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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 114 93
Rank change year-on-year 0 -21 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 83 105 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.52% 1.87% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.09% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 75 144
10th Percentile £358 £409 £414
25th Percentile £466 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £631 £619 £626
90th Percentile £688 £795 £694
England median daily rate £550 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% +28.65%
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

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 4,612 5,017 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.31% 89.18% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,686 3,488 4,679
10th Percentile £250 £248 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 220 281
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +4 39 £613 +25.00% 11
Berkshire -6 36 £638 +34.21% 5
Hampshire +2 28 £550 -4.35% 18
Surrey +7 6 £450 -25.31% 12
West Sussex +3 6 £355 -38.79% 1
Buckinghamshire +32 3 £388 -24.02% 3
East Sussex 0 1 £300 -53.85% 1
Sussex - 1 £350 -
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 (10.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) Azure
2 20 (24.10%) AWS
3 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.02%) GitHub
3 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.41%) GCP
4 2 (2.41%) PaaS
5 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.20%) IaaS
5 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (3.61%) Couchbase
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 38 (45.78%) Jenkins
2 30 (36.14%) Selenium
3 29 (34.94%) JIRA
4 25 (30.12%) Cucumber
4 25 (30.12%) SonarQube
5 24 (28.92%) GitLab
5 24 (28.92%) REST Assured
6 21 (25.30%) TestRail
7 18 (21.69%) Git
8 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.82%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.61%) Subversion
10 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.41%) Appium
11 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.41%) Gradle
11 2 (2.41%) JUnit
11 2 (2.41%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
12 1 (1.20%) VersionOne
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.94%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (24.10%) Law
4 13 (15.66%) Police
5 2 (2.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Analyst
2 21 (25.30%) Test Analyst
3 20 (24.10%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 17 (20.48%) Java Engineer
5 15 (18.07%) Software Engineer
6 13 (15.66%) Senior
7 11 (13.25%) Developer
8 7 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Java Developer
9 6 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Architect
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Development Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Software Development Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.76%) REST
2 25 (30.12%) Java EE
3 14 (16.87%) ARM Templates
4 6 (7.23%) RESTful
5 5 (6.02%) .NET
5 5 (6.02%) XML
6 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.82%) HTML
6 4 (4.82%) Kafka
6 4 (4.82%) SOAP
7 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.61%) CSS
7 3 (3.61%) gRPC
7 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.61%) React
8 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.41%) JSON
8 2 (2.41%) NHibernate
8 2 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.05%) Linux
2 7 (8.43%) Windows
3 4 (4.82%) Android
3 4 (4.82%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (74.70%) Test Automation
2 45 (54.22%) Agile
3 41 (49.40%) DevOps
4 36 (43.37%) Software Engineering
5 31 (37.35%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (31.33%) Decision-Making
6 26 (31.33%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (30.12%) Software Architecture
8 21 (25.30%) Test Management
9 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
10 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (22.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 17 (20.48%) Configuration Management
12 16 (19.28%) Containerisation
13 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
14 13 (15.66%) Requirements Analysis
15 11 (13.25%) Open Source
15 11 (13.25%) Scrum
16 9 (10.84%) Microservices
16 9 (10.84%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.53%) Java
2 9 (10.84%) C#
2 9 (10.84%) Go
2 9 (10.84%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) C++
4 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.82%) SQL
5 3 (3.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.20%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.20%) C
6 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (63.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (27.71%) DV Cleared
4 21 (25.30%) ISTQB
4 21 (25.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 15 (18.07%) Degree
6 10 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CCNP
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.20%) MISRA
2 1 (1.20%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.20%) NCSC
2 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.82%) VirtualBox
4 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (37.35%) Ansible
2 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 12 (14.46%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (14.46%) Podman
4 3 (3.61%) Rancher
5 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Oracle
2 4 (4.82%) VMware
3 3 (3.61%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.20%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat