Continuous Delivery Contracts in the South East

Continuous Delivery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 184 170
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 -19
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 10 37 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.64% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.71% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 53
10th Percentile £413 £413 £446
25th Percentile £533 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £556 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +2.06% +14.74%
75th Percentile £614 £694 £688
90th Percentile £647 £820 £735
England median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -18.75% +97.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Continuous Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the South East

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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

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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 28 April 2024. 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 -5 8 £588 +17.50% 8
Berkshire -13 6 £588 +17.50% 5
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £464 -9.07% 2
Surrey +10 1 £538 -21.82%
East Sussex +2 1 £650 -18.75% 1
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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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior VMware Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) DOM
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Release Management
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) DataOps
6 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) MLOps
6 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
6 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Debt
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) Rancher
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (10.00%) Dataiku
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat