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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 139 175
Rank change year-on-year -16 +36 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 31 30 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.73% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.87% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £358 £371 £481
25th Percentile £420 £410 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £434 £563
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -22.84% +2.27%
75th Percentile £700 £534 £676
90th Percentile £716 £645 £719
England median daily rate £521 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.86% -12.50% -

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 3,538 3,459 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.07% 83.90% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 2,078 3,154
10th Percentile £268 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £556 £586 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 238 211
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.39 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +46.50%
75th Percentile £44.26 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £59.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +4.88% +54.72%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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
North West +2 16 £688 +31.58% 34
Yorkshire -11 15 £500 +15.21% 13
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 8 (25.81%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) CICS
2 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
2 8 (25.81%) GitHub
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.45%) Azure
5 2 (6.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) X.509
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) FCoE
3 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) Multicast
3 1 (3.23%) NAS
3 1 (3.23%) SAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.23%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) GitLab
3 6 (19.35%) Liquibase
4 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
4 4 (12.90%) HP UFT
4 4 (12.90%) Selenium
5 3 (9.68%) Git
5 3 (9.68%) Gradle
5 3 (9.68%) IntelliJ
5 3 (9.68%) JUnit
5 3 (9.68%) Maven
6 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.23%) Appium
7 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Banking
4 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Banking Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Payments Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
3 5 (16.13%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.45%) Playwright
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) LDAP
5 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Public Cloud
2 7 (22.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (12.90%) Cyberattack
4 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.45%) PKI
6 1 (3.23%) Clustering
6 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (3.23%) IVR
6 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
6 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) MVS
2 1 (3.23%) Solaris
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
1 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (54.84%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (32.26%) Microservices
6 9 (29.03%) Data Security
6 9 (29.03%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
7 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
8 7 (22.58%) Change Management
8 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
9 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (19.35%) TDD
9 6 (19.35%) Thought Leadership
10 5 (16.13%) BDD
10 5 (16.13%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) Go
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) KVM
2 1 (3.23%) NFS
2 1 (3.23%) SRDF
2 1 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Grafana
4 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Splunk
2 5 (16.13%) Google
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.45%) Infoblox
3 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) EMC
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Genesys
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) NetApp
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.23%) VMware