Canary Deployment Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Canary Deployments
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Canary Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 - 399
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £450
75th Percentile £570 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
UK median daily rate £558 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -25.67% +66.67% -18.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,224 11,634 17,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.86% 90.51% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 7,344 10,948
10th Percentile £263 £243 £234
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 727 1,934
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.00 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.01 £19.83 £15.17
Median hourly rate £29.31 £31.76 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +2.04% -12.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £71.07
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Canary Deployment job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Canary Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Canary Deployment

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Canary Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Canary Deployment in the UK excluding London

Canary Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
Yorkshire - 6 £550 - 2
North of England - 6 £550 - 3
South East - 1 £600 - 3
Canary Deployment
UK

Canary Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Apigee
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Games
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) vLLM
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
4 4 (57.14%) Trunk-Based Development
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Attestation
6 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
6 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
6 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 2 (28.57%) SBOM
6 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) logstash
4 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk