Continuous Integration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration 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 54 105 109
Rank change year-on-year +51 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 48 40 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.18% 1.49% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.71% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 28
10th Percentile £351 £363 £410
25th Percentile £450 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £483
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +26.94% -12.27%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £503
90th Percentile £743 £703 £554
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.55% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +37.61% -0.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Integration 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 Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
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 Integration 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 +23 29 £501 -21.49% 28
Buckinghamshire +32 19 £622 +60.40% 22
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 16
Continuous Integration
South East

Continuous Integration
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 (4.17%) Apache
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (70.83%) Azure
2 29 (60.42%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) IaaS
3 11 (22.92%) PaaS
4 9 (18.75%) SaaS
5 8 (16.67%) GCP
6 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.33%) GitHub
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.08%) AWS KMS
10 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
10 1 (2.08%) dbt
10 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) VSAN
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) BGP
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.17%) DNS
3 2 (4.17%) MPLS
3 2 (4.17%) NGFW
3 2 (4.17%) OSPF
3 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) VLAN
3 2 (4.17%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (10.42%) Data Lake
2 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Selenium
2 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 14 (29.17%) GitLab
4 13 (27.08%) Cucumber
4 13 (27.08%) JIRA
4 13 (27.08%) REST Assured
5 10 (20.83%) SonarQube
6 8 (16.67%) Git
7 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.08%) CMake
7 1 (2.08%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.08%) jMock
7 1 (2.08%) JUnit
7 1 (2.08%) Maven
7 1 (2.08%) Mockito
7 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.67%) Law
3 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.33%) Electronics
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.33%) Marketing
4 4 (8.33%) Police
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Architect
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
2 10 (20.83%) Technical Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Technical Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Principal Architect
7 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) REST
2 13 (27.08%) Java EE
3 9 (18.75%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.17%) CSS
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
5 2 (4.17%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.17%) Web Services
6 1 (2.08%) .NET
6 1 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.08%) ADO
6 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.08%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.08%) JPA
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
6 1 (2.08%) SOAP
6 1 (2.08%) Spring
6 1 (2.08%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (20.83%) PKI
2 8 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 27 (56.25%) Containerisation
3 25 (52.08%) DevOps
3 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 15 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (31.25%) Microservices
5 15 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (29.17%) ITIL
6 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
6 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 14 (29.17%) TOGAF
6 14 (29.17%) Zachman Framework
7 13 (27.08%) Software Architecture
7 13 (27.08%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (22.92%) DevSecOps
8 11 (22.92%) Requirements Management
9 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 10 (20.83%) Matrix Organization
9 10 (20.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) Java
3 11 (22.92%) Bash
3 11 (22.92%) SQL
4 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.25%) Bicep
6 2 (4.17%) R
7 1 (2.08%) C#
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (29.17%) MCSE
3 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.33%) CCNP
5 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) NCSC
1 13 (27.08%) NIST
2 9 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (12.50%) GDPR
3 6 (12.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Docker
2 10 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (20.83%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 9 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (18.75%) Podman
4 3 (6.25%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) VMware
2 10 (20.83%) Cisco
2 10 (20.83%) Palo Alto
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk