Continuous Integration Contracts in England

Continuous Integration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 125 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 694 1,081 2,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.88% 2.14% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.37% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 776 1,350
10th Percentile £363 £453 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £825 £806 £800
UK median daily rate £565 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -3.34% -2.58% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 31 26
10th Percentile - £52.75 £51.88
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +30.56%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £75.00 £74.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Continuous Integration 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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
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 Integration within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +8 388 £600 -3.23% 128
South East -8 88 £550 +0.55% 80
North of England 0 74 £500 -13.04% 51
East of England +24 56 £475 +35.71% 32
Yorkshire +37 46 £475 -16.67% 17
South West -5 39 £700 +16.67% 31
Midlands -27 29 £360 -33.29% 30
North West -19 23 £500 -16.67% 32
West Midlands -27 23 £373 -31.02% 25
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -40.67% 5
North East +14 5 £488 -33.85% 2
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
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 61 (8.79%) Confluence
2 23 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.59%) Apache
4 9 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.15%) CMS
5 8 (1.15%) JBoss
6 7 (1.01%) nginx
6 7 (1.01%) SAS
7 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.58%) Luigi
9 3 (0.43%) Drupal
9 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.29%) IIS
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.29%) Traefik
10 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) GemFire
Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.43%) Windchill
3 2 (0.29%) Mingle
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.15%) ION MarketView
2 8 (1.15%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.43%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.43%) Shopify
3 3 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.29%) Endur
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) RMDS
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (24.35%) Azure
2 165 (23.78%) AWS
3 68 (9.80%) GCP
4 63 (9.08%) GitHub
5 53 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (5.33%) Serverless
7 29 (4.18%) PaaS
8 22 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (2.88%) IaaS
11 19 (2.74%) OpenShift
12 18 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (2.45%) Apigee
14 15 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (2.16%) SaaS
15 14 (2.02%) Azure API Management
16 13 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.19%) Modbus
1 36 (5.19%) RS-422
1 36 (5.19%) RS-485
2 30 (4.32%) DNS
2 30 (4.32%) TCP/IP
3 26 (3.75%) Firewall
4 21 (3.03%) HTTP
5 16 (2.31%) VPN
6 12 (1.73%) DHCP
7 10 (1.44%) Kerberos
8 9 (1.30%) SSL
8 9 (1.30%) VLAN
9 8 (1.15%) NAS
9 8 (1.15%) SAN
10 6 (0.86%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.72%) SSH
12 3 (0.43%) DMZ
13 2 (0.29%) Internet
13 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.36%) NoSQL
2 49 (7.06%) Relational Database
3 46 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 32 (4.61%) MySQL
5 26 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 23 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (2.74%) KDB
11 16 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (2.16%) Big Data
13 13 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.59%) Redis
15 10 (1.44%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.01%) DB2
16 7 (1.01%) Delta Lake
16 7 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (28.24%) Jenkins
2 159 (22.91%) Git
3 123 (17.72%) JIRA
4 72 (10.37%) Cucumber
5 71 (10.23%) GitLab
6 67 (9.65%) Selenium
7 62 (8.93%) TeamCity
8 42 (6.05%) Postman
9 41 (5.91%) Bitbucket
10 37 (5.33%) REST Assured
11 36 (5.19%) SonarQube
12 34 (4.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 29 (4.18%) TestRail
14 26 (3.75%) JUnit
15 22 (3.17%) NUnit
16 20 (2.88%) Cypress.io
16 20 (2.88%) Visual Studio
17 19 (2.74%) Appium
17 19 (2.74%) WebDriver
18 18 (2.59%) JMeter
General
1 237 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 141 (20.32%) Finance
3 127 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.93%) Banking
5 39 (5.62%) Front Office
6 36 (5.19%) Electronics
7 33 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.17%) Law
9 19 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 19 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.74%) Retail
10 17 (2.45%) Back Office
11 16 (2.31%) Police
12 13 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.01%) Military
15 7 (1.01%) Multimedia
16 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (34.58%) Developer
2 94 (13.54%) Senior
3 73 (10.52%) Software Engineer
4 47 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 44 (6.34%) Senior Developer
6 43 (6.20%) Java Developer
6 43 (6.20%) Lead
7 39 (5.62%) Analyst
8 37 (5.33%) C# Developer
9 36 (5.19%) Test Analyst
10 35 (5.04%) C++ Software Engineer
11 31 (4.47%) Architect
12 29 (4.18%) Data Engineer
13 28 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (3.75%) React Developer
15 24 (3.46%) Python Developer
16 23 (3.31%) Java Engineer
17 22 (3.17%) .NET Developer
17 22 (3.17%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
18 20 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.27%) .NET
2 83 (11.96%) REST
3 58 (8.36%) React
4 52 (7.49%) Web Services
5 50 (7.20%) .NET Core
6 49 (7.06%) Node.js
6 49 (7.06%) RESTful
7 42 (6.05%) CSS
8 39 (5.62%) Kafka
9 36 (5.19%) JSON
10 32 (4.61%) HTML
11 31 (4.47%) Spring
12 29 (4.18%) .NET Framework
12 29 (4.18%) AngularJS
13 28 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
13 28 (4.03%) XML
14 26 (3.75%) Middleware
15 25 (3.60%) Java EE
16 23 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
16 23 (3.31%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (4.61%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.46%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.31%) Fixed Income
9 14 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.73%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.73%) Clustering
11 12 (1.73%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.59%) Derivative
12 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.44%) Legacy Code
13 10 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.71%) Linux
2 64 (9.22%) Windows
3 27 (3.89%) Unix
4 26 (3.75%) Android
5 16 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.16%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.44%) Solaris
8 8 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.58%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.43%) zOS
12 2 (0.29%) AIX
12 2 (0.29%) CentOS
12 2 (0.29%) VMS
13 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (59.80%) Agile
2 356 (51.30%) CI/CD
3 276 (39.77%) DevOps
4 224 (32.28%) Test Automation
5 184 (26.51%) TDD
6 160 (23.05%) Software Engineering
7 157 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (20.46%) Continuous Deployment
9 124 (17.87%) Scrum
10 119 (17.15%) Continuous Delivery
11 99 (14.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 96 (13.83%) Microservices
13 94 (13.54%) Containerisation
14 93 (13.40%) Unit Testing
15 87 (12.54%) Software Testing
16 85 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 79 (11.38%) Configuration Management
18 77 (11.10%) Pair Programming
19 69 (9.94%) Deployment Automation
20 63 (9.08%) OO
Programming Languages
1 185 (26.66%) Python
2 158 (22.77%) C#
3 148 (21.33%) Java
4 144 (20.75%) SQL
5 103 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 71 (10.23%) PowerShell
7 67 (9.65%) C++
8 58 (8.36%) TypeScript
9 44 (6.34%) Bash
10 41 (5.91%) C
11 32 (4.61%) Scala
12 30 (4.32%) Kotlin
13 27 (3.89%) Go
14 22 (3.17%) PL/SQL
15 18 (2.59%) Perl
16 13 (1.87%) Ruby
17 10 (1.44%) PHP
18 9 (1.30%) Groovy
19 8 (1.15%) Bicep
19 8 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 106 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 70 (10.09%) Degree
4 45 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (5.19%) DV Cleared
6 32 (4.61%) ISTQB
7 28 (4.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.72%) CISSP
10 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.43%) PMP
12 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.29%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (10.23%) QA
2 8 (1.15%) GDPR
2 8 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.43%) NCSC
5 3 (0.43%) NIST
6 2 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.29%) WCAG
7 1 (0.14%) GxP
7 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) MISRA
7 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (20.61%) Docker
2 28 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.58%) VirtualBox
5 4 (0.58%) zsh
6 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) GridGain
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 128 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 118 (17.00%) Ansible
3 116 (16.71%) Terraform
4 43 (6.20%) Grafana
5 33 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.03%) Progress Chef
7 26 (3.75%) Puppet
8 22 (3.17%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.88%) Docker Swarm
10 18 (2.59%) Kibana
11 15 (2.16%) Podman
12 10 (1.44%) logstash
12 10 (1.44%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.15%) Netcool
13 8 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (1.01%) Graylog
15 6 (0.86%) Packer
16 5 (0.72%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 79 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.93%) Oracle
3 33 (4.76%) HP
4 30 (4.32%) Dell
4 30 (4.32%) Google
4 30 (4.32%) Splunk
5 26 (3.75%) IBM
6 25 (3.60%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.31%) EMC
8 19 (2.74%) VMware
9 16 (2.31%) Databricks
9 16 (2.31%) ION Trading
10 15 (2.16%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.87%) TIBCO
12 10 (1.44%) Denodo
12 10 (1.44%) Talend
13 9 (1.30%) SAP
14 8 (1.15%) Cisco
14 8 (1.15%) Serena