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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -24
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 114 156 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.26% 5.39% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 5.89% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 108 90
10th Percentile £491 £450 £406
25th Percentile £515 £508 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £609
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +11.39%
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 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
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 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 0 96 £605 +7.56% 28
Buckinghamshire +1 12 £590 -9.23% 8
Oxfordshire -5 6 £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 17 (14.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (10.53%) Apache
2 12 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) Appian
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 75 (65.79%) Azure
2 42 (36.84%) Azure Monitor
3 31 (27.19%) Entra ID
4 25 (21.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (20.18%) Serverless
6 22 (19.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 20 (17.54%) Azure Functions
8 17 (14.91%) AWS
8 17 (14.91%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (14.04%) Azure Storage
10 10 (8.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (8.77%) GCP
11 8 (7.02%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.14%) Azure API Management
12 7 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (6.14%) PaaS
13 5 (4.39%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.91%) DNS
1 17 (14.91%) Firewall
2 16 (14.04%) DHCP
3 12 (10.53%) VPN
4 11 (9.65%) BGP
4 11 (9.65%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (9.65%) MPLS
4 11 (9.65%) Radio Access Network
5 10 (8.77%) VSAN
6 3 (2.63%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 18 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.65%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.51%) Big Data
8 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.88%) Impala
10 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.88%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 33 (28.95%) Git
2 15 (13.16%) JIRA
3 13 (11.40%) GitLab
4 11 (9.65%) Robot Framework
4 11 (9.65%) TestRail
5 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.14%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.39%) Selenium
7 4 (3.51%) TestLink
8 3 (2.63%) Postman
8 3 (2.63%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.75%) Appium
9 2 (1.75%) JMeter
9 2 (1.75%) JUnit
9 2 (1.75%) Maven
10 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.88%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 36 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.26%) Finance
4 5 (4.39%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Developer
2 20 (17.54%) Azure Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (14.04%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (12.28%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (12.28%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (12.28%) Support Specialist
6 13 (11.40%) Lead
7 10 (8.77%) Network Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
9 7 (6.14%) VMware Expert
10 6 (5.26%) Designer
10 6 (5.26%) Ericsson Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Full Stack Python Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Lead Designer
12 4 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Integration Developer
12 4 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) ARM Templates
2 19 (16.67%) React
3 18 (15.79%) REST
4 14 (12.28%) SOAP
5 11 (9.65%) NETCONF
5 11 (9.65%) RESTCONF
5 11 (9.65%) YANG
6 10 (8.77%) .NET
7 8 (7.02%) HTML
7 8 (7.02%) Node.js
8 7 (6.14%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.14%) CSS
9 6 (5.26%) JSON
9 6 (5.26%) XML
10 5 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.39%) YAML
11 4 (3.51%) Kafka
11 4 (3.51%) Spring
11 4 (3.51%) Spring Boot
12 3 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) PKI
1 16 (14.04%) Product Ownership
1 16 (14.04%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.79%) Linux
2 16 (14.04%) Windows
2 16 (14.04%) Windows Server
2 16 (14.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (14.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (70.18%) DevOps
2 59 (51.75%) Agile
3 47 (41.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (28.95%) Test Automation
5 28 (24.56%) Unit Testing
6 23 (20.18%) Analytics
6 23 (20.18%) Security Testing
7 21 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.42%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (17.54%) Microservices
8 20 (17.54%) SDLC
9 19 (16.67%) Scrum
10 18 (15.79%) ITIL
11 17 (14.91%) Identity Management
11 17 (14.91%) Integration Testing
11 17 (14.91%) RBAC
11 17 (14.91%) Release Management
12 16 (14.04%) Log Analytics
12 16 (14.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 16 (14.04%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.09%) Python
2 29 (25.44%) C#
3 27 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.91%) SQL
5 16 (14.04%) Bicep
5 16 (14.04%) VB
5 16 (14.04%) VBScript
6 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.89%) Java
8 5 (4.39%) PHP
9 4 (3.51%) C
10 3 (2.63%) C++
11 2 (1.75%) Bash
11 2 (1.75%) Go
11 2 (1.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.88%) Rust
12 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.54%) Degree
4 16 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (5.26%) AAT
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) NCSC
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 25 (21.93%) Docker
3 16 (14.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (14.04%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (8.77%) VMware NSX
5 8 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (6.14%) vCloud
7 3 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.91%) Terraform
3 16 (14.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (14.04%) SCCM
3 16 (14.04%) SCOM
3 16 (14.04%) WSUS
4 10 (8.77%) vCenter Server
5 8 (7.02%) Ansible
5 8 (7.02%) Rancher
6 7 (6.14%) Istio
7 3 (2.63%) vRealize
8 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.88%) Grafana
9 1 (0.88%) Kibana
9 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.53%) VMware
3 8 (7.02%) Google
4 6 (5.26%) Ericsson
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe
5 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.88%) Databricks
5 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.88%) IBM
5 1 (0.88%) Informatica
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) Splunk
5 1 (0.88%) TIBCO