Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Continuous Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 106 149
Rank change year-on-year -85 +43 -62
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 220 340 316
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.21% 2.27% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 2.61% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 213 193
10th Percentile £331 £387 £425
25th Percentile £401 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -9.50% +2.31%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £685 £742 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 46
10th Percentile £60.80 £37.30 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £66.00 £72.75 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK excluding London

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK excluding London

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 of England -70 71 £515 -4.85% 38
Yorkshire -35 49 £516 -18.06% 15
South East -55 49 £530 +6.00% 37
Midlands -50 39 £525 -4.55% 10
West Midlands -44 36 £525 -4.55% 9
Scotland +8 31 £522 +10.96% 2
East of England -26 22 £475 -5.00% 21
South West -32 15 £450 -32.58% 13
North West -50 15 £374 -6.56% 17
North East -12 8 £520 -5.45% 7
Wales -6 4 £463 -13.95% 9
East Midlands -16 3 £340 -34.88% 1
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.73%) Confluence
2 16 (7.27%) WebLogic
3 12 (5.45%) JBoss
4 8 (3.64%) Apache
5 4 (1.82%) Mule
6 3 (1.36%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.91%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.45%) CICS
8 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.45%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Simulink
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 101 (45.91%) AWS
2 47 (21.36%) GCP
3 38 (17.27%) Azure
4 35 (15.91%) Serverless
5 31 (14.09%) GitHub
6 23 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (4.55%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.73%) AWS KMS
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.27%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.82%) Akamai
13 4 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (7.73%) Ethernet
3 9 (4.09%) Firewall
4 4 (1.82%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.36%) DNS
6 2 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) FCoE
7 1 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.45%) Internet
7 1 (0.45%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.45%) LAN
7 1 (0.45%) Multicast
7 1 (0.45%) NAS
7 1 (0.45%) SAN
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.45%) VoIP
7 1 (0.45%) VPN
7 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.09%) NoSQL
2 29 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 17 (7.73%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.91%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.73%) MySQL
6 6 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.27%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.27%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.36%) Big Data
9 3 (1.36%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (37.73%) Jenkins
2 64 (29.09%) Git
3 53 (24.09%) GitLab
4 36 (16.36%) JIRA
5 25 (11.36%) Eclipse
6 24 (10.91%) Liquibase
7 19 (8.64%) Visual Studio
8 13 (5.91%) Selenium
9 12 (5.45%) JUnit
10 11 (5.00%) Cucumber
11 10 (4.55%) Bitbucket
11 10 (4.55%) CircleCI
11 10 (4.55%) IntelliJ
12 9 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (3.64%) SonarQube
14 7 (3.18%) webpack
15 6 (2.73%) Oracle Forms
16 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
16 5 (2.27%) Postman
17 4 (1.82%) REST Assured
General
1 90 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.36%) Finance
3 39 (17.73%) Public Sector
4 35 (15.91%) Banking
5 29 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (10.91%) Financial Institution
7 22 (10.00%) Military
8 17 (7.73%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
10 2 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (25.45%) Developer
2 46 (20.91%) Software Engineer
3 36 (16.36%) Senior
4 28 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (7.73%) C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (7.27%) C# Software Engineer
7 15 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.91%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.00%) Architect
10 11 (5.00%) Lead
10 11 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.55%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.55%) Technical Leader
12 9 (4.09%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.91%) REST
2 51 (23.18%) RESTful
3 39 (17.73%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (15.45%) Node.js
5 23 (10.45%) Web Services
6 21 (9.55%) HTML
6 21 (9.55%) Spring
7 16 (7.27%) Spring Boot
8 15 (6.82%) React
9 14 (6.36%) Play Framework
10 13 (5.91%) .NET
10 13 (5.91%) CSS
10 13 (5.91%) HTML5
10 13 (5.91%) JSON
10 13 (5.91%) Kafka
11 12 (5.45%) J2EE
11 12 (5.45%) XML
12 11 (5.00%) SOAP
13 9 (4.09%) Hibernate
13 9 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
1 32 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
1 32 (14.55%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.18%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.73%) CAN bus
6 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.36%) CUDA
8 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.91%) NHS
10 1 (0.45%) ASIC
10 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 78 (35.45%) Linux
2 42 (19.09%) Windows
3 12 (5.45%) Unix
4 5 (2.27%) Android
4 5 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.45%) MVS
8 1 (0.45%) Solaris
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (78.64%) CI/CD
2 156 (70.91%) Agile
3 104 (47.27%) DevOps
4 95 (43.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 84 (38.18%) Microservices
6 73 (33.18%) Software Engineering
7 66 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 61 (27.73%) Test Automation
9 59 (26.82%) Containerisation
10 55 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (22.73%) TDD
12 46 (20.91%) Computer Science
13 37 (16.82%) Continuous Deployment
14 34 (15.45%) Non-Functional Testing
15 33 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
16 31 (14.09%) Unit Testing
17 29 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (13.18%) Scrum
18 28 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
19 27 (12.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 76 (34.55%) Python
2 57 (25.91%) Java
3 46 (20.91%) Go
4 38 (17.27%) JavaScript
5 37 (16.82%) C#
6 36 (16.36%) SQL
7 28 (12.73%) C++
8 24 (10.91%) TypeScript
9 16 (7.27%) Bash
10 14 (6.36%) Scala
11 8 (3.64%) Perl
12 6 (2.73%) Embedded C++
12 6 (2.73%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.82%) C
14 4 (1.82%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.82%) R
15 3 (1.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.27%) Degree
3 45 (20.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 30 (13.64%) Master's Degree
6 16 (7.27%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.27%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.91%) CISM
13 2 (0.91%) CISSP
14 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.45%) OCP
14 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.36%) WCAG
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (32.27%) Docker
2 10 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) KVM
5 1 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.45%) SRDF
5 1 (0.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (38.18%) Kubernetes
2 68 (30.91%) Terraform
3 53 (24.09%) Grafana
4 49 (22.27%) Ansible
5 44 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.82%) Puppet
7 6 (2.73%) Kibana
8 5 (2.27%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.82%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.91%) Podman
10 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.45%) Argo
11 1 (0.45%) Consul
11 1 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.45%) logstash
11 1 (0.45%) SCCM
11 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (21.82%) Splunk
2 34 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.91%) Google
4 16 (7.27%) Oracle
5 9 (4.09%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.64%) webMethods
7 7 (3.18%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.18%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.73%) GoldenSource
8 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.27%) F5
9 5 (2.27%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.36%) Apple
10 3 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.36%) VMware
11 2 (0.91%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.91%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.91%) Palantir