Continuous Delivery Contracts in England

Continuous Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 252 208
Rank change year-on-year -111 -44 -8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 177 525 1,019
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 1.04% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.15% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 367 713
10th Percentile £392 £463 £405
25th Percentile £433 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £716 £691 £688
90th Percentile £765 £813 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -3.36% +3.48% +13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% +97.53%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - £101.25 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -18.75% +97.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Continuous Delivery 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -64 102 £675 +12.22% 46
North of England +17 29 £434 -23.86% 15
Yorkshire +34 23 £430 -22.87% 5
Midlands +1 12 £545 +0.93% 5
South West -31 11 £400 -27.27% 15
South East -7 10 £588 +5.62% 21
West Midlands +5 8 £675 +25.00% 4
East of England +3 6 £425 -8.11% 9
North West +1 5 £524 -6.89% 8
East Midlands +18 3 £419 -22.41% 1
North East +17 1 £525 -37.05% 2
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.95%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.82%) nginx
2 5 (2.82%) SAS
3 4 (2.26%) Apache
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.69%) CMS
4 3 (1.69%) Drupal
4 3 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.13%) IIS
5 2 (1.13%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Softmar
2 1 (0.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.81%) Azure
2 40 (22.60%) AWS
3 29 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (11.30%) GCP
5 15 (8.47%) Serverless
6 10 (5.65%) Azure Functions
6 10 (5.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (5.08%) Azure API Management
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Storage
9 7 (3.95%) Azure Batch
9 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.95%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.39%) PaaS
11 5 (2.82%) GitHub
12 4 (2.26%) Azure App Service
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.39%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.26%) SSL
4 3 (1.69%) DNS
4 3 (1.69%) Firewall
4 3 (1.69%) HTTP
4 3 (1.69%) VPN
5 1 (0.56%) FTP
5 1 (0.56%) IPsec
5 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) NoSQL
2 16 (9.04%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.21%) Big Data
3 11 (6.21%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.95%) OLTP
7 6 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.82%) KDB
9 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.26%) MySQL
9 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.69%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.69%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.69%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.13%) DB2
11 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Git
2 32 (18.08%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.17%) TeamCity
4 15 (8.47%) Cucumber
5 13 (7.34%) Moq
6 12 (6.78%) NUnit
7 11 (6.21%) JIRA
8 10 (5.65%) Visual Studio
9 9 (5.08%) Selenium
10 8 (4.52%) Cypress.io
11 7 (3.95%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (3.39%) Eclipse
13 5 (2.82%) Artifactory
13 5 (2.82%) GitLab
14 4 (2.26%) Ant
14 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.69%) JMeter
15 3 (1.69%) JUnit
15 3 (1.69%) Maven
15 3 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 44 (24.86%) Finance
2 39 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.30%) Banking
3 20 (11.30%) Front Office
4 14 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.52%) Military
8 7 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.82%) Marketing
10 4 (2.26%) Games
10 4 (2.26%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.13%) Electronics
11 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (32.20%) Developer
2 22 (12.43%) Senior
3 20 (11.30%) C# Developer
4 17 (9.60%) Lead
5 14 (7.91%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.65%) React Developer
7 10 (5.65%) Scrum Master
7 10 (5.65%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Consultant
11 6 (3.39%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Azure Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Technical Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.08%) .NET
2 27 (15.25%) Node.js
3 18 (10.17%) Web Services
4 17 (9.60%) .NET Core
4 17 (9.60%) React
4 17 (9.60%) RESTful
5 15 (8.47%) ASP.NET
6 14 (7.91%) Middleware
6 14 (7.91%) RabbitMQ
6 14 (7.91%) REST
7 13 (7.34%) ASP.NET Web API
8 12 (6.78%) SignalR
8 12 (6.78%) Spring
8 12 (6.78%) XML
9 10 (5.65%) ASP.NET Core
10 9 (5.08%) GraphQL
10 9 (5.08%) HTML
10 9 (5.08%) JSON
10 9 (5.08%) Kafka
11 8 (4.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.65%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.08%) Fixed Income
4 9 (5.08%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.52%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.82%) Derivative
7 5 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.82%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.13%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.12%) Linux
2 15 (8.47%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) Android
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.13%) AIX
5 2 (1.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (72.88%) CI/CD
2 119 (67.23%) Continuous Integration
3 113 (63.84%) Agile
4 90 (50.85%) DevOps
5 47 (26.55%) Test Automation
6 46 (25.99%) TDD
7 38 (21.47%) Scrum
8 34 (19.21%) Microservices
9 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (14.69%) Mentoring
11 25 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (14.12%) OO
11 25 (14.12%) Software Engineering
12 24 (13.56%) Containerisation
13 23 (12.99%) ITIL
14 21 (11.86%) Design Patterns
14 21 (11.86%) Kanban
15 20 (11.30%) Validation
16 19 (10.73%) Electronic Trading
16 19 (10.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.73%) C#
2 40 (22.60%) SQL
3 38 (21.47%) Java
4 34 (19.21%) Python
5 28 (15.82%) JavaScript
6 20 (11.30%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.30%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.34%) Go
8 10 (5.65%) Bash
8 10 (5.65%) C++
9 8 (4.52%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.39%) Groovy
10 6 (3.39%) Perl
10 6 (3.39%) Scala
11 4 (2.26%) Ruby
12 3 (1.69%) Bicep
12 3 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.13%) C
14 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.65%) Degree
3 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.26%) CISSP
6 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) APMP
7 1 (0.56%) CCNP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) MCSE
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.13%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (16.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Ceph
3 1 (0.56%) NFS
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (19.21%) Terraform
2 22 (12.43%) Ansible
3 16 (9.04%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.39%) Progress Chef
4 6 (3.39%) Puppet
5 4 (2.26%) Grafana
6 3 (1.69%) Kibana
7 2 (1.13%) Rancher
7 2 (1.13%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.56%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Mesos
8 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.56%) Packer
8 1 (0.56%) Podman
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.47%) EMC
3 12 (6.78%) TIBCO
4 10 (5.65%) Splunk
5 8 (4.52%) Google
6 7 (3.95%) Oracle
7 5 (2.82%) ION Trading
7 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.82%) VMware
8 4 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.13%) Databricks
9 2 (1.13%) F5
9 2 (1.13%) IBM
9 2 (1.13%) Remedy
9 2 (1.13%) SAP
10 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.56%) Sybase