Continuous Integration Contracts in the North of England

Continuous Integration
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 111 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 72 75 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.19% 1.57% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.83% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 85
10th Percentile £398 £375 £489
25th Percentile £456 £426 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +0.22%
75th Percentile £718 £591 £650
90th Percentile £750 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £554 £590
% change year-on-year -5.29% -6.04% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the North of England

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +34 41 £475 -7.09% 41
Yorkshire -15 23 £700 +47.37% 21
North East +3 8 £650 +33.33% 8
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (16.67%) Confluence
2 8 (11.11%) nginx
3 7 (9.72%) Traefik
4 5 (6.94%) JBoss
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) AWS
2 14 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (15.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (13.89%) AWS Fargate
4 10 (13.89%) GitHub
5 9 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (11.11%) Slack
7 7 (9.72%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (6.94%) Azure
8 5 (6.94%) GCP
8 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.78%) Apigee
9 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.78%) Serverless
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) DNS
2 9 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.94%) HTTP
4 2 (2.78%) Firewall
5 1 (1.39%) NAS
5 1 (1.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) MongoDB
2 14 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
4 9 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (12.50%) MySQL
5 6 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.94%) RDBMS
7 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.78%) Big Data
8 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.78%) ObjectStore
9 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (30.56%) GitLab
3 21 (29.17%) Git
4 20 (27.78%) JIRA
5 14 (19.44%) JUnit
6 10 (13.89%) Cucumber
7 9 (12.50%) Jasmine
8 7 (9.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (6.94%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (6.94%) Gradle
9 5 (6.94%) Liquibase
9 5 (6.94%) Mockito
9 5 (6.94%) SonarQube
9 5 (6.94%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.78%) Maven
10 2 (2.78%) Selenium
11 1 (1.39%) Gatling
11 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Finance
5 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.94%) Electronics
6 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.94%) Marketing
6 5 (6.94%) Military
6 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 30 (41.67%) Senior
2 19 (26.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (22.22%) Developer
4 12 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Scala Developer
10 4 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (5.56%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Lead
11 3 (4.17%) Test Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Test Leader
12 2 (2.78%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.56%) Kafka
2 19 (26.39%) Spring Boot
3 15 (20.83%) OpenAPI
3 15 (20.83%) Swagger
4 14 (19.44%) RESTful
4 14 (19.44%) Spring
5 13 (18.06%) cloud-init
6 9 (12.50%) Keycloak
7 8 (11.11%) Spring Batch
7 8 (11.11%) Spring Security
8 7 (9.72%) React
9 6 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (8.33%) OAuth
10 5 (6.94%) Akka
10 5 (6.94%) Play Framework
11 4 (5.56%) OAuth2
11 4 (5.56%) OpenID
11 4 (5.56%) SAML
12 3 (4.17%) Node.js
13 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) PKI
2 8 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) NHS
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (41.67%) Linux
1 30 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (22.22%) Unix
3 14 (19.44%) CentOS
4 7 (9.72%) Windows
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 43 (59.72%) DevOps
3 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 29 (40.28%) Microservices
4 28 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 24 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (29.17%) TDD
7 19 (26.39%) Test Automation
8 17 (23.61%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (20.83%) BDD
9 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (20.83%) Visualisation
10 14 (19.44%) Analytics
10 14 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
11 13 (18.06%) Cloud Security
11 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
11 13 (18.06%) Observability
11 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
12 11 (15.28%) Code Quality
12 11 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) Bash
2 26 (36.11%) Java
3 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 14 (19.44%) Go
5 10 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.33%) Scala
7 5 (6.94%) Perl
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) Groovy
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) NCSC
2 6 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (34.72%) Docker
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (36.11%) Terraform
3 17 (23.61%) Packer
4 12 (16.67%) Istio
5 11 (15.28%) Grafana
5 11 (15.28%) Kibana
5 11 (15.28%) Prometheus
6 9 (12.50%) Consul
6 9 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (12.50%) linkerd
6 9 (12.50%) Rancher
6 9 (12.50%) ZABBIX
7 7 (9.72%) Ansible
7 7 (9.72%) HAProxy
8 5 (6.94%) Progress Chef
9 3 (4.17%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.39%) logstash
10 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Splunk
2 9 (12.50%) Okta
3 7 (9.72%) Apple
3 7 (9.72%) ESET
3 7 (9.72%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.33%) AppDynamics
5 5 (6.94%) SAP
6 4 (5.56%) Google
7 3 (4.17%) Cloudera
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.78%) Brio
8 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.78%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.39%) Databricks
9 1 (1.39%) EMC
9 1 (1.39%) NetApp
9 1 (1.39%) Oracle
9 1 (1.39%) Veritas
9 1 (1.39%) VMware