Blue-Green Deployment Contracts

Blue-Green Deployment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Blue-Green Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue-Green Deployment over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 715 818
Rank change year-on-year +128 +103 -142
Contract jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment 4 3 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.005% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.006% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 31
10th Percentile £641 £308 £481
25th Percentile £643 £309 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +105.38% -45.83% +11.63%
75th Percentile £690 £419 £809
90th Percentile - £468 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £666 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Blue-Green Deployment 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Blue-Green Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blue-Green Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blue-Green Deployment in the UK

Blue-Green Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment.

Daily rate trend for Blue-Green Deployment in the UK

Blue-Green Deployment
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +109 2 £668 +105.38% 4
London +100 2 £668 +105.38% 2
Wales - 2 £666 -
UK excluding London - 2 £666 - 1
Work from Home +130 1 £643 +105.60% 1

Blue-Green Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) AppScan
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Application Security
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SANS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Graylog
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Nagios
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) HP Fortify
3 2 (50.00%) Nessus
3 2 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Checkmarx
3 2 (50.00%) Veracode