Continuous Integration Contracts in England

Continuous Integration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 117 125
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 -36
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 463 716 1,082
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 1.93% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.22% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 461 777
10th Percentile £366 £360 £453
25th Percentile £456 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -6.04% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £688
90th Percentile £743 £825 £805
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -4.59% -6.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 48 31
10th Percentile £44.19 - £52.75
25th Percentile £62.19 £61.25 £64.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £65.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -48 230 £585 -2.50% 253
South East +27 72 £500 -9.09% 88
North of England +16 72 £525 +5.00% 70
North West +34 41 £475 -7.09% 41
South West +34 29 £421 -39.86% 43
Midlands +13 25 £475 +32.31% 31
Yorkshire -15 23 £700 +47.37% 21
West Midlands +1 15 £500 +36.99% 20
East of England -12 14 £500 +5.26% 47
East Midlands +14 10 £363 +1.83% 10
North East +3 8 £650 +33.33% 8
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (7.78%) Confluence
2 18 (3.89%) nginx
3 12 (2.59%) Traefik
4 9 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.94%) JBoss
5 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 3 (0.65%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.43%) Apache
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.22%) Simulink
1 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Shopify
2 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 205 (44.28%) AWS
2 125 (27.00%) Azure
3 56 (12.10%) GCP
4 52 (11.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (9.94%) GitHub
6 41 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (6.91%) Serverless
8 28 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (5.40%) Amazon S3
11 25 (5.40%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (4.97%) PaaS
12 23 (4.97%) SaaS
13 20 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (4.32%) IaaS
13 20 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 18 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.56%) DNS
2 34 (7.34%) TCP/IP
3 24 (5.18%) HTTP
4 21 (4.54%) Firewall
5 11 (2.38%) VPN
6 10 (2.16%) VSAN
7 7 (1.51%) Internet
8 5 (1.08%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.86%) WAN
10 3 (0.65%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.65%) LAN
10 3 (0.65%) Network Security
10 3 (0.65%) SSL
10 3 (0.65%) VLAN
11 2 (0.43%) BGP
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.43%) MPLS
11 2 (0.43%) NAS
11 2 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (11.45%) MongoDB
3 36 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 27 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (5.18%) MySQL
6 21 (4.54%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.10%) Apache Cassandra
8 15 (3.24%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.59%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.94%) Big Data
12 9 (1.94%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.94%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.51%) Redis
14 5 (1.08%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.08%) Parquet
14 5 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 160 (34.56%) Jenkins
2 122 (26.35%) Git
3 93 (20.09%) JIRA
4 71 (15.33%) GitLab
5 42 (9.07%) Cucumber
6 39 (8.42%) JUnit
7 35 (7.56%) SonarQube
8 30 (6.48%) Selenium
9 26 (5.62%) TeamCity
10 21 (4.54%) Bitbucket
10 21 (4.54%) Mockito
11 20 (4.32%) Gradle
12 19 (4.10%) Cypress.io
13 18 (3.89%) Liquibase
14 17 (3.67%) Jasmine
14 17 (3.67%) REST Assured
15 15 (3.24%) Bitbucket Server
15 15 (3.24%) Maven
16 14 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (2.81%) CircleCI
General
1 134 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 74 (15.98%) Finance
3 71 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.48%) Telecoms
6 27 (5.83%) Marketing
7 25 (5.40%) Banking
7 25 (5.40%) Electronics
7 25 (5.40%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.24%) Military
9 13 (2.81%) Front Office
10 12 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.59%) Law
11 10 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Retail
15 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Police
16 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 140 (30.24%) Developer
2 104 (22.46%) Senior
3 74 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (12.53%) Lead
5 47 (10.15%) Java Developer
6 46 (9.94%) Architect
7 45 (9.72%) Software Engineer
8 33 (7.13%) Senior Developer
9 28 (6.05%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
11 23 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (4.32%) Technical Architect
14 19 (4.10%) Python Developer
14 19 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
15 18 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (3.67%) C# Developer
17 15 (3.24%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (14.25%) React
2 56 (12.10%) Spring Boot
3 54 (11.66%) Spring
4 51 (11.02%) Kafka
5 49 (10.58%) REST
6 46 (9.94%) RESTful
7 39 (8.42%) HTML
8 34 (7.34%) OpenAPI
8 34 (7.34%) Swagger
9 33 (7.13%) Node.js
10 31 (6.70%) CSS
11 29 (6.26%) .NET
12 27 (5.83%) Web Services
13 24 (5.18%) AngularJS
14 21 (4.54%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (4.32%) Spring Batch
16 18 (3.89%) cloud-init
16 18 (3.89%) GraphQL
17 17 (3.67%) Spring Security
18 16 (3.46%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.83%) Public Cloud
2 24 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.18%) PKI
3 18 (3.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 18 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.51%) Equities
11 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.30%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 122 (26.35%) Linux
2 50 (10.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (7.99%) Windows
4 26 (5.62%) Unix
5 19 (4.10%) CentOS
6 12 (2.59%) Android
7 8 (1.73%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Solaris
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (70.19%) CI/CD
2 221 (47.73%) DevOps
3 204 (44.06%) Agile
4 138 (29.81%) Test Automation
5 134 (28.94%) Continuous Delivery
6 119 (25.70%) Microservices
6 119 (25.70%) Software Engineering
7 114 (24.62%) Containerisation
8 113 (24.41%) TDD
9 112 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 102 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
11 83 (17.93%) Continuous Deployment
12 52 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
12 52 (11.23%) Mentoring
13 50 (10.80%) Configuration Management
14 49 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
15 47 (10.15%) Scrum
16 46 (9.94%) Design Patterns
16 46 (9.94%) Migration
17 44 (9.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 171 (36.93%) Python
2 150 (32.40%) Java
3 112 (24.19%) SQL
4 84 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 74 (15.98%) Bash
6 63 (13.61%) TypeScript
7 53 (11.45%) C#
8 34 (7.34%) Go
9 32 (6.91%) PowerShell
10 28 (6.05%) C++
11 12 (2.59%) C
11 12 (2.59%) Perl
12 11 (2.38%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.94%) Scala
14 5 (1.08%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.08%) Swift
15 4 (0.86%) Groovy
15 4 (0.86%) PHP
15 4 (0.86%) R
Qualifications
1 163 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 127 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.23%) Degree
4 34 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (6.05%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.02%) MCSE
9 12 (2.59%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.51%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.86%) CCNP
15 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.64%) QA
2 27 (5.83%) NCSC
3 13 (2.81%) NIST
4 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.94%) GDPR
5 6 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.86%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.65%) GxP
9 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 127 (27.43%) Docker
2 16 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.16%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.86%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.86%) Postfix
7 2 (0.43%) RACF
8 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.22%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 108 (23.33%) Terraform
3 67 (14.47%) Ansible
4 43 (9.29%) Grafana
5 38 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 25 (5.40%) Packer
7 24 (5.18%) Progress Chef
8 23 (4.97%) Puppet
9 17 (3.67%) Istio
10 15 (3.24%) Consul
10 15 (3.24%) Kibana
10 15 (3.24%) Rancher
11 14 (3.02%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (3.02%) linkerd
11 14 (3.02%) ZABBIX
12 12 (2.59%) HAProxy
13 9 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (1.94%) Podman
14 4 (0.86%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (7.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.34%) Splunk
3 32 (6.91%) SAP
4 31 (6.70%) Google
5 25 (5.40%) Red Hat
6 23 (4.97%) Oracle
7 17 (3.67%) Apple
7 17 (3.67%) VMware
8 14 (3.02%) Okta
9 12 (2.59%) Cisco
9 12 (2.59%) ESET
10 10 (2.16%) AppDynamics
10 10 (2.16%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.51%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.08%) Adobe
14 4 (0.86%) IBM
14 4 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.86%) Sitecore