Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 118 89
Rank change year-on-year -4 -29 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 804 1,294 2,535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 2.16% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.40% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 927 1,685
10th Percentile £363 £449 £429
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £580 £595
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% -2.52% +14.42%
75th Percentile £690 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% +14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 33 30
10th Percentile £60.25 £52.55 £49.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +30.56%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £65.94
90th Percentile - £75.00 £76.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England -2 697 £575 -2.46% 362
London +6 388 £600 -2.04% 133
UK excluding London -8 350 £550 - 245
Work from Home -42 228 £550 -4.35% 188
South East -4 89 £550 +0.55% 76
North of England -8 74 £500 -13.04% 53
East of England +31 58 £475 +35.71% 33
Scotland +27 47 £558 +17.37% 15
Yorkshire +34 46 £475 -16.67% 17
South West +1 39 £700 +16.67% 32
Midlands -28 29 £360 -33.29% 29
North West -24 23 £500 -16.67% 34
West Midlands -26 23 £373 -31.02% 25
Wales -9 14 £550 -6.14% 10
East Midlands +24 6 £356 -25.83% 4
North East +14 5 £488 -33.85% 2

Continuous Integration
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 70 (8.71%) Confluence
2 30 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.87%) Apache
4 11 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.24%) JBoss
6 9 (1.12%) CMS
7 8 (1.00%) nginx
7 8 (1.00%) SAS
8 6 (0.75%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.50%) IIS
9 4 (0.50%) Luigi
10 3 (0.37%) CICS
10 3 (0.37%) Drupal
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.37%) Windchill
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Mingle
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) ION MarketView
2 8 (1.00%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.37%) Shopify
3 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) RMDS
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 205 (25.50%) AWS
2 196 (24.38%) Azure
3 83 (10.32%) GitHub
4 79 (9.83%) GCP
5 62 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (4.85%) Serverless
7 32 (3.98%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (3.61%) PaaS
9 25 (3.11%) IaaS
10 24 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (2.49%) Apigee
11 20 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.11%) SaaS
14 16 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (1.99%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.73%) Modbus
1 38 (4.73%) RS-422
1 38 (4.73%) RS-485
2 34 (4.23%) Firewall
3 33 (4.10%) TCP/IP
4 30 (3.73%) DNS
5 22 (2.74%) HTTP
6 16 (1.99%) Kerberos
6 16 (1.99%) VPN
7 12 (1.49%) DHCP
8 10 (1.24%) SSL
9 9 (1.12%) VLAN
10 8 (1.00%) NAS
10 8 (1.00%) SAN
11 6 (0.75%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.75%) Internet
12 5 (0.62%) SSH
13 3 (0.37%) 5G
13 3 (0.37%) DMZ
14 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.59%) NoSQL
1 61 (7.59%) Relational Database
2 50 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 44 (5.47%) MySQL
4 31 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 21 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (2.36%) KDB
10 18 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (2.24%) Data Lake
11 17 (2.11%) Big Data
12 16 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.49%) Redis
15 11 (1.37%) DB2
15 11 (1.37%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 235 (29.23%) Jenkins
2 200 (24.88%) Git
3 141 (17.54%) JIRA
4 85 (10.57%) GitLab
5 84 (10.45%) Cucumber
6 71 (8.83%) Selenium
7 63 (7.84%) TeamCity
8 60 (7.46%) Postman
9 51 (6.34%) Bitbucket
10 39 (4.85%) SonarQube
11 37 (4.60%) REST Assured
12 36 (4.48%) JUnit
13 35 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 34 (4.23%) Cypress.io
15 29 (3.61%) TestRail
16 22 (2.74%) NUnit
17 21 (2.61%) Visual Studio
18 19 (2.36%) Appium
18 19 (2.36%) WebDriver
19 18 (2.24%) Gradle
General
1 268 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 153 (19.03%) Finance
3 137 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (8.08%) Banking
5 42 (5.22%) Electronics
6 41 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 39 (4.85%) Front Office
8 22 (2.74%) Law
9 20 (2.49%) Retail
10 19 (2.36%) Aerospace
10 19 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.11%) Back Office
12 16 (1.99%) Police
13 13 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.87%) Military
16 7 (0.87%) Multimedia
17 6 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 283 (35.20%) Developer
2 104 (12.94%) Senior
3 81 (10.07%) Software Engineer
4 58 (7.21%) Java Developer
5 56 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 52 (6.47%) Senior Developer
7 46 (5.72%) Lead
8 41 (5.10%) Analyst
9 39 (4.85%) C# Developer
10 38 (4.73%) Architect
10 38 (4.73%) Test Analyst
11 37 (4.60%) C++ Software Engineer
12 32 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
13 31 (3.86%) Data Engineer
14 26 (3.23%) React Developer
15 24 (2.99%) Java Engineer
15 24 (2.99%) Python Developer
16 23 (2.86%) .NET Developer
16 23 (2.86%) Tester
17 22 (2.74%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (12.94%) .NET
2 99 (12.31%) REST
3 68 (8.46%) React
4 65 (8.08%) RESTful
5 58 (7.21%) Web Services
6 57 (7.09%) Kafka
6 57 (7.09%) Node.js
7 53 (6.59%) .NET Core
8 48 (5.97%) Spring
9 45 (5.60%) CSS
9 45 (5.60%) JSON
10 38 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (4.60%) XML
12 33 (4.10%) .NET Framework
12 33 (4.10%) HTML
13 32 (3.98%) AngularJS
14 30 (3.73%) Spring Boot
15 26 (3.23%) ARM Templates
15 26 (3.23%) Middleware
16 25 (3.11%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 33 (4.10%) Mobile App
4 28 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 27 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.99%) Fixed Income
9 16 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.74%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.49%) Clustering
12 12 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.37%) Derivative
13 11 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.24%) Legacy Code
15 9 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (18.53%) Linux
2 82 (10.20%) Windows
3 39 (4.85%) Unix
4 26 (3.23%) Android
5 21 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.49%) Solaris
8 9 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.62%) VxWorks
11 4 (0.50%) AIX
11 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.50%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.50%) zOS
12 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (60.70%) Agile
2 421 (52.36%) CI/CD
3 317 (39.43%) DevOps
4 263 (32.71%) Test Automation
5 200 (24.88%) TDD
6 185 (23.01%) Software Engineering
7 176 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (20.15%) Continuous Deployment
9 141 (17.54%) Continuous Delivery
10 134 (16.67%) Scrum
11 123 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (13.81%) Microservices
13 107 (13.31%) Unit Testing
14 104 (12.94%) Containerisation
15 103 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (12.56%) Configuration Management
17 90 (11.19%) Software Testing
18 82 (10.20%) Pair Programming
19 80 (9.95%) Deployment Automation
20 70 (8.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 215 (26.74%) Python
2 172 (21.39%) Java
3 168 (20.90%) SQL
4 165 (20.52%) C#
5 111 (13.81%) JavaScript
6 76 (9.45%) PowerShell
7 69 (8.58%) C++
8 66 (8.21%) TypeScript
9 58 (7.21%) Bash
10 55 (6.84%) C
11 38 (4.73%) Scala
12 36 (4.48%) Go
13 34 (4.23%) Kotlin
14 29 (3.61%) PL/SQL
15 26 (3.23%) Ruby
16 23 (2.86%) Perl
17 18 (2.24%) PHP
18 17 (2.11%) Groovy
19 16 (1.99%) Shell Script
20 8 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 142 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.08%) Degree
4 46 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 32 (3.98%) ISTQB
7 28 (3.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.62%) CISSP
11 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.37%) PMP
11 3 (0.37%) SANS
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.12%) CEH
13 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.12%) MCSE
13 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.19%) QA
2 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.00%) GDPR
3 8 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.62%) MISRA
5 5 (0.62%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.37%) NCSC
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
6 3 (0.37%) WCAG
7 1 (0.12%) GxP
7 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.12%) MiFID
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 172 (21.39%) Docker
2 35 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.50%) Firmware
6 4 (0.50%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.50%) zsh
7 3 (0.37%) vCloud
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.12%) GridGain
9 1 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Postfix
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 155 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 145 (18.03%) Ansible
2 145 (18.03%) Terraform
3 46 (5.72%) Grafana
4 40 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.48%) Progress Chef
6 35 (4.35%) Puppet
7 22 (2.74%) Kibana
7 22 (2.74%) PowerCLI
8 21 (2.61%) Docker Swarm
9 15 (1.87%) Podman
10 12 (1.49%) Tivoli
11 11 (1.37%) Packer
12 10 (1.24%) logstash
13 8 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.00%) Graylog
13 8 (1.00%) Netcool
13 8 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.75%) Nessus
14 6 (0.75%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 101 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.07%) Oracle
3 34 (4.23%) HP
4 33 (4.10%) Google
4 33 (4.10%) Splunk
5 31 (3.86%) Dell
6 30 (3.73%) IBM
7 29 (3.61%) Atlassian
8 23 (2.86%) EMC
8 23 (2.86%) VMware
9 19 (2.36%) Databricks
9 19 (2.36%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.99%) ION Trading
11 15 (1.87%) SAP
12 13 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.62%) TIBCO
13 11 (1.37%) Denodo
13 11 (1.37%) Talend
14 10 (1.24%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.24%) Red Hat