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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 66 94 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.67% 4.86% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 5.47% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 54 79
10th Percentile £400 £500 £421
25th Percentile £414 £518 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +7.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

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 1,080 1,718 1,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.78% 88.88% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 901 1,021
10th Percentile £305 £213 £345
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £18.50 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.99%
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 £49.50
% change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%

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 10 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 10 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 -1 38 £517 -14.55% 29
Windsor - 10 £500 - 4
Wokingham -3 9 £425 -
Bracknell +22 3 £550 +10.00% 2
Slough -11 1 £650 - 13
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 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.52%) CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Confluence
1 1 (1.52%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.06%) Azure
2 22 (33.33%) AWS
3 19 (28.79%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (24.24%) Serverless
5 13 (19.70%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (19.70%) GitHub
6 11 (16.67%) Azure AKS
7 9 (13.64%) Entra ID
8 8 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (12.12%) PaaS
9 7 (10.61%) Azure API Management
9 7 (10.61%) Azure Storage
9 7 (10.61%) IaaS
10 6 (9.09%) GCP
11 5 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (7.58%) SaaS
12 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
13 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (4.55%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) BGP
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.03%) Firewall
3 2 (3.03%) IPv6
3 2 (3.03%) OSPF
3 2 (3.03%) SAN
3 2 (3.03%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (3.03%) TACACS
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (3.03%) VSAN
4 1 (1.52%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.52%) LAN
4 1 (1.52%) MPLS
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) SMS
4 1 (1.52%) SSL
4 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.55%) SSDT
5 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) MySQL
5 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.52%) Big Data
6 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.52%) HBase
6 1 (1.52%) Impala
6 1 (1.52%) Redis
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) Selenium
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.03%) JMeter
5 2 (3.03%) JUnit
5 2 (3.03%) Mockito
5 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.52%) Maven
6 1 (1.52%) Postman
6 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.52%) Toad
6 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Telecoms
3 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Finance
6 5 (7.58%) Electronics
6 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
3 12 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.06%) React Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Site Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) JSON
2 8 (12.12%) OAuth
2 8 (12.12%) REST
3 7 (10.61%) .NET
3 7 (10.61%) HTML
4 6 (9.09%) ADO
4 6 (9.09%) React
4 6 (9.09%) YAML
5 5 (7.58%) CSS
6 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.55%) RESTful
7 3 (4.55%) SOAP
7 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.55%) Web Services
7 3 (4.55%) XML
8 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) IoT
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.52%) PKI
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Tandem
4 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
3 3 (4.55%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) CentOS
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) DevOps
2 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (21.21%) Containerisation
3 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (19.70%) Agile
5 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 10 (15.15%) Scrum
7 9 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (12.12%) ETL
8 8 (12.12%) RBAC
8 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.61%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (10.61%) Identity Management
9 7 (10.61%) Microservices
9 7 (10.61%) Release Management
9 7 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.00%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) SQL
3 16 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 11 (16.67%) C#
5 8 (12.12%) Bash
6 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.09%) Bicep
7 6 (9.09%) Java
8 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) Perl
10 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.52%) VB
10 1 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) CCNP
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.52%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) CCSP
5 1 (1.52%) CEH
5 1 (1.52%) CISM
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) ISEB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.52%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
2 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.52%) HL7
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (24.24%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.03%) Ceph
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.52%) NFS
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.73%) Terraform
3 6 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.03%) Argo
5 2 (3.03%) Kibana
5 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.52%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) SCOM
6 1 (1.52%) vRealize
6 1 (1.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) SAP
2 5 (7.58%) Splunk
3 4 (6.06%) Cisco
3 4 (6.06%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) Virgin Media
4 3 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.55%) UiPath
5 2 (3.03%) Dell
5 2 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) BT
6 1 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.52%) New Relic
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Remedy
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) VMware