CircleCI Contract Job Trends

CircleCI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 485 541
Rank change year-on-year -86 +56 +12
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 50 36 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.86% 0.87% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 31
10th Percentile £285 £431 £413
25th Percentile £400 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £734 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -6.50% +25.00% -40.74%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,790 4,133 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.52% 14.04% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,778 3,480
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 68 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.06 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.91 £51.77 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £76.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.93 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.80% - +1.63%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CircleCI job vacancy trend in the UK

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CircleCI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CircleCI within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -106 46 £525 -4.55% 16
UK excluding London -79 24 £468 -6.50% 6
London -54 18 £618 +12.27% 13
Work from Home -37 13 £475 -13.64% 9
North of England -54 13 £488 -2.50%
North West -40 9 £500 -
South East - 7 £275 - 5
Yorkshire - 4 £447 -
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
Midlands - 4 £525 -

CircleCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (6.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (66.00%) GitHub
2 29 (58.00%) GitHub Actions
3 23 (46.00%) AWS
4 11 (22.00%) GCP
5 10 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (16.00%) Azure
7 4 (8.00%) Akamai
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.00%) Fastly
7 4 (8.00%) Route 53
7 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.00%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.00%) Datadog
8 3 (6.00%) Figma
8 3 (6.00%) Firebase
9 2 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.00%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.00%) MySQL
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (52.00%) GitLab
2 21 (42.00%) Jenkins
3 16 (32.00%) Git
4 13 (26.00%) JUnit
5 10 (20.00%) Cypress.io
6 8 (16.00%) Gradle
6 8 (16.00%) Mocha
7 7 (14.00%) JIRA
8 6 (12.00%) Postman
9 5 (10.00%) Snyk
9 5 (10.00%) SonarQube
10 3 (6.00%) Selenium
10 3 (6.00%) webpack
11 2 (4.00%) Appium
11 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
11 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
11 2 (4.00%) Maven
11 2 (4.00%) TestComplete
11 2 (4.00%) WebDriver
12 1 (2.00%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (28.00%) Public Sector
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Law
4 2 (4.00%) Advertising
4 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Android Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Android Developer
5 4 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.00%) React Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) REST
2 13 (26.00%) React
3 12 (24.00%) Playwright
4 10 (20.00%) Kafka
4 10 (20.00%) Node.js
5 9 (18.00%) Jest
6 8 (16.00%) Spring
7 7 (14.00%) Android Jetpack
7 7 (14.00%) Jetpack Compose
7 7 (14.00%) RxJava
7 7 (14.00%) Spring Boot
8 6 (12.00%) Dagger
8 6 (12.00%) OkHttp
8 6 (12.00%) RAML
9 5 (10.00%) GraphQL
9 5 (10.00%) WireMock
10 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (6.00%) pytest
11 3 (6.00%) RESTful
11 3 (6.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (16.00%) Virtual Team
3 7 (14.00%) Legacy Code
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.00%) Animation
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Android
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Windows
4 4 (8.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.00%) DevOps
3 22 (44.00%) Agile
4 21 (42.00%) Test Automation
5 20 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (24.00%) Microservices
8 12 (24.00%) User Experience
9 11 (22.00%) Observability
10 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (20.00%) DevSecOps
11 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (18.00%) UX Design
12 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (16.00%) User Research
13 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
13 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (12.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) JavaScript
1 17 (34.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) Java
3 12 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 11 (22.00%) Bash
5 10 (20.00%) Go
6 8 (16.00%) Kotlin
7 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (12.00%) SQL
8 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.00%) Swift
9 2 (4.00%) C#
9 2 (4.00%) Objective-C
10 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) ISEB
4 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (18.00%) QA
3 8 (16.00%) WCAG
4 3 (6.00%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (40.00%) Terraform
3 15 (30.00%) Ansible
4 12 (24.00%) Grafana
5 11 (22.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Kibana
6 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.00%) logstash
7 1 (2.00%) Podman
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Splunk
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) Brightcove
5 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.00%) Apple
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) New Relic
5 1 (2.00%) Okta
5 1 (2.00%) Tealium