Continuous Deployment Contracts in England

Continuous Deployment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment 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 390 361 383
Rank change year-on-year -29 +22 +40
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 95 183 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.57% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 133 204
10th Percentile £376 £450 £466
25th Percentile £439 £503 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -7.29%
75th Percentile £625 £704 £688
90th Percentile £670 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £517 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.55
25th Percentile - - £66.38
Median hourly rate - - £68.00
75th Percentile - - £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.85
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -54.79% -7.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Continuous Deployment 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 Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in England

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in England

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in England

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Deployment in England

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment 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 -29 58 £525 -12.50% 87
North of England +10 18 £488 -18.75% 50
North West +19 17 £488 +2.63% 22
South East +45 9 £360 -28.00% 61
Midlands - 4 £500 - 39
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 24
South West +42 1 £625 +4.17% 26
Yorkshire -3 1 - - 21
Continuous Deployment
UK

Continuous Deployment
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 4 (4.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.05%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.05%) CMS
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.05%) AWS
2 36 (37.89%) Azure
3 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (20.00%) GCP
5 18 (18.95%) GitHub
6 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.42%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.21%) IaaS
8 4 (4.21%) Sentry
9 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.16%) PaaS
9 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.16%) SaaS
9 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 4 (4.21%) Firewall
3 3 (3.16%) VPN
4 2 (2.11%) HTTP
5 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.05%) LAN
5 1 (1.05%) Network Security
5 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.32%) Redis
4 5 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.16%) Power BI
7 2 (2.11%) Big Data
7 2 (2.11%) Impala
7 2 (2.11%) ObjectStore
7 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.05%) GIS
8 1 (1.05%) KDB
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (32.63%) Git
2 23 (24.21%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.63%) GitLab
4 11 (11.58%) JIRA
5 7 (7.37%) CircleCI
6 6 (6.32%) Subversion
7 4 (4.21%) Grunt
7 4 (4.21%) gulp
7 4 (4.21%) Jasmine
7 4 (4.21%) Mocha
7 4 (4.21%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.16%) Selenium
9 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.11%) Liquibase
9 2 (2.11%) Maven
9 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.37%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.26%) Banking
7 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Aviation
9 1 (1.05%) Front Office
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Developer
2 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Lead
3 15 (15.79%) Senior
4 8 (8.42%) Architect
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.21%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) REST
2 9 (9.47%) Node.js
2 9 (9.47%) React
3 8 (8.42%) Kafka
4 7 (7.37%) OAuth
5 6 (6.32%) CSS
5 6 (6.32%) HTML
5 6 (6.32%) RESTful
6 5 (5.26%) .NET
6 5 (5.26%) ADO
6 5 (5.26%) Django
6 5 (5.26%) SAML
7 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.21%) Express.js
7 4 (4.21%) HTML5
7 4 (4.21%) jQuery
7 4 (4.21%) Mustache
7 4 (4.21%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.21%) OpenID
7 4 (4.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.21%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Unix
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
4 3 (3.16%) Android
4 3 (3.16%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.05%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (91.58%) CI/CD
2 83 (87.37%) Continuous Integration
3 45 (47.37%) DevOps
4 36 (37.89%) Agile
5 27 (28.42%) Containerisation
6 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (24.21%) Test Automation
8 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.68%) Analytics
10 13 (13.68%) RBAC
10 13 (13.68%) TDD
11 12 (12.63%) Algorithmic Trading
11 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (12.63%) Electronic Trading
11 12 (12.63%) ETL
11 12 (12.63%) Market Making
11 12 (12.63%) Microservices
11 12 (12.63%) Scrum
12 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.53%) Python
2 26 (27.37%) Java
3 18 (18.95%) SQL
4 17 (17.89%) Bash
5 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
6 12 (12.63%) C
6 12 (12.63%) C++
7 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.26%) C#
8 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.16%) Go
9 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.11%) Groovy
10 2 (2.11%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.11%) R
11 1 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.63%) Degree
4 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.37%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
10 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (1.05%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.32%) GDPR
2 6 (6.32%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (26.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.05%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.05%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.32%) Terraform
3 9 (9.47%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Grafana
5 5 (5.26%) Puppet
6 4 (4.21%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.16%) Istio
7 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.05%) Argo
9 1 (1.05%) Cilium
9 1 (1.05%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) Google
3 3 (3.16%) Murex
4 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco
4 2 (2.11%) Dell
5 1 (1.05%) Aruba
5 1 (1.05%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.05%) Informatica
5 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.05%) New Relic
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) Remedy
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) Siemens
5 1 (1.05%) Sonatype