Continuous Delivery Contracts in South Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 42 37 54
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 6 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.61% 4.16% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 4.65% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile - £387 £592
25th Percentile - £419 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £432 £638
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -32.24% +2.00%
75th Percentile £542 £445 £656
90th Percentile £583 £585 £656
Yorkshire median daily rate £516 £430 £558
% change year-on-year +20.03% -22.87% +1.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in South Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in South Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -7 6 £520 +19.76% 1
Continuous Delivery
Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Gradle
2 4 (66.67%) HP UFT
2 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Case Management
2 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 4 (66.67%) Document Management
2 4 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 4 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA