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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 144 125
Rank change year-on-year -200 -19 -8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 290 564 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.92% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.11% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 358 505
10th Percentile £362 £355 £365
25th Percentile £422 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -7.49% -2.16%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £700
90th Percentile £689 £738 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 49
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 £65.25
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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -191 257 £525 -0.94% 97
UK excluding London -178 139 £500 - 75
London -149 117 £537 -8.60% 33
Work from Home -132 79 £513 -4.56% 66
North of England -94 41 £500 -4.76% 19
South East -96 34 £509 +1.80% 13
Yorkshire -62 25 £521 -25.54%
Midlands -64 25 £463 -2.63% 8
West Midlands -50 24 £463 -7.50% 8
East of England -24 19 £600 +24.03% 9
South West -41 18 £425 -5.56% 16
North West -75 15 £425 -10.53% 13
Scotland -28 3 £500 +6.10% 8
North East -20 2 £400 -38.46% 6
East Midlands -43 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 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.07%) Apache
4 5 (1.72%) Confluence
4 5 (1.72%) JBoss
4 5 (1.72%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.69%) Mule
5 2 (0.69%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.34%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.41%) AWS
2 92 (31.72%) Azure
3 50 (17.24%) GitHub
4 34 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (11.38%) Serverless
6 29 (10.00%) GCP
7 27 (9.31%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.24%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.79%) IaaS
15 10 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.10%) AWS KMS
16 9 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (3.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.86%) Ethernet
1 17 (5.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.72%) IPsec
2 5 (1.72%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.72%) SSL
3 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) VPN
4 3 (1.03%) Firewall
4 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 3 (1.03%) Modbus
4 3 (1.03%) RS-232
4 3 (1.03%) RS-422
4 3 (1.03%) RS-485
4 3 (1.03%) VSAN
5 2 (0.69%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.69%) RTMP
5 2 (0.69%) SAN
5 2 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.34%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.72%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (8.28%) MongoDB
5 18 (6.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (5.17%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.10%) Big Data
10 8 (2.76%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.41%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.41%) Power BI
11 7 (2.41%) Presto
12 6 (2.07%) MySQL
13 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.38%) Apache Hudi
14 4 (1.38%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (1.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 71 (24.48%) Git
2 64 (22.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.07%) GitLab
4 29 (10.00%) JUnit
5 21 (7.24%) Eclipse
6 18 (6.21%) Selenium
7 15 (5.17%) Cucumber
7 15 (5.17%) Maven
7 15 (5.17%) Visual Studio
8 14 (4.83%) JIRA
8 14 (4.83%) Mockito
8 14 (4.83%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.14%) Gradle
10 10 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (3.45%) Cypress.io
11 9 (3.10%) DbUnit
11 9 (3.10%) jMock
12 7 (2.41%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.07%) Postman
13 6 (2.07%) REST Assured
General
1 79 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 36 (12.41%) Finance
4 19 (6.55%) Banking
5 17 (5.86%) Military
6 16 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (1.38%) Electronics
9 4 (1.38%) Law
9 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (30.69%) Developer
2 49 (16.90%) Senior
3 42 (14.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.69%) Java Developer
5 26 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 23 (7.93%) Lead
7 20 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.48%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.14%) Architect
11 12 (4.14%) C# Software Engineer
11 12 (4.14%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.79%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Administrator
13 10 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.10%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.10%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.93%) Web Services
2 44 (15.17%) Node.js
3 40 (13.79%) Spring
4 36 (12.41%) REST
5 35 (12.07%) RESTful
6 26 (8.97%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.28%) React
8 23 (7.93%) CSS
8 23 (7.93%) HTML
9 20 (6.90%) .NET
10 19 (6.55%) Kafka
11 16 (5.52%) SOAP
12 15 (5.17%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.83%) Hibernate
13 14 (4.83%) JSON
13 14 (4.83%) Play Framework
14 12 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (3.79%) JPA
16 10 (3.45%) Bootstrap
16 10 (3.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.41%) Legacy Code
7 7 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.72%) Derivative
9 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.38%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.38%) Equities
10 4 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.38%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.48%) Linux
2 38 (13.10%) Windows
3 20 (6.90%) Unix
4 10 (3.45%) Android
5 6 (2.07%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 186 (64.14%) Agile
3 132 (45.52%) DevOps
4 95 (32.76%) Test Automation
5 88 (30.34%) Microservices
6 81 (27.93%) TDD
7 77 (26.55%) Continuous Delivery
8 71 (24.48%) Containerisation
9 67 (23.10%) Software Engineering
10 62 (21.38%) Scrum
11 57 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (13.10%) Design Patterns
15 37 (12.76%) Continuous Deployment
16 36 (12.41%) Code Quality
17 33 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (11.38%) SDLC
17 33 (11.38%) Unit Testing
18 32 (11.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 103 (35.52%) Python
2 86 (29.66%) Java
3 84 (28.97%) SQL
4 56 (19.31%) JavaScript
5 41 (14.14%) C#
6 23 (7.93%) C++
7 21 (7.24%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.52%) Bash
9 15 (5.17%) Scala
10 13 (4.48%) Kotlin
11 9 (3.10%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.41%) Go
13 6 (2.07%) C
13 6 (2.07%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.07%) Ruby
14 5 (1.72%) Swift
15 3 (1.03%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.69%) Bicep
16 2 (0.69%) JSX
Qualifications
1 78 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.38%) Degree
4 21 (7.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.34%) ISEB
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.83%) QA
2 11 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.03%) NCSC
3 3 (1.03%) NIST
3 3 (1.03%) WCAG
4 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (27.59%) Docker
2 8 (2.76%) Postfix
3 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.72%) RACF
3 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.69%) SRDF
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (20.00%) Terraform
2 48 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 41 (14.14%) Grafana
4 19 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.21%) Puppet
6 17 (5.86%) Ansible
7 10 (3.45%) Kibana
8 8 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.07%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.03%) Rancher
11 2 (0.69%) Podman
12 1 (0.34%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.34%) Istio
12 1 (0.34%) logstash
12 1 (0.34%) Salt
12 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 64 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.93%) Splunk
3 12 (4.14%) Atlassian
3 12 (4.14%) Databricks
4 11 (3.79%) Google
4 11 (3.79%) Oracle
5 9 (3.10%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.07%) VMware
7 5 (1.72%) Cisco
7 5 (1.72%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.38%) webMethods
9 3 (1.03%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.03%) New Relic
9 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.69%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.69%) HP
10 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) TOWER Software