Continuous Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 246 196
Rank change year-on-year -51 -50 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 91 222 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.94% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.06% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 164 265
10th Percentile £392 £428 £402
25th Percentile £404 £511 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £564 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +4.79% +13.26%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £613
90th Percentile £652 £694 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.50
% change year-on-year - -11.56% +81.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North of England +11 29 £434 -22.15% 16
Yorkshire +33 23 £430 -21.82% 6
Scotland +28 20 £480 -12.73% 9
South West -28 14 £400 -27.27% 14
Midlands +2 11 £560 +3.70% 5
South East -1 10 £575 +4.55% 18
West Midlands -9 8 £638 +18.06% 4
East of England +5 7 £450 -2.70% 2
North West 0 5 £524 -4.77% 8
East Midlands +19 2 £419 -12.71% 1
North East +12 1 £525 -37.05% 2
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.79%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.49%) Confluence
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.30%) CMS
3 3 (3.30%) Drupal
3 3 (3.30%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.30%) nginx
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) GCP
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.59%) Serverless
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.30%) CloudBees
8 3 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.30%) PaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) SaaS
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.10%) IaaS
10 1 (1.10%) Route 53
10 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) Ethernet
1 11 (12.09%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.40%) SSL
3 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.10%) IPsec
4 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
1 9 (9.89%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.30%) CockroachDB
5 3 (3.30%) MySQL
6 2 (2.20%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.10%) Big Data
7 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) DB2
7 1 (1.10%) HBase
7 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 13 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 11 (12.09%) Eclipse
3 9 (9.89%) Git
4 8 (8.79%) JIRA
5 6 (6.59%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.49%) GitLab
6 5 (5.49%) Selenium
7 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.30%) JMeter
7 3 (3.30%) Subversion
8 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.20%) JUnit
8 2 (2.20%) Maven
9 1 (1.10%) Gradle
9 1 (1.10%) Mockito
9 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Military
3 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.09%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.40%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Games
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 12 (13.19%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) C# Software Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Senior
8 5 (5.49%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 4 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Storage Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Problem Manager
11 2 (2.20%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.20%) Backend Developer
11 2 (2.20%) EMC Consultant
11 2 (2.20%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) Node.js
1 13 (14.29%) Spring
1 13 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 12 (13.19%) Web Services
3 11 (12.09%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (12.09%) Kafka
4 10 (10.99%) REST
5 9 (9.89%) RESTful
6 8 (8.79%) React
7 7 (7.69%) OpenTracing
8 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.30%) .NET
9 3 (3.30%) Apache Beam
9 3 (3.30%) CSS
9 3 (3.30%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.30%) HTML
9 3 (3.30%) JPA
9 3 (3.30%) OAuth
9 3 (3.30%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Data Structures
1 8 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.57%) Linux
2 15 (16.48%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (81.32%) CI/CD
2 64 (70.33%) Continuous Integration
3 57 (62.64%) Agile
4 52 (57.14%) DevOps
5 24 (26.37%) Validation
6 23 (25.27%) ITIL
6 23 (25.27%) Software Engineering
7 21 (23.08%) Microservices
7 21 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.68%) Performance Analysis
8 17 (18.68%) TDD
9 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (16.48%) Build Automation
11 14 (15.38%) SDLC
12 13 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (14.29%) Unit Testing
13 11 (12.09%) Digital Twin
13 11 (12.09%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (12.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) Java
2 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 16 (17.58%) C#
4 15 (16.48%) Python
5 14 (15.38%) C++
6 11 (12.09%) Scala
7 8 (8.79%) Bash
7 8 (8.79%) Kotlin
7 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.59%) Go
8 6 (6.59%) SQL
9 5 (5.49%) Groovy
9 5 (5.49%) Perl
9 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.30%) Ruby
10 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.20%) C
12 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
4 1 (1.10%) APMP
4 1 (1.10%) CCNP
4 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) MCSE
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.20%) WCAG
5 1 (1.10%) NCSC
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Ansible
2 15 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 13 (14.29%) Terraform
4 8 (8.79%) Grafana
5 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.69%) Zipkin
6 4 (4.40%) Kibana
6 4 (4.40%) Packer
6 4 (4.40%) Rancher
7 3 (3.30%) Puppet
8 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.10%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (1.10%) Icinga
9 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.10%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.38%) EMC
3 7 (7.69%) VMware
4 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) Remedy
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) Brio
7 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.10%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) Veritas