Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 30 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.39% 1.69% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 22 3 0
10th Percentile £422 £489 -
25th Percentile £450 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% - -
75th Percentile £529 £578 -
90th Percentile £857 £591 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -13.38% +26.32% -20.83%

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 655 423 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.90% 89.24% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 221 255
10th Percentile £306 £230 £375
25th Percentile £388 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 15 October 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 -4 30 £520 -3.30% 2
Continuous Delivery
Yorkshire

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) AWS
2 25 (83.33%) GCP
2 25 (83.33%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure
5 1 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) FCoE
1 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) Multicast
1 1 (3.33%) NAS
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (86.67%) Jenkins
2 23 (76.67%) GitLab
3 19 (63.33%) Liquibase
4 4 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) Gradle
5 2 (6.67%) HP UFT
5 2 (6.67%) IntelliJ
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) Maven
5 2 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (83.33%) Finance
2 24 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 23 (76.67%) Banking
4 21 (70.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior
4 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (23.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 6 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
9 3 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (6.67%) Architect
10 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (6.67%) GCP DevOps
10 2 (6.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
10 2 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (80.00%) RESTful
3 23 (76.67%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) LDAP
4 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (83.33%) Public Cloud
2 22 (73.33%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (63.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) IVR
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) MVS
2 1 (3.33%) Solaris
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) CI/CD
1 28 (93.33%) DevOps
2 27 (90.00%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (86.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 25 (83.33%) Agile
4 25 (83.33%) Containerisation
4 25 (83.33%) Microservices
5 24 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (73.33%) High Availability
6 22 (73.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 21 (70.00%) Computer Science
7 21 (70.00%) Cryptography
8 19 (63.33%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (63.33%) Software Engineering
9 17 (56.67%) Change Management
9 17 (56.67%) Cost Optimisation
9 17 (56.67%) Data Security
10 16 (53.33%) Data Encryption
10 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) Python
2 23 (76.67%) Go
3 13 (43.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 21 (70.00%) Degree
1 21 (70.00%) Master's Degree
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) KVM
2 1 (3.33%) NFS
2 1 (3.33%) SRDF
2 1 (3.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
1 27 (90.00%) Terraform
2 26 (86.67%) Grafana
2 26 (86.67%) Prometheus
3 25 (83.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Splunk
2 14 (46.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) EMC
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.33%) VMware