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

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 119 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 -24
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 54 86 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 1.51% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.82% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 66
10th Percentile £288 £350 £409
25th Percentile £352 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £521 £625 £669
90th Percentile £550 £688 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.95
25th Percentile - £72.50 £55.79
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £61.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.85% +11.00%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £65.79
90th Percentile - - £68.32
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -1.54%

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 2,840 4,721 5,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.08% 82.72% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,768 2,739 3,497
10th Percentile £250 £260 £250
25th Percentile £392 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 462 234
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.23 £21.35
Median hourly rate £24.66 £47.64 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -4.72% +122.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.38 £64.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.45 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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 29 June 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 29 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
Thames Valley +23 32 £488 -22.00% 23
Berkshire +16 27 £501 -19.92% 15
Surrey +18 8 £500 +11.11% 12
Hampshire +11 7 £519 -5.73% 22
West Sussex +7 6 £288 -39.69% 6
Buckinghamshire - 5 £350 - 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 5
East Sussex -3 1 £475 +58.33% 3
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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) Azure
2 26 (48.15%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.56%) IaaS
6 3 (5.56%) PaaS
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.85%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.85%) dbt
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.85%) Route 53
8 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) LAN
1 4 (7.41%) WAN
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) Network Security
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.85%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 26 (48.15%) JIRA
3 20 (37.04%) Git
4 17 (31.48%) Selenium
5 15 (27.78%) GitLab
6 13 (24.07%) Cucumber
6 13 (24.07%) REST Assured
7 12 (22.22%) SonarQube
8 5 (9.26%) Subversion
8 5 (9.26%) TestRail
9 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
10 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (5.56%) GoogleTest
10 3 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (3.70%) Maven
11 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.85%) jMock
12 1 (1.85%) JUnit
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.81%) Law
4 8 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.41%) Electronics
5 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.41%) Marketing
5 4 (7.41%) Police
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Developer
1 13 (24.07%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Embedded Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.74%) REST
2 13 (24.07%) Java EE
3 9 (16.67%) ARM Templates
4 7 (12.96%) Kafka
5 6 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 6 (11.11%) gRPC
5 6 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.41%) Middleware
6 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.70%) CSS
8 2 (3.70%) HTML
8 2 (3.70%) PyTorch
8 2 (3.70%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.70%) Web Services
9 1 (1.85%) Blazor
9 1 (1.85%) MACH
9 1 (1.85%) MUnit
9 1 (1.85%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
1 12 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
1 25 (46.30%) DevOps
2 23 (42.59%) Software Engineering
2 23 (42.59%) Test Automation
3 19 (35.19%) Agile
4 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (29.63%) Configuration Management
6 15 (27.78%) Continuous Deployment
7 13 (24.07%) Containerisation
7 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (24.07%) Software Architecture
7 13 (24.07%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (22.22%) TDD
9 11 (20.37%) Computer Science
9 11 (20.37%) Kanban
9 11 (20.37%) Microservices
9 11 (20.37%) Migration
9 11 (20.37%) Scrum
10 10 (18.52%) Decision-Making
11 9 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Java
3 12 (22.22%) SQL
4 10 (18.52%) Bash
5 8 (14.81%) Go
5 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) C++
7 3 (5.56%) Bicep
8 2 (3.70%) C#
8 2 (3.70%) Perl
9 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.85%) R
9 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.37%) Degree
4 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.85%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) GDPR
1 6 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Postfix
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.37%) Terraform
3 10 (18.52%) Ansible
4 9 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (16.67%) Podman
5 3 (5.56%) Puppet
6 2 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.85%) Grafana
7 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (9.26%) MuleSoft
3 4 (7.41%) SAP
4 3 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.85%) VMware