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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 87 112 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.82% 4.24% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 4.87% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 65 112
10th Percentile £325 £484 £450
25th Percentile £413 £506 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £700
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

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 1,385 2,298 2,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.64% 87.01% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,291 1,790
10th Percentile £299 £213 £320
25th Percentile £412 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 168 63
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -14.29% +201.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.72 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%

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 11 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 11 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 +3 66 £500 -17.36% 67
Buckinghamshire +23 19 £575 -2.54% 20
Oxfordshire +1 4 £493 -17.92% 38
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 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Camunda
3 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) Azure
2 39 (44.83%) AWS
3 19 (21.84%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (18.39%) Serverless
5 15 (17.24%) GitHub
6 13 (14.94%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (13.79%) PaaS
8 11 (12.64%) Azure AKS
8 11 (12.64%) GCP
9 9 (10.34%) Entra ID
9 9 (10.34%) IaaS
9 9 (10.34%) SaaS
10 8 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (8.05%) Azure API Management
11 7 (8.05%) Azure Storage
12 6 (6.90%) Snowflake
13 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (4.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) VSAN
2 7 (8.05%) BGP
3 6 (6.90%) DNS
4 5 (5.75%) OSPF
4 5 (5.75%) VPN
5 4 (4.60%) Firewall
5 4 (4.60%) MPLS
5 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
5 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.60%) WAN
6 3 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (3.45%) NGFW
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.30%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.30%) IPv6
7 2 (2.30%) SAN
7 2 (2.30%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (2.30%) TACACS
7 2 (2.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) SSDT
6 2 (2.30%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.30%) MySQL
6 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.15%) HDInsight
7 1 (1.15%) Impala
7 1 (1.15%) Metadata
7 1 (1.15%) Parquet
7 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Git
2 8 (9.20%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.20%) JIRA
3 7 (8.05%) Selenium
4 4 (4.60%) GitLab
5 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.30%) JMeter
5 2 (2.30%) JUnit
5 2 (2.30%) Mockito
5 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.30%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.15%) Maven
6 1 (1.15%) Postman
6 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.15%) Toad
6 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Telecoms
3 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Finance
6 5 (5.75%) Electronics
6 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Architect
1 18 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Technical Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Senior
7 6 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Principal Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) React Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Technical Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) JSON
2 10 (11.49%) REST
3 9 (10.34%) .NET
4 8 (9.20%) OAuth
5 7 (8.05%) HTML
6 6 (6.90%) ADO
6 6 (6.90%) React
6 6 (6.90%) YAML
7 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.75%) CSS
7 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.60%) ARM Templates
8 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.45%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.45%) Kafka
9 3 (3.45%) SOAP
9 3 (3.45%) Web Services
9 3 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.75%) PKI
3 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.15%) IoT
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) Tandem
5 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Windows
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (58.62%) DevOps
2 23 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
4 21 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (22.99%) Agile
6 17 (19.54%) Microservices
7 14 (16.09%) DevSecOps
8 13 (14.94%) RBAC
9 12 (13.79%) Scrum
9 12 (13.79%) TOGAF
10 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
11 10 (11.49%) ETL
11 10 (11.49%) ITIL
11 10 (11.49%) Migration
12 9 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (9.20%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) Python
2 25 (28.74%) SQL
3 16 (18.39%) PowerShell
4 13 (14.94%) Bash
4 13 (14.94%) C#
5 8 (9.20%) Java
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.90%) Bicep
8 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.15%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Perl
10 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) VB
10 1 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) MCSE
3 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.05%) CCNP
4 7 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.75%) Degree
6 5 (5.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.15%) CCNA
9 1 (1.15%) CCSP
9 1 (1.15%) CEH
9 1 (1.15%) CISM
9 1 (1.15%) CISSP
9 1 (1.15%) ISEB
9 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.15%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) NCSC
1 10 (11.49%) NIST
2 9 (10.34%) QA
3 8 (9.20%) GDPR
4 6 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (6.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.15%) HL7
6 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Docker
2 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.05%) VMware NSX
3 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.30%) Ceph
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (1.15%) NFS
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (21.84%) Kubernetes
1 19 (21.84%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.30%) Argo
4 2 (2.30%) Kibana
4 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.15%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) SCCM
5 1 (1.15%) SCOM
5 1 (1.15%) vRealize
5 1 (1.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) VMware
3 10 (11.49%) Cisco
4 6 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.75%) SAP
5 5 (5.75%) Splunk
6 4 (4.60%) Databricks
6 4 (4.60%) Virgin Media
7 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.45%) UiPath
8 2 (2.30%) Dell
8 2 (2.30%) Google
8 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.15%) BT
9 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle
9 1 (1.15%) Remedy
9 1 (1.15%) Snow
9 1 (1.15%) StreamSets