Continuous Deployment Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Deployment
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment 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 93 141 147
Rank change year-on-year +48 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 9 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £325 £465 £404
25th Percentile £344 £488 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £525 £449
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +16.98% -0.27%
75th Percentile £459 £584 £468
90th Percentile £530 £601 £472
South East median daily rate £360 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Deployment 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 Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the Thames Valley

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the Thames Valley

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the Thames Valley

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment 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 - 5 £350 - 5
Berkshire +31 4 £534 +1.62% 8
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 4
Continuous Deployment
South East

Continuous Deployment
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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 6 (66.67%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
5 1 (11.11%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (55.56%) Data Lake
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Snowflake Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
1 2 (22.22%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) Blazor
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Data Security
2 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (66.67%) RBAC
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Data Management
4 4 (44.44%) Product Analysis
4 4 (44.44%) Requirements Management
5 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) R
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
1 6 (66.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft