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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 63 81 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.88% 1.71% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.02% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 52 74
10th Percentile £393 £371 £463
25th Percentile £402 £419 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -18.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £601 £650
90th Percentile £623 £636 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
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

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 3,008 4,005 4,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.82% 84.74% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,938 2,427 3,423
10th Percentile £264 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 381 202
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.85 £12.53 £15.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% -27.54% +45.26%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.13 £62.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.85% - +50.00%

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 June 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 June 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 +31 43 £463 -5.13% 227
Yorkshire -16 16 £475 -7.32% 179
North East -1 4 £550 +12.82% 59
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 (19.05%) Confluence
2 6 (9.52%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Mule
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) GitHub
3 11 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (12.70%) Azure
5 7 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.94%) GCP
8 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) Apigee
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.17%) Serverless
10 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.59%) CloudBees
10 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.59%) Slack
10 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
3 1 (1.59%) HTTP
3 1 (1.59%) NAS
3 1 (1.59%) SAN
3 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) MongoDB
2 11 (17.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (9.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.35%) MySQL
7 2 (3.17%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) ObjectStore
8 1 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (36.51%) Jenkins
2 20 (31.75%) JIRA
3 19 (30.16%) Git
4 14 (22.22%) GitLab
5 10 (15.87%) SonarQube
5 10 (15.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (12.70%) JUnit
7 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (9.52%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (9.52%) TeamCity
9 5 (7.94%) Gradle
9 5 (7.94%) Liquibase
9 5 (7.94%) Mockito
10 4 (6.35%) Cucumber
10 4 (6.35%) Maven
10 4 (6.35%) Selenium
11 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
11 3 (4.76%) CircleCI
11 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
12 2 (3.17%) Postman
General
1 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 5 (7.94%) Electronics
4 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.94%) Marketing
4 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.76%) Military
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Senior
2 12 (19.05%) Developer
3 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
5 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Scala Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) Kafka
1 14 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 9 (14.29%) RESTful
2 9 (14.29%) Swagger
3 8 (12.70%) OpenAPI
3 8 (12.70%) Spring
4 7 (11.11%) React
5 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (9.52%) OAuth
6 5 (7.94%) Akka
6 5 (7.94%) Play Framework
7 4 (6.35%) OAuth2
7 4 (6.35%) OpenID
7 4 (6.35%) Playwright
7 4 (6.35%) SAML
8 3 (4.76%) Node.js
9 2 (3.17%) ADO
9 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.17%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.17%) NHS
2 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.59%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.59%) PKI
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.87%) Linux
1 10 (15.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (1.59%) CentOS
4 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) CI/CD
2 39 (61.90%) DevOps
3 33 (52.38%) Agile
3 33 (52.38%) Microservices
4 20 (31.75%) Containerisation
5 18 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 17 (26.98%) TDD
7 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
8 15 (23.81%) Analytics
8 15 (23.81%) Visualisation
9 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (20.63%) Code Quality
10 13 (20.63%) Decision-Making
11 12 (19.05%) Scrum
12 11 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (17.46%) Migration
13 10 (15.87%) Coaching
13 10 (15.87%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (15.87%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.03%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) Python
3 11 (17.46%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.11%) Perl
6 6 (9.52%) Bash
6 6 (9.52%) Scala
7 2 (3.17%) Go
7 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (39.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (31.75%) Docker
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.05%) Terraform
3 11 (17.46%) Kibana
4 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.94%) Ansible
6 4 (6.35%) Istio
7 3 (4.76%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.17%) Grafana
8 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.59%) Consul
9 1 (1.59%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.59%) linkerd
9 1 (1.59%) Packer
9 1 (1.59%) Puppet
9 1 (1.59%) Rancher
9 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
1 8 (12.70%) Splunk
2 7 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Cloudera
4 4 (6.35%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.17%) Brio
6 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.17%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.59%) Apple
7 1 (1.59%) Databricks
7 1 (1.59%) EMC
7 1 (1.59%) ESET
7 1 (1.59%) NetApp
7 1 (1.59%) Okta
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (1.59%) Veritas
7 1 (1.59%) VMware