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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 417 423
Rank change year-on-year +32 +6 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 200 294 503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 210 347
10th Percentile £448 £462 £445
25th Percentile £502 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +3.81% +12.38%
75th Percentile £701 £684 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £586 £573
% change year-on-year -1.88% +2.36% +14.50%
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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

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 19 May 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 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 11 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 19 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 +33 181 £600 -3.03% 87
London +89 125 £600 -7.69% 40
Work from Home +62 67 £597 -2.53% 49
UK excluding London -12 52 £575 -1.88% 57
North of England +17 28 £600 -7.69% 17
Yorkshire +13 14 £622 -11.14% 1
North West +10 14 £513 -21.15% 13
South East +9 10 £475 -13.64% 19
South West -16 6 £600 -4.00% 6
Scotland +40 5 - - 2
East of England +15 3 £425 - 3

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 15 (7.50%) Confluence
2 10 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.00%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.00%) nginx
4 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.00%) Traefik
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Windchill
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.50%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.50%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.50%) Azure
2 50 (25.00%) AWS
3 27 (13.50%) GitHub
4 22 (11.00%) Serverless
5 20 (10.00%) GCP
6 19 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (9.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 17 (8.50%) Apigee
7 17 (8.50%) PaaS
8 16 (8.00%) Azure API Management
8 16 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (7.50%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (6.00%) IaaS
12 11 (5.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (5.50%) SaaS
13 10 (5.00%) Azure Storage
13 10 (5.00%) Kong
14 9 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.50%) TCP/IP
1 15 (7.50%) VPN
2 13 (6.50%) DNS
3 12 (6.00%) Firewall
4 9 (4.50%) HTTP
5 5 (2.50%) Network Security
6 4 (2.00%) Internet
7 3 (1.50%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) 5G
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) LTE
8 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.50%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.50%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.00%) Big Data
3 10 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.00%) Delta Lake
4 8 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.50%) InterSystems Cache
5 5 (2.50%) Power BI
5 5 (2.50%) Redis
6 4 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.50%) MySQL
7 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (24.00%) Git
2 47 (23.50%) Jenkins
3 26 (13.00%) GitLab
4 24 (12.00%) Postman
5 21 (10.50%) JIRA
6 17 (8.50%) Mockito
7 15 (7.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (7.50%) Selenium
8 11 (5.50%) Appium
8 11 (5.50%) SoapUI
9 10 (5.00%) Cucumber
9 10 (5.00%) Travis CI
10 9 (4.50%) CircleCI
10 9 (4.50%) eggPlant
10 9 (4.50%) JUnit
10 9 (4.50%) REST Assured
10 9 (4.50%) SOAtest
10 9 (4.50%) TestNG
10 9 (4.50%) WebDriver
11 8 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.00%) Finance
3 24 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.50%) Retail
5 14 (7.00%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.50%) Electronics
8 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) French Language
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (31.50%) Developer
2 39 (19.50%) Senior
3 31 (15.50%) Lead
4 29 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.00%) Senior Developer
6 20 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 16 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Architect
10 12 (6.00%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (4.50%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Consultant
12 8 (4.00%) Senior Python Developer
13 7 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
14 6 (3.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
1 24 (12.00%) Kafka
1 24 (12.00%) Web Services
2 23 (11.50%) .NET
3 20 (10.00%) Swagger
4 19 (9.50%) Node.js
5 18 (9.00%) XML
6 17 (8.50%) JAX-RS
6 17 (8.50%) REST
7 16 (8.00%) .NET Framework
7 16 (8.00%) JSON
8 15 (7.50%) YAML
9 14 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (6.00%) CSS
11 11 (5.50%) HTML
11 11 (5.50%) Spring
12 10 (5.00%) PySpark
13 9 (4.50%) Apache Camel
13 9 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.00%) Device Driver
5 4 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.00%) IoT
5 4 (2.00%) PCIe
5 4 (2.00%) Verilog
5 4 (2.00%) VHDL
6 3 (1.50%) Blockchain
6 3 (1.50%) Wiki
7 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.00%) Clustering
7 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.00%) PKI
7 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.00%) Linux
2 25 (12.50%) Unix
3 18 (9.00%) Mac OS X
4 11 (5.50%) Windows
5 4 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.00%) VxWorks
6 2 (1.00%) CentOS
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 155 (77.50%) Continuous Integration
3 137 (68.50%) Agile
4 96 (48.00%) DevOps
5 60 (30.00%) TDD
6 58 (29.00%) Test Automation
7 54 (27.00%) Microservices
8 44 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (19.00%) BDD
9 38 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (16.50%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.00%) Software Engineering
12 27 (13.50%) Pair Programming
13 25 (12.50%) Scrum
14 23 (11.50%) SDLC
15 21 (10.50%) Configuration Management
15 21 (10.50%) Software Testing
16 20 (10.00%) API Management
17 18 (9.00%) Deployment Automation
17 18 (9.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.50%) Python
2 50 (25.00%) Java
3 45 (22.50%) SQL
4 29 (14.50%) C#
5 25 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.50%) Bash
7 14 (7.00%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.50%) Ruby
9 8 (4.00%) Go
10 7 (3.50%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.50%) C
12 4 (2.00%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.00%) Perl
13 3 (1.50%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.50%) PHP
14 2 (1.00%) C++
15 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.50%) Natural
15 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.50%) Degree
4 17 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) CEH
8 1 (0.50%) CISSP
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.00%) MISRA
3 4 (2.00%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.00%) NCSC
4 2 (1.00%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (23.50%) Docker
2 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.00%) Firmware
6 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.50%) vCloud
6 3 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (23.00%) Kubernetes
1 46 (23.00%) Terraform
2 35 (17.50%) Ansible
3 16 (8.00%) Puppet
4 14 (7.00%) Progress Chef
4 14 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.00%) Grafana
5 12 (6.00%) Kibana
6 11 (5.50%) Docker Swarm
6 11 (5.50%) logstash
7 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.50%) Autotask
9 2 (1.00%) Argo
9 2 (1.00%) Graphite
9 2 (1.00%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.00%) Istio
9 2 (1.00%) linkerd
9 2 (1.00%) Packer
9 2 (1.00%) Podman
9 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.50%) Google
3 12 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.00%) Splunk
4 10 (5.00%) Databricks
5 9 (4.50%) VMware
6 8 (4.00%) SAP
7 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.50%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.50%) Oracle
8 6 (3.00%) WSO2
9 4 (2.00%) Intel
10 3 (1.50%) BMC
10 3 (1.50%) F5
10 3 (1.50%) IBM
10 3 (1.50%) PTC
10 3 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.50%) Remedy
10 3 (1.50%) Siemens
10 3 (1.50%) TOWER Software