Continuous Delivery Contracts in the South East

Continuous Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 188 180
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 10 27 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.48% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.54% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 51
10th Percentile £330 £413 £446
25th Percentile £363 £481 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £531 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -5.97% +18.95%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £688
90th Percentile £590 £694 £738
England median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £51.57 -
25th Percentile - £52.35 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £54.80 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +196.22% -53.16%
75th Percentile - £57.35 £18.75
90th Percentile - £58.19 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £38.63
% change year-on-year -7.14% +81.23% -4.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Continuous Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the South East

Continuous Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -1 6 £575 +15.00% 5
Berkshire -17 5 £588 +17.50% 1
Hampshire -7 3 £375 -46.43% 4
Buckinghamshire +25 1 £315 -40.00% 2
Surrey +9 1 £538 -2.27% 3
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) DOM
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (40.00%) Release Management
4 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) API Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
6 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (10.00%) QA Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Runbook
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Rancher
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (40.00%) VMware