Continuous Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 131 156 176
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 -31
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 35 29 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.61% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.71% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 30
10th Percentile £381 £373 £461
25th Percentile £440 £419 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £434 £570
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% -23.86% +7.55%
75th Percentile £663 £527 £656
90th Percentile £776 £575 £689
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the North of England

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +7 22 £516 +20.03% 14
North West +24 12 £539 +2.82% 26
North East 0 1 £430 -18.10% 7
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (45.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Slack
2 7 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (20.00%) GitHub
3 5 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) dbt
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) NAS
3 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) MySQL
2 10 (28.57%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.86%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (48.57%) JIRA
2 15 (42.86%) Git
3 14 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 14 (40.00%) JUnit
4 10 (28.57%) Jasmine
5 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (17.14%) Selenium
7 4 (11.43%) Gradle
7 4 (11.43%) HP UFT
7 4 (11.43%) IntelliJ
7 4 (11.43%) Maven
8 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 13 (37.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Health Technology
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Senior
2 12 (34.29%) Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Java Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Change and Release Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Change Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) React Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Release Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Banking Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Payments Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) RESTful
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
1 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 9 (25.71%) Spring Security
2 9 (25.71%) Swagger
3 8 (22.86%) OpenAPI
3 8 (22.86%) Spring Batch
4 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) Laravel
4 3 (8.57%) React
4 3 (8.57%) React Native
4 3 (8.57%) Vue
4 3 (8.57%) WPF
5 2 (5.71%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.71%) NHS
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
1 11 (31.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Android
2 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Agile
1 17 (48.57%) BDD
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
1 17 (48.57%) Continuous Integration
1 17 (48.57%) TDD
1 17 (48.57%) Test Automation
2 14 (40.00%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Microservices
4 10 (28.57%) API Design
4 10 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.71%) Kernel Tuning
5 9 (25.71%) OWASP
6 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (20.00%) Coaching
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 6 (17.14%) Kanban
8 6 (17.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Java
2 12 (34.29%) Bash
3 10 (28.57%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (8.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) Brio
3 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.71%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.86%) EMC
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) NetApp
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Veritas
4 1 (2.86%) VMware