Continuous Delivery Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continuous Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 260 224
Rank change year-on-year +44 -36 -22
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 88 85 288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.55% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.63% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 215
10th Percentile £380 £403 £463
25th Percentile £430 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £659
90th Percentile £750 £684 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £595
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £40.78 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Continuous Delivery 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Delivery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Delivery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Delivery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Continuous Delivery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Delivery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Continuous Delivery hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.55%) nginx
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.82%) AWS
2 19 (21.59%) Azure
3 13 (14.77%) GitHub
4 12 (13.64%) PaaS
4 12 (13.64%) Serverless
5 11 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.50%) IaaS
5 11 (12.50%) SaaS
6 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.82%) Slack
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.41%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) HTTP
2 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.82%) VSAN
4 4 (4.55%) Ethernet
4 4 (4.55%) Firewall
4 4 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (4.55%) SSL
5 3 (3.41%) IPsec
5 3 (3.41%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
1 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.36%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (7.95%) MySQL
4 6 (6.82%) Big Data
5 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.55%) Apache Hive
6 4 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.55%) Parquet
6 4 (4.55%) Presto
7 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.14%) Informix
8 1 (1.14%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Git
2 14 (15.91%) JIRA
3 13 (14.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.23%) GitLab
4 9 (10.23%) Visual Studio
5 6 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.82%) Jasmine
5 6 (6.82%) JUnit
6 5 (5.68%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.55%) Eclipse
7 4 (4.55%) Poetry
8 3 (3.41%) Maven
8 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.14%) Mockito
9 1 (1.14%) Subversion
9 1 (1.14%) Toad
9 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 22 (25.00%) Finance
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Electronics
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Military
6 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Danish Language
8 1 (1.14%) French Language
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Games
8 1 (1.14%) German Language
8 1 (1.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Senior
3 17 (19.32%) Architect
4 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 9 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Architect
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Technical Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.68%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead
9 5 (5.68%) React Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) Node.js
2 12 (13.64%) React
3 11 (12.50%) Kafka
3 11 (12.50%) REST
4 10 (11.36%) Spring
4 10 (11.36%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.23%) RESTful
5 9 (10.23%) Web Services
6 8 (9.09%) OAuth
6 8 (9.09%) OpenID
7 7 (7.95%) OAuth2
8 6 (6.82%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.82%) OpenAPI
8 6 (6.82%) Redux
8 6 (6.82%) Spring Batch
8 6 (6.82%) Swagger
9 5 (5.68%) .NET
9 5 (5.68%) NumPy
9 5 (5.68%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (5.68%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 9 (10.23%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.82%) PKI
3 4 (4.55%) Derivative
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Equities
4 3 (3.41%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) CI/CD
2 50 (56.82%) Agile
2 50 (56.82%) Continuous Integration
3 37 (42.05%) DevOps
4 29 (32.95%) TDD
5 23 (26.14%) Microservices
6 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 16 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 16 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 15 (17.05%) Software Engineering
9 13 (14.77%) BDD
9 13 (14.77%) Project Management
10 12 (13.64%) Coaching
10 12 (13.64%) High Availability
10 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
11 11 (12.50%) DevSecOps
11 11 (12.50%) Scrum
12 10 (11.36%) Kanban
12 10 (11.36%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) SQL
2 19 (21.59%) C#
3 18 (20.45%) Java
4 16 (18.18%) Python
5 14 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
7 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.09%) Bash
9 4 (4.55%) C++
10 3 (3.41%) Go
11 2 (2.27%) Scala
11 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.14%) ABAP
12 1 (1.14%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.14%) R
12 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
1 21 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.82%) MCSE
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (6.82%) NCSC
1 6 (6.82%) NIST
2 5 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) WCAG
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (17.05%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.82%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.41%) RACF
5 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (32.95%) Terraform
2 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.23%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Packer
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) VMware
3 6 (6.82%) Cisco
3 6 (6.82%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 4 (4.55%) Splunk
6 2 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.14%) Murex
7 1 (1.14%) Okta
7 1 (1.14%) Perforce
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Talend
7 1 (1.14%) Telerik
7 1 (1.14%) TIBCO