Continuous Deployment Contracts

Continuous Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Deployment 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 400 378 411
Rank change year-on-year -22 +33 +10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 121 206 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.55% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 143 226
10th Percentile £360 £450 £463
25th Percentile £440 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -4.09%
75th Percentile £573 £694 £675
90th Percentile £638 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -19.15% +6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £40.00 £46.10
25th Percentile £26.32 £45.06 £58.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% -7.63% -
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £67.38
90th Percentile - - £69.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Deployment 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Deployment 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 -29 95 £517 -13.83% 139
London -29 58 £525 -12.50% 81
Work from Home +23 50 £525 -11.62% 92
UK excluding London +50 39 £475 -19.15% 86
North of England +10 18 £488 -18.75% 18
North West +19 17 £488 +2.63% 8
South East +45 9 £360 -28.00% 26
Scotland +14 7 £475 -32.91% 7
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 8
Midlands - 4 £500 - 9
South West +42 1 £625 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -3 1 - - 7

Continuous 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (41.32%) Azure
2 47 (38.84%) AWS
3 29 (23.97%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (19.01%) GCP
4 23 (19.01%) GitHub
5 18 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.26%) Snowflake
7 9 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.31%) IaaS
10 4 (3.31%) Sentry
11 3 (2.48%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.48%) Datadog
11 3 (2.48%) PaaS
11 3 (2.48%) SaaS
11 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) DNS
2 5 (4.13%) VPN
3 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 4 (3.31%) HTTP
4 2 (1.65%) SSL
4 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.83%) LAN
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.79%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.96%) Redis
4 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.13%) Power BI
5 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.65%) Big Data
6 2 (1.65%) DB2
6 2 (1.65%) Impala
6 2 (1.65%) ObjectStore
6 2 (1.65%) OLAP
6 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (33.88%) Git
2 30 (24.79%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.88%) GitLab
4 15 (12.40%) JIRA
5 7 (5.79%) CircleCI
6 6 (4.96%) Gradle
6 6 (4.96%) Subversion
7 5 (4.13%) Maven
8 4 (3.31%) Grunt
8 4 (3.31%) gulp
8 4 (3.31%) Jasmine
8 4 (3.31%) Mocha
8 4 (3.31%) Selenium
8 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (2.48%) Postman
9 3 (2.48%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.13%) Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.65%) Front Office
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Aviation
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Developer
2 21 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (16.53%) Lead
4 16 (13.22%) Senior
5 9 (7.44%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Architect
6 8 (6.61%) Team Leader
7 7 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Automation Tester
9 5 (4.13%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.13%) Tester
10 4 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.31%) Consultant
10 4 (3.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (3.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.92%) REST
2 10 (8.26%) Kafka
2 10 (8.26%) React
2 10 (8.26%) RESTful
3 9 (7.44%) CSS
3 9 (7.44%) HTML
3 9 (7.44%) Node.js
4 7 (5.79%) OAuth
5 6 (4.96%) .NET
5 6 (4.96%) ADO
5 6 (4.96%) Spring
6 5 (4.13%) Django
6 5 (4.13%) SAML
6 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.31%) Android SDK
7 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.31%) Express.js
7 4 (3.31%) Mustache
7 4 (3.31%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.31%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.13%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Animation
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.65%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Unix
3 7 (5.79%) Android
4 4 (3.31%) Windows
5 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.48%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (91.74%) CI/CD
2 104 (85.95%) Continuous Integration
3 58 (47.93%) DevOps
4 56 (46.28%) Agile
5 34 (28.10%) Containerisation
6 31 (25.62%) Test Automation
7 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 20 (16.53%) Scrum
11 15 (12.40%) Analytics
11 15 (12.40%) TDD
12 14 (11.57%) RBAC
13 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (9.92%) Algorithmic Trading
14 12 (9.92%) Electronic Trading
14 12 (9.92%) ETL
14 12 (9.92%) Market Making
14 12 (9.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 60 (49.59%) Python
2 35 (28.93%) Java
3 22 (18.18%) Bash
4 21 (17.36%) SQL
5 20 (16.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.92%) C
6 12 (9.92%) C++
7 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.44%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.13%) C#
9 5 (4.13%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.48%) Go
12 2 (1.65%) Groovy
12 2 (1.65%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.65%) R
12 2 (1.65%) Ruby
12 2 (1.65%) Swift
13 1 (0.83%) Perl
13 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) Degree
4 9 (7.44%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.65%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) QA
2 8 (6.61%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.79%) GDPR
4 6 (4.96%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.31%) WCAG
6 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.83%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.83%) OpenIDM
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 31 (25.62%) Terraform
3 13 (10.74%) Ansible
4 11 (9.09%) Grafana
5 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.79%) Puppet
6 5 (4.13%) Kustomize
7 4 (3.31%) Istio
8 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.83%) Argo
9 1 (0.83%) Cilium
9 1 (0.83%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Google
3 3 (2.48%) Murex
4 2 (1.65%) Apple
4 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.65%) Cisco
4 2 (1.65%) Dell
4 2 (1.65%) IBM
4 2 (1.65%) Sybase
5 1 (0.83%) Aruba
5 1 (0.83%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.83%) Informatica
5 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.83%) New Relic
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.83%) Remedy
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.83%) Siemens
5 1 (0.83%) Sonatype