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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 279 213
Rank change year-on-year +49 -66 -32
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 112 117 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.67% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.76% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 76 220
10th Percentile £375 £369 £463
25th Percentile £408 £445 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% -2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £711 £725 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £813
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
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 - - +68.28%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 19 £527 -26.16% 6
South London +8 5 £513 - 2
West London +5 4 - - 21
East London +17 2 £250 -54.55% 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 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.46%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 4 (3.57%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (2.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.07%) AWS
2 31 (27.68%) Azure
3 21 (18.75%) GitHub
4 17 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.39%) Serverless
6 11 (9.82%) GCP
7 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.04%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.46%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (3.57%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.68%) Datadog
13 3 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) HTTP
2 3 (2.68%) Firewall
2 3 (2.68%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) DNS
3 1 (0.89%) IPsec
3 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.89%) SSL
3 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.50%) Big Data
1 14 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.93%) MongoDB
2 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.46%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (4.46%) GIS
5 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.46%) Tableau
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.57%) DB2
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.68%) Parquet
7 3 (2.68%) Presto
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.29%) Git
3 10 (8.93%) CircleCI
3 10 (8.93%) JIRA
4 9 (8.04%) Cypress.io
5 8 (7.14%) GitLab
6 7 (6.25%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.46%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.68%) Ant
8 3 (2.68%) Babel
8 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.68%) JUnit
8 3 (2.68%) Poetry
8 3 (2.68%) Selenium
8 3 (2.68%) Subversion
8 3 (2.68%) webpack
9 2 (1.79%) Maven
9 2 (1.79%) Postman
9 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (31.25%) Finance
2 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.39%) Banking
4 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.25%) Front Office
6 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.68%) Electronics
9 3 (2.68%) Legal
9 3 (2.68%) Marketing
9 3 (2.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (41.07%) Developer
2 27 (24.11%) Senior
3 17 (15.18%) Architect
4 14 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.61%) Java Developer
5 13 (11.61%) React Developer
5 13 (11.61%) Technical Architect
6 11 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) C# Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Lead
8 8 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Technical Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.79%) React
2 17 (15.18%) Node.js
2 17 (15.18%) Spring
3 15 (13.39%) REST
4 14 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 11 (9.82%) .NET
5 11 (9.82%) Kafka
5 11 (9.82%) RESTful
6 10 (8.93%) Redux
7 9 (8.04%) HTML
7 9 (8.04%) Web Services
8 8 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.14%) Next.js
9 7 (6.25%) CSS
9 7 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (5.36%) HTML5
10 6 (5.36%) OAuth
10 6 (5.36%) OAuth2
10 6 (5.36%) OpenID
11 5 (4.46%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.68%) Derivative
7 3 (2.68%) Equities
7 3 (2.68%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.68%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.79%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.79%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Unix
3 3 (2.68%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.61%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.57%) Continuous Integration
3 52 (46.43%) Agile
4 42 (37.50%) DevOps
5 39 (34.82%) TDD
6 29 (25.89%) Microservices
7 21 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 20 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
8 20 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (16.07%) Domain-Driven Design
10 17 (15.18%) Software Engineering
11 16 (14.29%) Scrum
12 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
13 13 (11.61%) Event-Driven
13 13 (11.61%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.71%) Data Science
14 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (8.93%) Cloud Security
15 10 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.82%) TypeScript
2 38 (33.93%) Java
3 37 (33.04%) Python
4 28 (25.00%) C#
4 28 (25.00%) SQL
5 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.93%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.57%) Perl
8 4 (3.57%) Ruby
8 4 (3.57%) Scala
8 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.68%) Bash
10 2 (1.79%) C++
10 2 (1.79%) Go
10 2 (1.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) Ada
11 1 (0.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.89%) RACF
Systems Management
1 37 (33.04%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.36%) Terraform
3 12 (10.71%) Grafana
3 12 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Packer
5 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.04%) Oracle
3 4 (3.57%) Google
3 4 (3.57%) Sybase
4 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.68%) Murex
4 3 (2.68%) SAP
4 3 (2.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.89%) Salesforce