Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Continuous Delivery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 95 119
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 3 21 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 1.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 1.28% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £592 £400 £644
25th Percentile £636 £425 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £717 £527 £714
Median % change year-on-year +36.10% -26.16% +9.81%
75th Percentile £795 £738 £741
90th Percentile £837 £825 £746
Central London median daily rate £717 £527 £714
% change year-on-year +36.10% -26.16% +9.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,635 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.59% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,027 1,378
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 12
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the City of London

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the City of London

Continuous Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Introscope
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Jython
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle