Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in the South East

Continuous Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 142 147
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 11 29 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.81% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.91% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 38
10th Percentile £543 £492 £486
25th Percentile £559 £500 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.61% -
75th Percentile £604 £643 £672
90th Percentile £619 £743 £700
England median daily rate £537 £575 £562
% change year-on-year -6.61% +2.39% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

All Process & 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 3,731 3,175 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.60% 88.46% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,450 1,978 2,853
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -1.38% +1.37%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £678 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 119 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £19.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +29.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Delivery

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 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Continuous Delivery

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 29 December 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
Surrey -7 4 £550 -13.73% 5
Thames Valley -26 4 £600 +1.69% 22
Berkshire - 4 £600 - 16
West Sussex -10 2 £605 - 1
Hampshire -18 1 - - 6
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Appium
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Android Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Principal Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Scala Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Release Management
4 1 (9.09%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (9.09%) iOS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Android Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Material Design
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) Play Framework
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Blazor
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
1 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Android Development
6 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (27.27%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (27.27%) MVVM
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 3 (27.27%) UX Design
7 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (18.18%) Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Application Security
7 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Kotlin
2 3 (27.27%) Objective-C
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Swift
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft