Blue-Green Deployment Contracts

Blue-Green Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Blue-Green Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue-Green Deployment over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 572 678
Rank change year-on-year +49 +106 +154
Contract jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment 23 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.011% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 5
10th Percentile £324 £641 £309
25th Percentile £354 £643 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £668 £430
Median % change year-on-year -41.57% +55.23% -28.33%
75th Percentile £446 £690 £500
90th Percentile £447 - £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £666 £650
% change year-on-year -35.46% +2.50% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Blue-Green 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,526 35,285 49,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.34% 85.41% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,520 22,637 34,052
10th Percentile £300 £306 £323
25th Percentile £404 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,575 2,186 1,631
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.85 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.63 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £40.00 £40.80
% change year-on-year -40.00% -1.95% +89.74%

Blue-Green Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Blue-Green Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Blue-Green Deployment in the UK

Blue-Green Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment.

Daily rate trend for Blue-Green Deployment in the UK

Blue-Green Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Blue-Green Deployment in the UK

Blue-Green Deployment
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue-Green Deployment within the UK over the 6 months to 22 July 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
England +51 15 £383 -42.58% 8
UK excluding London +31 15 £430 -35.46% 3
South West - 7 £442 -
Work from Home +31 5 £360 -43.93% 5
North of England - 4 £358 - 3
Scotland - 4 £465 -
London +32 3 £350 -47.57% 5
North West - 3 £358 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 2

Blue-Green Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (17.39%) Apache
1 4 (17.39%) nginx
1 4 (17.39%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.04%) Azure API Management
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Kong
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Redis
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Server Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) FastAPI
2 10 (43.48%) OpenID
3 8 (34.78%) OAuth
4 5 (21.74%) Kafka
5 4 (17.39%) .NET
5 4 (17.39%) Flask
5 4 (17.39%) LangChain
5 4 (17.39%) LangGraph
5 4 (17.39%) Loki
5 4 (17.39%) OAuth2
5 4 (17.39%) RESTful
6 3 (13.04%) ADO
6 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
6 3 (13.04%) Hugging Face
6 3 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
6 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
6 3 (13.04%) YAML
7 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) AI Agents
2 3 (13.04%) Legacy Code
2 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Application Security
4 10 (43.48%) Client Onboarding
5 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (30.43%) GitOps
7 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
9 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
9 4 (17.39%) ModelOps
9 4 (17.39%) Multithreading
9 4 (17.39%) Secrets Management
9 4 (17.39%) Secure Coding
9 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) Use Case
9 4 (17.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) C#
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) Bicep
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) MIIS
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Grafana
3 4 (17.39%) Kibana
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.04%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft