Continuous Delivery Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery 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 82 137 137
Rank change year-on-year +55 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 20 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.34% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile - £388 £448
25th Percentile £500 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £588 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +13.53% +11.89%
75th Percentile £715 £605 £602
90th Percentile £743 £613 £642
South East median daily rate £558 £588 £589
% change year-on-year -5.11% -0.25% +7.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery 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%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery 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
Buckinghamshire +28 14 £630 +35.85% 17
Berkshire +31 6 £500 -14.89% 19
Continuous Delivery
South East

Continuous Delivery
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) IaaS
2 9 (45.00%) PaaS
3 8 (40.00%) SaaS
4 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (10.00%) BGP
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) MPLS
2 2 (10.00%) NGFW
2 2 (10.00%) OSPF
2 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) VLAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 10 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 9 (45.00%) Senior
3 9 (45.00%) Senior Architect
3 9 (45.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Principal Architect
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior VMware Architect
6 2 (10.00%) VMware Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) MACH
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (50.00%) PKI
2 6 (30.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (70.00%) Containerisation
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (70.00%) ITIL
2 14 (70.00%) Microservices
2 14 (70.00%) TOGAF
2 14 (70.00%) Zachman Framework
3 10 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 10 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 10 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
3 10 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 9 (45.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) Use Case
6 7 (35.00%) Requirements Management
7 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (25.00%) High Availability
7 5 (25.00%) Open Source
7 5 (25.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) MCSE
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (20.00%) CCNP
5 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) NCSC
1 13 (65.00%) NIST
2 9 (45.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (25.00%) Databricks
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft