CI/CD Contracts in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 49 41
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 112 104 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.37% 3.69% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 4.17% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 106
10th Percentile £346 £485 £425
25th Percentile £409 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £676 £750
South East median daily rate £513 £575 £567
% change year-on-year -10.87% +1.41% +1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 - £71.25
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,416 2,496 2,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.22% 88.67% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,425 1,886
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £409 £364 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £681
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 181 51
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.94 £20.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £42.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -12.19% +176.57%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.00 £68.11
90th Percentile £74.70 £79.78 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +91.49%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
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 CI/CD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 April 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 +17 80 £500 -17.01% 75
Buckinghamshire +26 30 £595 +0.85% 28
Oxfordshire +4 4 £493 -17.92% 24
CI/CD
South East

CI/CD
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 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.79%) Apache
2 2 (1.79%) Appian
2 2 (1.79%) Camunda
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.93%) Azure
2 38 (33.93%) AWS
3 30 (26.79%) Serverless
4 18 (16.07%) Azure AKS
4 18 (16.07%) Azure Functions
4 18 (16.07%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (14.29%) PaaS
6 15 (13.39%) SaaS
7 14 (12.50%) GitHub
8 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (11.61%) Entra ID
9 11 (9.82%) IaaS
10 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (8.93%) GCP
11 8 (7.14%) Azure API Management
11 8 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.36%) Snowflake
13 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (3.57%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) VSAN
2 9 (8.04%) VPN
3 6 (5.36%) MPLS
4 5 (4.46%) BGP
4 5 (4.46%) DNS
4 5 (4.46%) Firewall
5 4 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.57%) WAN
6 3 (2.68%) 5G
6 3 (2.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.68%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.68%) LTE
6 3 (2.68%) NGFW
6 3 (2.68%) OSPF
7 2 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.79%) SMTP
7 2 (1.79%) VLAN
7 2 (1.79%) VoIP
7 2 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.82%) Redis
4 8 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.46%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
7 3 (2.68%) SSDT
8 2 (1.79%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Impala
9 1 (0.89%) Metadata
9 1 (0.89%) Parquet
9 1 (0.89%) Power BI
9 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) Git
2 11 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.04%) Selenium
4 7 (6.25%) GitLab
4 7 (6.25%) JIRA
5 3 (2.68%) Maven
6 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.79%) Gradle
6 2 (1.79%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.79%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.89%) Postman
7 1 (0.89%) Snyk
7 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.89%) Toad
7 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
1 23 (20.54%) Telecoms
2 16 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Finance
5 6 (5.36%) Electronics
5 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (25.89%) Developer
2 28 (25.00%) Architect
3 16 (14.29%) Senior
4 14 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 13 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Azure Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Backend Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Technical Architect
7 8 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.36%) React Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Principal Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) RESTful
2 13 (11.61%) GraphQL
3 11 (9.82%) .NET
3 11 (9.82%) JSON
3 11 (9.82%) Prisma
4 10 (8.93%) Node.js
4 10 (8.93%) React
5 8 (7.14%) OAuth
6 7 (6.25%) .NET Core
6 7 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 7 (6.25%) REST
7 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.46%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.46%) CSS
7 5 (4.46%) Entity Framework
7 5 (4.46%) HTML
7 5 (4.46%) YAML
8 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (3.57%) SOAP
8 4 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) PKI
2 11 (9.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.04%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.68%) Wiki
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.79%) IoT
7 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.79%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.89%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.89%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.89%) Tandem
8 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Unix
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.89%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (52.68%) DevOps
2 42 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 37 (33.04%) Microservices
4 30 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (25.89%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (20.54%) Agile
6 23 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (17.86%) DevSecOps
9 18 (16.07%) TOGAF
10 17 (15.18%) ITIL
11 16 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.39%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (12.50%) RBAC
13 14 (12.50%) Scrum
13 14 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
14 13 (11.61%) Cost Management
14 13 (11.61%) Event-Driven
14 13 (11.61%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (39.29%) Python
2 23 (20.54%) SQL
3 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
4 15 (13.39%) C#
5 12 (10.71%) Bash
6 11 (9.82%) Java
6 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.25%) Bicep
8 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.57%) R
10 2 (1.79%) Groovy
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.79%) VB
10 2 (1.79%) VBScript
11 1 (0.89%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) MCSE
3 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (9.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.25%) CCNP
6 7 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.25%) Degree
7 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) NCSC
1 16 (14.29%) NIST
2 12 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (8.04%) QA
4 8 (7.14%) GDPR
5 6 (5.36%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (26.79%) Docker
2 15 (13.39%) VMware NSX
3 14 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.68%) NFS
6 3 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.89%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.75%) Terraform
3 8 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.68%) vRealize
4 3 (2.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.79%) CloudHub
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.79%) SCCM
5 2 (1.79%) SCOM
5 2 (1.79%) WSUS
6 1 (0.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (16.96%) VMware
2 16 (14.29%) Cisco
3 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.36%) SAP
6 4 (3.57%) Databricks
6 4 (3.57%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.68%) Nokia
7 3 (2.68%) Splunk
7 3 (2.68%) UiPath
8 2 (1.79%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.79%) Google
8 2 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.79%) Rakuten
9 1 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.89%) New Relic
9 1 (0.89%) Openreach
9 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow