Continuous Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 258 199
Rank change year-on-year -44 -59 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 89 183 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.81% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.90% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 135 279
10th Percentile £382 £442 £405
25th Percentile £401 £504 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £625
90th Percentile £630 £686 £701
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 1
10th Percentile £62.75 £54.17 -
25th Percentile - £58.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +251.35% -53.16%
75th Percentile - £90.63 £18.75
90th Percentile £65.90 £101.25 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% +45.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,598 20,227 27,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 89.09% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 13,876 18,976
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,188 1,246 1,331
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.40 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +26 31 £432 -24.21% 13
Yorkshire +20 23 £430 -23.89% 4
Scotland +10 16 £469 -10.71% 6
East of England +11 11 £475 -9.52% 14
Midlands -3 11 £575 +6.48% 13
South East -1 10 £538 - 19
South West -13 10 £400 -38.56% 7
West Midlands -3 9 £638 +18.06% 13
North West -3 5 £524 -6.89% 6
North East +10 3 £410 -50.24% 3
East Midlands +4 1 £419 -16.62%
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.74%) Confluence
3 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.37%) CMS
3 3 (3.37%) Drupal
3 3 (3.37%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) Azure
3 15 (16.85%) GCP
4 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.87%) Serverless
6 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.74%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.37%) CloudBees
8 3 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.25%) GitHub
9 2 (2.25%) PaaS
9 2 (2.25%) SaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.12%) IaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Route 53
10 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) Ethernet
1 11 (12.36%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.49%) SSL
3 3 (3.37%) DNS
3 3 (3.37%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) IPsec
4 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.99%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.87%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.37%) ClickHouse
6 3 (3.37%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.25%) MySQL
8 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Visual Studio
2 12 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.36%) Eclipse
3 11 (12.36%) JIRA
4 10 (11.24%) Git
5 8 (8.99%) Selenium
6 6 (6.74%) Artifactory
6 6 (6.74%) GitLab
7 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.37%) JMeter
7 3 (3.37%) Subversion
8 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.25%) JUnit
8 2 (2.25%) Postman
9 1 (1.12%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.12%) GoCD
9 1 (1.12%) Gradle
9 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 24 (26.97%) Finance
2 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Military
3 11 (12.36%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Electronics
6 1 (1.12%) Games
6 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Law
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.12%) Marketing
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Developer
2 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
3 12 (13.48%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.24%) C# Software Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Consultant
7 5 (5.62%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior
8 4 (4.49%) Storage Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Lead
9 3 (3.37%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) Spring
1 14 (15.73%) Spring Boot
2 13 (14.61%) Node.js
3 12 (13.48%) REST
3 12 (13.48%) Web Services
4 11 (12.36%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (12.36%) Kafka
5 9 (10.11%) RESTful
6 7 (7.87%) OpenTracing
6 7 (7.87%) React
7 4 (4.49%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.37%) .NET
8 3 (3.37%) CSS
8 3 (3.37%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.37%) HTML
8 3 (3.37%) JPA
8 3 (3.37%) OAuth
8 3 (3.37%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.37%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.49%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.12%) FMCG
8 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.97%) Linux
2 14 (15.73%) Windows
3 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.37%) Android
5 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (85.39%) CI/CD
2 66 (74.16%) Continuous Integration
3 55 (61.80%) Agile
4 48 (53.93%) DevOps
5 25 (28.09%) Software Engineering
6 24 (26.97%) Validation
7 23 (25.84%) Test Automation
8 20 (22.47%) ITIL
8 20 (22.47%) TDD
9 18 (20.22%) Microservices
10 17 (19.10%) Design Patterns
10 17 (19.10%) Performance Analysis
11 15 (16.85%) Build Automation
12 13 (14.61%) SDLC
12 13 (14.61%) Unit Testing
13 12 (13.48%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.36%) Roadmaps
14 11 (12.36%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) Java
2 23 (25.84%) JavaScript
3 16 (17.98%) C#
3 16 (17.98%) C++
3 16 (17.98%) Python
4 13 (14.61%) Scala
5 8 (8.99%) Kotlin
5 8 (8.99%) SQL
6 7 (7.87%) Bash
6 7 (7.87%) Go
6 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.62%) Perl
8 4 (4.49%) Groovy
8 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby
10 2 (2.25%) C
10 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.25%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.12%) APMP
4 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.12%) SLA
3 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (20.22%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (24.72%) Ansible
2 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.48%) Terraform
4 8 (8.99%) Grafana
5 7 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.87%) Zipkin
6 5 (5.62%) Rancher
7 4 (4.49%) Kibana
8 3 (3.37%) Packer
9 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.12%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.12%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.73%) EMC
3 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.87%) VMware
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) Brio
5 1 (1.12%) Google
5 1 (1.12%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle
5 1 (1.12%) SAP
5 1 (1.12%) Veritas