CI/CD Contracts in Berkshire

CI/CD
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 76 96 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.48% 4.84% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 5.44% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 69
10th Percentile £400 £500 £406
25th Percentile £420 £515 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.88 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +3 45 £575 -4.96% 77
Windsor - 10 £500 - 2
Wokingham -3 8 £425 - 1
Bracknell +20 5 £550 +10.00% 2
Slough -11 1 £650 - 58
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
2 2 (2.63%) Appian
3 1 (1.32%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.32%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (60.53%) Azure
2 23 (30.26%) Serverless
3 19 (25.00%) AWS
4 18 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (22.37%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (18.42%) Azure AKS
7 13 (17.11%) GitHub
8 12 (15.79%) Entra ID
9 11 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (14.47%) Azure Functions
10 9 (11.84%) PaaS
11 8 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (9.21%) Azure API Management
13 6 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (7.89%) Azure Storage
13 6 (7.89%) GCP
13 6 (7.89%) IaaS
14 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (6.58%) SaaS
15 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) BGP
1 4 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (3.95%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (3.95%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.63%) Firewall
3 2 (2.63%) IPv6
3 2 (2.63%) OSPF
3 2 (2.63%) SAN
3 2 (2.63%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (2.63%) TACACS
3 2 (2.63%) VPN
3 2 (2.63%) VSAN
4 1 (1.32%) DHCP
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) MPLS
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.26%) Redis
6 3 (3.95%) Big Data
6 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.95%) SSDT
7 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.32%) HBase
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Git
2 9 (11.84%) Selenium
3 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.58%) GitLab
4 5 (6.58%) JIRA
5 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.63%) JMeter
5 2 (2.63%) JUnit
5 2 (2.63%) Mockito
5 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.32%) Maven
6 1 (1.32%) Postman
6 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.32%) Toad
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Telecoms
3 13 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.89%) Electronics
5 6 (7.89%) Finance
5 6 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Azure Developer
6 8 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.89%) React Developer
9 5 (6.58%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Architect
10 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Senior
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Gen AI Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Gen AI Software Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) JSON
2 10 (13.16%) React
3 9 (11.84%) .NET
3 9 (11.84%) HTML
4 8 (10.53%) OAuth
5 7 (9.21%) CSS
5 7 (9.21%) REST
6 6 (7.89%) RESTful
6 6 (7.89%) YAML
7 5 (6.58%) .NET Core
7 5 (6.58%) .NET Framework
7 5 (6.58%) ADO
7 5 (6.58%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.26%) ARM Templates
8 4 (5.26%) Prisma
9 3 (3.95%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.95%) SOAP
9 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.95%) Web Services
9 3 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Tandem
5 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) CentOS
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (63.16%) DevOps
2 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
3 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (21.05%) Agile
5 15 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (18.42%) Microservices
7 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (17.11%) Scrum
8 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (13.16%) ETL
9 10 (13.16%) SDLC
10 9 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (11.84%) Design Patterns
10 9 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.53%) RBAC
11 8 (10.53%) Release Management
11 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 19 (25.00%) SQL
3 16 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 13 (17.11%) C#
5 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.53%) Java
7 7 (9.21%) Bash
8 5 (6.58%) Bicep
9 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.63%) R
11 1 (1.32%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.32%) Perl
11 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.32%) VB
11 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) CCNP
4 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CCNA
5 1 (1.32%) CCSP
5 1 (1.32%) CEH
5 1 (1.32%) CISM
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) ISEB
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.32%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Docker
2 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) NFS
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.63%) Ceph
4 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.42%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.95%) vRealize
4 3 (3.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (2.63%) Argo
5 2 (2.63%) Kibana
5 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.32%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.32%) Grafana
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.32%) SCCM
6 1 (1.32%) SCOM
6 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco
2 6 (7.89%) SAP
3 5 (6.58%) Splunk
4 4 (5.26%) Databricks
4 4 (5.26%) Virgin Media
5 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.95%) UiPath
5 3 (3.95%) VMware
6 2 (2.63%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.63%) Dell
6 2 (2.63%) Google
6 2 (2.63%) Nokia
6 2 (2.63%) Rakuten
6 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) New Relic
7 1 (1.32%) Openreach
7 1 (1.32%) Snow