Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in London

Continuous Integration
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 170 105
Rank change year-on-year -152 -65 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 121 214 395
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.58% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.71% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 142 251
10th Percentile £421 £400 £394
25th Percentile £458 £471 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -9.94%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £731
90th Percentile £698 £738 £875
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in London

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in London over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in London

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
Central London -37 18 £488 -15.95% 13
South London -24 8 £550 +1.62% 1
West London -21 4 £450 +4.34% 4
East London -2 1 £432 +12.21%
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.48%) Confluence
4 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.83%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.83%) Moodle
5 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Findur
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) AWS
2 32 (26.45%) Azure
3 17 (14.05%) Serverless
4 16 (13.22%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (13.22%) GitHub
5 15 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.92%) GCP
7 11 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.96%) Route 53
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.31%) AWS KMS
14 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) Network Security
2 2 (1.65%) Internet
2 2 (1.65%) NAS
2 2 (1.65%) SAN
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
3 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.44%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.79%) Power BI
5 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.13%) Big Data
6 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.31%) Presto
8 3 (2.48%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.48%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.48%) KDB
8 3 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.48%) SQLite
9 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (29.75%) Git
2 33 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.88%) GitLab
4 14 (11.57%) Selenium
5 10 (8.26%) JIRA
5 10 (8.26%) JUnit
5 10 (8.26%) Maven
6 8 (6.61%) Cypress.io
6 8 (6.61%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.96%) Bitbucket
8 6 (4.96%) Mockito
9 5 (4.13%) REST Assured
10 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.31%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.31%) jMock
11 3 (2.48%) Appium
11 3 (2.48%) Gradle
11 3 (2.48%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (2.48%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.49%) Finance
4 21 (17.36%) Banking
5 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Front Office
7 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Games
9 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Local Government
9 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Back Office
10 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.65%) Military
10 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Legal
11 1 (0.83%) Police
11 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (33.06%) Developer
2 20 (16.53%) Senior
3 12 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.26%) Lead
5 9 (7.44%) Backend Developer
6 7 (5.79%) Architect
6 7 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Python Developer
7 6 (4.96%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Release Manager
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Scala Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.53%) Spring
2 15 (12.40%) RESTful
3 14 (11.57%) Node.js
4 13 (10.74%) HTML
4 13 (10.74%) React
4 13 (10.74%) REST
4 13 (10.74%) Web Services
5 12 (9.92%) CSS
5 12 (9.92%) Spring Boot
6 11 (9.09%) .NET
7 9 (7.44%) Playwright
8 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.61%) Kafka
9 7 (5.79%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (4.96%) Play Framework
10 6 (4.96%) SOAP
11 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (4.13%) Pandas
12 4 (3.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.31%) Equities
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.65%) Derivative
7 2 (1.65%) Genomics
7 2 (1.65%) Life Science
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.48%) Windows
4 2 (1.65%) Android
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) Agile
2 82 (67.77%) CI/CD
3 56 (46.28%) DevOps
4 53 (43.80%) Test Automation
5 36 (29.75%) TDD
6 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 33 (27.27%) Microservices
6 33 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (23.14%) Continuous Delivery
8 28 (23.14%) Scrum
9 22 (18.18%) AI
10 21 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (15.70%) BDD
13 16 (13.22%) Code Quality
13 16 (13.22%) Kanban
13 16 (13.22%) Mentoring
14 14 (11.57%) Clean Code
14 14 (11.57%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.80%) Python
2 45 (37.19%) Java
3 32 (26.45%) SQL
4 25 (20.66%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.22%) C#
6 13 (10.74%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.26%) Bash
8 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.61%) Scala
9 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.48%) Ruby
9 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.65%) C
10 2 (1.65%) Perl
10 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) Jython
11 1 (0.83%) Korn
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) Degree
4 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.65%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.83%) MBA
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.66%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (28.93%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Postfix
2 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) NFS
3 1 (0.83%) Samba
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Terraform
2 21 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.22%) Grafana
4 7 (5.79%) Ansible
5 6 (4.96%) Kibana
5 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.96%) Puppet
6 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.65%) Rancher
8 1 (0.83%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.83%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.83%) Salt
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Google
2 6 (4.96%) Splunk
3 5 (4.13%) Oracle
4 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.48%) VMware
6 2 (1.65%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.65%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.83%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Percona
7 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.83%) Sybase
7 1 (0.83%) Trayport