CI/CD Contracts in Reading

CI/CD
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 20 23 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 45 87 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.54% 7.30% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.11% 8.09% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 49 52
10th Percentile £340 £500 £451
25th Percentile £409 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +6.14% +11.22%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Reading

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Appian
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Serverless
3 12 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Azure Functions
5 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (17.78%) Azure AKS
7 7 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (11.11%) AWS
9 5 (11.11%) Azure API Management
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (4.44%) GitHub
11 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.44%) SaaS
12 1 (2.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) BGP
1 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.22%) MPLS
1 1 (2.22%) PuTTY
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
1 1 (2.22%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.89%) Redis
3 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.67%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) SSDT
5 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) HBase
6 1 (2.22%) Metadata
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (37.78%) Git
2 9 (20.00%) Selenium
3 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.44%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 2 (4.44%) JMeter
4 2 (4.44%) JUnit
4 2 (4.44%) Mockito
4 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.22%) Maven
5 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.22%) Toad
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (28.89%) Telecoms
2 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Electronics
5 4 (8.89%) Finance
5 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Azure Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) React Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Consultant
7 3 (6.67%) Gen AI Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Gen AI Software Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) React
2 6 (13.33%) HTML
2 6 (13.33%) OAuth
3 5 (11.11%) RESTful
4 4 (8.89%) CSS
4 4 (8.89%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.89%) Prisma
4 4 (8.89%) REST
4 4 (8.89%) YAML
5 3 (6.67%) JSON
5 3 (6.67%) Web Services
5 3 (6.67%) XML
6 2 (4.44%) .NET
6 2 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (4.44%) ADO
6 2 (4.44%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.44%) jQuery
6 2 (4.44%) SOAP
6 2 (4.44%) Spring
6 2 (4.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) IoT
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Tandem
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 2 (4.44%) Linux
4 1 (2.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) DevOps
2 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
2 14 (31.11%) Microservices
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (24.44%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (22.22%) SDLC
6 9 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (20.00%) ETL
7 8 (17.78%) Design Patterns
7 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
8 7 (15.56%) B2B
8 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (15.56%) Release Management
8 7 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (15.56%) Scrum
9 5 (11.11%) B2C
9 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Python
2 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (13.33%) Bash
4 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) C#
5 5 (11.11%) Java
6 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) R
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) Perl
8 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) ISEB
3 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.44%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Databricks
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.89%) SAP
1 4 (8.89%) Virgin Media
2 3 (6.67%) Cisco
2 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
2 3 (6.67%) UiPath
3 2 (4.44%) Blue Prism
3 2 (4.44%) Nokia
3 2 (4.44%) Rakuten
4 1 (2.22%) BT
4 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) New Relic
4 1 (2.22%) Openreach
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Remedy
4 1 (2.22%) StreamSets