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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 99 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 17 23 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 1.33% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.41% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 27
10th Percentile £316 £379 £375
25th Percentile £368 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £601 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +11.72% -10.42%
75th Percentile £501 £688 £644
90th Percentile £520 £741 £750
Central London median daily rate £481 £601 £525
% change year-on-year -19.86% +14.38% -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 1,944 1,631 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.44% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 1,107 1,218
10th Percentile £365 £325 £366
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
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 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 9 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) INAP
1 1 (5.88%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (5.88%) RTP
1 1 (5.88%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
1 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) Appium
4 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (11.76%) JMeter
4 2 (11.76%) Newman
4 2 (11.76%) XCUITest
5 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.88%) CocoaPods
5 1 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Locust
5 1 (5.88%) Postman
5 1 (5.88%) Robot Framework
5 1 (5.88%) Selendroid
5 1 (5.88%) TestCafe
5 1 (5.88%) XCTest
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Front Office
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Military
6 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Sales Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) UI Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Developer in Test
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) iOS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) HTML
1 6 (35.29%) React
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) Playwright
3 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Android SDK
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) Django
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) iOS SDK
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) LDAP
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (5.88%) Taurus
4 1 (5.88%) UIKit
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
2 2 (11.76%) Derivative
2 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Genomics
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Media Streaming
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
1 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Observability
5 5 (29.41%) Pair Programming
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) AI
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
7 3 (17.65%) SOA
7 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (35.29%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Kotlin
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Korn
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Apple
1 1 (5.88%) Avaloq
1 1 (5.88%) Dialogic
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Metaswitch