Continuous Integration Contracts in England

Continuous Integration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 125 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 -33 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 706 1,070 2,006
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.91% 2.14% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.38% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 768 1,349
10th Percentile £360 £450 £450
25th Percentile £456 £508 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £689 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.90% -2.58% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 28 27
10th Percentile - £52.75 £52.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £70.38 £65.63
90th Percentile £65.38 £75.00 £75.57
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
London +5 397 £600 - 154
South East -4 87 £550 +1.85% 77
North of England +4 73 £500 -14.89% 57
East of England +31 59 £475 +35.71% 27
Yorkshire +36 46 £475 -16.67% 21
South West +3 40 £700 +14.52% 37
Midlands -22 33 £358 -33.70% 26
West Midlands -29 27 £360 -33.33% 24
North West -14 22 £500 -16.67% 34
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -40.67% 2
North East +10 5 £488 -33.85% 2
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 63 (8.92%) Confluence
2 28 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.98%) Apache
4 9 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.27%) CMS
5 8 (1.13%) JBoss
5 8 (1.13%) SAS
6 5 (0.71%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.71%) nginx
7 4 (0.57%) Luigi
7 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.42%) Drupal
8 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Traefik
9 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.42%) Windchill
3 2 (0.28%) Mingle
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.13%) ION MarketView
2 8 (1.13%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.42%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 1 (0.14%) RMDS
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 173 (24.50%) Azure
2 161 (22.80%) AWS
3 68 (9.63%) GCP
4 61 (8.64%) GitHub
5 54 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.52%) Serverless
7 30 (4.25%) PaaS
8 22 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (2.97%) IaaS
10 20 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (2.55%) OpenShift
12 17 (2.41%) Apigee
13 16 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (2.27%) SaaS
14 15 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.10%) Modbus
1 36 (5.10%) RS-422
1 36 (5.10%) RS-485
2 32 (4.53%) TCP/IP
3 30 (4.25%) DNS
4 24 (3.40%) Firewall
5 21 (2.97%) HTTP
6 14 (1.98%) VPN
7 12 (1.70%) DHCP
8 10 (1.42%) Kerberos
9 9 (1.27%) SSL
9 9 (1.27%) VLAN
10 8 (1.13%) Ethernet
10 8 (1.13%) NAS
10 8 (1.13%) SAN
11 5 (0.71%) SSH
12 2 (0.28%) Internet
12 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 47 (6.66%) Relational Database
3 45 (6.37%) SQL Server
4 38 (5.38%) MySQL
5 27 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 23 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (2.97%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.83%) KDB
10 19 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (2.41%) Big Data
12 17 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.56%) Redis
15 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.27%) Delta Lake
17 8 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (27.76%) Jenkins
2 170 (24.08%) Git
3 123 (17.42%) JIRA
4 73 (10.34%) Cucumber
5 70 (9.92%) GitLab
5 70 (9.92%) Selenium
6 60 (8.50%) TeamCity
7 45 (6.37%) Postman
8 43 (6.09%) Bitbucket
9 37 (5.24%) REST Assured
10 36 (5.10%) SonarQube
11 35 (4.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 28 (3.97%) JUnit
12 28 (3.97%) TestRail
13 22 (3.12%) NUnit
13 22 (3.12%) Visual Studio
14 20 (2.83%) Cypress.io
14 20 (2.83%) JMeter
14 20 (2.83%) WebDriver
15 19 (2.69%) Appium
General
1 243 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 142 (20.11%) Finance
3 122 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.92%) Banking
5 38 (5.38%) Front Office
6 36 (5.10%) Electronics
7 35 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 23 (3.26%) Law
9 21 (2.97%) Back Office
9 21 (2.97%) Retail
10 20 (2.83%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.69%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.12%) Police
13 14 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.27%) Military
17 7 (0.99%) Multimedia
18 6 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
18 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 233 (33.00%) Developer
2 96 (13.60%) Senior
3 76 (10.76%) Software Engineer
4 48 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 44 (6.23%) Lead
6 43 (6.09%) Java Developer
6 43 (6.09%) Senior Developer
7 41 (5.81%) Analyst
8 38 (5.38%) Test Analyst
9 37 (5.24%) C++ Software Engineer
10 35 (4.96%) Data Engineer
11 34 (4.82%) C# Developer
12 33 (4.67%) Architect
13 31 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Java Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Python Developer
14 24 (3.40%) React Developer
15 21 (2.97%) Tester
16 20 (2.83%) .NET Developer
16 20 (2.83%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (13.60%) .NET
2 83 (11.76%) REST
3 58 (8.22%) React
4 55 (7.79%) Web Services
5 52 (7.37%) Node.js
6 50 (7.08%) RESTful
7 48 (6.80%) .NET Core
8 41 (5.81%) CSS
9 39 (5.52%) Kafka
10 37 (5.24%) JSON
11 33 (4.67%) HTML
12 32 (4.53%) Spring
13 30 (4.25%) AngularJS
14 29 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (4.11%) XML
15 27 (3.82%) .NET Framework
16 25 (3.54%) Java EE
16 25 (3.54%) Middleware
17 24 (3.40%) ARM Templates
18 22 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (4.96%) Mobile App
3 26 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.40%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.41%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.12%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.84%) Derivative
10 13 (1.84%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.70%) Clustering
11 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.42%) Legacy Code
13 9 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 120 (17.00%) Linux
2 65 (9.21%) Windows
3 29 (4.11%) Android
4 27 (3.82%) Unix
5 16 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.12%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.42%) Solaris
8 8 (1.13%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.57%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.42%) zOS
12 2 (0.28%) AIX
12 2 (0.28%) CentOS
12 2 (0.28%) VMS
13 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (60.76%) Agile
2 362 (51.27%) CI/CD
3 281 (39.80%) DevOps
4 230 (32.58%) Test Automation
5 183 (25.92%) TDD
6 172 (24.36%) Software Engineering
7 156 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (20.11%) Continuous Deployment
9 127 (17.99%) Scrum
10 124 (17.56%) Continuous Delivery
11 100 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (13.46%) Microservices
12 95 (13.46%) Unit Testing
13 93 (13.17%) Containerisation
13 93 (13.17%) Software Testing
14 86 (12.18%) Configuration Management
15 82 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (10.62%) Pair Programming
17 69 (9.77%) Deployment Automation
18 65 (9.21%) OO
Programming Languages
1 193 (27.34%) Python
2 156 (22.10%) C#
3 151 (21.39%) Java
4 147 (20.82%) SQL
5 102 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 71 (10.06%) PowerShell
7 69 (9.77%) C++
8 56 (7.93%) TypeScript
9 45 (6.37%) Bash
10 41 (5.81%) C
11 35 (4.96%) Scala
12 34 (4.82%) Kotlin
13 29 (4.11%) Go
14 18 (2.55%) Perl
14 18 (2.55%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.56%) Ruby
16 10 (1.42%) PHP
17 9 (1.27%) Bicep
17 9 (1.27%) Groovy
18 8 (1.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.06%) Degree
4 46 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 30 (4.25%) ISTQB
7 26 (3.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.71%) CISSP
10 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.14%) CCNP
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.14%) ISEB
13 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.20%) QA
2 9 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.13%) GDPR
3 8 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.42%) NCSC
5 3 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) GxP
6 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.14%) MiFID
6 1 (0.14%) MISRA
6 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (20.40%) Docker
2 28 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.57%) VirtualBox
5 4 (0.57%) zsh
6 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) GridGain
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 128 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 119 (16.86%) Ansible
3 116 (16.43%) Terraform
4 49 (6.94%) Grafana
5 33 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.82%) Progress Chef
7 26 (3.68%) Puppet
8 22 (3.12%) PowerCLI
9 20 (2.83%) Docker Swarm
10 16 (2.27%) Kibana
11 15 (2.12%) Podman
12 10 (1.42%) logstash
12 10 (1.42%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.13%) Netcool
13 8 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.99%) Graylog
15 6 (0.85%) Packer
16 5 (0.71%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 81 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.22%) Oracle
3 33 (4.67%) HP
4 30 (4.25%) Dell
4 30 (4.25%) Google
4 30 (4.25%) Splunk
5 27 (3.82%) IBM
6 26 (3.68%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.26%) EMC
8 21 (2.97%) Databricks
9 19 (2.69%) VMware
10 17 (2.41%) ION Trading
11 16 (2.27%) Denodo
11 16 (2.27%) Talend
12 15 (2.12%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.98%) ServiceNow
14 13 (1.84%) TIBCO
15 9 (1.27%) SAP
16 8 (1.13%) Cisco
16 8 (1.13%) Serena