Canary Deployment Contract Job Trends in the South East

Canary Deployments
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Canary Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.020% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £750 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,090 2,874 4,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.66% 91.04% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 1,782 2,884
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £401 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £610 £613
90th Percentile £693 £671 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 109 357
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.05 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% -5.15% +0.47%
75th Percentile £60.90 £62.50 £62.54
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.10 £76.53
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Canary Deployment job vacancy trend in the South East

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Canary Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Canary Deployment

Canary Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Thames Valley - 1 £600 -
Canary Deployment
England

Canary Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher