Hybrid/Remote Canary Deployment Contract Job Trends

Canary Deployments
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Canary Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 309 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Canary Deployment 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.018% 0.037% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £481 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% - -
75th Percentile £606 £775 -
90th Percentile £632 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 -
% change year-on-year -23.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Canary 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,960 9,675 14,497
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.53% 90.36% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,498 6,286 9,706
10th Percentile £340 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 186 521
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.36 £15.17
25th Percentile £26.68 £23.67 £23.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -21.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.17 £63.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -

Canary Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Canary Deployment and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Canary Deployment job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Canary Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Canary Deployment

Canary Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Canary Deployment over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Canary Deployment daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Canary Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (50.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Search
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI