Canary Deployment Contracts

Canary Deployments
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Canary Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Canary Deployment over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 717 825
Rank change year-on-year +132 +108 -156
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £540 £505
25th Percentile - £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £750 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £800 £725
90th Percentile - £1,220 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £501
% change year-on-year - - +23.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Canary 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Canary Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Canary Deployment in the UK

Canary Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Canary Deployment in the UK

Canary Deployment
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
England +117 1 £450 -41.94% 5
UK excluding London - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

Canary 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat