Continuous Delivery Contracts in the South West

Continuous Delivery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 93 145 110
Rank change year-on-year +52 -35 +14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 18 12 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.07% 0.38% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.45% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 33
10th Percentile - £354 -
25th Percentile £355 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £547 £559 £675
90th Percentile £671 £663 £768
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £101.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the South West

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South West

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the South West

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South West

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +28 13 £370 - 5
Dorset +4 3 £525 +31.25%
Wiltshire +30 1 £450 +38.25% 2
Devon - 1 £675 -
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
3 9 (50.00%) Electronics
3 9 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (50.00%) Marketing
3 9 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Applications Support
3 7 (38.89%) Applications Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Developer
3 7 (38.89%) C# Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Chief Technology Officer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) .NET
1 9 (50.00%) CSS
1 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) CSS3
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) HTML5
2 1 (5.56%) Jest
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) OpenTracing
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Redux
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 10 (55.56%) Computer Science
4 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) TDD
5 9 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
5 9 (50.00%) Programme Management
5 9 (50.00%) Service Delivery
5 9 (50.00%) Service Management
5 9 (50.00%) Software Delivery
5 9 (50.00%) User Experience
6 8 (44.44%) Web Development
7 7 (38.89%) Agile
8 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) DevOps
9 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) SAP
2 8 (44.44%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow