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 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 370 271 200
Rank change year-on-year -99 -71 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 237 550 1,263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.99% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.10% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 400 915
10th Percentile £375 £463 £412
25th Percentile £425 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -15.91% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 3
10th Percentile £62.75 £54.69 £25.98
25th Percentile - £59.06 £37.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% +45.06%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £63.81
90th Percentile £65.90 £101.25 £65.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +251.35% -53.16%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 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
England -69 200 £550 -8.33% 93
London -61 122 £600 -4.00% 29
UK excluding London -48 88 £463 -15.91% 70
Work from Home -31 76 £525 -12.50% 51
North of England +22 31 £432 -24.21% 13
Yorkshire +27 23 £430 -23.89% 4
Scotland +13 16 £469 -10.71% 6
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
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 10 (4.22%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.80%) Confluence
3 7 (2.95%) SAS
4 4 (1.69%) CMS
4 4 (1.69%) IIS
4 4 (1.69%) JBoss
5 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.27%) Drupal
5 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.27%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Trello
2 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Softmar
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.07%) AWS
2 70 (29.54%) Azure
3 39 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (11.81%) GCP
5 20 (8.44%) Serverless
6 16 (6.75%) GitHub
6 16 (6.75%) PaaS
7 14 (5.91%) IaaS
8 13 (5.49%) SaaS
9 12 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.80%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.38%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.95%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.95%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.91%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.64%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.69%) HTTP
3 4 (1.69%) SSL
4 3 (1.27%) DNS
4 3 (1.27%) Firewall
4 3 (1.27%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) LAN
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) FTP
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
6 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 24 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.22%) Big Data
7 8 (3.38%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.95%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.95%) KDB
8 7 (2.95%) MySQL
8 7 (2.95%) OLTP
9 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.69%) DB2
10 4 (1.69%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.27%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.27%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 40 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.03%) Git
3 18 (7.59%) JIRA
3 18 (7.59%) TeamCity
4 13 (5.49%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.49%) Visual Studio
5 12 (5.06%) Selenium
6 11 (4.64%) Eclipse
7 10 (4.22%) Moq
7 10 (4.22%) NUnit
7 10 (4.22%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.80%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.80%) GitLab
8 9 (3.80%) JUnit
9 7 (2.95%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.95%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 6 (2.53%) JMeter
11 5 (2.11%) Ant
12 4 (1.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 62 (26.16%) Finance
2 50 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.24%) Banking
4 20 (8.44%) Front Office
5 19 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.06%) Military
9 8 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Marketing
12 2 (0.84%) Games
12 2 (0.84%) Law
12 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.42%) Back Office
13 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (30.80%) Developer
2 28 (11.81%) Java Developer
3 27 (11.39%) Senior
4 20 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (8.44%) Lead
5 18 (7.59%) C# Developer
5 18 (7.59%) Senior Developer
6 16 (6.75%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Architect
8 10 (4.22%) C# Software Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) Consultant
9 9 (3.80%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.38%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) React Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (2.95%) Analyst
11 7 (2.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (2.95%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 7 (2.95%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.24%) .NET
1 29 (12.24%) Node.js
2 24 (10.13%) Spring
3 22 (9.28%) Web Services
4 21 (8.86%) RESTful
5 19 (8.02%) REST
6 18 (7.59%) ARM Templates
6 18 (7.59%) Spring Boot
7 17 (7.17%) React
8 16 (6.75%) Kafka
9 15 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (5.91%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.49%) Middleware
11 13 (5.49%) XML
12 12 (5.06%) ASP.NET
12 12 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.64%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.22%) Azure Blueprints
14 10 (4.22%) JSON
14 10 (4.22%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.17%) Management Information System
1 17 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.75%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.64%) Fixed Income
5 10 (4.22%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.22%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.38%) Derivative
7 8 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.11%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.72%) Linux
2 24 (10.13%) Windows
3 7 (2.95%) Unix
4 6 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.69%) AIX
5 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.69%) Solaris
6 3 (1.27%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (69.20%) CI/CD
2 146 (61.60%) Continuous Integration
3 144 (60.76%) Agile
4 131 (55.27%) DevOps
5 80 (33.76%) Test Automation
6 60 (25.32%) TDD
7 52 (21.94%) Software Engineering
8 45 (18.99%) Microservices
9 42 (17.72%) Scrum
10 39 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (16.03%) Mentoring
12 35 (14.77%) Containerisation
13 33 (13.92%) Kanban
13 33 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (13.08%) Design Patterns
14 31 (13.08%) OO
15 29 (12.24%) Deployment Automation
16 28 (11.81%) Performance Analysis
17 25 (10.55%) Validation
18 23 (9.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.74%) Java
2 42 (17.72%) C#
2 42 (17.72%) Python
3 40 (16.88%) SQL
4 39 (16.46%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.59%) Go
8 17 (7.17%) C++
9 15 (6.33%) Kotlin
9 15 (6.33%) Scala
10 10 (4.22%) Bash
11 6 (2.53%) Groovy
11 6 (2.53%) Perl
11 6 (2.53%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.69%) Bicep
12 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 4 (1.69%) Ruby
13 3 (1.27%) C
14 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.38%) Degree
5 4 (1.69%) CISSP
5 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) APMP
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.17%) QA
2 10 (4.22%) NCSC
3 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.69%) GDPR
3 4 (1.69%) NIST
3 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.42%) MiFID
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (21.10%) Docker
2 5 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Ceph
4 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 51 (21.52%) Terraform
2 45 (18.99%) Ansible
3 33 (13.92%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.22%) Progress Chef
5 9 (3.80%) Grafana
5 9 (3.80%) Puppet
6 8 (3.38%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.95%) Zipkin
8 6 (2.53%) Rancher
9 5 (2.11%) Kibana
10 4 (1.69%) Tivoli
11 3 (1.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.42%) logstash
12 1 (0.42%) Mesos
12 1 (0.42%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 43 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.33%) EMC
3 13 (5.49%) Google
4 10 (4.22%) TIBCO
5 9 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.38%) Splunk
6 8 (3.38%) VMware
7 7 (2.95%) ION Trading
7 7 (2.95%) Oracle
8 4 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.69%) F5
8 4 (1.69%) IBM
8 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.84%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Adobe
10 1 (0.42%) Calypso
10 1 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) Perfecto Mobile