CI/CD Contracts in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 45 41 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 110 152 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.12% 5.17% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.65% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 91
10th Percentile £496 £450 £406
25th Percentile £515 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £606
90th Percentile £675 £750 £675
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -1 93 £605 +10.00% 25
Buckinghamshire -2 12 £590 -9.23% 10
Oxfordshire -7 5 £600 -4.76% 9
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (10.91%) Apache
2 12 (10.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
3 2 (1.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.91%) Appian
4 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 71 (64.55%) Azure
2 40 (36.36%) Azure Monitor
3 29 (26.36%) Entra ID
4 24 (21.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (20.00%) Serverless
6 21 (19.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 19 (17.27%) Azure Functions
8 18 (16.36%) AWS
9 16 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (13.64%) Azure Storage
11 10 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (9.09%) GCP
12 8 (7.27%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.36%) Azure API Management
13 7 (6.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (6.36%) PaaS
14 5 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Search
15 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.55%) DNS
1 16 (14.55%) Firewall
2 15 (13.64%) DHCP
3 12 (10.91%) VPN
4 11 (10.00%) BGP
4 11 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (10.00%) MPLS
4 11 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
5 10 (9.09%) VSAN
6 3 (2.73%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.36%) NoSQL
2 17 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.64%) Big Data
8 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.91%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.91%) Impala
10 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.91%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 32 (29.09%) Git
2 16 (14.55%) JIRA
3 14 (12.73%) GitLab
4 11 (10.00%) Robot Framework
4 11 (10.00%) TestRail
5 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.36%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.55%) Selenium
7 3 (2.73%) Postman
7 3 (2.73%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.73%) TestLink
8 2 (1.82%) Appium
8 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 2 (1.82%) JUnit
8 2 (1.82%) Maven
9 1 (0.91%) NUnit
9 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.91%) Subversion
9 1 (0.91%) webpack
9 1 (0.91%) Xcode
General
1 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.45%) Finance
4 5 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (26.36%) Developer
2 19 (17.27%) Azure Developer
3 18 (16.36%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (13.64%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (12.73%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (12.73%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (12.73%) Support Specialist
6 12 (10.91%) Lead
7 10 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Python Developer
8 7 (6.36%) VMware Expert
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Designer
9 6 (5.45%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Ericsson Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Lead Designer
11 4 (3.64%) Integration Developer
11 4 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 18 (16.36%) React
2 18 (16.36%) REST
3 14 (12.73%) SOAP
4 11 (10.00%) NETCONF
4 11 (10.00%) RESTCONF
4 11 (10.00%) YANG
5 9 (8.18%) .NET
6 8 (7.27%) HTML
6 8 (7.27%) Node.js
7 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
7 7 (6.36%) CSS
8 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.45%) JSON
8 6 (5.45%) XML
9 5 (4.55%) YAML
10 4 (3.64%) Kafka
10 4 (3.64%) Spring
10 4 (3.64%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (13.64%) PKI
2 15 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.36%) Linux
2 15 (13.64%) Windows
2 15 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 15 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (70.91%) DevOps
2 58 (52.73%) Agile
3 47 (42.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 27 (24.55%) Unit Testing
6 23 (20.91%) Security Testing
7 21 (19.09%) Analytics
7 21 (19.09%) Containerisation
8 20 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
9 19 (17.27%) Microservices
9 19 (17.27%) Scrum
9 19 (17.27%) SDLC
10 18 (16.36%) ITIL
11 17 (15.45%) Integration Testing
11 17 (15.45%) Release Management
12 16 (14.55%) Identity Management
12 16 (14.55%) Product Backlog
12 16 (14.55%) RBAC
12 16 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (13.64%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.45%) Python
2 28 (25.45%) C#
3 26 (23.64%) PowerShell
4 17 (15.45%) SQL
5 15 (13.64%) Bicep
5 15 (13.64%) VB
5 15 (13.64%) VBScript
6 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.18%) Java
8 5 (4.55%) PHP
9 4 (3.64%) C
10 3 (2.73%) C++
10 3 (2.73%) Go
11 2 (1.82%) Bash
11 2 (1.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.91%) Rust
12 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.27%) Degree
4 15 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (4.55%) AAT
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) CCNP
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.91%) MCSE
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) QA
2 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.91%) NCSC
2 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 25 (22.73%) Docker
3 15 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (6.36%) vCloud
7 3 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (34.55%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.36%) Terraform
3 15 (13.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (13.64%) SCCM
3 15 (13.64%) SCOM
3 15 (13.64%) WSUS
4 10 (9.09%) vCenter Server
5 9 (8.18%) Ansible
5 9 (8.18%) Rancher
6 7 (6.36%) Istio
7 3 (2.73%) Kibana
7 3 (2.73%) vRealize
8 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.91%) Grafana
9 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) VMware
3 8 (7.27%) Google
4 5 (4.55%) Ericsson
5 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.91%) Adobe
6 1 (0.91%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.91%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.91%) Databricks
6 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) Informatica
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.91%) Splunk
6 1 (0.91%) TIBCO