CI/CD Contracts in Berkshire

CI/CD
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 32 59
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -27
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 130 104 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.12% 5.79% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 6.40% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 84 53
10th Percentile £402 £456 £425
25th Percentile £461 £537 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £649 £700 £606
90th Percentile £654 £746 £646
South East median daily rate £555 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.10 £75.75
Median % change year-on-year - -31.22% +13.48%
South East median hourly rate - £76.53 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +13.38% +3.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,419 1,626 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 90.48% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 996 1,292
10th Percentile £325 £249 £307
25th Percentile £425 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +3.25% +5.93%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 70 28
10th Percentile £19.34 £18.95 £20.18
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £61.45 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +21.68% +117.20%
75th Percentile £63.41 £72.25 £77.44
90th Percentile £75.13 £77.27 £96.63
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Berkshire

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Reading +17 115 £605 -3.20% 12
Slough +10 9 £450 -18.18%
Bracknell +2 7 £390 -46.21% 3
Windsor - 1 £450 -
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) Apache
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) Appian
4 1 (0.77%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.77%) nginx
4 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.77%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 78 (60.00%) Azure
2 41 (31.54%) Azure Monitor
3 39 (30.00%) Serverless
4 38 (29.23%) Azure Functions
5 34 (26.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (23.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 29 (22.31%) Entra ID
8 23 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (13.08%) AWS
10 14 (10.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 14 (10.77%) GCP
11 12 (9.23%) Azure AKS
12 11 (8.46%) Azure Storage
12 11 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (7.69%) Azure API Management
14 6 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (3.85%) OCI
16 4 (3.08%) Google Compute Engine
16 4 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 3 (2.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.85%) MPLS
1 18 (13.85%) VPN
2 16 (12.31%) BGP
2 16 (12.31%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (9.23%) Firewall
4 11 (8.46%) DHCP
4 11 (8.46%) DNS
5 5 (3.85%) 4G
5 5 (3.85%) 5G
5 5 (3.85%) LTE
6 4 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (2.31%) 5G NR
8 2 (1.54%) 2G
8 2 (1.54%) 3G
8 2 (1.54%) SNMP
8 2 (1.54%) VoIP
8 2 (1.54%) Wireless
8 2 (1.54%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.77%) FCAPS
9 1 (0.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (29.23%) NoSQL
2 18 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.69%) Redis
4 9 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.38%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.08%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.54%) Big Data
9 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.54%) SSDT
10 1 (0.77%) MySQL
10 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (26.92%) Git
2 27 (20.77%) Selenium
3 22 (16.92%) GitLab
4 21 (16.15%) JIRA
5 13 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 8 (6.15%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.08%) TestLink
8 2 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.54%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.31%) Retail
5 1 (0.77%) Electronics
5 1 (0.77%) Finance
5 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (38.46%) Developer
2 27 (20.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 26 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (16.92%) Azure Developer
5 20 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.77%) Lead
6 14 (10.77%) Senior
7 13 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 13 (10.00%) Python Developer
7 13 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) Active Directory Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) Active Directory Support
9 11 (8.46%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) Support Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Architect
11 8 (6.15%) Automation Developer
11 8 (6.15%) React Developer
12 7 (5.38%) Backend Developer
12 7 (5.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.46%) React
2 21 (16.15%) REST
3 17 (13.08%) SOAP
3 17 (13.08%) YANG
4 16 (12.31%) NETCONF
4 16 (12.31%) Node.js
4 16 (12.31%) RESTCONF
5 14 (10.77%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.77%) RESTful
6 12 (9.23%) ARM Templates
6 12 (9.23%) Kafka
7 11 (8.46%) ADO
8 10 (7.69%) HTML
9 9 (6.92%) CSS
10 8 (6.15%) GraphQL
10 8 (6.15%) YAML
11 7 (5.38%) Gherkin
11 7 (5.38%) Prisma
12 6 (4.62%) JSON
12 6 (4.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.46%) PKI
2 11 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.38%) Wiki
4 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.31%) TM Forum
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.77%) IoT
7 1 (0.77%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.77%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.08%) Linux
2 16 (12.31%) CentOS
2 16 (12.31%) Unix
3 11 (8.46%) Windows
3 11 (8.46%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.46%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (8.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (63.85%) DevOps
2 73 (56.15%) Agile
3 41 (31.54%) Microservices
4 40 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 36 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (23.85%) Scrum
7 30 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 28 (21.54%) SDLC
9 27 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (19.23%) ITIL
10 25 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.92%) ETL
12 20 (15.38%) Workflow
13 16 (12.31%) Analytics
14 14 (10.77%) API Design
14 14 (10.77%) Product Backlog
14 14 (10.77%) Unit Testing
15 13 (10.00%) Release Management
15 13 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.46%) Python
2 33 (25.38%) SQL
3 30 (23.08%) Java
4 15 (11.54%) C#
4 15 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 13 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.23%) Bicep
7 11 (8.46%) VB
7 11 (8.46%) VBScript
8 7 (5.38%) Go
8 7 (5.38%) PHP
8 7 (5.38%) R
8 7 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.62%) C
9 6 (4.62%) C++
10 4 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.54%) Bash
11 2 (1.54%) Groovy
11 2 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) Degree
3 15 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (3.85%) AAT
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) GDPR
2 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.31%) NIST
3 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (23.85%) Active Directory
2 24 (18.46%) Docker
3 11 (8.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (8.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (33.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.54%) Terraform
3 11 (8.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (8.46%) SCCM
3 11 (8.46%) SCOM
3 11 (8.46%) WSUS
4 8 (6.15%) Ansible
5 3 (2.31%) Rancher
6 2 (1.54%) Grafana
6 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.77%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.77%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) Cisco
2 11 (8.46%) Oracle
3 8 (6.15%) Ericsson
4 7 (5.38%) Google
5 6 (4.62%) Nokia
6 5 (3.85%) Databricks
6 5 (3.85%) SAP
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.54%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.54%) Rakuten
8 2 (1.54%) SendGrid
8 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.54%) VMware
9 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.77%) Virgin Media