Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Continuous Integration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 95 86
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 16 33 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.67% 1.75% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.86% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 27
10th Percentile £313 £474 £375
25th Percentile £339 £521 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £620 £551
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +12.62% -11.92%
75th Percentile £521 £734 £708
90th Percentile £534 £783 £760
Central London median daily rate £463 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -20.26% +10.48% -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Continuous Integration 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,081 1,772 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.47% 94.21% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,161 1,284
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the City of London

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the City of London

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Appium
4 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Mockito
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (12.50%) XCUITest
5 1 (6.25%) CocoaPods
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) Gradle
5 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
5 1 (6.25%) Introscope
5 1 (6.25%) Liquibase
5 1 (6.25%) MonkeyTalk
5 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office
3 2 (12.50%) Military
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) iOS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) UI Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) React
2 3 (18.75%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) Playwright
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Django
3 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Android SDK
4 1 (6.25%) AssertJ
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) iOS SDK
4 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) SwiftUI
4 1 (6.25%) UIKit
4 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Genomics
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) AIX
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) TDD
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) AI
7 3 (18.75%) BDD
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Observability
7 3 (18.75%) Pair Programming
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 2 (12.50%) Microservices
8 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) Kotlin
6 2 (12.50%) C#
7 1 (6.25%) Bash
7 1 (6.25%) Jython
7 1 (6.25%) Korn
7 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) CA Wily
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Salt
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Apple
1 1 (6.25%) Avaloq
1 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle