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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 200 116
Rank change year-on-year -119 -84 -10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 128 179 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 1.33% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.43% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 118 217
10th Percentile £446 £373 £400
25th Percentile £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -0.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £738
90th Percentile £702 £741 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
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 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -26 21 £488 -17.41% 18
South London -15 5 £550 -12.00% 2
West London -29 2 - - 8
East London +2 1 - - 2
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 12 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.13%) Confluence
4 2 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (1.56%) nginx
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.78%) Camunda
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Findur
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.94%) AWS
2 30 (23.44%) Azure
3 21 (16.41%) GitHub
4 15 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.72%) Serverless
5 14 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.94%) GCP
6 12 (9.38%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.47%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.69%) Route 53
10 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.13%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) Network Security
2 4 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (2.34%) DNS
4 2 (1.56%) Internet
4 2 (1.56%) NAS
4 2 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.56%) SAN
5 1 (0.78%) DHCP
5 1 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.78%) INAP
5 1 (0.78%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (0.78%) RTP
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.78%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.78%) VoIP
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.69%) Big Data
2 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.69%) Power BI
3 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.13%) Presto
3 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.34%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.56%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.56%) KDB
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.78%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 42 (32.81%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.91%) Git
3 17 (13.28%) Selenium
4 15 (11.72%) Cucumber
5 14 (10.94%) GitLab
5 14 (10.94%) JIRA
5 14 (10.94%) JUnit
6 9 (7.03%) Cypress.io
7 8 (6.25%) Maven
8 7 (5.47%) TestNG
9 6 (4.69%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.91%) Gatling
10 5 (3.91%) JMeter
10 5 (3.91%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.13%) Mockito
12 3 (2.34%) Appium
12 3 (2.34%) Newman
12 3 (2.34%) Postman
12 3 (2.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 21 (16.41%) Banking
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Front Office
6 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.91%) Local Government
7 4 (3.13%) Games
8 3 (2.34%) Military
8 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Back Office
9 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.78%) Advertising
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.78%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Developer
2 28 (21.88%) Senior
3 12 (9.38%) Scala Engineer
4 10 (7.81%) Java Developer
4 10 (7.81%) Test Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Architect
6 8 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 8 (6.25%) Lead
7 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.69%) QA Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.19%) Terraform
2 17 (13.28%) Spring
3 16 (12.50%) React
3 16 (12.50%) RESTful
4 15 (11.72%) HTML
5 14 (10.94%) Kafka
5 14 (10.94%) REST
6 13 (10.16%) CSS
7 12 (9.38%) Play Framework
7 12 (9.38%) Playwright
8 11 (8.59%) Spring Boot
9 10 (7.81%) Node.js
10 8 (6.25%) .NET
11 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.69%) ActiveMQ
12 6 (4.69%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.69%) Web Services
13 5 (3.91%) CSS3
13 5 (3.91%) JSON
13 5 (3.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Product Ownership
2 20 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.34%) Equities
6 3 (2.34%) Genomics
6 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.56%) Derivative
7 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.56%) Life Science
7 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Linux
2 9 (7.03%) Unix
3 6 (4.69%) Windows
4 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Android
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (72.66%) Agile
2 86 (67.19%) CI/CD
3 66 (51.56%) Test Automation
4 56 (43.75%) DevOps
5 42 (32.81%) Containerisation
6 37 (28.91%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (26.56%) TDD
8 32 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 30 (23.44%) Continuous Delivery
10 27 (21.09%) AI
11 24 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (17.19%) Clean Code
12 22 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (16.41%) Code Quality
14 20 (15.63%) Microservices
15 19 (14.84%) BDD
15 19 (14.84%) Scrum
16 17 (13.28%) Software Testing
17 16 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
17 16 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.28%) Java
2 48 (37.50%) Python
3 36 (28.13%) SQL
4 30 (23.44%) JavaScript
5 20 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 17 (13.28%) C#
6 17 (13.28%) Scala
7 11 (8.59%) Bash
8 9 (7.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.56%) C
10 2 (1.56%) C++
10 2 (1.56%) Perl
10 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) Groovy
11 1 (0.78%) Korn
11 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.47%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.72%) Degree
4 10 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.78%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) MBA
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.78%) MOS
8 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.78%) QA
2 8 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) GLBA
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (33.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) Postfix
4 1 (0.78%) NFS
4 1 (0.78%) Samba
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.19%) Grafana
3 15 (11.72%) Kibana
4 10 (7.81%) Ansible
5 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.91%) Puppet
7 4 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Argo
8 1 (0.78%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.78%) Nagios
8 1 (0.78%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.78%) Salt
8 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Google
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Splunk
3 4 (3.13%) Databricks
3 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle
4 3 (2.34%) VMware
5 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.56%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.56%) IBM
5 2 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.56%) Sybase
5 2 (1.56%) UiPath
6 1 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.78%) Metaswitch
6 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Tenable