CI/CD Contracts in the Thames Valley

CI/CD
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 -34
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 117 166 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.44% 5.80% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 6.39% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 118 82
10th Percentile £476 £443 £413
25th Percentile £523 £514 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £609
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
South East median daily rate £600 £575 £573
% change year-on-year +4.35% +0.44% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £61.05 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -9.37% +6.08%
South East median hourly rate - £73.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +47.50% -22.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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 31 May 2024.

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 31 May 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
Berkshire -3 101 £605 +7.56% 25
Buckinghamshire +1 10 £538 -17.31% 11
Oxfordshire -1 6 £600 -4.76% 13
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 21 (17.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.84%) Apache
2 8 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
3 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.85%) Appian
4 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 78 (66.67%) Azure
2 46 (39.32%) Azure Monitor
3 39 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 25 (21.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (20.51%) Serverless
6 22 (18.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 21 (17.95%) AWS
7 21 (17.95%) Azure Functions
7 21 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (17.09%) Azure Storage
9 12 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (9.40%) GCP
11 9 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.13%) Azure API Management
12 6 (5.13%) PaaS
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.95%) DNS
1 21 (17.95%) Firewall
2 20 (17.09%) DHCP
3 8 (6.84%) VPN
4 7 (5.98%) BGP
4 7 (5.98%) Ethernet VPN
4 7 (5.98%) MPLS
4 7 (5.98%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (5.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.79%) NoSQL
2 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.84%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.42%) Big Data
4 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.71%) SSDT
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.85%) Impala
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.85%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 37 (31.62%) Git
2 12 (10.26%) Selenium
3 11 (9.40%) JIRA
4 10 (8.55%) GitLab
5 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.98%) Robot Framework
6 7 (5.98%) TestRail
7 5 (4.27%) TestLink
8 4 (3.42%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.56%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.71%) Appium
10 2 (1.71%) JMeter
10 2 (1.71%) JUnit
10 2 (1.71%) Postman
11 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.85%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.85%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.85%) Subversion
11 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 43 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.27%) Finance
4 4 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (28.21%) Developer
2 23 (19.66%) Full Stack Developer
3 21 (17.95%) Azure Developer
4 20 (17.09%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (11.97%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (11.97%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (11.97%) Support Specialist
6 12 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Python Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Ericsson Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) VMware Expert
10 6 (5.13%) Active Directory Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Network Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Support Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Lead
11 5 (4.27%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.37%) ARM Templates
1 25 (21.37%) React
2 13 (11.11%) REST
3 9 (7.69%) .NET
4 8 (6.84%) SOAP
4 8 (6.84%) YANG
5 7 (5.98%) NETCONF
5 7 (5.98%) RESTCONF
6 6 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (5.13%) HTML
7 5 (4.27%) JSON
7 5 (4.27%) Node.js
7 5 (4.27%) XML
8 4 (3.42%) Kafka
8 4 (3.42%) Spring
8 4 (3.42%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.42%) YAML
9 3 (2.56%) CSS
9 3 (2.56%) Web Services
10 2 (1.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.09%) PKI
1 20 (17.09%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (14.53%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.22%) Linux
2 22 (18.80%) Windows
3 20 (17.09%) Windows Server
3 20 (17.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (17.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.65%) DevOps
2 59 (50.43%) Agile
3 49 (41.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (29.06%) Test Automation
5 27 (23.08%) Analytics
6 25 (21.37%) Full Stack Development
7 24 (20.51%) Microservices
7 24 (20.51%) Unit Testing
8 23 (19.66%) ITIL
9 22 (18.80%) Release Management
10 21 (17.95%) Containerisation
10 21 (17.95%) Identity Management
10 21 (17.95%) RBAC
10 21 (17.95%) SDLC
11 20 (17.09%) Log Analytics
11 20 (17.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (17.09%) Privileged Identity Management
11 20 (17.09%) Service Management
12 16 (13.68%) Product Backlog
13 15 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.90%) Python
2 30 (25.64%) C#
3 28 (23.93%) PowerShell
4 20 (17.09%) Bicep
4 20 (17.09%) VB
4 20 (17.09%) VBScript
5 19 (16.24%) Java
6 11 (9.40%) SQL
7 7 (5.98%) C
7 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.27%) C++
9 4 (3.42%) Bash
10 3 (2.56%) Go
11 2 (1.71%) PHP
11 2 (1.71%) Scala
12 1 (0.85%) R
12 1 (0.85%) Rust
12 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 23 (19.66%) Degree
4 22 (18.80%) DV Cleared
5 20 (17.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (6.84%) AAT
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.71%) NIST
1 2 (1.71%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (34.19%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.80%) Docker
3 20 (17.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (17.09%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (5.98%) vCloud
5 7 (5.98%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (17.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (17.09%) SCCM
2 20 (17.09%) SCOM
2 20 (17.09%) WSUS
3 19 (16.24%) Terraform
4 9 (7.69%) Rancher
5 7 (5.98%) Ansible
5 7 (5.98%) Istio
5 7 (5.98%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.56%) Grafana
8 2 (1.71%) Argo
8 2 (1.71%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.55%) VMware
3 9 (7.69%) Google
4 7 (5.98%) Ericsson
5 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) Informatica
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) TIBCO