Continuous Delivery Contracts in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 106 120
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 8 34 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 1.43% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.61% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 43
10th Percentile £464 £466 £380
25th Percentile £511 £521 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £595 £559
90th Percentile £713 £595 £587
England median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +10.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Continuous Delivery 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Warwickshire +4 4 £675 +44.85%
Birmingham +3 4 £500 -13.04% 4
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Drupal
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) IPsec
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Ant
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Epics
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Software Assurance
4 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cadence