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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 280 195
Rank change year-on-year -69 -85 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 200 435 1,042
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.92% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.03% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 305 732
10th Percentile £374 £463 £405
25th Percentile £425 £519 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.26% +6.68%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £694
90th Percentile £754 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £62.75 £54.69 £22.11
25th Percentile - £59.06 £27.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £38.63
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +74.76% -4.63%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £50.16
90th Percentile £65.90 £101.25 £56.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% +45.06%

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 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -61 122 £600 -4.00% 29
North of England +22 31 £432 -24.21% 13
Yorkshire +27 23 £430 -23.89% 4
East of England +10 11 £475 -9.52% 14
Midlands +3 11 £575 +6.48% 10
South West -8 10 £400 -38.56% 8
West Midlands -2 9 £638 +18.06% 10
South East -4 9 £556 +3.49% 20
North West -4 5 £524 -6.89% 6
North East +12 3 £410 -50.24% 3
East Midlands +7 1 £419 -16.62%
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 8 (4.00%) Confluence
2 7 (3.50%) SAS
3 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.50%) CMS
3 3 (1.50%) Drupal
3 3 (1.50%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.50%) nginx
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) IIS
4 2 (1.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Softmar
2 1 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.50%) AWS
2 47 (23.50%) Azure
3 27 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (9.50%) GCP
5 15 (7.50%) Serverless
6 10 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.50%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.50%) Azure API Management
8 7 (3.50%) Azure Batch
8 7 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.50%) Azure Storage
8 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.50%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.00%) GitHub
10 5 (2.50%) PaaS
11 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.50%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.00%) SSL
4 3 (1.50%) DNS
4 3 (1.50%) Firewall
4 3 (1.50%) HTTP
4 3 (1.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.00%) LAN
5 2 (1.00%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) FTP
6 1 (0.50%) IPsec
6 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.50%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.50%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.00%) Big Data
4 10 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.50%) KDB
6 7 (3.50%) OLTP
6 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.00%) MySQL
8 4 (2.00%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.50%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.50%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.00%) DB2
10 2 (1.00%) Power BI
10 2 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (18.00%) Git
2 33 (16.50%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.00%) TeamCity
4 16 (8.00%) JIRA
5 13 (6.50%) Cucumber
5 13 (6.50%) Visual Studio
6 12 (6.00%) Selenium
7 11 (5.50%) Eclipse
8 10 (5.00%) Moq
8 10 (5.00%) NUnit
9 9 (4.50%) JUnit
10 8 (4.00%) Artifactory
11 7 (3.50%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.50%) GitLab
11 7 (3.50%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (3.00%) Cypress.io
12 6 (3.00%) JMeter
13 5 (2.50%) Ant
14 4 (2.00%) Gradle
14 4 (2.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 56 (28.00%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.50%) Banking
4 20 (10.00%) Front Office
5 19 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.00%) Military
6 12 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.50%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
12 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (30.00%) Developer
2 25 (12.50%) Senior
3 19 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.00%) C# Developer
5 17 (8.50%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.50%) Lead
5 17 (8.50%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Architect
8 9 (4.50%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.00%) Consultant
9 8 (4.00%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.00%) React Developer
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Analyst
10 7 (3.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.00%) .NET
1 28 (14.00%) Node.js
2 22 (11.00%) Web Services
3 16 (8.00%) REST
4 13 (6.50%) .NET Core
4 13 (6.50%) Middleware
4 13 (6.50%) RESTful
4 13 (6.50%) Spring
5 12 (6.00%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.00%) React
5 12 (6.00%) XML
6 11 (5.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 11 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (5.00%) SignalR
8 9 (4.50%) JSON
8 9 (4.50%) Kafka
9 8 (4.00%) ARM Templates
9 8 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (3.50%) HTML
10 7 (3.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.50%) Fixed Income
2 11 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.50%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.00%) Derivative
4 8 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.50%) NHS
10 1 (0.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.00%) Linux
2 21 (10.50%) Windows
3 5 (2.50%) Unix
3 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.50%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) AIX
5 2 (1.00%) Solaris
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (70.50%) CI/CD
2 129 (64.50%) Continuous Integration
3 127 (63.50%) Agile
4 105 (52.50%) DevOps
5 57 (28.50%) Test Automation
6 56 (28.00%) TDD
7 38 (19.00%) Scrum
8 37 (18.50%) Software Engineering
9 33 (16.50%) Microservices
10 31 (15.50%) OO
11 30 (15.00%) Design Patterns
11 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (13.50%) Kanban
14 25 (12.50%) Validation
15 24 (12.00%) Containerisation
15 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
16 21 (10.50%) ITIL
17 19 (9.50%) Architectural Patterns
17 19 (9.50%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.00%) Java
2 42 (21.00%) C#
3 37 (18.50%) SQL
4 33 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 33 (16.50%) Python
5 21 (10.50%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.50%) C++
6 17 (8.50%) Go
7 16 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.00%) Bash
8 8 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.00%) Scala
9 6 (3.00%) Perl
10 5 (2.50%) Groovy
10 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.00%) Ruby
12 3 (1.50%) Bicep
12 3 (1.50%) PHP
13 2 (1.00%) C
14 1 (0.50%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 16 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.00%) Degree
4 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.00%) CISSP
4 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.50%) APMP
6 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) QA
2 4 (2.00%) GDPR
2 4 (2.00%) NIST
2 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) MiFID
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Ceph
4 1 (0.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (18.50%) Terraform
2 31 (15.50%) Ansible
3 14 (7.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.50%) Progress Chef
5 8 (4.00%) Puppet
6 6 (3.00%) Rancher
7 4 (2.00%) Grafana
8 2 (1.00%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) logstash
9 1 (0.50%) Mesos
9 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.50%) EMC
3 11 (5.50%) Google
4 10 (5.00%) TIBCO
5 9 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.00%) Splunk
6 8 (4.00%) VMware
7 7 (3.50%) ION Trading
8 5 (2.50%) Oracle
9 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.00%) F5
10 2 (1.00%) Guidewire
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) SAP
11 1 (0.50%) Calypso
11 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile
11 1 (0.50%) Sybase
11 1 (0.50%) Veritas