Continuous Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 309 255 191
Rank change year-on-year -54 -64 +18
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 85 200 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.86% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.97% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 148 274
10th Percentile £396 £432 £398
25th Percentile £407 £511 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £566 £535
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +5.84% +12.58%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £609
90th Percentile £638 £694 £692
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +55.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK excluding London

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +20 29 £434 -23.19% 23
Yorkshire +31 23 £430 -21.82% 9
Scotland +24 17 £475 -9.52% 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 the UK excluding London 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 8 (9.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.88%) Confluence
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.53%) CMS
3 3 (3.53%) Drupal
3 3 (3.53%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.53%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) AWS
2 24 (28.24%) Azure
3 15 (17.65%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
6 6 (7.06%) Serverless
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.53%) CloudBees
9 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.53%) PaaS
10 2 (2.35%) SaaS
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.18%) GitHub
11 1 (1.18%) IaaS
11 1 (1.18%) Route 53
11 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Ethernet
1 11 (12.94%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.71%) SSL
3 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 3 (3.53%) Firewall
4 1 (1.18%) IPsec
4 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.24%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.53%) ClickHouse
6 3 (3.53%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.35%) MySQL
8 1 (1.18%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.18%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Visual Studio
2 12 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.94%) Eclipse
4 9 (10.59%) JIRA
5 7 (8.24%) Git
6 6 (7.06%) Artifactory
7 5 (5.88%) GitLab
7 5 (5.88%) Selenium
8 3 (3.53%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.53%) JMeter
8 3 (3.53%) Subversion
9 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.35%) JUnit
9 2 (2.35%) Maven
10 1 (1.18%) Gradle
10 1 (1.18%) Mockito
10 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (28.24%) Finance
2 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Military
3 11 (12.94%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.71%) Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Games
8 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Consultant
7 5 (5.88%) Senior
7 5 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead
8 4 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Storage Consultant
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.35%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.35%) EMC Consultant
10 2 (2.35%) EMC Storage Consultant
10 2 (2.35%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) Spring
1 14 (16.47%) Spring Boot
2 13 (15.29%) Node.js
3 12 (14.12%) Web Services
4 11 (12.94%) Kafka
4 11 (12.94%) REST
5 10 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (10.59%) RESTful
7 7 (8.24%) OpenTracing
7 7 (8.24%) React
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.53%) .NET
9 3 (3.53%) CSS
9 3 (3.53%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.53%) HTML
9 3 (3.53%) JPA
9 3 (3.53%) OAuth
9 3 (3.53%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.71%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.18%) FMCG
8 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.18%) NHS
8 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.06%) Linux
2 14 (16.47%) Windows
3 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Android
5 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (83.53%) CI/CD
2 61 (71.76%) Continuous Integration
3 53 (62.35%) Agile
4 49 (57.65%) DevOps
5 24 (28.24%) Validation
6 23 (27.06%) Software Engineering
7 21 (24.71%) ITIL
8 19 (22.35%) Microservices
8 19 (22.35%) TDD
8 19 (22.35%) Test Automation
9 17 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
10 15 (17.65%) Build Automation
11 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (16.47%) SDLC
12 13 (15.29%) Design Patterns
12 13 (15.29%) Unit Testing
13 11 (12.94%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (12.94%) Roadmaps
13 11 (12.94%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (12.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.06%) Java
2 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
3 16 (18.82%) C#
4 15 (17.65%) Python
5 13 (15.29%) C++
6 11 (12.94%) Scala
7 8 (9.41%) Kotlin
8 7 (8.24%) Bash
8 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (8.24%) SQL
9 6 (7.06%) Go
10 5 (5.88%) Perl
11 4 (4.71%) Groovy
11 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.53%) Ruby
13 2 (2.35%) C
13 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) APMP
4 1 (1.18%) CCNP
4 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Degree
4 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) MCSE
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.18%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (22.35%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (25.88%) Ansible
2 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.94%) Terraform
4 8 (9.41%) Grafana
5 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.24%) Zipkin
6 4 (4.71%) Kibana
6 4 (4.71%) Rancher
7 3 (3.53%) Packer
8 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.18%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.47%) EMC
3 7 (8.24%) VMware
4 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Brio
6 1 (1.18%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Veritas