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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 355 268
Rank change year-on-year +79 -87 -65
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 196 190 470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.52% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.61% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 332
10th Percentile £358 £375 £463
25th Percentile £408 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £700 £689
90th Percentile £750 £784 £799
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £62.38 - £55.21
25th Percentile £64.06 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £101.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.38%

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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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
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 22 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 +36 112 £520 -13.33% 196
North of England +15 26 £494 +13.77% 180
South West +42 19 £375 -6.25% 99
South East +53 16 £500 -13.04% 205
Midlands +16 13 £460 -24.12% 152
Yorkshire -1 13 £513 +19.19% 68
North West +19 12 £539 +2.82% 91
West Midlands +12 8 £460 -29.90% 88
East of England +23 5 £500 +11.11% 111
East Midlands +9 5 £471 +12.36% 54
North East +3 1 £430 -18.10% 21
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 28 (14.29%) Confluence
2 10 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.55%) nginx
3 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.53%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.02%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.51%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.76%) AWS
2 58 (29.59%) Azure
3 28 (14.29%) GitHub
4 21 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (10.20%) GCP
5 20 (10.20%) Serverless
6 13 (6.63%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (5.61%) Slack
9 9 (4.59%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.57%) SaaS
11 6 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.55%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.55%) IaaS
12 5 (2.55%) PaaS
13 4 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.61%) HTTP
3 9 (4.59%) Firewall
4 5 (2.55%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.55%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.53%) DNS
5 3 (1.53%) VSAN
6 2 (1.02%) BGP
6 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.02%) DMZ
6 2 (1.02%) Internet
6 2 (1.02%) IPsec
6 2 (1.02%) MPLS
6 2 (1.02%) NGFW
6 2 (1.02%) OSPF
6 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.02%) SSL
6 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.24%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (10.20%) Big Data
4 15 (7.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 13 (6.63%) MySQL
7 10 (5.10%) Hadoop
8 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.55%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (2.55%) Parquet
10 5 (2.55%) Presto
11 4 (2.04%) DB2
11 4 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (2.04%) GIS
11 4 (2.04%) Tableau
12 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (21.94%) Git
2 38 (19.39%) Jenkins
3 34 (17.35%) JIRA
4 17 (8.67%) Cucumber
5 16 (8.16%) JUnit
6 15 (7.65%) GitLab
7 11 (5.61%) Jasmine
7 11 (5.61%) Selenium
8 10 (5.10%) Maven
8 10 (5.10%) TeamCity
8 10 (5.10%) Visual Studio
9 9 (4.59%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.57%) Gradle
11 6 (3.06%) CircleCI
12 5 (2.55%) Eclipse
12 5 (2.55%) IntelliJ
12 5 (2.55%) Poetry
13 4 (2.04%) HP UFT
14 3 (1.53%) Subversion
General
1 59 (30.10%) Finance
2 45 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.20%) Banking
5 18 (9.18%) Telecoms
6 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.65%) Manufacturing
7 14 (7.14%) Electronics
7 14 (7.14%) Marketing
8 9 (4.59%) Military
9 6 (3.06%) Front Office
9 6 (3.06%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.55%) Legal
10 5 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.51%) Games
13 1 (0.51%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (37.24%) Developer
2 43 (21.94%) Senior
3 24 (12.24%) Architect
4 22 (11.22%) Java Developer
4 22 (11.22%) Lead
4 22 (11.22%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.69%) C# Developer
5 19 (9.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) Technical Architect
7 15 (7.65%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) React Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Azure Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Lead Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Applications Support
12 8 (4.08%) C# Software Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Senior Architect
13 7 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.37%) React
2 27 (13.78%) Spring
3 23 (11.73%) Node.js
3 23 (11.73%) RESTful
4 22 (11.22%) .NET
5 21 (10.71%) HTML
6 20 (10.20%) Web Services
7 17 (8.67%) CSS
7 17 (8.67%) REST
8 16 (8.16%) Spring Boot
9 14 (7.14%) GraphQL
10 12 (6.12%) Kafka
11 11 (5.61%) OpenAPI
11 11 (5.61%) Redux
11 11 (5.61%) Spring Batch
11 11 (5.61%) Spring Security
11 11 (5.61%) Swagger
12 10 (5.10%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.59%) Next.js
14 8 (4.08%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 13 (6.63%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.53%) Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Equities
7 3 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.53%) PKI
8 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.02%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.02%) NHS
8 2 (1.02%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.88%) Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Windows
3 6 (3.06%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.55%) Unix
5 4 (2.04%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (61.22%) CI/CD
2 112 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 95 (48.47%) Agile
4 79 (40.31%) DevOps
5 72 (36.73%) TDD
6 54 (27.55%) Test Automation
7 45 (22.96%) Microservices
8 41 (20.92%) Software Engineering
9 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (15.31%) BDD
11 30 (15.31%) Deployment Automation
12 24 (12.24%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.22%) Containerisation
13 22 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (11.22%) Scrum
14 20 (10.20%) OWASP
15 19 (9.69%) High Availability
15 19 (9.69%) User Experience
16 18 (9.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.55%) Java
2 52 (26.53%) Python
3 47 (23.98%) SQL
4 44 (22.45%) C#
5 41 (20.92%) JavaScript
6 38 (19.39%) TypeScript
7 18 (9.18%) PowerShell
8 16 (8.16%) Bash
9 7 (3.57%) C++
10 6 (3.06%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.04%) Perl
11 4 (2.04%) Scala
11 4 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.53%) Go
12 3 (1.53%) Ruby
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
13 2 (1.02%) XPath
14 1 (0.51%) Groovy
14 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) Degree
4 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.53%) MCSE
6 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.53%) NCSC
6 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.02%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 28 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.53%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.02%) RACF
6 1 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 53 (27.04%) Terraform
2 48 (24.49%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.71%) Ansible
4 11 (5.61%) Grafana
5 9 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Packer
6 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) SAP
3 14 (7.14%) Google
4 13 (6.63%) Oracle
5 7 (3.57%) Splunk
6 6 (3.06%) Databricks
7 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.55%) VMware
8 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.04%) Sybase
9 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.53%) Cisco
9 3 (1.53%) Murex
9 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.02%) Brio
10 2 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.02%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.51%) Salesforce