Continuous Deployment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 347 320
Rank change year-on-year +50 -27 +51
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 39 52 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.25% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.30% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 108
10th Percentile £353 £411 £450
25th Percentile £444 £453 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £525 £625 £650
90th Percentile £534 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £517 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -54.79% -7.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK excluding London

Continuous 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 Continuous Deployment within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +10 18 £488 -18.75% 18
North West +19 17 £488 +2.63% 8
South East +45 9 £360 -28.00% 27
Scotland +14 7 £475 -32.91% 7
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 8
Midlands - 4 £500 - 9
South West +42 1 £625 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -3 1 - - 7
Continuous Deployment
UK

Continuous Deployment
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 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 18 (46.15%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) GCP
4 10 (25.64%) GitHub
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (23.08%) Snowflake
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.13%) Apigee
9 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
10 1 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
3 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.69%) Power BI
6 2 (5.13%) Big Data
6 2 (5.13%) DB2
6 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.13%) ObjectStore
6 2 (5.13%) OLAP
6 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (7.69%) Grunt
3 3 (7.69%) gulp
3 3 (7.69%) Jasmine
3 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) Mocha
4 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 2 (5.13%) Subversion
5 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
8 1 (2.56%) Power BI Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Kafka
2 6 (15.38%) OAuth
3 5 (12.82%) .NET
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) CSS
4 4 (10.26%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) OAuth2
4 4 (10.26%) OpenID
4 4 (10.26%) SAML
5 3 (7.69%) ADO
5 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) HTML5
5 3 (7.69%) jQuery
5 3 (7.69%) Mustache
5 3 (7.69%) Node.js
5 3 (7.69%) React
5 3 (7.69%) Sass
6 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.56%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Mac OS X
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) CI/CD
2 31 (79.49%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (43.59%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 13 (33.33%) DevOps
6 12 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.77%) RBAC
7 11 (28.21%) Data Security
7 11 (28.21%) ETL
8 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
9 9 (23.08%) Analytics
9 9 (23.08%) Digital Twin
9 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (23.08%) Visualisation
10 7 (17.95%) Scrum
11 6 (15.38%) Data Migration
11 6 (15.38%) Migration
11 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (15.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Java
4 7 (17.95%) Bash
4 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) R
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) GDPR
2 6 (15.38%) HIPAA
3 5 (12.82%) QA
4 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (7.69%) WCAG
6 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Istio
3 3 (7.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Sybase
3 1 (2.56%) Aruba
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (2.56%) Siemens