Continuous Delivery Contracts in England

Continuous Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 353 253
Rank change year-on-year +74 -100 -49
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 216 191 524
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.51% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.59% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 115 367
10th Percentile £364 £375 £463
25th Percentile £416 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £674 £708 £691
90th Percentile £775 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £40.78 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £101.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +36 110 £527 -21.93% 113
North of England +25 35 £513 +18.09% 46
South East +62 28 £558 -5.11% 27
Yorkshire +7 22 £516 +20.03% 14
South West +52 18 £384 -4.13% 17
Midlands +23 13 £469 -13.99% 26
North West +24 12 £539 +2.82% 26
West Midlands +16 10 £461 -31.67% 21
East of England +29 6 £500 +17.65% 15
East Midlands +10 3 £500 +19.33% 4
North East 0 1 £430 -18.10% 7
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (15.74%) Confluence
2 11 (5.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.31%) nginx
3 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.85%) Apache
4 4 (1.85%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.39%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Endur
1 1 (0.46%) OpenLink RightAngle
1 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (33.33%) AWS
2 59 (27.31%) Azure
3 31 (14.35%) GitHub
4 20 (9.26%) Serverless
5 19 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (8.80%) GCP
6 17 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (7.87%) Slack
7 15 (6.94%) PaaS
8 14 (6.48%) SaaS
9 13 (6.02%) IaaS
10 12 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.17%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.31%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.31%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.94%) HTTP
2 12 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.63%) VSAN
4 9 (4.17%) Firewall
5 5 (2.31%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.39%) DNS
7 2 (0.93%) BGP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.93%) IPsec
7 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.93%) MPLS
7 2 (0.93%) NGFW
7 2 (0.93%) OSPF
7 2 (0.93%) SSL
7 2 (0.93%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.93%) VPN
7 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.35%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.19%) Apache Cassandra
3 22 (10.19%) MySQL
4 17 (7.87%) SQL Server
5 16 (7.41%) Big Data
6 10 (4.63%) Hadoop
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.24%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.31%) Apache Hive
9 5 (2.31%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (2.31%) Parquet
9 5 (2.31%) Presto
10 4 (1.85%) DB2
11 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.93%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.93%) GIS
12 2 (0.93%) Power BI
12 2 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (21.30%) Git
2 41 (18.98%) JIRA
3 38 (17.59%) Jenkins
4 24 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 23 (10.65%) JUnit
6 18 (8.33%) Jasmine
7 16 (7.41%) GitLab
8 13 (6.02%) TeamCity
9 11 (5.09%) Selenium
10 10 (4.63%) Visual Studio
11 8 (3.70%) Bitbucket
11 8 (3.70%) Cypress.io
11 8 (3.70%) Maven
12 5 (2.31%) CircleCI
12 5 (2.31%) Eclipse
12 5 (2.31%) Gradle
12 5 (2.31%) IntelliJ
12 5 (2.31%) Poetry
13 4 (1.85%) HP UFT
14 3 (1.39%) Ant
General
1 55 (25.46%) Finance
2 47 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.13%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.11%) Banking
5 14 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.02%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.09%) Electronics
8 11 (5.09%) Marketing
9 8 (3.70%) Front Office
9 8 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.70%) Military
10 6 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.31%) Legal
12 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.46%) Games
15 1 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 82 (37.96%) Developer
2 50 (23.15%) Senior
3 32 (14.81%) Architect
3 32 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 24 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 23 (10.65%) Technical Architect
6 21 (9.72%) Lead
7 18 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (7.41%) C# Developer
9 15 (6.94%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.48%) Senior Architect
11 13 (6.02%) React Developer
11 13 (6.02%) Senior Technical Architect
12 12 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (4.63%) Lead Developer
14 10 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (4.17%) Azure Developer
16 8 (3.70%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.20%) Spring
2 34 (15.74%) React
3 28 (12.96%) RESTful
4 26 (12.04%) HTML
5 23 (10.65%) Spring Boot
6 22 (10.19%) Node.js
7 21 (9.72%) .NET
8 20 (9.26%) CSS
9 18 (8.33%) Web Services
10 17 (7.87%) Spring Security
10 17 (7.87%) Swagger
11 16 (7.41%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.41%) OpenAPI
11 16 (7.41%) Spring Batch
12 15 (6.94%) REST
13 14 (6.48%) Kafka
14 13 (6.02%) HTML5
15 11 (5.09%) Redux
16 10 (4.63%) GraphQL
17 8 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 18 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.48%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.09%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.63%) PKI
7 6 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.31%) Derivative
8 5 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.31%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.39%) Equities
10 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.30%) Linux
2 19 (8.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (5.56%) Windows
4 6 (2.78%) Android
4 6 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.31%) Unix
6 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 134 (62.04%) Continuous Integration
3 101 (46.76%) Agile
4 80 (37.04%) DevOps
4 80 (37.04%) TDD
5 64 (29.63%) Microservices
6 61 (28.24%) Test Automation
7 51 (23.61%) Software Engineering
8 42 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (18.52%) Containerisation
10 39 (18.06%) BDD
11 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
13 26 (12.04%) Mentoring
14 24 (11.11%) High Availability
15 23 (10.65%) OWASP
15 23 (10.65%) Scrum
15 23 (10.65%) User Experience
16 22 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (8.80%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.17%) Java
2 52 (24.07%) SQL
3 48 (22.22%) Python
4 41 (18.98%) C#
4 41 (18.98%) JavaScript
5 37 (17.13%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.65%) Bash
7 14 (6.48%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.70%) Scala
9 7 (3.24%) C++
10 5 (2.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.85%) Perl
11 4 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.39%) Go
12 3 (1.39%) PHP
12 3 (1.39%) Ruby
13 2 (0.93%) Rust
13 2 (0.93%) XPath
14 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.48%) Degree
3 14 (6.48%) MCSE
3 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.85%) CCNP
7 4 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.87%) QA
2 14 (6.48%) NCSC
3 13 (6.02%) NIST
4 9 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) GDPR
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 34 (15.74%) Docker
2 12 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.63%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.93%) RACF
7 1 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 53 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 50 (23.15%) Terraform
3 22 (10.19%) Ansible
4 10 (4.63%) Grafana
5 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.93%) Packer
6 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Rancher
7 1 (0.46%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.41%) VMware
3 13 (6.02%) Oracle
4 12 (5.56%) Google
5 11 (5.09%) SAP
6 10 (4.63%) Cisco
6 10 (4.63%) Palo Alto
7 9 (4.17%) Splunk
8 7 (3.24%) Databricks
9 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.85%) Sybase
11 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.39%) Murex
12 2 (0.93%) Brio
12 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.93%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
13 1 (0.46%) Perforce