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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 199 110
Rank change year-on-year -133 -89 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 117 184 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 1.36% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.47% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 116 230
10th Percentile £425 £388 £393
25th Percentile £463 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -8.93%
75th Percentile £642 £654 £725
90th Percentile £746 £744 £863
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -10.42%
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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -20 19 £475 -24.03% 13
South London -18 5 £550 -6.38%
West London -28 3 - - 8
East London 0 1 £432 -20.00% 1
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 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Mingle
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Findur
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.33%) AWS
2 31 (26.50%) Azure
3 19 (16.24%) GitHub
4 17 (14.53%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.82%) Serverless
7 13 (11.11%) GCP
8 12 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (9.40%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.84%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (6.84%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.13%) Route 53
13 5 (4.27%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.42%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) Network Security
2 2 (1.71%) Firewall
2 2 (1.71%) Internet
2 2 (1.71%) NAS
2 2 (1.71%) SAN
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) INAP
3 1 (0.85%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (0.85%) Multicast
3 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.85%) RTP
3 1 (0.85%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.85%) VoIP
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.84%) Power BI
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.27%) Big Data
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.42%) Presto
5 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.56%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.56%) KDB
6 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.56%) SQLite
7 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.85%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 32 (27.35%) Git
1 32 (27.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.82%) GitLab
2 15 (12.82%) Selenium
3 13 (11.11%) JIRA
4 12 (10.26%) Cucumber
4 12 (10.26%) JUnit
5 9 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 8 (6.84%) Maven
7 6 (5.13%) SonarQube
8 5 (4.27%) REST Assured
8 5 (4.27%) TestNG
9 4 (3.42%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.42%) Gatling
9 4 (3.42%) JMeter
9 4 (3.42%) Mockito
10 3 (2.56%) Appium
10 3 (2.56%) Newman
10 3 (2.56%) Postman
11 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 44 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.95%) Finance
4 20 (17.09%) Banking
5 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
7 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Games
8 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Local Government
9 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Back Office
10 2 (1.71%) Military
10 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Publishing
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (30.77%) Developer
2 24 (20.51%) Senior
3 11 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (8.55%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Architect
6 8 (6.84%) Backend Developer
6 8 (6.84%) Lead
7 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.27%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Release Manager
9 5 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.27%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) AWS Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.80%) Terraform
2 18 (15.38%) Spring
3 16 (13.68%) HTML
4 15 (12.82%) React
4 15 (12.82%) RESTful
5 14 (11.97%) CSS
6 11 (9.40%) Kafka
6 11 (9.40%) Node.js
6 11 (9.40%) Playwright
6 11 (9.40%) REST
6 11 (9.40%) Spring Boot
7 9 (7.69%) Web Services
8 7 (5.98%) .NET
9 6 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (5.13%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.13%) Play Framework
9 6 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.27%) CSS3
10 5 (4.27%) HTML5
10 5 (4.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.27%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.42%) Equities
6 4 (3.42%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.56%) Genomics
7 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.71%) Derivative
8 2 (1.71%) Life Science
8 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.82%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Unix
3 4 (3.42%) Windows
4 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.71%) Android
5 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.85%) VMS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (71.79%) CI/CD
2 82 (70.09%) Agile
3 54 (46.15%) DevOps
4 53 (45.30%) Test Automation
5 36 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (29.06%) Containerisation
7 33 (28.21%) TDD
8 31 (26.50%) Software Engineering
9 30 (25.64%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (21.37%) Microservices
11 22 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (17.95%) AI
12 21 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (17.95%) Scrum
13 19 (16.24%) Code Quality
14 18 (15.38%) BDD
15 17 (14.53%) Continuous Deployment
15 17 (14.53%) Mentoring
16 16 (13.68%) Clean Code
17 15 (12.82%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) Python
2 47 (40.17%) Java
3 28 (23.93%) JavaScript
3 28 (23.93%) SQL
4 18 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.11%) C#
6 11 (9.40%) Bash
7 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.84%) Scala
8 4 (3.42%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.56%) Ruby
10 2 (1.71%) C
10 2 (1.71%) Perl
10 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.85%) C++
11 1 (0.85%) Groovy
11 1 (0.85%) Korn
11 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.97%) Degree
4 10 (8.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.71%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.85%) MBA
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.85%) MOS
9 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (25.64%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.85%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.71%) Postfix
4 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) NFS
4 1 (0.85%) Samba
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.68%) Grafana
3 8 (6.84%) Ansible
4 7 (5.98%) Kibana
5 6 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.27%) Puppet
7 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.85%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.85%) Nagios
8 1 (0.85%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.85%) Rancher
8 1 (0.85%) Salt
8 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) Google
2 8 (6.84%) Splunk
3 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle
4 3 (2.56%) VMware
5 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.71%) Avaloq
5 2 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.71%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.71%) Sybase
6 1 (0.85%) Dialogic
6 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.85%) Trayport