Blue-Green Deployment Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Blue-Green Deployment
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Blue-Green Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.040% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 - £600

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Blue-Green 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,115 1,532 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.28% 92.74% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 895 1,452
10th Percentile £268 £256 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £618 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 46 157
10th Percentile £15.91 £19.31 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £32.06 £20.17
Median hourly rate £31.88 £57.12 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% +26.35% +0.47%
75th Percentile £83.00 £64.73 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.60 £81.11
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £45.21
% change year-on-year -41.09% -5.57% +0.47%

Blue-Green Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blue-Green Deployment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Blue-Green Deployment job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Blue-Green Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue-Green Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Blue-Green Deployment

Blue-Green Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Blue-Green Deployment
South East

Blue-Green Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher