Continuous Delivery Contracts in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 121 129
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 13 12 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.44% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.53% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 26
10th Percentile £412 £404 £439
25th Percentile £444 £407 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.99% +0.93% +17.65%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £595
90th Percentile £511 - £598
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 10 £461 -31.67% 21
East Midlands +10 3 £500 +19.33% 4
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Open Workbench
2 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Engagement Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) React
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) Express.js
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (46.15%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Compliance Audit
6 2 (15.38%) Conflict Management
6 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 2 (15.38%) Line Management
6 2 (15.38%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Atlassian
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Perforce