Continuous Delivery Contracts in the South East

Continuous Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 131 193 190
Rank change year-on-year +62 -3 -17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 28 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.22% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.25% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 30
10th Percentile £466 £413 £493
25th Percentile £500 £533 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £588 £589
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -0.25% +7.09%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £694
90th Percentile £743 £647 £821
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the South East 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
Thames Valley +55 20 £622 +5.79% 9
Buckinghamshire +28 14 £630 +35.85% 3
Berkshire +31 6 £500 -14.89% 5
Hampshire +27 3 £500 - 2
East Sussex 0 3 £475 -26.92%
Surrey +18 2 £656 +22.09% 4
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (7.14%) Apache Solr
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) IaaS
3 9 (32.14%) PaaS
4 8 (28.57%) SaaS
5 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 3 (10.71%) CloudFront
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) VSAN
2 2 (7.14%) BGP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) MPLS
2 2 (7.14%) NGFW
2 2 (7.14%) OSPF
2 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) VLAN
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Maven
3 2 (7.14%) Selenium
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Architect
2 10 (35.71%) Technical Architect
3 9 (32.14%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Architect
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Principal Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Senior VMware Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Ajax
1 2 (7.14%) JAXB
1 2 (7.14%) JAX-RS
1 2 (7.14%) JAX-WS
1 2 (7.14%) JSON
1 2 (7.14%) React
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) SOAP
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
1 2 (7.14%) XML
1 2 (7.14%) XSD
1 2 (7.14%) XSL
1 2 (7.14%) XSLT
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) MACH
2 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (35.71%) PKI
2 7 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Ubuntu
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 20 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
3 15 (53.57%) ITIL
4 14 (50.00%) Microservices
4 14 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 14 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
5 13 (46.43%) DevOps
6 11 (39.29%) DevSecOps
7 10 (35.71%) IT Strategy
7 10 (35.71%) Matrix Organization
7 10 (35.71%) Technology Strategy
8 9 (32.14%) Agile
9 8 (28.57%) Use Case
10 7 (25.00%) Requirements Management
11 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
11 5 (17.86%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 5 (17.86%) Server Building
11 5 (17.86%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) XPath
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) MCSE
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (35.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (14.29%) CCNP
4 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) NCSC
1 13 (46.43%) NIST
2 9 (32.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (35.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) VMware
2 10 (35.71%) Cisco
2 10 (35.71%) Palo Alto
3 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow