CircleCI Contract Job Trends in the South East

CircleCI
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 163 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.088% 0.031% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.86% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
South East

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 466 422 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.28% 13.09% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 238 402
10th Percentile £275 £350 £382
25th Percentile £362 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -10.47% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £644 £675
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 35
10th Percentile £42.50 £51.23 £46.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.75 £54.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.81% +2.33%
75th Percentile £78.50 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £98.00 £67.44 £75.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CircleCI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CircleCI job vacancy trend in the South East

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CircleCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CircleCI within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Sussex - 4 £275 - 1
CircleCI
England

CircleCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gradle
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) XCTest
2 1 (25.00%) XCUITest
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Android Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) RAML
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (75.00%) Dagger
2 3 (75.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (75.00%) OkHttp
2 3 (75.00%) RxJava
2 3 (75.00%) WireMock
3 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Android Development
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA