Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 93 134
Rank change year-on-year -35 +41 -17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 4 19 16
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.18% 1.13% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 1.24% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 10
10th Percentile £571 £502 £413
25th Percentile £584 £558 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £622 £606
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +2.52% +5.43%
75th Percentile £634 £715 £638
90th Percentile £644 £743 £743
South East median daily rate £600 £565 £575
% change year-on-year +6.19% -1.74% -4.17%

All Process & 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 1,847 1,536 2,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.19% 91.32% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 883 1,475
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £629 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 42 140
10th Percentile £15.62 £24.79 £16.69
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.26% +26.84% +74.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.39 £63.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.49 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.88 £48.40
% change year-on-year -45.02% -11.40% +9.38%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Continuous Delivery

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 27 January 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
Berkshire -12 4 £613 +22.50% 6
Continuous Delivery
South East

Continuous Delivery
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
1 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft