Continuous Delivery Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continuous Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 231 196
Rank change year-on-year -37 -35 +21
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 76 256 624
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 1.05% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.17% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 200 446
10th Percentile £400 £463 £408
25th Percentile £471 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £675
90th Percentile - £726 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% +50.56%
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year - +3.38% +55.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,938 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,535 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 537
10th Percentile £14.66 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.27 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Continuous Delivery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Delivery trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Continuous Delivery.

Continuous Delivery hourly rate 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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) IIS
3 2 (2.63%) JBoss
4 1 (1.32%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 30 (39.47%) AWS
3 19 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (17.11%) PaaS
5 11 (14.47%) IaaS
5 11 (14.47%) SaaS
6 10 (13.16%) GitHub
6 10 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (11.84%) Serverless
8 8 (10.53%) GCP
9 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
9 5 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.26%) Azure API Management
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Batch
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (5.26%) Azure Storage
10 4 (5.26%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) HTTP
1 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.95%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
1 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.26%) OLTP
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Big Data
3 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.63%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.63%) DB2
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.16%) SonarQube
3 9 (11.84%) Git
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) JMeter
6 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.95%) GitLab
7 3 (3.95%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) Bugzilla
8 2 (2.63%) JUnit
8 2 (2.63%) TestNG
8 2 (2.63%) TestRail
8 2 (2.63%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.63%) webpack
9 1 (1.32%) Babel
9 1 (1.32%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (32.89%) Finance
2 12 (15.79%) Banking
3 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Marketing
7 2 (2.63%) Electronics
7 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.63%) Military
7 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Advertising
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Front Office
8 1 (1.32%) Games
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Lead
3 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
5 7 (9.21%) Senior
6 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.89%) React Developer
7 5 (6.58%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.95%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Technical Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) ARM Templates
2 11 (14.47%) .NET
3 10 (13.16%) Azure Blueprints
4 9 (11.84%) React
5 8 (10.53%) Node.js
5 8 (10.53%) Spring
5 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.89%) RESTful
6 6 (7.89%) XML
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 5 (6.58%) HTML
7 5 (6.58%) Redux
7 5 (6.58%) REST
7 5 (6.58%) Web Services
8 4 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.26%) JSON
9 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.95%) Gherkin
9 3 (3.95%) Kafka
9 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.16%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.16%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) CBDC
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.32%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) AIX
2 2 (2.63%) Solaris
2 2 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 43 (56.58%) DevOps
3 39 (51.32%) Agile
4 38 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (39.47%) Test Automation
6 22 (28.95%) Mentoring
7 19 (25.00%) Scrum
7 19 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 18 (23.68%) Deployment Automation
9 17 (22.37%) Containerisation
10 16 (21.05%) Performance Analysis
10 16 (21.05%) TDD
11 15 (19.74%) Microservices
12 14 (18.42%) Kanban
13 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (15.79%) Non-Functional Testing
14 11 (14.47%) DevSecOps
14 11 (14.47%) Functional Testing
15 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (13.16%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) Java
2 16 (21.05%) Python
3 13 (17.11%) SQL
4 12 (15.79%) C#
5 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.26%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) Go
8 4 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.95%) PHP
9 3 (3.95%) Scala
10 2 (2.63%) Bicep
10 2 (2.63%) Groovy
11 1 (1.32%) C++
11 1 (1.32%) Perl
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) CCNP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.32%) MCSE
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) NCSC
2 6 (7.89%) QA
3 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (28.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (31.58%) Terraform
2 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.11%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (5.26%) Kibana
4 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.95%) Zipkin
6 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.63%) Puppet
6 2 (2.63%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) EMC
3 5 (6.58%) Splunk
4 3 (3.95%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.63%) F5
5 2 (2.63%) IBM
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) Adobe
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (1.32%) VMware