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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 191 119
Rank change year-on-year -136 -72 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 125 187 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 1.39% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.50% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 122 219
10th Percentile £442 £400 £399
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £563 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +2.18% -8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £736
90th Percentile £734 £750 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
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 £671 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 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 26 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 -30 21 £488 -18.82% 21
South London -15 5 £550 -12.00% 1
West London -28 2 - - 9
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 10 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.20%) Confluence
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.80%) Camunda
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Findur
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.80%) AWS
2 30 (24.00%) Azure
3 20 (16.00%) GitHub
4 16 (12.80%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.00%) Serverless
6 14 (11.20%) GCP
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.40%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.80%) Route 53
12 5 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (3.20%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Network Security
2 3 (2.40%) Firewall
3 2 (1.60%) DNS
3 2 (1.60%) Internet
3 2 (1.60%) NAS
3 2 (1.60%) SAN
4 1 (0.80%) DHCP
4 1 (0.80%) HTTP
4 1 (0.80%) INAP
4 1 (0.80%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.80%) RTP
4 1 (0.80%) SSL
4 1 (0.80%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.80%) VoIP
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
4 1 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.60%) Power BI
3 6 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.00%) Big Data
5 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.20%) Presto
5 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.40%) Apache Hudi
6 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.60%) KDB
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.60%) SQLite
8 1 (0.80%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 40 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (29.60%) Git
3 17 (13.60%) Selenium
4 14 (11.20%) Cucumber
4 14 (11.20%) GitLab
4 14 (11.20%) JUnit
5 13 (10.40%) JIRA
6 9 (7.20%) Cypress.io
7 8 (6.40%) Maven
8 7 (5.60%) TestNG
9 6 (4.80%) SonarQube
10 5 (4.00%) Gatling
10 5 (4.00%) JMeter
10 5 (4.00%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.20%) Mockito
12 3 (2.40%) Appium
12 3 (2.40%) Newman
12 3 (2.40%) Postman
12 3 (2.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 43 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.40%) Finance
4 21 (16.80%) Banking
5 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.80%) Front Office
7 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Local Government
8 4 (3.20%) Games
9 3 (2.40%) Military
9 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Back Office
10 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.60%) Publishing
11 1 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Legal
11 1 (0.80%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (27.20%) Developer
2 29 (23.20%) Senior
3 10 (8.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (8.00%) Scala Engineer
3 10 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 9 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Architect
5 8 (6.40%) Backend Developer
5 8 (6.40%) Lead
6 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) QA Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.80%) Terraform
2 17 (13.60%) Spring
3 16 (12.80%) React
3 16 (12.80%) RESTful
4 15 (12.00%) HTML
5 13 (10.40%) CSS
5 13 (10.40%) REST
6 12 (9.60%) Kafka
6 12 (9.60%) Playwright
7 11 (8.80%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.00%) Node.js
8 10 (8.00%) Play Framework
9 8 (6.40%) .NET
9 8 (6.40%) Web Services
10 6 (4.80%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (4.00%) CSS3
11 5 (4.00%) HTML5
11 5 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.20%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.40%) AI Agents
3 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.20%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.40%) Equities
6 3 (2.40%) Genomics
6 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.60%) Derivative
7 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.60%) Life Science
7 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.00%) Linux
2 9 (7.20%) Unix
3 5 (4.00%) Windows
4 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (70.40%) Agile
2 86 (68.80%) CI/CD
3 63 (50.40%) Test Automation
4 55 (44.00%) DevOps
5 42 (33.60%) Containerisation
6 37 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (26.40%) Software Engineering
7 33 (26.40%) TDD
8 30 (24.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 25 (20.00%) AI
10 24 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (17.60%) Microservices
12 21 (16.80%) Code Quality
12 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (16.00%) Clean Code
14 19 (15.20%) Scrum
15 18 (14.40%) BDD
16 17 (13.60%) Software Testing
17 16 (12.80%) Mentoring
17 16 (12.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.00%) Java
2 49 (39.20%) Python
3 34 (27.20%) SQL
4 30 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 20 (16.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.00%) C#
6 15 (12.00%) Scala
7 10 (8.00%) Bash
8 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.60%) C
10 2 (1.60%) C++
10 2 (1.60%) Perl
10 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.80%) Korn
11 1 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (33.60%) Security Cleared
2 37 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) Degree
4 10 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.80%) MBA
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.80%) MOS
7 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.60%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.80%) NIST
4 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (32.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) Postfix
4 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.80%) NFS
4 1 (0.80%) Samba
4 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.80%) Grafana
3 13 (10.40%) Kibana
4 9 (7.20%) Ansible
5 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.00%) Puppet
7 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) Argo
8 1 (0.80%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.80%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.80%) Nagios
8 1 (0.80%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.80%) Salt
8 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) Google
3 8 (6.40%) Splunk
4 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.40%) Databricks
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle
5 3 (2.40%) VMware
6 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.60%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.60%) IBM
6 2 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.60%) Sybase
6 2 (1.60%) UiPath
7 1 (0.80%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.80%) Dialogic
7 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.80%) SaltStack