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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 358 257
Rank change year-on-year +68 -101 -53
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 254 234 596
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.55% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.64% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 146 439
10th Percentile £359 £375 £463
25th Percentile £411 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -8.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £605 £659 £675
90th Percentile £742 £741 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £566
% change year-on-year +5.26% -16.08% +5.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile £40.78 - £63.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £101.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 17 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 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 +73 202 £500 -9.09% 247
UK excluding London +77 120 £500 +5.26% 154
London +30 112 £521 -13.25% 132
Work from Home +45 82 £500 -4.76% 163
Scotland +20 31 £525 +9.38% 10
North of England +19 29 £506 +16.65% 44
South West +50 20 £384 -4.13% 20
South East +53 18 £500 -13.04% 41
Yorkshire +7 16 £513 +19.19% 10
North West +24 12 £539 +2.82% 26
Midlands +18 11 £463 -19.57% 26
West Midlands +6 8 £460 -27.84% 21
Northern Ireland - 7 £325 - 6
East of England +24 5 £500 +11.11% 10
East Midlands +13 3 £500 +19.33% 4
North East -3 1 £430 -18.10% 8
Wales - 1 - - 3

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 39 (15.35%) Confluence
2 11 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.97%) nginx
3 5 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.57%) Apache
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.18%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.79%) Drupal
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.79%) WordPress
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.39%) Endur
1 1 (0.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
1 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.39%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 100 (39.37%) AWS
2 69 (27.17%) Azure
3 34 (13.39%) GitHub
4 33 (12.99%) Serverless
5 24 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.45%) GCP
6 14 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.72%) Slack
9 11 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.33%) SaaS
10 9 (3.54%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.54%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.54%) PaaS
11 8 (3.15%) IaaS
12 7 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.72%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.33%) HTTP
3 9 (3.54%) Firewall
4 5 (1.97%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.57%) SSL
5 4 (1.57%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.57%) VSAN
6 3 (1.18%) DNS
6 3 (1.18%) IPsec
6 3 (1.18%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.79%) BGP
7 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.79%) MPLS
7 2 (0.79%) NGFW
7 2 (0.79%) OSPF
7 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.79%) VLAN
7 2 (0.79%) VPN
7 2 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 24 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.66%) Apache Cassandra
4 20 (7.87%) Big Data
4 20 (7.87%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.09%) MySQL
6 15 (5.91%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.94%) Hadoop
9 9 (3.54%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.97%) Apache Hive
10 5 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (1.97%) Parquet
10 5 (1.97%) Presto
11 4 (1.57%) DB2
12 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.18%) GIS
12 3 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (20.08%) Git
2 47 (18.50%) JIRA
3 43 (16.93%) Jenkins
4 24 (9.45%) JUnit
5 19 (7.48%) Cucumber
6 17 (6.69%) Bitbucket
7 16 (6.30%) GitLab
8 13 (5.12%) Jasmine
9 12 (4.72%) Selenium
10 11 (4.33%) Cypress.io
11 10 (3.94%) TeamCity
11 10 (3.94%) Visual Studio
12 9 (3.54%) Maven
13 8 (3.15%) webpack
14 6 (2.36%) CircleCI
15 5 (1.97%) Eclipse
15 5 (1.97%) Gradle
15 5 (1.97%) IntelliJ
15 5 (1.97%) Poetry
16 4 (1.57%) HP UFT
General
1 67 (26.38%) Finance
2 53 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.08%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.87%) Banking
5 17 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.69%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.51%) Electronics
7 14 (5.51%) Marketing
8 11 (4.33%) Front Office
9 9 (3.54%) Military
10 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.97%) Legal
13 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.39%) Games
16 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (41.73%) Developer
2 48 (18.90%) Senior
3 42 (16.54%) Java Developer
4 30 (11.81%) Architect
5 25 (9.84%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.66%) Lead
7 20 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 20 (7.87%) Technical Architect
8 19 (7.48%) C# Developer
8 19 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) React Developer
10 12 (4.72%) Azure Developer
10 12 (4.72%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.33%) Applications Developer
11 11 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (3.94%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.94%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (21.65%) React
2 43 (16.93%) Spring
3 37 (14.57%) Node.js
4 33 (12.99%) RESTful
5 30 (11.81%) CSS
5 30 (11.81%) HTML
6 28 (11.02%) Spring Boot
7 25 (9.84%) .NET
8 24 (9.45%) REST
8 24 (9.45%) Web Services
9 22 (8.66%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.69%) Redux
11 15 (5.91%) HTML5
12 14 (5.51%) Kafka
12 14 (5.51%) Spring Batch
13 13 (5.12%) GraphQL
13 13 (5.12%) Spring Security
14 12 (4.72%) OpenAPI
14 12 (4.72%) Swagger
15 10 (3.94%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 14 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.12%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.33%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.94%) Derivative
6 10 (3.94%) Equities
6 10 (3.94%) Equity Derivative
7 9 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.15%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.97%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.57%) PKI
12 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.18%) N-Tier
12 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.75%) Linux
2 17 (6.69%) Windows
3 14 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.76%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.97%) Android
5 5 (1.97%) Unix
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 140 (55.12%) Continuous Integration
3 130 (51.18%) Agile
4 95 (37.40%) DevOps
5 84 (33.07%) TDD
6 65 (25.59%) Microservices
7 61 (24.02%) Test Automation
8 55 (21.65%) Software Engineering
9 49 (19.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (16.14%) Containerisation
12 35 (13.78%) BDD
13 32 (12.60%) Design Patterns
14 31 (12.20%) User Experience
15 30 (11.81%) Deployment Automation
16 28 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (10.63%) Scrum
18 26 (10.24%) Mentoring
19 24 (9.45%) Roadmaps
20 23 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.31%) Java
2 62 (24.41%) Python
3 59 (23.23%) SQL
4 56 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 51 (20.08%) TypeScript
6 46 (18.11%) C#
7 21 (8.27%) Bash
7 21 (8.27%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.76%) C++
9 6 (2.36%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.36%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.97%) Scala
11 4 (1.57%) Go
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) PHP
12 3 (1.18%) Ruby
13 2 (0.79%) Groovy
13 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 2 (0.79%) XPath
14 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.30%) Degree
4 12 (4.72%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.94%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.97%) MCSE
7 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.18%) PMP
10 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) CCNP
11 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.87%) QA
2 11 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.97%) NCSC
3 5 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) NIST
5 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (1.18%) WCAG
6 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (13.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.18%) RACF
4 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 67 (26.38%) Terraform
2 61 (24.02%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.06%) Ansible
4 16 (6.30%) Grafana
5 10 (3.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.18%) Packer
6 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Rancher
7 1 (0.39%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.30%) Google
2 16 (6.30%) SAP
3 14 (5.51%) Oracle
4 12 (4.72%) Splunk
5 9 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.76%) Databricks
6 7 (2.76%) VMware
7 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco
8 4 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.57%) Sybase
9 3 (1.18%) Murex
10 2 (0.79%) Brio
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) Infoblox
10 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.39%) Okta
11 1 (0.39%) Talend