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 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 57 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 13 15 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.31% 3.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £377 £396 -
25th Percentile £420 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £432 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% - -
75th Percentile £520 £437 -
90th Percentile £520 £492 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £430 -
% change year-on-year +16.28% - -

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 533 369 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.67% 88.70% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 195 246
10th Percentile £298 £383 £400
25th Percentile £375 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -14.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £697
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £514 £600
% change year-on-year -9.53% -14.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Sheffield over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CICS
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) Serverless
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (7.69%) FCoE
1 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Multicast
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Liquibase
3 5 (38.46%) GitLab
3 5 (38.46%) JIRA
4 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
4 3 (23.08%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Gradle
4 3 (23.08%) HP UFT
4 3 (23.08%) IntelliJ
4 3 (23.08%) JUnit
4 3 (23.08%) Maven
4 3 (23.08%) Selenium
5 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
5 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (46.15%) RESTful
3 5 (38.46%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) LDAP
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Public Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (7.69%) IVR
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) MVS
2 1 (7.69%) Solaris
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (69.23%) Non-Functional Testing
4 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) High Availability
7 4 (30.77%) Change Management
7 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (30.77%) Data Security
7 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
7 4 (30.77%) TDD
7 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) KVM
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) SRDF
2 1 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Grafana
2 8 (61.54%) Prometheus
3 7 (53.85%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Splunk
2 4 (30.77%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) EMC
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Genesys
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Pure Storage
4 1 (7.69%) VMware