Continuous Integration Contracts in the South East

Continuous Integration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 88 115 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 -6 -19
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 72 91 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.39% 1.64% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 1.93% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 81
10th Percentile £355 £360 £413
25th Percentile £469 £447 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £547
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.55% -0.55%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
England median daily rate £525 £554 £590
% change year-on-year -5.29% -6.04% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £52.23
25th Percentile - £72.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year - +37.61% -0.91%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £61.19
90th Percentile - - £66.48
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the South East

Continuous Integration
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 Continuous Integration within the South East 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
Thames Valley +51 48 £550 -10.20% 21
Berkshire +23 29 £501 -21.49% 12
Buckinghamshire +32 19 £622 +60.40% 6
Surrey +24 14 £500 +11.11% 4
Hampshire +2 7 £500 -9.09% 11
East Sussex -2 2 £475 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 8
West Sussex +5 1 £350 -12.50% 6
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.78%) Apache
1 2 (2.78%) Apache Solr
1 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
1 2 (2.78%) JBoss
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.78%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 37 (51.39%) Azure
2 33 (45.83%) AWS
3 11 (15.28%) IaaS
3 11 (15.28%) PaaS
4 10 (13.89%) SaaS
5 9 (12.50%) GCP
6 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 5 (6.94%) GitHub
9 3 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
11 1 (1.39%) Azure AI
11 1 (1.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) VSAN
2 4 (5.56%) WAN
3 3 (4.17%) Firewall
4 2 (2.78%) BGP
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.78%) DNS
4 2 (2.78%) LAN
4 2 (2.78%) MPLS
4 2 (2.78%) NGFW
4 2 (2.78%) OSPF
4 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.78%) VLAN
4 2 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (1.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.39%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 27 (37.50%) JIRA
2 20 (27.78%) Git
2 20 (27.78%) Selenium
3 18 (25.00%) GitLab
4 14 (19.44%) Cucumber
5 13 (18.06%) REST Assured
6 12 (16.67%) SonarQube
7 9 (12.50%) TestRail
8 7 (9.72%) Bitbucket
8 7 (9.72%) GoogleTest
8 7 (9.72%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (5.56%) Maven
9 4 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.78%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (2.78%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.39%) DbUnit
12 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 8 (11.11%) Law
6 7 (9.72%) Finance
7 5 (6.94%) Electronics
7 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.94%) Marketing
8 4 (5.56%) Police
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Senior
2 17 (23.61%) Architect
2 17 (23.61%) Software Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 10 (13.89%) Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 9 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
6 8 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 7 (9.72%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.00%) REST
2 14 (19.44%) Java EE
3 9 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.56%) Web Services
5 3 (4.17%) CSS
5 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.17%) HTML
5 3 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.17%) React
5 3 (4.17%) SOAP
5 3 (4.17%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.78%) JAXB
6 2 (2.78%) JSON
6 2 (2.78%) Middleware
6 2 (2.78%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.78%) XML
6 2 (2.78%) XSD
6 2 (2.78%) XSL
6 2 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (13.89%) PKI
2 8 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Windows
3 7 (9.72%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Android
5 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 31 (43.06%) DevOps
3 29 (40.28%) Test Automation
4 28 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 28 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (37.50%) Agile
6 26 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (30.56%) Software Engineering
8 20 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
9 19 (26.39%) Microservices
10 17 (23.61%) ITIL
11 16 (22.22%) Configuration Management
11 16 (22.22%) TOGAF
12 14 (19.44%) Zachman Framework
13 13 (18.06%) Migration
13 13 (18.06%) Software Architecture
13 13 (18.06%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (16.67%) DevSecOps
14 12 (16.67%) Scrum
15 11 (15.28%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Python
2 18 (25.00%) Java
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 11 (15.28%) Bash
4 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.11%) C++
6 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.56%) C#
8 3 (4.17%) Bicep
8 3 (4.17%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) Perl
9 2 (2.78%) R
9 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.78%) XPath
10 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.44%) Degree
3 14 (19.44%) MCSE
3 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (13.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.56%) CCNP
7 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.56%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) NCSC
1 13 (18.06%) NIST
2 9 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (8.33%) GDPR
3 6 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 17 (23.61%) Docker
2 11 (15.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (13.89%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.28%) Terraform
3 10 (13.89%) Ansible
4 9 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (12.50%) Podman
5 3 (4.17%) Puppet
6 2 (2.78%) Kibana
6 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Grafana
7 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) VMware
2 10 (13.89%) Cisco
2 10 (13.89%) Palo Alto
3 8 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (6.94%) SAP
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.78%) Databricks
7 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle
7 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow