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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 411 442
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 -81
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 202 302 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.52% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.58% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 221 345
10th Percentile £450 £463 £443
25th Percentile £501 £513 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £702 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +14.00%
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 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
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 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +29 183 £600 - 69
London +90 129 £600 -7.69% 29
Work from Home +63 68 £600 - 36
UK excluding London -10 50 £575 +4.55% 42
North of England +8 27 £600 -7.69% 9
North West +15 14 £513 -21.15% 7
Yorkshire +15 13 £622 -11.14% 1
South East +7 10 £475 -13.64% 11
Scotland +44 5 - - 3
South West -20 5 £600 -2.04% 9
East of England +10 3 £425 - 4

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 14 (6.93%) Confluence
2 9 (4.46%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.97%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) Traefik
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Windchill
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.49%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.49%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (33.17%) Azure
2 48 (23.76%) AWS
3 27 (13.37%) GitHub
4 23 (11.39%) Serverless
5 19 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.91%) Azure Logic Apps
6 18 (8.91%) GCP
7 17 (8.42%) Apigee
8 16 (7.92%) PaaS
9 15 (7.43%) Azure API Management
9 15 (7.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.93%) Entra ID
11 12 (5.94%) IaaS
12 11 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (5.45%) SaaS
13 10 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (4.46%) Azure Storage
14 9 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (4.46%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.44%) TCP/IP
1 13 (6.44%) VPN
2 11 (5.45%) DNS
2 11 (5.45%) Firewall
3 8 (3.96%) HTTP
4 5 (2.48%) Network Security
5 4 (1.98%) Internet
6 2 (0.99%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.99%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.40%) MongoDB
2 12 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.46%) Big Data
4 9 (4.46%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.46%) Delta Lake
5 8 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.48%) InterSystems Cache
6 5 (2.48%) Power BI
6 5 (2.48%) Redis
7 3 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.49%) MySQL
7 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (22.77%) Git
2 45 (22.28%) Jenkins
3 24 (11.88%) GitLab
4 22 (10.89%) Postman
5 20 (9.90%) JIRA
6 17 (8.42%) Mockito
7 15 (7.43%) Selenium
8 14 (6.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (5.45%) Appium
9 11 (5.45%) SoapUI
10 10 (4.95%) Cucumber
11 9 (4.46%) eggPlant
11 9 (4.46%) JUnit
11 9 (4.46%) REST Assured
11 9 (4.46%) SOAtest
11 9 (4.46%) TestNG
11 9 (4.46%) Travis CI
11 9 (4.46%) WebDriver
12 8 (3.96%) CircleCI
12 8 (3.96%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Finance
3 23 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.91%) Retail
6 15 (7.43%) Banking
7 12 (5.94%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Electronics
9 2 (0.99%) Police
9 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) French Language
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (30.20%) Developer
2 36 (17.82%) Senior
3 30 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.85%) Lead
4 20 (9.90%) Java Developer
4 20 (9.90%) Senior Developer
5 16 (7.92%) Automation Engineer
6 14 (6.93%) Architect
7 13 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (6.44%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (5.45%) Consultant
10 10 (4.95%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.96%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
14 6 (2.97%) MuleSoft Developer
14 6 (2.97%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.88%) ActiveMQ
1 24 (11.88%) Kafka
2 23 (11.39%) .NET
3 22 (10.89%) Web Services
4 19 (9.41%) Node.js
5 18 (8.91%) Swagger
6 17 (8.42%) JAX-RS
6 17 (8.42%) REST
6 17 (8.42%) XML
7 16 (7.92%) .NET Framework
8 15 (7.43%) JSON
9 14 (6.93%) YAML
10 13 (6.44%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.94%) CSS
12 11 (5.45%) HTML
12 11 (5.45%) Spring
13 9 (4.46%) PySpark
13 9 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (4.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.46%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.98%) Device Driver
4 4 (1.98%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (1.98%) IoT
4 4 (1.98%) PCIe
4 4 (1.98%) Verilog
4 4 (1.98%) VHDL
5 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.49%) Wiki
6 2 (0.99%) Clustering
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.99%) PKI
6 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.99%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.30%) Linux
2 25 (12.38%) Unix
3 18 (8.91%) Mac OS X
4 16 (7.92%) Windows
5 4 (1.98%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.98%) VxWorks
6 2 (0.99%) CentOS
6 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (80.20%) CI/CD
2 157 (77.72%) Continuous Integration
3 138 (68.32%) Agile
4 94 (46.53%) DevOps
5 58 (28.71%) TDD
6 57 (28.22%) Test Automation
7 54 (26.73%) Microservices
8 42 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (18.81%) BDD
10 35 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (14.85%) Containerisation
11 30 (14.85%) Software Engineering
12 26 (12.87%) Pair Programming
13 23 (11.39%) Migration
13 23 (11.39%) Scrum
13 23 (11.39%) SDLC
14 22 (10.89%) Configuration Management
15 20 (9.90%) Software Testing
16 19 (9.41%) API Management
16 19 (9.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.69%) Python
2 53 (26.24%) Java
3 48 (23.76%) SQL
4 29 (14.36%) C#
5 25 (12.38%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.92%) Bash
7 13 (6.44%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.45%) Ruby
9 8 (3.96%) Go
10 7 (3.47%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.48%) C
12 4 (1.98%) Embedded C
12 4 (1.98%) Perl
13 3 (1.49%) PHP
14 2 (0.99%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.99%) C++
15 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.50%) Natural
15 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.89%) Degree
4 18 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) CEH
8 1 (0.50%) CISSP
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.38%) QA
2 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.98%) MISRA
3 4 (1.98%) MISRA C
4 2 (0.99%) NCSC
4 2 (0.99%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (21.78%) Docker
2 15 (7.43%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.98%) Firmware
6 3 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.49%) vCloud
6 3 (1.49%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (21.78%) Terraform
2 43 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.83%) Ansible
4 15 (7.43%) Puppet
5 13 (6.44%) Progress Chef
5 13 (6.44%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.45%) Grafana
6 11 (5.45%) Kibana
7 10 (4.95%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (4.95%) logstash
8 4 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.49%) Autotask
10 2 (0.99%) Argo
10 2 (0.99%) Consul
10 2 (0.99%) Graphite
10 2 (0.99%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.99%) Istio
10 2 (0.99%) linkerd
10 2 (0.99%) Podman
10 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.94%) Google
2 12 (5.94%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.45%) Splunk
4 9 (4.46%) Databricks
4 9 (4.46%) VMware
5 8 (3.96%) IBM
5 8 (3.96%) SAP
6 7 (3.47%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.47%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.47%) Oracle
7 6 (2.97%) WSO2
8 4 (1.98%) Intel
9 3 (1.49%) BMC
9 3 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.49%) PTC
9 3 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.49%) Remedy
9 3 (1.49%) Siemens
9 3 (1.49%) TOWER Software