Continuous Delivery Contracts in London

Continuous Delivery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 243 279 222
Rank change year-on-year +36 -57 -29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 110 112 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.63% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.71% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 71 234
10th Percentile £375 £375 £463
25th Percentile £402 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in London

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in London

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +22 22 £550 -24.14% 2
West London +6 4 - - 3
South London +7 3 £473 -
East London +11 2 £250 -56.29% 3
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (10.91%) Confluence
2 9 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.55%) nginx
3 5 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.64%) Apache
4 4 (3.64%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Endur
1 1 (0.91%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 35 (31.82%) AWS
2 27 (24.55%) Azure
3 16 (14.55%) GitHub
4 15 (13.64%) Serverless
5 12 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.18%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (8.18%) Entra ID
7 9 (8.18%) GCP
8 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.27%) Slack
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.64%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.64%) PaaS
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) HTTP
2 5 (4.55%) Firewall
2 5 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.91%) IPsec
3 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.91%) SSL
3 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) MongoDB
2 17 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.82%) SQL Server
4 12 (10.91%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (8.18%) Big Data
5 9 (8.18%) Hadoop
6 8 (7.27%) MySQL
7 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.55%) Apache Hive
8 5 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.55%) Parquet
8 5 (4.55%) Presto
9 4 (3.64%) DB2
10 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.82%) GIS
11 2 (1.82%) Power BI
11 2 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (20.91%) Git
1 23 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.45%) JIRA
3 12 (10.91%) TeamCity
4 11 (10.00%) GitLab
5 10 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 9 (8.18%) JUnit
7 8 (7.27%) Jasmine
8 7 (6.36%) Cypress.io
9 5 (4.55%) CircleCI
9 5 (4.55%) Poetry
9 5 (4.55%) Visual Studio
10 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.73%) Ant
11 3 (2.73%) Babel
11 3 (2.73%) Selenium
11 3 (2.73%) Subversion
11 3 (2.73%) webpack
12 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.18%) Banking
4 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Front Office
5 8 (7.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.73%) Legal
7 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.82%) Electronics
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (47.27%) Developer
2 20 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 20 (18.18%) Senior
3 15 (13.64%) Lead
4 13 (11.82%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Architect
5 12 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) React Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.27%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.36%) Angular Developer
8 7 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Lead Developer
9 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.73%) React
2 24 (21.82%) Spring
3 18 (16.36%) RESTful
4 15 (13.64%) Node.js
5 14 (12.73%) HTML
6 13 (11.82%) AngularJS
7 12 (10.91%) HTML5
7 12 (10.91%) Kafka
8 11 (10.00%) REST
8 11 (10.00%) Spring Boot
9 9 (8.18%) .NET
9 9 (8.18%) GraphQL
9 9 (8.18%) Redux
9 9 (8.18%) Web Services
10 8 (7.27%) CSS
10 8 (7.27%) OpenAPI
10 8 (7.27%) Spring Batch
10 8 (7.27%) Spring Security
10 8 (7.27%) Swagger
11 6 (5.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.55%) Derivative
4 5 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.55%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.64%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.73%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.73%) Equities
6 3 (2.73%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.64%) Unix
4 3 (2.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 68 (61.82%) Continuous Integration
3 50 (45.45%) Agile
4 41 (37.27%) DevOps
5 39 (35.45%) TDD
6 31 (28.18%) Microservices
7 26 (23.64%) Test Automation
8 23 (20.91%) Software Engineering
9 19 (17.27%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (14.55%) BDD
10 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.64%) Scrum
12 14 (12.73%) Data Science
13 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
13 13 (11.82%) High Availability
14 12 (10.91%) Design Patterns
14 12 (10.91%) OWASP
15 10 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 41 (37.27%) Java
2 35 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 34 (30.91%) SQL
4 31 (28.18%) Python
5 26 (23.64%) C#
6 22 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.09%) Bash
8 7 (6.36%) Scala
9 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.64%) Perl
9 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.73%) Ruby
11 2 (1.82%) C++
11 2 (1.82%) Go
11 2 (1.82%) Rust
12 1 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
1 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (19.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) RACF
Systems Management
1 39 (35.45%) Kubernetes
2 29 (26.36%) Terraform
3 11 (10.00%) Ansible
4 7 (6.36%) Grafana
4 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.91%) Packer
5 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.18%) Oracle
3 5 (4.55%) Splunk
4 4 (3.64%) Sybase
5 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.73%) Murex
6 2 (1.82%) Google
6 2 (1.82%) SAP
7 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.91%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) Salesforce