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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 368 412
Rank change year-on-year -8 +44 +17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 100 177 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.56% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 134 164
10th Percentile £363 £437 £463
25th Percentile £439 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £574 £706 £700
90th Percentile £668 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +6.84%
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 - £60.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
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 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 -19 56 £550 -8.33% 49
North of England +9 25 £488 -18.75% 71
North West +16 20 £475 -6.40% 41
South East +60 12 £350 -26.32% 80
Yorkshire +9 4 £500 -19.61% 21
South West +39 1 £625 +4.17% 31
East of England +32 1 £500 +21.21% 41
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 30
Midlands - 1 £550 - 54
North East - 1 £550 - 9
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 5 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.00%) AWS
2 40 (40.00%) Azure
3 20 (20.00%) GCP
4 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.00%) GitHub
5 16 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.00%) IaaS
9 4 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.00%) PaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Sentry
11 2 (2.00%) Apigee
11 2 (2.00%) Boomi
11 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 5 (5.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.00%) HTTP
5 2 (2.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) LAN
6 1 (1.00%) Network Security
6 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.00%) MySQL
6 3 (3.00%) Power BI
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) KDB
7 2 (2.00%) ObjectStore
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.00%) GIS
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (36.00%) Git
2 32 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.00%) JIRA
4 11 (11.00%) GitLab
5 9 (9.00%) Subversion
6 6 (6.00%) CircleCI
7 5 (5.00%) Gradle
7 5 (5.00%) Liquibase
7 5 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.00%) Xcode
9 3 (3.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (3.00%) Grunt
9 3 (3.00%) gulp
9 3 (3.00%) Jasmine
9 3 (3.00%) Maven
9 3 (3.00%) Mocha
9 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.00%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.00%) Selenium
10 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Finance
3 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Front Office
9 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.00%) Aviation
10 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.00%) Lead
5 9 (9.00%) Architect
6 8 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Android Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Android Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) iOS Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Team Leader
10 3 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) DevOps Specialist
10 3 (3.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) Kafka
2 13 (13.00%) REST
3 11 (11.00%) Node.js
4 10 (10.00%) CSS
4 10 (10.00%) HTML
5 8 (8.00%) OAuth
6 7 (7.00%) React
6 7 (7.00%) RESTful
7 6 (6.00%) SAML
8 5 (5.00%) Android SDK
8 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.00%) ADO
9 4 (4.00%) Express.js
9 4 (4.00%) HTML5
9 4 (4.00%) jQuery
9 4 (4.00%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.00%) OpenID
10 3 (3.00%) Django
10 3 (3.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Android
3 7 (7.00%) Unix
4 4 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.00%) Mac OS X
5 3 (3.00%) Windows
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (88.00%) CI/CD
2 80 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 47 (47.00%) DevOps
4 40 (40.00%) Agile
5 24 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.00%) TDD
7 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (18.00%) Test Automation
9 17 (17.00%) Scrum
10 15 (15.00%) Microservices
10 15 (15.00%) RBAC
10 15 (15.00%) User Experience
11 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.00%) Analytics
13 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
13 12 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (11.00%) Architectural Design
15 10 (10.00%) Data Security
15 10 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 49 (49.00%) Python
2 34 (34.00%) Java
3 20 (20.00%) Bash
4 19 (19.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (19.00%) SQL
5 13 (13.00%) C
5 13 (13.00%) C++
6 11 (11.00%) Go
7 9 (9.00%) Kotlin
8 6 (6.00%) Perl
9 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.00%) Objective-C
10 4 (4.00%) Ruby
10 4 (4.00%) Scala
10 4 (4.00%) Swift
11 3 (3.00%) C#
11 3 (3.00%) Groovy
11 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) Degree
4 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.00%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.00%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.00%) OpenIDM
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (38.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (27.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) Ansible
4 6 (6.00%) Grafana
5 4 (4.00%) Kustomize
5 4 (4.00%) Puppet
6 3 (3.00%) Istio
6 3 (3.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) Argo
7 1 (1.00%) Cilium
7 1 (1.00%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.00%) Google
3 3 (3.00%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.00%) Murex
4 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco
4 2 (2.00%) Dell
4 2 (2.00%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.00%) Aruba
5 1 (1.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.00%) New Relic
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) Remedy
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.00%) Sonatype