Continuous Deployment Contract Job Trends in the South West

Continuous Deployment
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 115 151
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 -20
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 2 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.074% 0.43% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.48% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £388 £586 -
25th Percentile £425 £598 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £659 -
90th Percentile £613 £685 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Continuous 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 1,659 2,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.37% 88.67% 84.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,023 1,689
10th Percentile £275 £225 £269
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -0.94% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 100 329
10th Percentile £16.62 £19.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £22.84 £47.50 £31.60
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +24.51% -15.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Continuous Deployment job vacancy trend in the South West

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Continuous Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment in the South West over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the South West

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Devon +2 1 £625 -8.76%
Wiltshire - 1 £375 -
Continuous Deployment
England

Continuous Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce