Continuous Delivery Contracts in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 125 124
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 10 33 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 1.01% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.14% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 54
10th Percentile £408 £466 £380
25th Percentile £487 £518 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £540 £464
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% +16.44% -0.27%
75th Percentile £688 £595 £540
90th Percentile - £598 £586
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +3 8 £656 +20.41% 5
East Midlands +10 1 £419 -12.71% 1
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Gradle
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Developer
1 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Senior
1 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Kanban
4 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Epics
5 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Software Assurance
6 2 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (10.00%) VMware