONF
5 11 (12.64%) YANG
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
7 7 (8.05%) .NET
7 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.05%) HTML
8 6 (6.90%) CSS
9 5 (5.75%) JSON
9 5 (5.75%) XML
10 3 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.45%) OAuth
10 3 (3.45%) OpenID
10 3 (3.45%) Spring
10 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) PKI
1 15 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (16.09%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.15%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Linux
2 15 (17.24%) Windows
2 15 (17.24%) Windows Server
2 15 (17.24%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (17.24%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (78.16%) DevOps
2 49 (56.32%) Agile
3 40 (45.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (31.03%) Unit Testing
5 26 (29.89%) Test Automation
6 23 (26.44%) Security Testing
7 20 (22.99%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (21.84%) Containerisation
8 19 (21.84%) Microservices
9 17 (19.54%) Analytics
9 17 (19.54%) Integration Testing
10 16 (18.39%) Identity Management
10 16 (18.39%) Product Backlog
10 16 (18.39%) RBAC
10 16 (18.39%) SDLC
11 15 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (17.24%) Log Analytics
11 15 (17.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.63%) Python
2 23 (26.44%) PowerShell
3 21 (24.14%) C#
4 15 (17.24%) Bicep
4 15 (17.24%) SQL
4 15 (17.24%) VB
4 15 (17.24%) VBScript
5 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.90%) Java
7 5 (5.75%) PHP
8 3 (3.45%) C
9 2 (2.30%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 18 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) Degree
3 15 (17.24%) DV Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (4.60%) AAT
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 31 (35.63%) Active Directory
2 23 (26.44%) Docker
3 15 (17.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.05%) vCloud
4 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (39.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (17.24%) SCCM
2 15 (17.24%) SCOM
2 15 (17.24%) WSUS
3 11 (12.64%) Terraform
4 7 (8.05%) Istio
4 7 (8.05%) Rancher
4 7 (8.05%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Google
3 7 (8.05%) VMware
4 4 (4.60%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.15%) Adobe
5 1 (1.15%) Databricks
5 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.15%) IBM
5 1 (1.15%) Splunk
5 1 (1.15%) TIBCO