CI/CD Contracts in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 44 40
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 103 113 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.82% 4.21% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 4.83% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 64 104
10th Percentile £338 £490 £450
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.88 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Berkshire +6 76 £500 -17.36% 149
Buckinghamshire +28 25 £595 +0.85% 117
Oxfordshire +4 4 £493 -17.92% 85
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 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) Appian
2 2 (1.94%) Camunda
3 1 (0.97%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.97%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.22%) Azure
2 36 (34.95%) AWS
3 23 (22.33%) Serverless
4 19 (18.45%) PaaS
5 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.50%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (14.56%) GitHub
7 15 (14.56%) SaaS
8 14 (13.59%) Azure AKS
8 14 (13.59%) IaaS
9 12 (11.65%) Entra ID
10 11 (10.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (10.68%) Azure Functions
10 11 (10.68%) GCP
11 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (6.80%) Azure API Management
13 6 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (5.83%) Azure Storage
13 6 (5.83%) Snowflake
14 5 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.59%) VSAN
2 7 (6.80%) BGP
3 6 (5.83%) DNS
4 5 (4.85%) OSPF
4 5 (4.85%) VPN
5 4 (3.88%) Firewall
5 4 (3.88%) MPLS
5 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.88%) WAN
6 3 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.91%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.91%) NGFW
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.94%) IPv6
7 2 (1.94%) SAN
7 2 (1.94%) TACACS
7 2 (1.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.88%) Redis
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.91%) Big Data
7 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.91%) SSDT
8 2 (1.94%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.94%) MySQL
8 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.97%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.97%) HBase
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Git
2 9 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.74%) Selenium
3 7 (6.80%) JIRA
4 5 (4.85%) GitLab
5 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.94%) JMeter
5 2 (1.94%) JUnit
5 2 (1.94%) Mockito
5 2 (1.94%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.97%) Maven
6 1 (0.97%) Postman
6 1 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.97%) Toad
6 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Telecoms
3 18 (17.48%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Finance
6 6 (5.83%) Electronics
6 6 (5.83%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Architect
2 23 (22.33%) Developer
3 15 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 14 (13.59%) Technical Architect
5 12 (11.65%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (9.71%) Senior Architect
6 10 (9.71%) Senior Technical Architect
7 9 (8.74%) Azure Developer
8 8 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) .NET Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.83%) React Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Principal Architect
12 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.88%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) .NET
1 11 (10.68%) JSON
2 10 (9.71%) React
3 9 (8.74%) HTML
3 9 (8.74%) REST
4 8 (7.77%) OAuth
5 7 (6.80%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.80%) .NET Framework
5 7 (6.80%) CSS
6 6 (5.83%) RESTful
6 6 (5.83%) YAML
7 5 (4.85%) ADO
7 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.85%) Entity Framework
7 5 (4.85%) GraphQL
7 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.88%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (3.88%) Prisma
9 3 (2.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (10.68%) PKI
2 9 (8.74%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Tandem
7 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.97%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) CentOS
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (52.43%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) Containerisation
3 30 (29.13%) Microservices
4 29 (28.16%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (22.33%) Agile
7 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.42%) DevSecOps
9 18 (17.48%) TOGAF
10 16 (15.53%) ITIL
11 15 (14.56%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (14.56%) Scrum
12 14 (13.59%) Zachman Framework
13 13 (12.62%) RBAC
14 12 (11.65%) ETL
15 11 (10.68%) IT Strategy
15 11 (10.68%) Requirements Management
15 11 (10.68%) Technology Strategy
15 11 (10.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.83%) Python
2 26 (25.24%) SQL
3 16 (15.53%) PowerShell
4 15 (14.56%) C#
5 12 (11.65%) Bash
6 10 (9.71%) Java
7 9 (8.74%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.85%) Bicep
9 4 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.94%) R
11 1 (0.97%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.97%) VB
11 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) MCSE
3 15 (14.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (10.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.80%) CCNP
6 7 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.85%) Degree
7 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.97%) CEH
10 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.97%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) NCSC
1 16 (15.53%) NIST
2 12 (11.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (7.77%) GDPR
4 7 (6.80%) QA
5 6 (5.83%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (21.36%) Docker
2 15 (14.56%) VMware NSX
3 14 (13.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.91%) NFS
5 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.94%) Ceph
7 1 (0.97%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (20.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (17.48%) Terraform
3 5 (4.85%) Ansible
4 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.91%) vRealize
4 3 (2.91%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (1.94%) Argo
5 2 (1.94%) Kibana
5 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.97%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.97%) Grafana
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.97%) SCCM
6 1 (0.97%) SCOM
6 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (18.45%) VMware
2 18 (17.48%) Cisco
3 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 12 (11.65%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.83%) SAP
6 5 (4.85%) Splunk
7 4 (3.88%) Databricks
7 4 (3.88%) Virgin Media
8 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.91%) UiPath
9 2 (1.94%) Blue Prism
9 2 (1.94%) Dell
9 2 (1.94%) Google
9 2 (1.94%) Nokia
9 2 (1.94%) Rakuten
9 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.97%) BT
10 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.97%) Oracle
10 1 (0.97%) Remedy