Continuous Integration Contracts in the South East

Continuous Integration
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 110 86
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 -12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 88 120 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.59% 2.06% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.30% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 83 150
10th Percentile £360 £413 £412
25th Percentile £438 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £681 £625
90th Percentile £688 £825 £688
England median daily rate £575 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £52.23 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.56 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £54.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.61% -0.91% +35.80%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.19 -
90th Percentile - £66.48 £60.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
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 Integration within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +6 40 £613 +26.94% 26
Berkshire 0 37 £638 +37.10% 12
Hampshire +2 28 £550 -5.34% 20
West Sussex +3 8 £400 -31.03% 2
Surrey +5 7 £450 -25.31% 13
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £388 -24.02% 7
East Sussex 0 2 £475 -39.87% 3
Sussex - 1 £350 - 1
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) AWS
3 7 (7.95%) GitHub
3 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.27%) GCP
5 2 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.14%) IaaS
6 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) NFC
2 1 (1.14%) PPP
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (4.55%) Couchbase
2 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (46.59%) Jenkins
2 30 (34.09%) JIRA
2 30 (34.09%) Selenium
3 25 (28.41%) Cucumber
3 25 (28.41%) GitLab
3 25 (28.41%) SonarQube
4 24 (27.27%) REST Assured
4 24 (27.27%) TestRail
5 20 (22.73%) Git
6 7 (7.95%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
7 4 (4.55%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.41%) Subversion
9 2 (2.27%) Appium
9 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.27%) Gradle
9 2 (2.27%) JUnit
9 2 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (2.27%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.14%) Travis CI
General
1 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.95%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.73%) Law
4 13 (14.77%) Police
5 2 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Analyst
2 23 (26.14%) Test Analyst
3 22 (25.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 17 (19.32%) Java Engineer
4 17 (19.32%) Software Engineer
5 14 (15.91%) Senior
6 12 (13.64%) Developer
7 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Development Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.91%) REST
2 25 (28.41%) Java EE
3 14 (15.91%) ARM Templates
4 7 (7.95%) RESTful
5 6 (6.82%) XML
6 5 (5.68%) .NET
6 5 (5.68%) Kafka
7 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.55%) HTML
7 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.55%) SOAP
8 3 (3.41%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.41%) CSS
8 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.41%) gRPC
8 3 (3.41%) JSON
8 3 (3.41%) React
9 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.27%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (4.55%) Android
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 46 (52.27%) Agile
3 41 (46.59%) DevOps
4 38 (43.18%) Software Engineering
5 32 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (29.55%) Decision-Making
6 26 (29.55%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (28.41%) Software Architecture
8 23 (26.14%) Test Management
9 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
10 20 (22.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (18.18%) Computer Science
12 16 (18.18%) Configuration Management
12 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
13 13 (14.77%) Requirements Analysis
13 13 (14.77%) Scrum
14 11 (12.50%) Open Source
15 10 (11.36%) Microservices
16 9 (10.23%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.82%) Java
2 10 (11.36%) C#
2 10 (11.36%) Go
2 10 (11.36%) Python
3 9 (10.23%) C++
4 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.55%) SQL
6 3 (3.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (60.23%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (28.41%) DV Cleared
4 23 (26.14%) ISTQB
4 23 (26.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 16 (18.18%) Degree
6 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CCNP
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.14%) MISRA
2 1 (1.14%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.14%) NCSC
2 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.55%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (34.09%) Ansible
2 22 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (21.59%) Terraform
4 12 (13.64%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.64%) Podman
5 2 (2.27%) Kibana
5 2 (2.27%) Rancher
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle
2 3 (3.41%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.41%) VMware
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.27%) Google
3 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.14%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.14%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat