Continuous Deployment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 315 374
Rank change year-on-year -24 +59 -71
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 51 144 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 107 105
10th Percentile £410 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £538 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £655 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year -7.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Continuous Deployment 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 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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 +5 26 £600 -7.69% 10
North West -1 14 £475 -26.92% 9
Yorkshire +22 12 £611 -0.24% 1
South East +13 10 £500 -9.09% 16
Scotland +31 6 £708 +66.59%
South West -11 5 £600 +9.09% 8
East of England +15 3 £425 - 8
Wales +15 1 £675 - 1
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 6 (11.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.92%) Traefik
3 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) AWS
3 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (21.57%) GCP
4 11 (21.57%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) Apigee
5 6 (11.76%) Kong
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Functions
6 5 (9.80%) Serverless
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.84%) IaaS
8 3 (5.88%) Azure API Management
8 3 (5.88%) SaaS
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) VPN
2 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (11.76%) HTTP
4 4 (7.84%) Internet
5 2 (3.92%) DMZ
5 2 (3.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.88%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (5.88%) Redis
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.96%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (29.41%) Git
2 14 (27.45%) Jenkins
3 11 (21.57%) JIRA
4 9 (17.65%) GitLab
5 6 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (11.76%) CircleCI
5 6 (11.76%) Travis CI
6 3 (5.88%) Selenium
6 3 (5.88%) Subversion
7 2 (3.92%) Appium
7 2 (3.92%) Mockito
7 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.96%) MSTest
8 1 (1.96%) NUnit
8 1 (1.96%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Electronics
4 5 (9.80%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Developer
1 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Lead
2 5 (9.80%) Senior
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Data Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) YAML
2 6 (11.76%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.76%) JSON
2 6 (11.76%) Kafka
2 6 (11.76%) XML
3 5 (9.80%) REST
4 4 (7.84%) Node.js
5 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 3 (5.88%) gRPC
5 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.88%) SignalR
6 2 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.92%) cloud-init
6 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.84%) Device Driver
2 4 (7.84%) IoT
2 4 (7.84%) PCIe
2 4 (7.84%) Verilog
2 4 (7.84%) VHDL
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) PKI
4 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (7.84%) VxWorks
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) CentOS
4 2 (3.92%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) CI/CD
2 35 (68.63%) Agile
3 34 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
4 32 (62.75%) DevOps
5 18 (35.29%) Microservices
6 14 (27.45%) Scrum
7 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
7 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.61%) Software Engineering
9 9 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (17.65%) Project Management
9 9 (17.65%) TDD
10 8 (15.69%) DevSecOps
10 8 (15.69%) Task Automation
11 7 (13.73%) BDD
11 7 (13.73%) Configuration Management
12 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) Python
2 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
3 9 (17.65%) Bash
4 8 (15.69%) C#
5 7 (13.73%) Java
6 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.80%) C
7 5 (9.80%) Go
7 5 (9.80%) SQL
8 4 (7.84%) Embedded C
8 4 (7.84%) Ruby
9 2 (3.92%) PHP
10 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) MISRA
2 4 (7.84%) MISRA C
3 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.92%) NCSC
5 1 (1.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Firmware
2 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (33.33%) Terraform
2 15 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 10 (19.61%) Ansible
4 9 (17.65%) Puppet
5 8 (15.69%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (15.69%) Prometheus
6 7 (13.73%) Progress Chef
7 6 (11.76%) Grafana
7 6 (11.76%) Kibana
7 6 (11.76%) logstash
8 2 (3.92%) Consul
8 2 (3.92%) Graphite
8 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 2 (3.92%) linkerd
8 2 (3.92%) Packer
8 2 (3.92%) Podman
8 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
1 8 (15.69%) Splunk
2 5 (9.80%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.84%) Intel
4 3 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.96%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.96%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) SAP