Continuous Deployment Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continuous Deployment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 254 277 353
Rank change year-on-year +23 +76 +13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 50 68 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.50% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 93
10th Percentile £394 £454 £463
25th Percentile £475 £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +8.00% +1.85%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £712 £721
UK median daily rate £517 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -13.83% +7.87% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £43.60
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.39% -
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -54.79% -7.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Deployment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment.

Continuous Deployment daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Continuous Deployment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment.

Continuous Deployment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Deployment
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 1 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 17 (34.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) GCP
5 9 (18.00%) GitHub
6 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.00%) Sentry
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.00%) Datadog
9 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.00%) Apigee
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (2.00%) IaaS
10 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) VPN
2 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.00%) Redis
2 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) DB2
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (32.00%) Git
3 12 (24.00%) GitLab
4 6 (12.00%) CircleCI
4 6 (12.00%) JIRA
5 5 (10.00%) Gradle
6 3 (6.00%) Ant
6 3 (6.00%) Maven
6 3 (6.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (6.00%) Spinnaker
6 3 (6.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (4.00%) Android Studio
7 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.00%) gulp
7 2 (4.00%) Postman
7 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.00%) Selenium
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.00%) Subversion
7 2 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Aviation
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Lead
4 6 (12.00%) Python Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Tester
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Tester
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Java Team Leader
6 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Team Leader
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Team Leader
7 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) REST
2 7 (14.00%) Node.js
3 6 (12.00%) CSS
3 6 (12.00%) HTML
3 6 (12.00%) React
3 6 (12.00%) RESTful
4 5 (10.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) ADO
5 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (8.00%) Django
5 4 (8.00%) Express.js
5 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.00%) JSP
6 3 (6.00%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (4.00%) .NET
7 2 (4.00%) boto
7 2 (4.00%) jQuery
7 2 (4.00%) JSON
7 2 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Animation
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Android
4 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (92.00%) CI/CD
2 43 (86.00%) Continuous Integration
3 28 (56.00%) Agile
4 27 (54.00%) DevOps
5 17 (34.00%) Containerisation
6 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
10 8 (16.00%) Scrum
10 8 (16.00%) Software Delivery
11 7 (14.00%) Clean Code
11 7 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (14.00%) Task Automation
11 7 (14.00%) User Experience
12 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 6 (12.00%) Microservices
13 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
13 5 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (26.00%) Bash
3 13 (26.00%) Java
4 11 (22.00%) SQL
5 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (4.00%) Go
7 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.00%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.00%) Ruby
7 2 (4.00%) Swift
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Degree
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.00%) Terraform
3 10 (20.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Ansible
5 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (10.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Apple
3 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Murex
4 1 (2.00%) Sybase