Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 109 130
Rank change year-on-year -52 +21 -36
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 538 866 1,138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 2.00% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.34% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 567 822
10th Percentile £353 £359 £438
25th Percentile £424 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £619 £666 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -10.48% -7.08% +4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 61 31
10th Percentile £61.25 £60.25 £56.25
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.38 - £70.75
90th Percentile £74.50 £66.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 17 Contract 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 6 July 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
England -52 458 £525 -4.55% 546
UK excluding London -36 245 £470 -10.48% 382
London -43 233 £570 +2.15% 236
Work from Home -11 192 £534 +5.38% 313
North of England -20 62 £450 -5.26% 92
South East +6 55 £500 -9.09% 76
North West +21 44 £425 +6.25% 59
Midlands +6 35 £469 +30.94% 35
Scotland +2 33 £470 -6.00% 49
South West +10 26 £370 -47.14% 60
East of England -7 26 £500 +3.09% 46
West Midlands -7 22 £475 +32.68% 25
Yorkshire -25 16 £475 -14.41% 26
East Midlands +8 13 £429 +20.51% 11
Northern Ireland - 5 £425 - 20
Wales -4 4 £475 -12.04% 14
North East -9 2 £465 +9.41% 9

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (5.58%) Confluence
2 14 (2.60%) JBoss
3 4 (0.74%) Apache
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) nginx
4 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Mule
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 239 (44.42%) AWS
2 174 (32.34%) Azure
3 80 (14.87%) GCP
4 65 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (11.90%) GitHub
6 44 (8.18%) Serverless
7 41 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (6.69%) Amazon S3
10 28 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (4.83%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.53%) IaaS
12 19 (3.53%) Route 53
13 18 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.02%) TCP/IP
2 24 (4.46%) DNS
3 20 (3.72%) Firewall
4 13 (2.42%) HTTP
5 12 (2.23%) Ethernet
5 12 (2.23%) VPN
6 10 (1.86%) Internet
7 9 (1.67%) Network Security
8 6 (1.12%) LAN
9 5 (0.93%) WAN
10 2 (0.37%) DMZ
10 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.37%) NAS
10 2 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.37%) SAN
10 2 (0.37%) SSL
10 2 (0.37%) Wireless
11 1 (0.19%) Multicast
11 1 (0.19%) NFC
11 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (10.41%) Relational Database
3 35 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 34 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.90%) DynamoDB
7 20 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (3.72%) MySQL
8 13 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.42%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.86%) Big Data
10 8 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.30%) Power BI
12 6 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.12%) CockroachDB
13 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 196 (36.43%) Jenkins
2 137 (25.46%) Git
3 96 (17.84%) JIRA
4 55 (10.22%) GitLab
5 46 (8.55%) SonarQube
6 42 (7.81%) JUnit
7 35 (6.51%) Gradle
8 32 (5.95%) Liquibase
8 32 (5.95%) Mockito
9 30 (5.58%) Selenium
10 26 (4.83%) Cucumber
10 26 (4.83%) Cypress.io
10 26 (4.83%) Maven
11 25 (4.65%) TeamCity
12 22 (4.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 22 (4.09%) REST Assured
12 22 (4.09%) Visual Studio
13 18 (3.35%) CircleCI
14 17 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (2.79%) JMeter
General
1 160 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.70%) Finance
3 60 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 52 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 26 (4.83%) Banking
7 25 (4.65%) Marketing
8 24 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.09%) Electronics
10 19 (3.53%) Law
11 18 (3.35%) Military
12 14 (2.60%) Front Office
12 14 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.23%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.74%) Police
16 4 (0.74%) Retail
17 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (29.37%) Developer
2 83 (15.43%) Senior
3 68 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (10.22%) Lead
5 54 (10.04%) Java Developer
6 50 (9.29%) Architect
7 40 (7.43%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.95%) Senior Developer
9 25 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 25 (4.65%) Python Developer
10 22 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (3.35%) Python Engineer
13 16 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (2.97%) Senior Architect
13 16 (2.97%) Technical Architect
14 15 (2.79%) Senior Java Developer
15 14 (2.60%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.64%) React
2 67 (12.45%) Spring
3 62 (11.52%) Spring Boot
4 59 (10.97%) REST
5 55 (10.22%) Kafka
6 51 (9.48%) RESTful
7 43 (7.99%) Node.js
8 38 (7.06%) Web Services
9 34 (6.32%) HTML
10 31 (5.76%) Swagger
11 30 (5.58%) CSS
11 30 (5.58%) OpenAPI
12 28 (5.20%) .NET
13 26 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
14 24 (4.46%) AngularJS
15 23 (4.28%) GraphQL
16 22 (4.09%) ARM Templates
17 15 (2.79%) SOAP
18 14 (2.60%) JSON
19 13 (2.42%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (6.32%) Public Cloud
3 25 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.53%) Virtual Team
6 18 (3.35%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.97%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.42%) Derivative
11 12 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (2.04%) Equities
13 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.49%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
16 6 (1.12%) Mobile App
17 5 (0.93%) Cyberattack
17 5 (0.93%) Hedge funds
17 5 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 117 (21.75%) Linux
2 59 (10.97%) Windows
3 25 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (3.90%) Unix
5 14 (2.60%) Android
6 4 (0.74%) CentOS
6 4 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) Debian
7 2 (0.37%) Solaris
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (65.06%) CI/CD
2 279 (51.86%) Agile
3 259 (48.14%) DevOps
4 153 (28.44%) Test Automation
5 151 (28.07%) TDD
6 140 (26.02%) Microservices
7 125 (23.23%) Software Engineering
8 123 (22.86%) Continuous Delivery
9 119 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (20.07%) Containerisation
11 102 (18.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (17.29%) Continuous Deployment
13 88 (16.36%) Scrum
14 61 (11.34%) Deployment Automation
15 60 (11.15%) Migration
16 55 (10.22%) Configuration Management
17 53 (9.85%) Design Patterns
18 51 (9.48%) Computer Science
18 51 (9.48%) Mentoring
19 50 (9.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 201 (37.36%) Java
2 197 (36.62%) Python
3 125 (23.23%) SQL
4 98 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 73 (13.57%) TypeScript
6 68 (12.64%) Bash
7 65 (12.08%) C#
8 40 (7.43%) PowerShell
9 36 (6.69%) C++
10 35 (6.51%) Perl
11 33 (6.13%) Go
12 21 (3.90%) Kotlin
13 12 (2.23%) C
13 12 (2.23%) Shell Script
14 11 (2.04%) Bicep
14 11 (2.04%) Ruby
15 9 (1.67%) Erlang
15 9 (1.67%) Prolog
16 7 (1.30%) PHP
17 6 (1.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 147 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 117 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.90%) Degree
4 39 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.74%) PMP
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.56%) CISSP
12 3 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.74%) QA
2 15 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.67%) GDPR
5 7 (1.30%) WCAG
6 6 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.56%) GxP
9 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (29.37%) Docker
2 20 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.49%) Postfix
6 4 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.37%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.37%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.37%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.37%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) LXC
8 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 144 (26.77%) Kubernetes
2 107 (19.89%) Terraform
3 75 (13.94%) Ansible
4 43 (7.99%) Grafana
5 37 (6.88%) Prometheus
6 34 (6.32%) Progress Chef
7 28 (5.20%) Puppet
8 15 (2.79%) Kibana
9 10 (1.86%) Podman
10 9 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.74%) Packer
12 3 (0.56%) Consul
13 2 (0.37%) CloudHub
13 2 (0.37%) Icinga
13 2 (0.37%) Istio
13 2 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 2 (0.37%) Salt
14 1 (0.19%) Netcool
Vendors
1 64 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.25%) Google
3 30 (5.58%) Red Hat
4 27 (5.02%) Oracle
4 27 (5.02%) SAP
5 26 (4.83%) Splunk
6 16 (2.97%) AppDynamics
7 14 (2.60%) VMware
8 13 (2.42%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.42%) MuleSoft
8 13 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.12%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.12%) Databricks
10 6 (1.12%) IBM
11 5 (0.93%) Apple
11 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.74%) LabVantage