Continuous Delivery Contracts

Continuous Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 349 273
Rank change year-on-year +53 -76 -78
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 273 255 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.59% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.70% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 153 402
10th Percentile £385 £375 £463
25th Percentile £425 £425 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £680
90th Percentile £741 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 9
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £55.21
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.40%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - £67.05 £101.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +251.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Delivery 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 29,591 36,621 50,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.36% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,632 23,386 34,849
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
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 1,510 2,453 1,703
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £39.26
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.91% +83.08%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +31 210 £509 -5.35% 261
UK excluding London +50 135 £475 -1.04% 226
London +24 121 £550 -7.17% 82
Work from Home +41 90 £520 +4.00% 222
Scotland +29 47 £525 +10.53% 26
North of England +4 32 £520 +20.31% 55
South West +36 16 £370 -7.50% 34
North West +14 16 £705 +34.61% 27
Yorkshire -6 15 £475 +10.47% 23
East of England +11 13 £500 +5.26% 26
Midlands +6 12 £455 -28.63% 25
South East +37 11 £500 -0.99% 41
West Midlands +6 7 £455 -30.67% 17
East Midlands - 5 £471 - 8
Wales - 3 £463 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £425 - 20
North East -6 1 £430 +4.88% 5

Continuous Delivery
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 23 (8.42%) Confluence
2 10 (3.66%) WebLogic
3 6 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.83%) WordPress
5 4 (1.47%) Apache
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (1.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.37%) SAP PLM
1 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 120 (43.96%) AWS
2 77 (28.21%) Azure
3 49 (17.95%) GitHub
4 32 (11.72%) GCP
5 30 (10.99%) Serverless
6 28 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.30%) BlazeMeter
11 9 (3.30%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.83%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.47%) Datadog
13 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.76%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.10%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.73%) DMZ
3 2 (0.73%) DNS
3 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 2 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) NAS
4 1 (0.37%) SAN
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.16%) MongoDB
3 23 (8.42%) Big Data
4 18 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.23%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (3.66%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.56%) MySQL
10 6 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.83%) GIS
11 5 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.83%) Tableau
12 4 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.47%) DB2
13 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 33 (12.09%) Git
3 30 (10.99%) JIRA
4 20 (7.33%) Visual Studio
5 19 (6.96%) CircleCI
6 17 (6.23%) JUnit
7 15 (5.49%) Cypress.io
8 13 (4.76%) Eclipse
9 11 (4.03%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.66%) Selenium
11 9 (3.30%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (2.93%) GitLab
12 8 (2.93%) TeamCity
12 8 (2.93%) webpack
13 7 (2.56%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.56%) Gradle
13 7 (2.56%) Maven
14 5 (1.83%) IntelliJ
15 4 (1.47%) HP UFT
16 3 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 81 (29.67%) Finance
2 61 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 50 (18.32%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.69%) Military
5 20 (7.33%) Telecoms
6 19 (6.96%) Banking
7 15 (5.49%) Electronics
7 15 (5.49%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.49%) Marketing
8 13 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.93%) Front Office
11 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.83%) Legal
14 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.73%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (36.63%) Developer
2 51 (18.68%) Senior
3 41 (15.02%) Architect
4 30 (10.99%) Java Developer
5 29 (10.62%) Lead
6 27 (9.89%) Software Engineer
7 26 (9.52%) Technical Architect
8 23 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.33%) C# Developer
10 19 (6.96%) React Developer
11 16 (5.86%) C# Software Engineer
11 16 (5.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 15 (5.49%) Azure Developer
12 15 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.76%) Technical Leader
14 12 (4.40%) Release Manager
14 12 (4.40%) Senior Architect
15 11 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (3.66%) Python Developer
16 10 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.41%) React
2 46 (16.85%) Node.js
3 38 (13.92%) Spring
4 37 (13.55%) CSS
5 31 (11.36%) REST
6 30 (10.99%) .NET
6 30 (10.99%) HTML
7 22 (8.06%) Web Services
8 20 (7.33%) AngularJS
9 19 (6.96%) GraphQL
9 19 (6.96%) RESTful
10 17 (6.23%) Kafka
11 16 (5.86%) Redux
12 11 (4.03%) Next.js
12 11 (4.03%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.66%) HTML5
14 9 (3.30%) .NET Core
15 8 (2.93%) CSS3
16 7 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
16 7 (2.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.49%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.40%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.20%) Derivative
8 6 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.83%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.83%) Equities
9 5 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.73%) NHS
12 2 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.82%) Linux
2 26 (9.52%) Windows
3 7 (2.56%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.20%) Unix
5 4 (1.47%) Android
5 4 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 141 (51.65%) Continuous Integration
3 138 (50.55%) Agile
4 93 (34.07%) DevOps
4 93 (34.07%) TDD
5 68 (24.91%) Microservices
6 61 (22.34%) Software Engineering
7 58 (21.25%) Test Automation
8 52 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (13.19%) Roadmaps
11 35 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (12.45%) Domain-Driven Design
13 32 (11.72%) Deployment Automation
13 32 (11.72%) Scrum
14 31 (11.36%) Design Patterns
14 31 (11.36%) Mentoring
14 31 (11.36%) Unit Testing
15 30 (10.99%) SDLC
16 27 (9.89%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.11%) Java
2 72 (26.37%) TypeScript
3 65 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 63 (23.08%) Python
5 60 (21.98%) C#
6 36 (13.19%) SQL
7 22 (8.06%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.13%) C++
9 11 (4.03%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.93%) Bash
11 7 (2.56%) Go
12 6 (2.20%) PHP
13 5 (1.83%) Ruby
13 5 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.47%) Perl
14 4 (1.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.73%) Rust
16 1 (0.37%) ABAP
16 1 (0.37%) Ada
16 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.52%) Degree
4 16 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.10%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.79%) QA
2 10 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.10%) GDPR
5 3 (1.10%) WCAG
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (9.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 73 (26.74%) Terraform
2 61 (22.34%) Kubernetes
3 36 (13.19%) Grafana
4 24 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 22 (8.06%) Ansible
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.69%) Google
2 21 (7.69%) Oracle
3 18 (6.59%) Splunk
4 17 (6.23%) SAP
5 13 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.93%) Databricks
7 4 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.47%) Sybase
8 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.10%) Murex
8 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.73%) Brio
9 2 (0.73%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.73%) Infoblox
9 2 (0.73%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.37%) Perforce
10 1 (0.37%) Remedy
10 1 (0.37%) TIBCO