Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in the North East

Continuous Delivery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 41 36
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.70% 0.34% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.41% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £459 - £334
25th Percentile £604 - £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £368
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +42.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £688 - £389
90th Percentile - - £402
England median daily rate £543 £531 £560
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.13% -7.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 736 246 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.68% 83.67% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 150 97
10th Percentile £313 £225 £321
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £594
90th Percentile £654 £643 £708
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 13 35
10th Percentile £13.13 £13.90 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.75 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% -35.34% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £48.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the North East

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North East over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the North East

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -38 5 £675 +28.57% 9
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Miro
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LangChain
1 3 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
4 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (50.00%) Green IT
4 3 (50.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (50.00%) LLM
4 3 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Semantic Search
4 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (16.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google