CI/CD Contracts in Buckinghamshire

CI/CD
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 14 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +28 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 25 12 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.59% 2.52% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 3.05% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 31
10th Percentile £320 £346 £553
25th Percentile £358 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £590 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -9.23% +36.84%
75th Percentile £648 £623 £726
90th Percentile £743 £629 £763
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Buckinghamshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Buckinghamshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Buckinghamshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +24 23 £575 -2.54% 60
Bletchley - 1 - - 1
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (8.00%) Camunda
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) PaaS
3 10 (40.00%) SaaS
4 8 (32.00%) IaaS
5 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) VSAN
2 3 (12.00%) BGP
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (12.00%) MPLS
2 3 (12.00%) NGFW
2 3 (12.00%) OSPF
2 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
2 3 (12.00%) WAN
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) DocumentDB
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Architect
2 14 (56.00%) Technical Architect
3 10 (40.00%) Senior
3 10 (40.00%) Senior Architect
3 10 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Principal Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Java Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (8.00%) VMware Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Junior
8 1 (4.00%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
1 2 (8.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (8.00%) NHibernate
1 2 (8.00%) OpenJDK
1 2 (8.00%) REST
1 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (40.00%) PKI
3 8 (32.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Continuous Integration
2 18 (72.00%) TOGAF
3 16 (64.00%) Microservices
4 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (60.00%) ITIL
5 14 (56.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (56.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (56.00%) DevSecOps
5 14 (56.00%) Zachman Framework
6 11 (44.00%) IT Strategy
6 11 (44.00%) Requirements Management
6 11 (44.00%) Technology Strategy
7 10 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (32.00%) Use Case
9 7 (28.00%) Agile
10 6 (24.00%) DevOps
10 6 (24.00%) Migration
11 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Bash
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) MCSE
2 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (44.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (20.00%) CCNP
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Degree
8 1 (4.00%) SnowPro
8 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (64.00%) NCSC
2 14 (56.00%) NIST
3 10 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (20.00%) GDPR
4 5 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (48.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) VMware
2 12 (48.00%) Cisco
2 12 (48.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft