Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Continuous Integration
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 93 103
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 12 9 21
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.80% 0.62% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.68% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £388 £393 £470
25th Percentile £416 £436 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.35% +17.71%
75th Percentile £588 £458 £625
90th Percentile £594 £499 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +1.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Continuous Integration 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 1,297 1,314 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.81% 91.06% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 732 941
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £412 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.06% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.15 £28.50
25th Percentile £19.29 £42.50 £49.40
Median hourly rate £51.24 £61.50 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -0.36% +12.21%
75th Percentile £81.25 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £97.75 £70.15 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in Berkshire

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
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 Continuous Integration within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +10 6 £575 +28.71% 1
Bracknell - 3 £400 -
Wokingham - 2 £475 -
Continuous Integration
South East

Continuous Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 4 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) JSP
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (8.33%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) MLOps
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 1 (8.33%) ETL
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) R
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Foundry
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Palantir