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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 58 95 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 9.65% 8.43% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 9.75% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 70
10th Percentile £333 £491 £450
25th Percentile £469 £547 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% -3.20% +27.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £725
90th Percentile £636 £651 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -17.36% -3.20% +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £61.05

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 556 974 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.51% 86.42% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 522 634
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%

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 2 August 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 5 (8.62%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Drupal
3 1 (1.72%) Gunicorn
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) AWS
1 24 (41.38%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) GCP
4 10 (17.24%) GitHub
5 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.62%) Serverless
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) OCI
7 3 (5.17%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
1 2 (3.45%) Network Security
1 2 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.72%) BGP
2 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.72%) MPLS
2 1 (1.72%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.72%) SMS
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 8 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.07%) JIRA
4 5 (8.62%) GitLab
4 5 (8.62%) Selenium
5 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.45%) JMeter
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Mockito
5 2 (3.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) MLflow
6 1 (1.72%) Mocha
6 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.72%) Toad
6 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Telecoms
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.24%) Finance
5 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Electronics
6 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Architect
3 10 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) Security Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Cloud Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) React Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) HTML
2 8 (13.79%) CSS
2 8 (13.79%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) REST
4 5 (8.62%) FastAPI
4 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
4 5 (8.62%) TensorFlow
4 5 (8.62%) Web Services
5 4 (6.90%) Google JAX
5 4 (6.90%) JAX
5 4 (6.90%) JSON
5 4 (6.90%) OAuth
5 4 (6.90%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.90%) React
5 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
5 4 (6.90%) SOAP
5 4 (6.90%) XML
6 3 (5.17%) jQuery
6 3 (5.17%) Spring
6 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.72%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) DevOps
2 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (22.41%) Agile
5 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (15.52%) Microservices
6 9 (15.52%) SDLC
6 9 (15.52%) Validation
7 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) High Availability
7 8 (13.79%) Security Architecture
8 7 (12.07%) DevSecOps
8 7 (12.07%) Load Testing
8 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.07%) Test Scripting
8 7 (12.07%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (10.34%) Design Patterns
9 6 (10.34%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (58.62%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) SQL
3 11 (18.97%) Bash
4 10 (17.24%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) C#
6 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.90%) C++
7 4 (6.90%) R
7 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.17%) C
9 2 (3.45%) Bicep
9 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.72%) Go
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.90%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (5.17%) CCSP
5 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.17%) CISSP
5 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.72%) ISEB
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) GDPR
2 7 (12.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.34%) NIST
3 6 (10.34%) QA
4 5 (8.62%) EU AI Act
5 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.17%) PSD2
6 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.72%) HL7
6 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Kibana
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Virgin Media
2 6 (10.34%) Databricks
3 4 (6.90%) Splunk
4 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) BT
6 1 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) New Relic
6 1 (1.72%) Openreach
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Remedy
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow