Celery Contracts

Celery Task Queue
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Celery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Celery 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 515 574 705
Rank change year-on-year +59 +131 +68
Contract jobs citing Celery 5 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.018% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.075% 0.089% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile - £375 £413
25th Percentile £510 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% - -25.38%
75th Percentile £706 £563 £663
90th Percentile £710 £600 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Celery falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Celery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Celery in the UK

Celery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Celery in the UK

Celery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Celery over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Celery in the UK

Celery
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Celery within the UK 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
England +53 4 £604 +34.17% 18
UK excluding London +59 2 £520 +15.56% 7
South East +42 2 £520 +15.56% 4
London +38 2 £694 - 15
Work from Home +38 1 £520 +22.35% 12

Celery
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 1 (20.00%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Slack
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Redis
3 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (20.00%) ObjectStore
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Poetry
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (40.00%) Flask
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Django
3 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Lean Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform