Continuous Delivery Contracts

Continuous Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 261 201
Rank change year-on-year -104 -60 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 228 629 1,264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 1.06% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.18% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 458 895
10th Percentile £377 £463 £408
25th Percentile £433 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +13.58%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £566 £540
% change year-on-year -16.08% +4.81% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile - - £59.91
25th Percentile - - £64.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year - -11.56% +81.48%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - £101.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Delivery 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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 2024.

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 15 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 4 May 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 -109 186 £550 -8.33% 132
London -60 111 £675 +9.09% 50
UK excluding London -62 89 £475 -16.08% 96
Work from Home -35 82 £548 -8.75% 89
North of England +12 29 £434 -23.19% 26
Yorkshire +32 23 £430 -22.87% 8
Scotland +26 20 £490 -10.91% 15
South West -22 12 £400 -27.27% 17
Midlands +1 11 £523 -3.24% 7
South East -2 11 £588 +6.82% 21
West Midlands -3 7 £610 +12.96% 5
East of England +4 6 £450 -2.70% 5
North West -3 5 £524 -4.77% 14
East Midlands +22 3 £419 -22.41% 2
North East +16 1 £525 -37.05% 4

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 10 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.51%) Confluence
3 6 (2.63%) SAS
4 4 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.75%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) IIS
4 4 (1.75%) JBoss
5 3 (1.32%) Drupal
5 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Softmar
2 1 (0.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 70 (30.70%) Azure
2 68 (29.82%) AWS
3 38 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.53%) GCP
5 21 (9.21%) Serverless
6 17 (7.46%) PaaS
7 14 (6.14%) GitHub
7 14 (6.14%) IaaS
7 14 (6.14%) SaaS
8 12 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.82%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.39%) Azure Functions
10 10 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.51%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (3.51%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.07%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.75%) HTTP
3 4 (1.75%) SSL
4 3 (1.32%) DNS
4 3 (1.32%) Firewall
4 3 (1.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) FTP
5 1 (0.44%) IPsec
5 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.44%) LAN
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.28%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.46%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.14%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.26%) Big Data
4 12 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.07%) OLTP
8 6 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.63%) KDB
8 6 (2.63%) MySQL
9 5 (2.19%) DB2
9 5 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.32%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (17.98%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.23%) Git
3 18 (7.89%) TeamCity
4 15 (6.58%) Cucumber
4 15 (6.58%) JIRA
5 12 (5.26%) Moq
5 12 (5.26%) NUnit
6 11 (4.82%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.39%) Visual Studio
8 9 (3.95%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.51%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.51%) GitLab
9 8 (3.51%) Selenium
10 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.07%) Visual Studio Team System
11 6 (2.63%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.75%) Ant
12 4 (1.75%) Gradle
12 4 (1.75%) JUnit
12 4 (1.75%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (23.25%) Finance
2 48 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.65%) Banking
4 21 (9.21%) Front Office
5 20 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.39%) Military
9 8 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.63%) Marketing
11 4 (1.75%) Games
11 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Electronics
13 2 (0.88%) Law
13 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.44%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) Back Office
14 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 66 (28.95%) Developer
2 23 (10.09%) Senior
3 21 (9.21%) Java Developer
3 21 (9.21%) Lead
4 20 (8.77%) C# Developer
5 15 (6.58%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.70%) Architect
6 13 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) React Developer
9 9 (3.95%) Consultant
9 9 (3.95%) Scrum Master
10 8 (3.51%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) C# Software Engineer
11 7 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
12 6 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.60%) .NET
2 29 (12.72%) Node.js
3 23 (10.09%) RESTful
4 22 (9.65%) React
5 20 (8.77%) Spring
6 19 (8.33%) Web Services
7 18 (7.89%) ARM Templates
8 17 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (7.02%) .NET Core
9 16 (7.02%) REST
10 15 (6.58%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.14%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.14%) Kafka
11 14 (6.14%) Middleware
12 13 (5.70%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (5.70%) XML
13 12 (5.26%) SignalR
14 10 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (4.39%) HTML
14 10 (4.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 16 (7.02%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.82%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.39%) Fixed Income
6 10 (4.39%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.95%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.51%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.63%) Derivative
9 6 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.19%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.23%) Linux
2 20 (8.77%) Windows
3 7 (3.07%) Unix
4 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) AIX
5 4 (1.75%) Solaris
5 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.32%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (68.86%) CI/CD
2 143 (62.72%) Continuous Integration
3 140 (61.40%) Agile
4 122 (53.51%) DevOps
5 72 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 53 (23.25%) TDD
7 45 (19.74%) Microservices
8 43 (18.86%) Mentoring
8 43 (18.86%) Software Engineering
9 38 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (16.67%) Scrum
10 35 (15.35%) Containerisation
11 34 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (12.72%) Deployment Automation
13 28 (12.28%) Kanban
13 28 (12.28%) Performance Analysis
14 26 (11.40%) OO
15 24 (10.53%) ITIL
16 23 (10.09%) Design Patterns
17 22 (9.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.81%) Java
2 45 (19.74%) Python
3 43 (18.86%) SQL
4 42 (18.42%) C#
5 34 (14.91%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.58%) Go
9 13 (5.70%) Kotlin
10 12 (5.26%) C++
11 11 (4.82%) Bash
11 11 (4.82%) Scala
12 8 (3.51%) Groovy
13 6 (2.63%) Perl
14 5 (2.19%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.75%) PHP
15 4 (1.75%) Ruby
16 3 (1.32%) Bicep
16 3 (1.32%) C
17 1 (0.44%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 26 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.82%) Degree
5 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.44%) APMP
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CCNP
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.70%) QA
2 11 (4.82%) NCSC
3 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.32%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.88%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (22.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Ceph
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) NFS
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (21.93%) Terraform
2 38 (16.67%) Ansible
3 35 (15.35%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.95%) Grafana
5 7 (3.07%) Puppet
6 6 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.19%) Kibana
7 5 (2.19%) Zipkin
8 4 (1.75%) Packer
8 4 (1.75%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.32%) Rancher
10 2 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.44%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.44%) Icinga
11 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.44%) logstash
11 1 (0.44%) Mesos
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 38 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.58%) EMC
3 12 (5.26%) Splunk
3 12 (5.26%) TIBCO
4 9 (3.95%) Google
4 9 (3.95%) Oracle
5 6 (2.63%) ION Trading
5 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.63%) VMware
6 4 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.75%) F5
6 4 (1.75%) IBM
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.32%) SAP
8 2 (0.88%) Databricks
8 2 (0.88%) Remedy
9 1 (0.44%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.44%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.44%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.44%) Perfecto Mobile