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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 377 463
Rank change year-on-year -62 +86 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 114 208 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 147 156
10th Percentile £345 £413 £450
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £575 £705 £688
90th Percentile £671 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -27.11% -10.00% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £46.10
25th Percentile - £40.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.63% +87.14%
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 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 29,443 36,038 50,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.37% 85.40% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,490 23,058 34,451
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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 1,553 2,324 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%
75th Percentile £51.65 £61.70 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £73.43 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.04% -4.70% +86.05%

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 17 July 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 14 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 17 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 -38 95 £525 -12.50% 111
London -43 55 £550 -8.33% 52
UK excluding London +10 45 £410 -27.11% 64
Work from Home -10 35 £550 -8.33% 63
North of England -12 17 £500 -16.67% 23
South East +40 16 £350 -26.32% 14
North West -4 12 £410 -13.68% 13
Scotland +3 7 £408 -18.40% 5
Yorkshire -17 4 £538 -14.00% 7
Midlands +5 3 £550 - 9
West Midlands +1 3 £550 - 6
North East - 2 £563 - 3
East of England +13 1 £500 +17.65% 3
Wales - 1 £650 - 2

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 6 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) CMS
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (47.37%) Azure
2 45 (39.47%) AWS
3 24 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (20.18%) GCP
5 16 (14.04%) GitHub
6 13 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.77%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.51%) IaaS
10 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.63%) PaaS
11 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.63%) SaaS
11 3 (2.63%) Serverless
12 2 (1.75%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.75%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) DNS
1 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 4 (3.51%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) Network Security
4 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.26%) MySQL
4 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.63%) KDB
6 3 (2.63%) Power BI
6 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.75%) DB2
7 2 (1.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (37.72%) Jenkins
2 37 (32.46%) Git
3 17 (14.91%) JIRA
4 14 (12.28%) GitLab
5 10 (8.77%) Liquibase
6 9 (7.89%) Gradle
7 7 (6.14%) Maven
7 7 (6.14%) Subversion
8 5 (4.39%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.51%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.51%) Xcode
10 3 (2.63%) Ant
10 3 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.63%) Postman
10 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.75%) JUnit
11 2 (1.75%) Selenium
11 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Finance
3 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.51%) Front Office
6 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.68%) Developer
2 18 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (13.16%) Lead
3 15 (13.16%) Senior
4 13 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.14%) Architect
6 7 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Android Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Android Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Team Leader
8 5 (4.39%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) iOS Developer
9 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Technical Leader
10 3 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.18%) Kafka
2 17 (14.91%) REST
3 11 (9.65%) CSS
3 11 (9.65%) HTML
4 8 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (7.02%) Spring
5 7 (6.14%) RESTful
5 7 (6.14%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.26%) Android SDK
6 6 (5.26%) GraphQL
6 6 (5.26%) gRPC
6 6 (5.26%) Node.js
7 5 (4.39%) OAuth
8 4 (3.51%) ADO
8 4 (3.51%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.51%) React
9 3 (2.63%) .NET
9 3 (2.63%) JSP
9 3 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.39%) Equities
3 5 (4.39%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.39%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.51%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.28%) Linux
2 10 (8.77%) Android
3 6 (5.26%) Unix
4 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.51%) Windows
5 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (90.35%) CI/CD
2 91 (79.82%) Continuous Integration
3 61 (53.51%) Agile
4 59 (51.75%) DevOps
5 34 (29.82%) TDD
6 27 (23.68%) Scrum
7 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (18.42%) Test Automation
10 20 (17.54%) Microservices
10 20 (17.54%) Software Engineering
11 19 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 18 (15.79%) BDD
13 17 (14.91%) Computer Science
14 13 (11.40%) User Experience
15 12 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 11 (9.65%) RBAC
16 11 (9.65%) UX Design
17 10 (8.77%) Kanban
17 10 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.75%) Python
2 43 (37.72%) Java
3 28 (24.56%) Bash
4 21 (18.42%) Go
4 21 (18.42%) SQL
5 19 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.28%) C++
7 12 (10.53%) C
8 10 (8.77%) Kotlin
8 10 (8.77%) Perl
9 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.26%) Ruby
11 4 (3.51%) C#
11 4 (3.51%) Objective-C
11 4 (3.51%) Scala
11 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.51%) Swift
12 2 (1.75%) Groovy
12 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (12.28%) Degree
4 9 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.75%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.26%) GDPR
3 6 (5.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 39 (34.21%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.75%) OpenAM
3 2 (1.75%) OpenDJ
3 2 (1.75%) OpenIDM
3 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.68%) Terraform
3 11 (9.65%) Grafana
4 10 (8.77%) Ansible
5 7 (6.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.39%) Puppet
7 3 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.75%) Consul
8 2 (1.75%) Kibana
8 2 (1.75%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.88%) Argo
9 1 (0.88%) Cilium
9 1 (0.88%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) logstash
9 1 (0.88%) Podman
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) Google
5 2 (1.75%) Dell
5 2 (1.75%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.75%) IBM
5 2 (1.75%) Splunk
5 2 (1.75%) Sybase
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.88%) Murex
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Sonatype