Continuous Deployment Contracts

Continuous Deployment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 455 441
Rank change year-on-year +78 -14 -68
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 195 249 485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.44% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.50% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 172 334
10th Percentile £430 £463 £433
25th Percentile £503 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £705 £688 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £46.10 -
25th Percentile £45.06 £58.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Deployment 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 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 31 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 11 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 31 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 +52 178 £600 -4.00% 101
London +92 123 £600 -4.00% 43
Work from Home +84 67 £600 -3.03% 48
UK excluding London +1 50 £575 -11.54% 59
North of England +18 28 £600 -12.73% 19
North West +17 14 £508 -21.92% 14
Yorkshire +14 14 £622 -11.14% 2
South East -1 10 £475 -13.64% 18
South West -8 6 £600 -7.69% 7
Scotland +37 4 - - 2
East of England +8 2 £413 - 1

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 15 (7.69%) Confluence
2 10 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.59%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.03%) nginx
4 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.03%) Traefik
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Windchill
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.54%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.95%) Azure
2 50 (25.64%) AWS
3 27 (13.85%) GitHub
4 22 (11.28%) Serverless
5 20 (10.26%) GCP
6 19 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (9.23%) Apigee
8 17 (8.72%) PaaS
9 16 (8.21%) Azure API Management
10 15 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (7.69%) Entra ID
11 13 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (6.15%) SaaS
13 11 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (5.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (5.64%) IaaS
14 10 (5.13%) Azure Storage
14 10 (5.13%) Kong
14 10 (5.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 15 (7.69%) VPN
2 13 (6.67%) DNS
3 12 (6.15%) Firewall
4 9 (4.62%) HTTP
5 5 (2.56%) Network Security
6 4 (2.05%) Internet
7 3 (1.54%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.54%) SSL
8 1 (0.51%) 5G
8 1 (0.51%) DHCP
8 1 (0.51%) LTE
8 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.51%) WAN
8 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.77%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.13%) Big Data
4 10 (5.13%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.13%) Delta Lake
5 9 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
6 5 (2.56%) Power BI
6 5 (2.56%) Redis
7 4 (2.05%) MySQL
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.51%) Adabas
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 48 (24.62%) Git
1 48 (24.62%) Jenkins
2 27 (13.85%) GitLab
3 25 (12.82%) Postman
4 21 (10.77%) JIRA
5 18 (9.23%) Mockito
6 15 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (7.69%) Selenium
7 11 (5.64%) Appium
7 11 (5.64%) SoapUI
8 10 (5.13%) Cucumber
8 10 (5.13%) Travis CI
9 9 (4.62%) CircleCI
9 9 (4.62%) eggPlant
9 9 (4.62%) JUnit
9 9 (4.62%) REST Assured
9 9 (4.62%) SOAtest
9 9 (4.62%) TeamCity
9 9 (4.62%) TestNG
9 9 (4.62%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.08%) Finance
3 24 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.23%) Retail
5 17 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.69%) Banking
7 5 (2.56%) Electronics
8 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) Front Office
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (33.33%) Developer
2 40 (20.51%) Senior
3 30 (15.38%) Lead
4 26 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (11.79%) Senior Developer
6 21 (10.77%) Java Developer
7 16 (8.21%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (7.18%) Architect
9 13 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.62%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Consultant
12 8 (4.10%) Senior Python Developer
13 7 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) MuleSoft Developer
14 6 (3.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
2 25 (12.82%) Kafka
3 24 (12.31%) .NET
3 24 (12.31%) Web Services
4 22 (11.28%) Swagger
5 20 (10.26%) Node.js
6 19 (9.74%) REST
7 18 (9.23%) JAX-RS
7 18 (9.23%) XML
8 17 (8.72%) .NET Framework
9 16 (8.21%) JSON
10 15 (7.69%) YAML
11 14 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.67%) CSS
12 13 (6.67%) HTML
13 12 (6.15%) Spring
14 10 (5.13%) PySpark
14 10 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (5.13%) SOAP
15 7 (3.59%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.13%) Data Structures
1 10 (5.13%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.05%) Device Driver
3 4 (2.05%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (2.05%) IoT
3 4 (2.05%) PCIe
3 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.05%) Verilog
3 4 (2.05%) VHDL
4 3 (1.54%) Wiki
5 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.03%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.03%) Clustering
5 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.03%) PKI
5 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.44%) Linux
2 25 (12.82%) Unix
3 19 (9.74%) Mac OS X
4 8 (4.10%) Windows
5 4 (2.05%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.05%) VxWorks
6 2 (1.03%) CentOS
6 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 151 (77.44%) Continuous Integration
3 132 (67.69%) Agile
4 92 (47.18%) DevOps
5 60 (30.77%) TDD
6 56 (28.72%) Test Automation
7 53 (27.18%) Microservices
8 47 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (20.00%) BDD
10 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (17.95%) Software Engineering
12 33 (16.92%) Containerisation
13 28 (14.36%) Pair Programming
14 25 (12.82%) Scrum
15 23 (11.79%) SDLC
16 21 (10.77%) Configuration Management
17 20 (10.26%) API Management
17 20 (10.26%) Software Testing
18 19 (9.74%) Web Development
19 18 (9.23%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.33%) Python
2 49 (25.13%) Java
3 42 (21.54%) SQL
4 29 (14.87%) C#
5 27 (13.85%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.72%) Bash
7 13 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.64%) Ruby
9 8 (4.10%) Go
9 8 (4.10%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.05%) C
10 4 (2.05%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.54%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.54%) Perl
11 3 (1.54%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) Bicep
12 2 (1.03%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Natural
13 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.74%) Degree
4 16 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.05%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.31%) QA
2 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.05%) MISRA
2 4 (2.05%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.03%) NCSC
3 2 (1.03%) WCAG
4 1 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (24.62%) Docker
2 16 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.05%) Firmware
6 3 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.54%) vCloud
6 3 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (24.62%) Terraform
2 47 (24.10%) Kubernetes
3 37 (18.97%) Ansible
4 17 (8.72%) Puppet
5 15 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 14 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 12 (6.15%) Grafana
7 12 (6.15%) Kibana
8 11 (5.64%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (5.64%) logstash
9 4 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.54%) Autotask
11 2 (1.03%) Consul
11 2 (1.03%) Graphite
11 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.03%) Istio
11 2 (1.03%) linkerd
11 2 (1.03%) Packer
11 2 (1.03%) Podman
11 2 (1.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) Google
3 13 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.15%) Splunk
5 10 (5.13%) Databricks
6 9 (4.62%) VMware
7 8 (4.10%) MuleSoft
7 8 (4.10%) Oracle
7 8 (4.10%) SAP
8 7 (3.59%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.59%) WSO2
9 4 (2.05%) Intel
10 3 (1.54%) BMC
10 3 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.54%) F5
10 3 (1.54%) PTC
10 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.54%) Remedy
10 3 (1.54%) Siemens
10 3 (1.54%) TOWER Software