Continuous Deployment Contracts

Continuous Deployment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 413 423
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -62
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 205 328 520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 228 359
10th Percentile £450 £463 £431
25th Percentile £501 £513 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £556 £580
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% -4.09% +10.48%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £46.10 -
25th Percentile £45.06 £58.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Deployment within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +31 181 £600 +9.09% 74
London +91 125 £600 -7.69% 29
Work from Home +72 68 £594 +8.00% 38
UK excluding London -29 51 £600 +9.09% 47
North of England +11 26 £600 -7.69% 10
North West -5 14 £475 -26.92% 9
Yorkshire +22 12 £611 -0.24% 1
South East +14 10 £500 -9.09% 15
Scotland +31 6 £708 +66.59%
South West -12 5 £600 +9.09% 8
East of England +19 3 £425 - 7
Wales +15 1 £675 - 1

Continuous 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.85%) Confluence
2 6 (2.93%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) nginx
3 2 (0.98%) Traefik
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Windchill
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.46%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.46%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.66%) Azure
2 51 (24.88%) AWS
3 28 (13.66%) GitHub
4 23 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.24%) Serverless
6 18 (8.78%) GCP
7 17 (8.29%) Apigee
8 15 (7.32%) Azure API Management
8 15 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (7.32%) PaaS
9 14 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.34%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (5.37%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.37%) IaaS
12 10 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.88%) SaaS
13 9 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (4.39%) Azure Storage
13 9 (4.39%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.34%) VPN
2 12 (5.85%) Firewall
3 11 (5.37%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.39%) DNS
5 6 (2.93%) HTTP
6 4 (1.95%) Internet
7 3 (1.46%) DMZ
7 3 (1.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.24%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.93%) Big Data
6 6 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.93%) Delta Lake
6 6 (2.93%) Redis
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (2.44%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (1.95%) Power BI
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.46%) MySQL
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Git
1 42 (20.49%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.24%) GitLab
2 21 (10.24%) JIRA
2 21 (10.24%) Postman
3 17 (8.29%) Mockito
4 15 (7.32%) Selenium
5 11 (5.37%) Appium
5 11 (5.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (5.37%) SoapUI
6 10 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.39%) eggPlant
7 9 (4.39%) JUnit
7 9 (4.39%) REST Assured
7 9 (4.39%) SOAtest
7 9 (4.39%) TestNG
7 9 (4.39%) WebDriver
8 8 (3.90%) TeamCity
9 7 (3.41%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.93%) CircleCI
General
1 62 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.44%) Finance
3 25 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.29%) Retail
6 15 (7.32%) Banking
7 12 (5.85%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.44%) Electronics
9 3 (1.46%) Police
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (29.27%) Developer
2 34 (16.59%) Senior
3 29 (14.15%) Lead
4 27 (13.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 19 (9.27%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.32%) Architect
8 13 (6.34%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.85%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (5.37%) Consultant
11 10 (4.88%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.93%) Lead DevOps
14 6 (2.93%) MuleSoft Developer
14 6 (2.93%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.71%) ActiveMQ
2 22 (10.73%) .NET
2 22 (10.73%) Kafka
3 20 (9.76%) Web Services
4 18 (8.78%) Node.js
4 18 (8.78%) REST
5 17 (8.29%) JAX-RS
5 17 (8.29%) Swagger
6 16 (7.80%) .NET Framework
7 15 (7.32%) XML
8 13 (6.34%) Apache Camel
8 13 (6.34%) JSON
9 12 (5.85%) YAML
10 11 (5.37%) CSS
10 11 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (5.37%) Spring
11 10 (4.88%) HTML
12 9 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.39%) SOAP
13 7 (3.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.37%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.95%) Device Driver
4 4 (1.95%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (1.95%) IoT
4 4 (1.95%) PCIe
4 4 (1.95%) Verilog
4 4 (1.95%) VHDL
5 3 (1.46%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.46%) Wiki
6 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.98%) Clustering
6 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.98%) PKI
6 2 (0.98%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.51%) Linux
2 24 (11.71%) Unix
3 18 (8.78%) Mac OS X
3 18 (8.78%) Windows
4 4 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.95%) VxWorks
5 2 (0.98%) CentOS
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (80.98%) CI/CD
2 162 (79.02%) Continuous Integration
3 139 (67.80%) Agile
4 91 (44.39%) DevOps
5 56 (27.32%) TDD
5 56 (27.32%) Test Automation
6 53 (25.85%) Microservices
7 43 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (18.54%) BDD
9 36 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (15.12%) Software Engineering
11 30 (14.63%) Containerisation
12 26 (12.68%) Scrum
13 24 (11.71%) Pair Programming
14 23 (11.22%) Migration
15 22 (10.73%) SDLC
16 21 (10.24%) Configuration Management
17 20 (9.76%) Mentoring
17 20 (9.76%) Software Testing
18 19 (9.27%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.85%) Java
1 53 (25.85%) Python
2 45 (21.95%) SQL
3 28 (13.66%) C#
4 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.34%) Bash
6 12 (5.85%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.88%) Go
8 9 (4.39%) Ruby
9 7 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.44%) C
11 4 (1.95%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.95%) Perl
12 2 (0.98%) C++
12 2 (0.98%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.49%) Natural
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) R
13 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 44 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.24%) Degree
4 17 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.95%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) CEH
8 1 (0.49%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) ISEB
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.71%) QA
2 5 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.95%) MISRA
3 4 (1.95%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) NCSC
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (20.98%) Docker
2 12 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.95%) Firmware
4 4 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.46%) vCloud
5 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.46%) vSphere
6 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (22.44%) Terraform
2 43 (20.98%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.12%) Ansible
4 12 (5.85%) Puppet
5 10 (4.88%) Progress Chef
5 10 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.39%) Kibana
7 8 (3.90%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (3.90%) Grafana
7 8 (3.90%) logstash
8 3 (1.46%) Autotask
8 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.98%) Argo
9 2 (0.98%) Consul
9 2 (0.98%) Graphite
9 2 (0.98%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.98%) Istio
9 2 (0.98%) linkerd
9 2 (0.98%) Packer
9 2 (0.98%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.83%) Google
3 13 (6.34%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.39%) SAP
5 8 (3.90%) IBM
5 8 (3.90%) Oracle
5 8 (3.90%) Splunk
5 8 (3.90%) VMware
6 7 (3.41%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.93%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.93%) Databricks
7 6 (2.93%) WSO2
8 4 (1.95%) Intel
9 3 (1.46%) BMC
9 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.46%) PTC
9 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.46%) Remedy
9 3 (1.46%) Siemens
9 3 (1.46%) TOWER Software