Continuous Integration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 106 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 -22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 40 42 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.50% 1.43% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.56% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 57
10th Percentile £363 £410 £389
25th Percentile £525 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -12.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £503 £575
90th Percentile £703 £554 £630
South East median daily rate £550 £547 £550
% change year-on-year +0.55% -0.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +37.61% -0.91% +35.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Integration 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Integration within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Berkshire +2 37 £638 +37.10% 11
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £388 -24.02% 10
Continuous Integration
South East

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Big Data
1 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (70.00%) Selenium
2 27 (67.50%) Jenkins
3 25 (62.50%) Cucumber
3 25 (62.50%) SonarQube
4 24 (60.00%) REST Assured
5 18 (45.00%) JIRA
6 15 (37.50%) GitLab
7 7 (17.50%) Git
8 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
8 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.50%) Android Studio
9 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.50%) CMake
9 1 (2.50%) Maven
9 1 (2.50%) MSTest
9 1 (2.50%) NUnit
9 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (65.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (50.00%) Law
4 13 (32.50%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Java Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Architect
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Java Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Java Technical Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
9 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) Java EE
1 25 (62.50%) REST
2 14 (35.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.00%) .NET
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 2 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.50%) CSS
6 1 (2.50%) DOM
6 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.50%) Kafka
6 1 (2.50%) NHibernate
6 1 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) DevOps
2 30 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 28 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (65.00%) Decision-Making
4 26 (65.00%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (62.50%) Software Architecture
5 25 (62.50%) Software Engineering
6 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (40.00%) Configuration Management
8 14 (35.00%) Containerisation
9 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (22.50%) Agile
10 9 (22.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (17.50%) Continuous Delivery
12 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
12 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
12 3 (7.50%) ITIL
12 3 (7.50%) Software Delivery
13 2 (5.00%) Release Management
13 2 (5.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) C#
2 4 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (67.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Ansible
2 18 (45.00%) Terraform
3 16 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 12 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (30.00%) Podman
5 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 2 (5.00%) Rancher
6 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) VMware
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat