Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends

Continuous Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 149 126
Rank change year-on-year -202 -23 -5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 285 553 795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.88% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 2.07% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 353 509
10th Percentile £367 £355 £363
25th Percentile £424 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -2.67%
75th Percentile £610 £640 £690
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 52
10th Percentile £53.56 £26.80 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £44.19 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £66.13 £68.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,566 26,667 37,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 90.82% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,976 17,238 24,315
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,068 2,431
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £28.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +49.79% -22.11% +0.14%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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 -187 256 £525 -0.38% 86
UK excluding London -165 137 £500 - 65
London -150 119 £534 -9.19% 29
Work from Home -129 74 £515 -4.19% 80
North of England -100 39 £500 -4.76% 19
South East -103 33 £509 +1.80% 13
Midlands -57 24 £460 -5.74% 8
Yorkshire -59 24 £518 -26.07% 3
West Midlands -48 23 £460 -8.10% 8
East of England -29 19 £600 +20.00% 3
South West -41 18 £425 +0.95% 14
North West -61 15 £425 -10.53% 11
Scotland -17 4 £500 +5.26% 5
North East -25 1 - - 5
East Midlands -46 1 - -

Continuous Integration
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 18 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.11%) Confluence
4 4 (1.40%) Apache
5 3 (1.05%) JBoss
5 3 (1.05%) SAS
5 3 (1.05%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.70%) Mule
6 2 (0.70%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.35%) Moodle
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.35%) Findur
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (42.81%) AWS
2 89 (31.23%) Azure
3 49 (17.19%) GitHub
4 34 (11.93%) Serverless
5 32 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (10.18%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.18%) GCP
8 21 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.86%) IaaS
16 10 (3.51%) Power Platform
17 9 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
17 9 (3.16%) AWS KMS
17 9 (3.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.96%) Ethernet
1 17 (5.96%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.75%) IPsec
2 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.75%) SSL
3 4 (1.40%) DNS
3 4 (1.40%) HTTP
3 4 (1.40%) VPN
4 3 (1.05%) Firewall
4 3 (1.05%) Modbus
4 3 (1.05%) RS-232
4 3 (1.05%) RS-422
4 3 (1.05%) RS-485
4 3 (1.05%) VSAN
5 2 (0.70%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.70%) RTMP
5 2 (0.70%) SAN
5 2 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.88%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.18%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (7.37%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (4.91%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.21%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.16%) Big Data
9 9 (3.16%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.16%) Power BI
10 8 (2.81%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.46%) Presto
12 6 (2.11%) MySQL
13 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.40%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.40%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (23.51%) Git
2 61 (21.40%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.28%) GitLab
4 27 (9.47%) JUnit
5 19 (6.67%) Eclipse
6 16 (5.61%) Selenium
7 15 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 15 (5.26%) JIRA
7 15 (5.26%) Visual Studio
8 14 (4.91%) Maven
8 14 (4.91%) Mockito
8 14 (4.91%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.21%) Gradle
10 10 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (3.51%) Cypress.io
11 9 (3.16%) DbUnit
11 9 (3.16%) jMock
12 7 (2.46%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.11%) Postman
13 6 (2.11%) REST Assured
General
1 73 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.39%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.28%) Finance
5 18 (6.32%) Banking
6 17 (5.96%) Military
7 16 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Front Office
10 4 (1.40%) Electronics
10 4 (1.40%) Law
10 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Local Government
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (29.82%) Developer
2 47 (16.49%) Senior
3 41 (14.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (10.18%) Java Developer
5 25 (8.77%) Software Engineer
6 23 (8.07%) Lead
7 17 (5.96%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.96%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.56%) Python Developer
10 12 (4.21%) Architect
10 12 (4.21%) C# Software Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.86%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Administrator
12 10 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.16%) Senior Architect
13 9 (3.16%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.25%) Web Services
2 44 (15.44%) Node.js
3 37 (12.98%) Spring
4 34 (11.93%) RESTful
5 29 (10.18%) REST
6 25 (8.77%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.42%) React
8 23 (8.07%) CSS
9 21 (7.37%) HTML
10 20 (7.02%) .NET
11 17 (5.96%) Kafka
12 15 (5.26%) AngularJS
12 15 (5.26%) SOAP
13 12 (4.21%) Hibernate
13 12 (4.21%) JSON
14 11 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.86%) JPA
14 11 (3.86%) Play Framework
15 10 (3.51%) Bootstrap
16 9 (3.16%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.46%) Legacy Code
6 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Derivative
8 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.40%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (25.26%) Linux
2 38 (13.33%) Windows
3 19 (6.67%) Unix
4 10 (3.51%) Android
5 6 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.35%) AIX
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (65.26%) CI/CD
2 183 (64.21%) Agile
3 130 (45.61%) DevOps
4 93 (32.63%) Test Automation
5 82 (28.77%) Microservices
6 78 (27.37%) TDD
7 71 (24.91%) Continuous Delivery
8 68 (23.86%) Containerisation
9 67 (23.51%) Software Engineering
10 62 (21.75%) Scrum
11 54 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (12.98%) Design Patterns
14 36 (12.63%) Continuous Deployment
15 34 (11.93%) Code Quality
16 33 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
17 32 (11.23%) Kanban
17 32 (11.23%) SDLC
17 32 (11.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (35.44%) Python
2 83 (29.12%) Java
3 82 (28.77%) SQL
4 56 (19.65%) JavaScript
5 41 (14.39%) C#
6 23 (8.07%) C++
7 21 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.96%) Bash
9 13 (4.56%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.21%) Scala
11 9 (3.16%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.11%) C
12 6 (2.11%) Ruby
13 5 (1.75%) Swift
14 4 (1.40%) Go
14 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.05%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.70%) Bicep
16 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.82%) Degree
4 21 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.91%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.11%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.35%) ISEB
12 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.09%) QA
2 11 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.05%) NCSC
3 3 (1.05%) NIST
3 3 (1.05%) WCAG
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (25.61%) Docker
2 8 (2.81%) Postfix
3 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.75%) RACF
3 5 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.05%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.70%) SRDF
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (20.70%) Terraform
2 45 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.74%) Grafana
4 18 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.96%) Ansible
6 16 (5.61%) Puppet
7 9 (3.16%) Kibana
8 8 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.05%) Rancher
11 2 (0.70%) Podman
12 1 (0.35%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.35%) Istio
12 1 (0.35%) logstash
12 1 (0.35%) Nagios
12 1 (0.35%) Salt
12 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.72%) Splunk
3 13 (4.56%) Oracle
4 12 (4.21%) Google
5 10 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.16%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.81%) Databricks
8 6 (2.11%) VMware
9 5 (1.75%) Cisco
9 5 (1.75%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.40%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.05%) New Relic
11 3 (1.05%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.70%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.70%) Denodo
12 2 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.70%) OpenAI