Continuous Integration Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 109 114
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 -46
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 37 41 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.40% 1.43% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.58% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 38
10th Percentile £370 £408 £412
25th Percentile £531 £413 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £616
90th Percentile £708 £598 £683
South East median daily rate £559 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +6.43% -4.55% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.05 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £61.05 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.85% +11.00% +35.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Continuous Integration 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 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £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 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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 June 2024.

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 June 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 -2 35 £650 +42.86% 6
Buckinghamshire +32 2 £464 -9.07% 3
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 (5.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Azure
2 17 (45.95%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) IaaS
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Big Data
1 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (75.68%) Selenium
2 26 (70.27%) Jenkins
3 25 (67.57%) Cucumber
4 24 (64.86%) REST Assured
4 24 (64.86%) SonarQube
5 16 (43.24%) JIRA
6 15 (40.54%) GitLab
7 6 (16.22%) Git
8 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.70%) Android Studio
9 1 (2.70%) Appium
9 1 (2.70%) CMake
9 1 (2.70%) MSTest
9 1 (2.70%) NUnit
9 1 (2.70%) Postman
9 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.70%) Xcode
General
1 28 (75.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (70.27%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (54.05%) Law
4 13 (35.14%) Police
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Java Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Java Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Architect
6 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Java Architect
8 3 (8.11%) Java Technical Architect
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
9 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (67.57%) Java EE
1 25 (67.57%) REST
2 14 (37.84%) ARM Templates
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.41%) HTML
4 2 (5.41%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.70%) CNTK
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) DOM
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) OpenVINO
5 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.70%) XML
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Android
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) DevOps
2 29 (78.38%) Test Automation
3 27 (72.97%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (67.57%) Decision-Making
4 25 (67.57%) Software Architecture
4 25 (67.57%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (64.86%) Software Engineering
6 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (43.24%) Configuration Management
8 14 (37.84%) Containerisation
9 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
9 9 (24.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (16.22%) Agile
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Delivery
11 3 (8.11%) ITIL
12 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence
12 2 (5.41%) Computer Science
12 2 (5.41%) Machine Learning
12 2 (5.41%) Open Source
12 2 (5.41%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) Bash
2 3 (8.11%) C#
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Go
4 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (72.97%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CCNP
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCSE
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) NCSC
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Ansible
2 18 (48.65%) Terraform
3 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
4 12 (32.43%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (32.43%) Podman
5 2 (5.41%) Rancher
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) VMware
2 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft