Continuous Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 170 160
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 29 42 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.62% 0.74% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.81% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 68
10th Percentile £373 £461 £403
25th Percentile £419 £520 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +6.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £527 £655 £606
90th Percentile £575 £689 £650
England median daily rate £550 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire +31 23 £430 -21.82% 9
North West -7 5 £524 -4.77% 13
North East +10 1 £525 -37.05% 2
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.34%) Jupyter
1 3 (10.34%) nginx
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) GCP
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) CloudBees
3 3 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.90%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (10.34%) ClickHouse
1 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) JMeter
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) GoCD
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (58.62%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Consultant
1 5 (17.24%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Storage Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Data Storage Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Data Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) EMC Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) EMC Storage Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (3.45%) NetBackup Support
5 1 (3.45%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Beam
2 3 (10.34%) Gherkin
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 3 (10.34%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.45%) Dagger
3 1 (3.45%) Jest
3 1 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Retrofit
3 1 (3.45%) RxJava
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Android
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
2 25 (86.21%) Continuous Integration
3 23 (79.31%) DevOps
4 17 (58.62%) Performance Analysis
5 15 (51.72%) Build Automation
6 13 (44.83%) ITIL
6 13 (44.83%) Validation
7 10 (34.48%) Agile
8 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
9 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
11 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
11 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
11 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
11 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
12 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
13 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
13 3 (10.34%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
2 5 (17.24%) Perl
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Go
3 3 (10.34%) Groovy
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) Ruby
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) EMC
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Brio
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Veritas