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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 31 38 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.85% 1.56% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.84% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £343 £428 £400
25th Percentile £357 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £509 £675 £588
90th Percentile £600 £688 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £531 £565
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.97% +4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.95
25th Percentile - - £55.79
Median hourly rate - - £61.05
75th Percentile - - £65.79
90th Percentile - - £68.32
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £61.05
% change year-on-year - +22.85% +1.75%

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 1,543 2,066 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.23% 84.57% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,157 1,808
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.48% +2.75%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 129 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.29 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.03 £20.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.03 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.57% +6.06% +194.12%
75th Percentile £54.06 £66.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £80.90 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £55.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year -60.05% +10.08% +100.00%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +6 26 £501 -16.58% 12
Buckinghamshire +9 5 £350 -30.00% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 10
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (83.87%) Azure
2 22 (70.97%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) GCP
4 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
5 4 (12.90%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (9.68%) IaaS
6 3 (9.68%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.23%) dbt
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.23%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Selenium
2 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
3 13 (41.94%) Cucumber
3 13 (41.94%) GitLab
3 13 (41.94%) JIRA
3 13 (41.94%) REST Assured
4 10 (32.26%) SonarQube
5 7 (22.58%) Git
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.23%) CMake
6 1 (3.23%) DbUnit
6 1 (3.23%) jMock
6 1 (3.23%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) Maven
6 1 (3.23%) Mockito
6 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Law
3 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
4 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Police
6 3 (9.68%) Electronics
6 3 (9.68%) Finance
6 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 3 (9.68%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Java Engineer
1 9 (29.03%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (29.03%) Software Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (3.23%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.23%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) REST
2 13 (41.94%) Java EE
3 9 (29.03%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.45%) CSS
4 2 (6.45%) HTML
4 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.23%) ADO
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Batch
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) DevOps
2 16 (51.61%) Configuration Management
3 15 (48.39%) Software Engineering
4 14 (45.16%) Test Automation
5 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
5 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (41.94%) Software Architecture
5 13 (41.94%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
7 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (32.26%) Decision-Making
9 8 (25.81%) Migration
10 7 (22.58%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (22.58%) Data Migration
11 6 (19.35%) Data Security
11 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
12 5 (16.13%) RBAC
13 4 (12.90%) ETL
13 4 (12.90%) Product Analysis
13 4 (12.90%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 10 (32.26%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) Bash
5 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) Bicep
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) C++
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) GDPR
1 5 (16.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (29.03%) Podman
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) SAP
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) Databricks
2 1 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (3.23%) Splunk