Continuous Delivery Contracts in Sheffield

Continuous Delivery
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 44 37 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 6 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 4.75% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 5.13% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 3
10th Percentile - £385 £592
25th Percentile - £413 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £434 £638
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -31.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £542 £445 £656
90th Percentile £583 £600 £656
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £432 £638
% change year-on-year +20.31% -32.24% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in Sheffield

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in Sheffield

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Gradle
2 4 (66.67%) HP UFT
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Case Management
2 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 4 (66.67%) Document Management
2 4 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 4 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA