Continuous Deployment Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Deployment 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 278 335 359
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 -39
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 67 119 273
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 187
10th Percentile £454 £451 £425
25th Percentile £503 £525 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £613 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +13.43% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £625
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £590
% change year-on-year -2.04% +3.81% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year -7.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Continuous Deployment 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 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
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 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Continuous Deployment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Continuous Deployment trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Deployment
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 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 a work from home option citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 6 (8.96%) Apache Spark
1 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.49%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) AWS
3 15 (22.39%) GitHub
4 13 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (19.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (11.94%) Serverless
6 7 (10.45%) Azure Functions
7 6 (8.96%) GCP
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (7.46%) IaaS
8 5 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (5.97%) Azure API Management
9 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.48%) Apigee
10 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.48%) Kong
10 3 (4.48%) SaaS
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) TCP/IP
1 7 (10.45%) VPN
2 5 (7.46%) Firewall
3 4 (5.97%) DNS
4 3 (4.48%) HTTP
5 2 (2.99%) Network Security
6 1 (1.49%) 5G
6 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.49%) DHCP
6 1 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.49%) LTE
6 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
6 1 (1.49%) WAN
6 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Big Data
3 6 (8.96%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.96%) Delta Lake
4 5 (7.46%) InterSystems Cache
4 5 (7.46%) Redis
5 4 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 16 (23.88%) GitLab
3 15 (22.39%) Git
4 10 (14.93%) JIRA
5 4 (5.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.48%) CircleCI
6 3 (4.48%) Mockito
6 3 (4.48%) Selenium
6 3 (4.48%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.48%) Travis CI
7 2 (2.99%) Appium
7 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.99%) eggPlant
7 2 (2.99%) JUnit
7 2 (2.99%) Postman
7 2 (2.99%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.99%) SOAtest
7 2 (2.99%) TestNG
7 2 (2.99%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Finance
3 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.96%) Retail
5 1 (1.49%) Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.49%) French Language
5 1 (1.49%) Front Office
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Lead
3 10 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Consultant
5 5 (7.46%) Node.js Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Architect
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.48%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) XML
2 9 (13.43%) Node.js
3 7 (10.45%) .NET
3 7 (10.45%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (10.45%) JSON
3 7 (10.45%) REST
4 6 (8.96%) .NET Framework
4 6 (8.96%) PySpark
4 6 (8.96%) YAML
5 5 (7.46%) Kafka
5 5 (7.46%) React
5 5 (7.46%) SignalR
6 4 (5.97%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (5.97%) CSS
6 4 (5.97%) HTML
6 4 (5.97%) SOAP
7 3 (4.48%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.48%) HTML5
7 3 (4.48%) JAX-RS
7 3 (4.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.48%) Wiki
3 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Windows
3 6 (8.96%) Unix
4 3 (4.48%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (82.09%) CI/CD
2 52 (77.61%) Continuous Integration
3 43 (64.18%) DevOps
4 39 (58.21%) Agile
5 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
8 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.91%) SDLC
10 11 (16.42%) Analytics
10 11 (16.42%) Microservices
11 10 (14.93%) TDD
12 9 (13.43%) DevSecOps
13 8 (11.94%) ETL
13 8 (11.94%) Full Stack Development
13 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
14 7 (10.45%) BDD
14 7 (10.45%) Data Engineering
14 7 (10.45%) Data Transformation
14 7 (10.45%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) Python
2 17 (25.37%) SQL
3 10 (14.93%) C#
4 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.94%) Java
6 6 (8.96%) Bash
7 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.97%) Go
8 4 (5.97%) Ruby
9 3 (4.48%) Perl
9 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.49%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.49%) Bicep
10 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.49%) CEH
4 1 (1.49%) CISSP
4 1 (1.49%) ISEB
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) vCloud
2 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
2 3 (4.48%) vSphere
3 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 14 (20.90%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) Progress Chef
4 6 (8.96%) Puppet
5 5 (7.46%) Grafana
5 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.97%) Kibana
6 4 (5.97%) logstash
7 3 (4.48%) Autotask
7 3 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.49%) Nagios
8 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Databricks
3 5 (7.46%) VMware
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Arista
5 3 (4.48%) BMC
5 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.48%) Remedy
5 3 (4.48%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.99%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.49%) F5
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) WSO2