CI/CD Contracts in Reading

CI/CD
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 31 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -26
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 84 69 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.09% 6.63% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 7.37% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 38
10th Percentile £500 £451 £371
25th Percentile £575 £506 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +11.22% +13.89%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £598
90th Percentile £675 £750 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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 28 April 2024.

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 16 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.10%) Apache
2 11 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.19%) Appian
4 1 (1.19%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.86%) Azure
2 40 (47.62%) Azure Monitor
3 29 (34.52%) Entra ID
4 22 (26.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 20 (23.81%) Serverless
7 17 (20.24%) Azure Functions
8 16 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (17.86%) Azure Storage
10 12 (14.29%) AWS
11 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (11.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (10.71%) GCP
13 7 (8.33%) OpenShift
14 5 (5.95%) Azure API Management
14 5 (5.95%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 5 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.05%) DNS
1 16 (19.05%) Firewall
2 15 (17.86%) DHCP
3 12 (14.29%) VPN
4 11 (13.10%) BGP
4 11 (13.10%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (13.10%) MPLS
4 11 (13.10%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.52%) NoSQL
2 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.10%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.19%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (30.95%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) JIRA
3 11 (13.10%) GitLab
3 11 (13.10%) Robot Framework
3 11 (13.10%) TestRail
4 7 (8.33%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.76%) Selenium
6 3 (3.57%) TestLink
7 2 (2.38%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.19%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.19%) Appium
8 1 (1.19%) Mockito
8 1 (1.19%) MSTest
8 1 (1.19%) NUnit
8 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 32 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (20.24%) Azure Developer
4 15 (17.86%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (16.67%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (16.67%) Support Specialist
6 10 (11.90%) Network Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Lead
7 7 (8.33%) VMware Expert
8 6 (7.14%) Designer
8 6 (7.14%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Lead Designer
10 4 (4.76%) Integration Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Ericsson Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Java Developer
12 2 (2.38%) Architect
12 2 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.19%) ARM Templates
2 18 (21.43%) React
3 17 (20.24%) REST
4 14 (16.67%) SOAP
5 11 (13.10%) NETCONF
5 11 (13.10%) RESTCONF
5 11 (13.10%) YANG
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
7 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.33%) HTML
8 6 (7.14%) .NET
8 6 (7.14%) CSS
9 5 (5.95%) JSON
9 5 (5.95%) XML
10 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.57%) Kafka
10 3 (3.57%) OAuth
10 3 (3.57%) OpenID
10 3 (3.57%) Spring
10 3 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) PKI
1 15 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.19%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.05%) Linux
2 15 (17.86%) Windows
2 15 (17.86%) Windows Server
2 15 (17.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (78.57%) DevOps
2 48 (57.14%) Agile
3 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (30.95%) Unit Testing
5 25 (29.76%) Test Automation
6 23 (27.38%) Security Testing
7 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.62%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (21.43%) Microservices
9 17 (20.24%) Analytics
9 17 (20.24%) Integration Testing
10 16 (19.05%) Identity Management
10 16 (19.05%) Product Backlog
10 16 (19.05%) RBAC
11 15 (17.86%) ITIL
11 15 (17.86%) Log Analytics
11 15 (17.86%) Release Management
11 15 (17.86%) Scrum
11 15 (17.86%) Service Management
11 15 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) Python
2 23 (27.38%) PowerShell
3 21 (25.00%) C#
4 15 (17.86%) Bicep
4 15 (17.86%) SQL
4 15 (17.86%) VB
4 15 (17.86%) VBScript
5 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) Java
7 5 (5.95%) PHP
8 3 (3.57%) C
9 2 (2.38%) Bash
10 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.24%) Degree
3 15 (17.86%) DV Cleared
3 15 (17.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (3.57%) AAT
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 30 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (27.38%) Docker
3 15 (17.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.33%) vCloud
4 7 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (40.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (17.86%) SCCM
2 15 (17.86%) SCOM
2 15 (17.86%) WSUS
3 11 (13.10%) Terraform
4 7 (8.33%) Istio
4 7 (8.33%) Rancher
4 7 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.38%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) Kibana
6 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Google
3 7 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (3.57%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.19%) Adobe
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.19%) IBM
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk
5 1 (1.19%) TIBCO