Continuous Delivery Contracts

Continuous Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 344 255 201
Rank change year-on-year -89 -54 -3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 230 586 1,262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.03% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.15% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 431 891
10th Percentile £375 £463 £409
25th Percentile £425 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £749 £775 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £566 £538
% change year-on-year -18.21% +5.11% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 2
10th Percentile - £62.38 £57.89
25th Percentile - - £59.41
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year - +3.38% +55.25%
75th Percentile - £81.56 £65.41
90th Percentile - £101.25 £66.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England -85 191 £550 -8.33% 111
London -54 117 £600 -4.00% 49
UK excluding London -47 85 £463 -18.21% 78
Work from Home -42 78 £525 -12.50% 58
North of England +23 29 £434 -23.19% 20
Yorkshire +27 23 £430 -21.82% 9
Scotland +24 17 £475 -9.52% 8
South West -31 11 £400 -27.27% 13
South East +15 10 £575 +4.55% 21
Midlands 0 10 £606 +12.27% 6
West Midlands +3 8 £656 +20.41% 5
East of England +3 8 £450 -2.70% 5
North West +2 5 £524 -6.89% 8
North East +10 1 £525 -37.05% 3
East Midlands +10 1 £419 -12.71% 1

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.48%) Confluence
3 7 (3.04%) SAS
4 4 (1.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.74%) CMS
4 4 (1.74%) IIS
4 4 (1.74%) JBoss
5 3 (1.30%) Drupal
5 3 (1.30%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.30%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Softmar
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 74 (32.17%) AWS
2 70 (30.43%) Azure
3 38 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (10.87%) GCP
5 20 (8.70%) Serverless
6 17 (7.39%) PaaS
7 15 (6.52%) GitHub
8 14 (6.09%) IaaS
9 13 (5.65%) SaaS
10 11 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.35%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.91%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.91%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (3.04%) Azure API Management
14 7 (3.04%) Azure Batch
14 7 (3.04%) Power Automate
14 7 (3.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.09%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.78%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.74%) HTTP
3 4 (1.74%) SSL
4 3 (1.30%) DNS
4 3 (1.30%) Firewall
4 3 (1.30%) VPN
5 2 (0.87%) LAN
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) FTP
6 1 (0.43%) IPsec
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.17%) NoSQL
2 21 (9.13%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.22%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.78%) Big Data
5 11 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.04%) KDB
8 7 (3.04%) OLTP
9 5 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.17%) MySQL
10 4 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.74%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.74%) DB2
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.30%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.30%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 41 (17.83%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.91%) Git
3 18 (7.83%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.96%) JIRA
5 13 (5.65%) Cucumber
5 13 (5.65%) Visual Studio
6 11 (4.78%) Eclipse
6 11 (4.78%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.35%) Moq
7 10 (4.35%) NUnit
8 9 (3.91%) Selenium
9 8 (3.48%) Artifactory
9 8 (3.48%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.48%) GitLab
10 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.04%) JUnit
10 7 (3.04%) Visual Studio Team System
11 6 (2.61%) JMeter
12 4 (1.74%) Gradle
12 4 (1.74%) Vagrant
General
1 61 (26.52%) Finance
2 49 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.87%) Banking
4 20 (8.70%) Front Office
5 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.22%) Military
8 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.61%) Marketing
10 4 (1.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Electronics
11 2 (0.87%) Games
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (30.00%) Developer
2 26 (11.30%) Java Developer
2 26 (11.30%) Senior
3 21 (9.13%) Lead
4 18 (7.83%) C# Developer
5 17 (7.39%) Senior Developer
6 16 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Architect
9 11 (4.78%) Project Manager
10 10 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) React Developer
11 9 (3.91%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (3.91%) Consultant
11 9 (3.91%) Scrum Master
12 8 (3.48%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 7 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.35%) Node.js
2 29 (12.61%) .NET
3 24 (10.43%) Spring
4 23 (10.00%) RESTful
5 22 (9.57%) Web Services
6 20 (8.70%) React
7 18 (7.83%) ARM Templates
7 18 (7.83%) Spring Boot
8 17 (7.39%) REST
9 16 (6.96%) Kafka
10 15 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (6.09%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.65%) XML
13 12 (5.22%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.22%) Middleware
14 11 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.35%) Azure Blueprints
15 10 (4.35%) JSON
15 10 (4.35%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.26%) Data Structures
2 18 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.39%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.65%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.78%) Fixed Income
7 10 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.91%) Public Cloud
9 8 (3.48%) Cloud Native
9 8 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (3.04%) Derivative
10 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.17%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.52%) Linux
2 23 (10.00%) Windows
3 7 (3.04%) Unix
4 5 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.74%) AIX
5 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.74%) Solaris
6 3 (1.30%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 143 (62.17%) Continuous Integration
3 142 (61.74%) Agile
4 125 (54.35%) DevOps
5 73 (31.74%) Test Automation
6 61 (26.52%) TDD
7 48 (20.87%) Software Engineering
8 44 (19.13%) Microservices
9 42 (18.26%) Mentoring
10 39 (16.96%) Scrum
11 37 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (15.65%) Containerisation
13 31 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (12.61%) Deployment Automation
14 29 (12.61%) Kanban
15 28 (12.17%) Performance Analysis
16 26 (11.30%) OO
17 25 (10.87%) Design Patterns
17 25 (10.87%) Validation
18 24 (10.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.78%) Java
2 46 (20.00%) Python
3 42 (18.26%) C#
3 42 (18.26%) SQL
4 37 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.96%) Go
7 16 (6.96%) Kotlin
8 14 (6.09%) C++
9 13 (5.65%) Scala
10 10 (4.35%) Bash
11 7 (3.04%) Groovy
12 6 (2.61%) Perl
13 4 (1.74%) PHP
13 4 (1.74%) Ruby
13 4 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.30%) Bicep
14 3 (1.30%) C
15 1 (0.43%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 24 (10.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.91%) Degree
5 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.43%) APMP
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CCNP
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.65%) QA
2 11 (4.78%) NCSC
3 5 (2.17%) NIST
4 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.74%) GDPR
4 4 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (23.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Ceph
4 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 49 (21.30%) Terraform
2 39 (16.96%) Ansible
3 36 (15.65%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.91%) Grafana
5 8 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.04%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.04%) Zipkin
7 6 (2.61%) Puppet
8 5 (2.17%) Kibana
8 5 (2.17%) Rancher
9 4 (1.74%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.43%) logstash
11 1 (0.43%) Mesos
11 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.52%) EMC
3 10 (4.35%) Google
3 10 (4.35%) Splunk
3 10 (4.35%) TIBCO
4 8 (3.48%) VMware
5 7 (3.04%) ION Trading
5 7 (3.04%) Oracle
6 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.74%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.74%) F5
7 4 (1.74%) IBM
7 4 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 2 (0.87%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.43%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Perfecto Mobile