Continuous Delivery Contracts in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 129 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 12 36 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 1.04% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.18% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 50
10th Percentile £404 £429 £380
25th Percentile £407 £508 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £540 £464
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +16.44% -0.27%
75th Percentile £688 £594 £575
90th Percentile - £595 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +5 8 £675 +25.00% 6
East Midlands +23 3 £419 +4.10% 2
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (25.00%) CMS
1 3 (25.00%) Drupal
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) IPsec
3 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) Selenium
1 3 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Ant
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Games
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (8.33%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Scrum Master
2 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) React
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) SDLC
5 4 (33.33%) Technical Debt
6 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Epics
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Kanban
6 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cadence