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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 262 201
Rank change year-on-year -90 -61 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 235 556 1,250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.99% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.11% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 403 901
10th Percentile £375 £463 £409
25th Percentile £428 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £688
90th Percentile £747 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £565 £540
% change year-on-year -17.04% +4.63% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 3
10th Percentile £62.75 £54.17 £25.98
25th Percentile - £60.63 £37.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +45.06%
75th Percentile - £88.13 £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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 -84 198 £550 -8.33% 103
London -44 121 £600 -4.00% 39
UK excluding London -53 87 £469 -17.04% 69
Work from Home -29 77 £525 -12.50% 57
North of England +17 29 £434 -23.86% 19
Yorkshire +33 23 £430 -23.89% 5
Scotland +13 16 £469 -10.71% 6
East of England +13 11 £475 -9.52% 4
Midlands +1 11 £575 +6.48% 9
South East -6 10 £575 +9.52% 21
South West -15 10 £400 -39.62% 7
West Midlands -4 9 £638 +18.06% 9
North West +2 5 £524 -4.77% 9
North East +10 1 £525 -37.05% 5
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 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.83%) Confluence
3 7 (2.98%) SAS
4 4 (1.70%) CMS
4 4 (1.70%) IIS
4 4 (1.70%) JBoss
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.28%) Drupal
5 3 (1.28%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Softmar
2 1 (0.43%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 75 (31.91%) AWS
2 70 (29.79%) Azure
3 38 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (11.06%) GCP
5 20 (8.51%) Serverless
6 16 (6.81%) GitHub
6 16 (6.81%) PaaS
7 14 (5.96%) IaaS
8 13 (5.53%) SaaS
9 12 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.83%) Azure Functions
11 9 (3.83%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.40%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.98%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.98%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.96%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.68%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.70%) HTTP
3 4 (1.70%) SSL
4 3 (1.28%) DNS
4 3 (1.28%) Firewall
4 3 (1.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.85%) LAN
5 2 (0.85%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) FTP
6 1 (0.43%) IPsec
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.34%) NoSQL
2 22 (9.36%) Relational Database
3 14 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.26%) Big Data
6 10 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.98%) KDB
8 7 (2.98%) OLTP
9 6 (2.55%) MySQL
10 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.70%) DB2
12 3 (1.28%) ClickHouse
12 3 (1.28%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.89%) Git
3 18 (7.66%) JIRA
3 18 (7.66%) TeamCity
4 13 (5.53%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.53%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.68%) Eclipse
6 10 (4.26%) Moq
6 10 (4.26%) NUnit
6 10 (4.26%) Selenium
6 10 (4.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.83%) GitLab
8 8 (3.40%) Artifactory
8 8 (3.40%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.40%) JUnit
9 7 (2.98%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.98%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (2.55%) JMeter
11 5 (2.13%) Ant
12 4 (1.70%) Gradle
General
1 62 (26.38%) Finance
2 47 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.49%) Banking
4 20 (8.51%) Front Office
5 17 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.11%) Military
7 12 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Electronics
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Games
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) 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 74 (31.49%) Developer
2 28 (11.91%) Senior
3 27 (11.49%) Java Developer
4 20 (8.51%) Lead
5 19 (8.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.66%) C# Developer
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.11%) Architect
9 10 (4.26%) C# Software Engineer
9 10 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.26%) React Developer
10 9 (3.83%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Consultant
11 8 (3.40%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Scrum Master
11 8 (3.40%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.98%) Analyst
12 7 (2.98%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 7 (2.98%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.19%) Node.js
2 29 (12.34%) .NET
3 24 (10.21%) Spring
4 22 (9.36%) Web Services
5 21 (8.94%) RESTful
6 19 (8.09%) React
6 19 (8.09%) REST
7 18 (7.66%) ARM Templates
7 18 (7.66%) Spring Boot
8 16 (6.81%) Kafka
9 15 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (5.96%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.53%) Middleware
11 13 (5.53%) XML
12 12 (5.11%) ASP.NET
12 12 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.68%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (4.26%) Azure Blueprints
14 10 (4.26%) JSON
14 10 (4.26%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.23%) Management Information System
3 16 (6.81%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.68%) Fixed Income
6 10 (4.26%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.83%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.40%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.40%) Derivative
8 8 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.13%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.13%) Private Cloud
11 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.45%) Linux
2 23 (9.79%) Windows
3 7 (2.98%) Unix
4 5 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.70%) AIX
5 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.70%) Solaris
6 3 (1.28%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (69.36%) CI/CD
2 145 (61.70%) Agile
2 145 (61.70%) Continuous Integration
3 129 (54.89%) DevOps
4 76 (32.34%) Test Automation
5 62 (26.38%) TDD
6 51 (21.70%) Software Engineering
7 45 (19.15%) Microservices
8 40 (17.02%) Mentoring
8 40 (17.02%) Scrum
9 38 (16.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (15.32%) Containerisation
11 31 (13.19%) Design Patterns
11 31 (13.19%) OO
12 30 (12.77%) Kanban
12 30 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
14 28 (11.91%) Performance Analysis
15 25 (10.64%) Validation
16 23 (9.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (24.68%) Java
2 43 (18.30%) Python
3 42 (17.87%) C#
4 41 (17.45%) SQL
5 39 (16.60%) JavaScript
6 21 (8.94%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.66%) Go
8 17 (7.23%) C++
9 15 (6.38%) Kotlin
10 13 (5.53%) Scala
11 10 (4.26%) Bash
12 6 (2.55%) Groovy
12 6 (2.55%) Perl
13 5 (2.13%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.70%) PHP
14 4 (1.70%) Ruby
15 3 (1.28%) Bicep
15 3 (1.28%) C
16 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (11.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.40%) Degree
5 4 (1.70%) CISSP
5 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) APMP
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CCNP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) MCSE
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.38%) QA
2 11 (4.68%) NCSC
3 5 (2.13%) NIST
4 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.70%) GDPR
4 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (20.85%) Docker
2 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Ceph
4 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 49 (20.85%) Terraform
2 42 (17.87%) Ansible
3 34 (14.47%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.83%) Grafana
5 8 (3.40%) Progress Chef
5 8 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.98%) Puppet
6 7 (2.98%) Zipkin
7 6 (2.55%) Rancher
8 5 (2.13%) Kibana
9 4 (1.70%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.28%) 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
Vendors
1 43 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.38%) EMC
3 12 (5.11%) Google
4 10 (4.26%) TIBCO
5 9 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.83%) Splunk
5 9 (3.83%) VMware
6 7 (2.98%) ION Trading
6 7 (2.98%) Oracle
7 4 (1.70%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.70%) F5
7 4 (1.70%) IBM
7 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.85%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.85%) SAP
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe
9 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.43%) Calypso
9 1 (0.43%) Reuters
9 1 (0.43%) Sybase