Continuous Delivery Contracts in England

Continuous Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 265 199
Rank change year-on-year -77 -66 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 191 480 1,042
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.99% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.10% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 340 723
10th Percentile £375 £463 £405
25th Percentile £425 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.26%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £688
90th Percentile £784 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 1
10th Percentile - £55.21 -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +45.06%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £60.63
90th Percentile - £101.25 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +55.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -53 117 £600 -4.00% 53
North of England +20 29 £434 -23.19% 23
Yorkshire +31 23 £430 -21.82% 9
South West -26 11 £400 -30.43% 13
South East +2 10 £575 +4.55% 18
Midlands -5 10 £606 +12.27% 9
East of England +11 8 £450 -2.70% 5
West Midlands +1 8 £656 +20.41% 9
North West -3 5 £524 -6.89% 10
East Midlands +13 1 £419 -12.71%
North East +10 1 £525 -37.05% 4
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.66%) Confluence
1 7 (3.66%) SAS
2 5 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.09%) Apache
3 4 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) CMS
4 3 (1.57%) Drupal
4 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.57%) nginx
5 2 (1.05%) IIS
5 2 (1.05%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Softmar
2 1 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.61%) AWS
2 46 (24.08%) Azure
3 27 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.90%) GCP
5 15 (7.85%) Serverless
6 10 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.71%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.66%) Azure API Management
8 7 (3.66%) Azure Batch
8 7 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.66%) Azure Storage
8 7 (3.66%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.66%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.14%) PaaS
10 5 (2.62%) GitHub
11 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.81%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.76%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.09%) SSL
4 3 (1.57%) DNS
4 3 (1.57%) Firewall
4 3 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (1.57%) VPN
5 2 (1.05%) LAN
5 2 (1.05%) WAN
6 1 (0.52%) FTP
6 1 (0.52%) IPsec
6 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.61%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.33%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.33%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.76%) Big Data
4 10 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.24%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.19%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.66%) KDB
6 7 (3.66%) OLTP
7 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.09%) MySQL
9 3 (1.57%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.57%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.05%) DB2
10 2 (1.05%) Power BI
10 2 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 31 (16.23%) Git
3 18 (9.42%) TeamCity
4 14 (7.33%) JIRA
5 13 (6.81%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.81%) Visual Studio
6 11 (5.76%) Eclipse
7 10 (5.24%) Moq
7 10 (5.24%) NUnit
8 9 (4.71%) Selenium
9 8 (4.19%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.66%) Artifactory
10 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.66%) JUnit
10 7 (3.66%) Visual Studio Team System
11 6 (3.14%) GitLab
11 6 (3.14%) JMeter
12 4 (2.09%) Ant
12 4 (2.09%) Gradle
13 3 (1.57%) Subversion
General
1 55 (28.80%) Finance
2 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.04%) Banking
4 20 (10.47%) Front Office
5 15 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.28%) Military
8 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.62%) Marketing
11 4 (2.09%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Electronics
12 2 (1.05%) Games
12 2 (1.05%) Law
12 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (29.32%) Developer
2 24 (12.57%) Senior
3 18 (9.42%) C# Developer
3 18 (9.42%) Lead
4 16 (8.38%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.85%) Java Developer
5 15 (7.85%) Software Engineer
6 11 (5.76%) Architect
6 11 (5.76%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.24%) C# Software Engineer
7 10 (5.24%) React Developer
8 9 (4.71%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (4.71%) Scrum Master
9 8 (4.19%) Consultant
9 8 (4.19%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.66%) Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 7 (3.66%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.75%) Node.js
2 28 (14.66%) .NET
3 22 (11.52%) Web Services
4 15 (7.85%) React
4 15 (7.85%) RESTful
5 14 (7.33%) REST
6 13 (6.81%) .NET Core
6 13 (6.81%) Spring
7 12 (6.28%) ASP.NET
7 12 (6.28%) Middleware
7 12 (6.28%) XML
8 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (5.24%) SignalR
10 9 (4.71%) JSON
10 9 (4.71%) Kafka
11 8 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (4.19%) GraphQL
11 8 (4.19%) HTML
11 8 (4.19%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.28%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.28%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.76%) Fixed Income
3 11 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.66%) Derivative
6 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.52%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.75%) Linux
2 21 (10.99%) Windows
3 5 (2.62%) Unix
3 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.57%) Android
5 2 (1.05%) AIX
5 2 (1.05%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (71.20%) CI/CD
2 125 (65.45%) Agile
2 125 (65.45%) Continuous Integration
3 98 (51.31%) DevOps
4 56 (29.32%) TDD
5 51 (26.70%) Test Automation
6 36 (18.85%) Scrum
7 32 (16.75%) Microservices
7 32 (16.75%) Software Engineering
8 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
10 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (13.61%) OO
12 25 (13.09%) Containerisation
12 25 (13.09%) Validation
13 24 (12.57%) Design Patterns
13 24 (12.57%) Kanban
14 22 (11.52%) ITIL
15 19 (9.95%) Electronic Trading
15 19 (9.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.04%) Java
2 42 (21.99%) C#
3 39 (20.42%) SQL
4 37 (19.37%) Python
5 31 (16.23%) JavaScript
6 21 (10.99%) PowerShell
7 20 (10.47%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.85%) Go
9 14 (7.33%) C++
10 9 (4.71%) Kotlin
11 8 (4.19%) Bash
12 6 (3.14%) Perl
12 6 (3.14%) Scala
13 5 (2.62%) Groovy
14 4 (2.09%) Ruby
15 3 (1.57%) Bicep
15 3 (1.57%) PHP
15 3 (1.57%) Shell Script
16 2 (1.05%) C
17 1 (0.52%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 13 (6.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.71%) Degree
2 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.09%) CISSP
5 1 (0.52%) APMP
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) CCNP
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) MCSE
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) QA
2 5 (2.62%) NIST
3 4 (2.09%) GDPR
3 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (14.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Ceph
4 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (18.32%) Terraform
2 25 (13.09%) Ansible
3 16 (8.38%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.66%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.14%) Puppet
6 5 (2.62%) Rancher
7 4 (2.09%) Grafana
8 2 (1.05%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.52%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.52%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.52%) Kibana
9 1 (0.52%) logstash
9 1 (0.52%) Mesos
9 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.52%) Podman
9 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.85%) EMC
3 10 (5.24%) Splunk
3 10 (5.24%) TIBCO
4 8 (4.19%) Google
4 8 (4.19%) VMware
5 7 (3.66%) ION Trading
6 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.62%) Oracle
8 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.05%) Databricks
9 2 (1.05%) F5
9 2 (1.05%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.05%) IBM
9 2 (1.05%) SAP
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.52%) Sybase
10 1 (0.52%) Veritas