CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

CI/CD
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 29 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 17 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.23% 4.90% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 5.98% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 15
10th Percentile £198 £496 £562
25th Percentile £410 £505 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £729
90th Percentile £645 £735 £747
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +9.09%

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 297 301 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.38% 82.02% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 210 521
10th Percentile £225 £250 £313
25th Percentile £329 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -9.76% +2.09%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £605
90th Percentile £635 £625 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 7 11
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.98 £13.37
Median hourly rate £17.87 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +82.93% +17.14%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £21.75
90th Percentile £29.61 £37.25 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.43 £53.94
% change year-on-year -62.02% +8.34% +73.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 September 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 29 September 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 +3 16 £450 -18.18% 9
Newport Pagnell - 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 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) dbt
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) Fivetran
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) MSTest
4 1 (5.88%) NUnit
4 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Release Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
3 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) CSS3
2 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) BDD
4 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
4 3 (17.65%) DataOps
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Korn
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) JDA