Canary Deployment Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Canary Deployments
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Canary Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.041% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Canary 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 2,105 1,543 2,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.36% 92.73% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 905 1,443
10th Percentile £270 £263 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £662 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 45 157
10th Percentile £15.91 £20.62 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £41.25 £20.17
Median hourly rate £29.61 £57.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -48.50% +27.18% +0.47%
75th Percentile £82.25 £64.73 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.88 £81.11
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £45.21
% change year-on-year -41.35% -5.15% +0.47%

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Canary Deployment job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Canary Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Canary Deployment

Canary 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 Canary Deployment within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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 -
Canary Deployment
South East

Canary 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%) Blue-Green 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