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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 143 138
Rank change year-on-year -111 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 131 246 333
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.78% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.96% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 138 242
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £717
90th Percentile £750 £825 £843
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73.80
25th Percentile £54.55 - £76.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £81.00
75th Percentile £63.32 - £85.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
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 13,482 12,521 16,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.48% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 7,934 11,797
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 155 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.90 £24.88 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £79.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -28 12 £563 +4.65% 21
South London +4 11 £534 -9.19%
West London -17 7 £523 - 1
East London -2 1 £540 +27.06%
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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.93%) AWS
2 45 (34.35%) Azure
3 24 (18.32%) GitHub
4 20 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (15.27%) GCP
4 20 (15.27%) Serverless
5 16 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon S3
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.34%) Azure AKS
9 7 (5.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.34%) IaaS
10 6 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Network Security
2 2 (1.53%) DHCP
2 2 (1.53%) DNS
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) RTMP
2 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.16%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.16%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.11%) Power BI
4 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.53%) Big Data
7 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.53%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.53%) DB2
7 2 (1.53%) MySQL
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.53%) SQLite
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) Git
2 22 (16.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.92%) Cypress.io
3 13 (9.92%) JIRA
4 8 (6.11%) Cucumber
4 8 (6.11%) GitLab
4 8 (6.11%) Gradle
5 7 (5.34%) Selenium
6 5 (3.82%) Maven
7 4 (3.05%) Android Studio
7 4 (3.05%) JUnit
7 4 (3.05%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.05%) Xcode
8 3 (2.29%) git-flow
8 3 (2.29%) Hudson
8 3 (2.29%) Subversion
8 3 (2.29%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.53%) NUnit
9 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.53%) TestNG
General
1 38 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.85%) Finance
3 16 (12.21%) Banking
4 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Front Office
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.82%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (45.80%) Developer
2 26 (19.85%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.69%) Senior Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Java Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Lead
6 10 (7.63%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Administrator
9 6 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Administrator
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Database Developer
9 6 (4.58%) DBA
9 6 (4.58%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) React Developer
10 5 (3.82%) JavaScript Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.43%) React
2 27 (20.61%) Node.js
3 19 (14.50%) CSS
4 18 (13.74%) .NET
4 18 (13.74%) RESTful
5 16 (12.21%) Spring
6 12 (9.16%) HTML
6 12 (9.16%) Web Services
7 11 (8.40%) Playwright
8 8 (6.11%) Jest
8 8 (6.11%) Kafka
8 8 (6.11%) REST
9 7 (5.34%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.34%) Gherkin
10 6 (4.58%) Enzyme
10 6 (4.58%) HTML5
10 6 (4.58%) Redux
10 6 (4.58%) Sass
10 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.34%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.58%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.58%) Derivative
6 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.05%) Credit Risk
7 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.05%) Market Risk
8 3 (2.29%) Genomics
8 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.29%) Life Science
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.53%) TWAP
9 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.21%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Android
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.29%) Unix
6 2 (1.53%) Solaris
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (63.36%) Agile
2 82 (62.60%) CI/CD
3 62 (47.33%) DevOps
4 46 (35.11%) Test Automation
5 39 (29.77%) Continuous Delivery
6 38 (29.01%) Design Patterns
6 38 (29.01%) TDD
7 36 (27.48%) Microservices
8 26 (19.85%) Containerisation
8 26 (19.85%) Software Engineering
9 23 (17.56%) SDLC
10 22 (16.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (13.74%) Code Quality
14 16 (12.21%) Analytics
14 16 (12.21%) BDD
14 16 (12.21%) Scrum
15 15 (11.45%) AI
15 15 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.82%) Python
2 41 (31.30%) Java
3 32 (24.43%) SQL
4 31 (23.66%) JavaScript
5 23 (17.56%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.74%) C#
7 6 (4.58%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.82%) Bash
8 5 (3.82%) JSX
9 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.05%) Swift
10 3 (2.29%) Ruby
11 2 (1.53%) C++
11 2 (1.53%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.53%) Scala
11 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Go
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ISEB
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.03%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (24.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 26 (19.85%) Terraform
3 6 (4.58%) Ansible
3 6 (4.58%) Grafana
4 4 (3.05%) Puppet
5 3 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.76%) Argo
6 1 (0.76%) Kibana
6 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.40%) Google
3 4 (3.05%) Apple
3 4 (3.05%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.05%) DocuSign
4 3 (2.29%) Databricks
4 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.29%) VMware
5 2 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) New Relic
6 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk