Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 104 117
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 36 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.14% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.91% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 11
10th Percentile £430 £399 -
25th Percentile £492 £440 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £706
90th Percentile £892 - £738
England median daily rate £537 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.61% +2.16% -6.19%

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 2,721 1,980 2,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.44% 86.16% 84.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 1,249 1,512
10th Percentile £250 £250 £259
25th Percentile £376 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.06% -2.93%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 68 96
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.97
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.59 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 December 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 -13 35 £563 +2.27% 17
East Midlands -18 1 £550 +25.00% 9
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Apache
1 8 (22.22%) JBoss
1 8 (22.22%) WebLogic
2 5 (13.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) GCP
3 8 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (22.22%) Serverless
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure
4 6 (16.67%) GitHub
4 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.89%) Azure AKS
5 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) Datadog
5 5 (13.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (13.89%) npm
5 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
5 5 (13.89%) Pulumi
6 2 (5.56%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 8 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Git
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (38.89%) Selenium
3 13 (36.11%) GitLab
3 13 (36.11%) JUnit
4 8 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 8 (22.22%) IntelliJ
5 6 (16.67%) Liquibase
6 5 (13.89%) Artifactory
6 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
6 5 (13.89%) CircleCI
6 5 (13.89%) Cypress.io
6 5 (13.89%) Gradle
6 5 (13.89%) Maven
6 5 (13.89%) Postman
6 5 (13.89%) Snyk
6 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (13.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (13.89%) webpack
7 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (58.33%) REST
2 13 (36.11%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (36.11%) JSON
2 13 (36.11%) Play Framework
3 8 (22.22%) EJB
3 8 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 8 (22.22%) HTML
3 8 (22.22%) HTML5
3 8 (22.22%) J2EE
3 8 (22.22%) J2SE
3 8 (22.22%) RESTful
3 8 (22.22%) SOAP
3 8 (22.22%) Spring
3 8 (22.22%) XML
4 5 (13.89%) YAML
5 1 (2.78%) LDAP
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth
5 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.78%) SAML
5 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) Agile
1 29 (80.56%) DevOps
2 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 22 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (52.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (52.78%) Microservices
5 19 (52.78%) Software Engineering
6 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (44.44%) Scrum
7 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
9 13 (36.11%) Computer Science
10 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
11 8 (22.22%) Cryptography
11 8 (22.22%) High Availability
11 8 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (22.22%) Open Source
11 8 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Scala
2 12 (33.33%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) Python
4 10 (27.78%) Go
5 9 (25.00%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.33%) ISO 19650
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Kubernetes
1 14 (38.89%) Terraform
2 13 (36.11%) Ansible
2 13 (36.11%) Grafana
2 13 (36.11%) Prometheus
2 13 (36.11%) Puppet
3 5 (13.89%) Podman
3 5 (13.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Splunk
2 8 (22.22%) webMethods
3 4 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) VMware