Continuous Delivery Contracts in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 130 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -37
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 6 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.59% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 17
10th Percentile £361 £413 £361
25th Percentile £441 £419 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £544 £640
90th Percentile £595 £613 £723
South East median daily rate £538 £531 £565
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.97% +18.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.05 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £52.10 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +181.62% -
75th Percentile - £53.15 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £54.80 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +196.22% -53.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 June 2024. 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
Berkshire -17 5 £588 +17.50%
Buckinghamshire +25 1 £315 -40.00% 1
Continuous Delivery
South East

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) DOM
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Rancher
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (33.33%) VMware