Canary Deployment Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Canary Deployments
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Canary Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £569 - -
England median daily rate £565 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -24.67% +66.67% -18.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Canary Deployment 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,950 2,946 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.24% 90.17% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 1,865 2,601
10th Percentile £270 £263 £284
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £582
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 155 363
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.00 £11.01
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.60 £12.58
Median hourly rate £45.23 £28.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% +55.41% -35.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £44.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £52.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Canary Deployment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Canary Deployment job vacancy trend in the North of England

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Canary Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Canary Deployment

Canary Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Canary Deployment within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
Canary Deployment
England

Canary Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Games
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 4 (66.67%) Trunk-Based Development
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) API Development
5 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
5 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (33.33%) SBOM
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) logstash
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk