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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 139 157
Rank change year-on-year -155 +18 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 355 589 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.91% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.13% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 369 446
10th Percentile £363 £381 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -8.70% -0.20%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £688
90th Percentile £749 £750 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 54
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.29 £60.25
25th Percentile £59.00 £26.41 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.66% -57.92% -
75th Percentile - £64.38 £66.25
90th Percentile - £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 35,472 27,688 38,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.86% 89.76% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,461 17,051 25,269
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 862 2,156
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% -

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 20 February 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 20 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 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 20 February 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 -159 309 £521 -5.23% 257
UK excluding London -127 179 £500 - 216
London -127 133 £530 -11.67% 67
Work from Home -115 106 £513 -2.38% 67
North of England -90 59 £523 -0.48% 58
South East -54 51 £517 +3.40% 55
Yorkshire -59 40 £525 -4.55% 34
Midlands -42 36 £478 -4.50% 28
West Midlands -33 35 £480 -4.00% 13
South West -27 18 £425 -36.33% 31
East of England -19 17 £600 +23.08% 29
North West -51 15 £361 -27.68% 16
Scotland -18 7 £550 +17.96% 6
North East -22 6 £550 -8.33% 8
Wales -12 2 - - 12
East Midlands -29 1 £413 -20.86% 15

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 11 (3.10%) Apache
1 11 (3.10%) Confluence
2 9 (2.54%) JBoss
2 9 (2.54%) WebLogic
3 7 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.28%) Moodle
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 150 (42.25%) AWS
2 96 (27.04%) Azure
3 58 (16.34%) GitHub
4 53 (14.93%) GCP
4 53 (14.93%) Serverless
5 45 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
6 43 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (4.79%) IaaS
8 16 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.38%) Snowflake
13 11 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.54%) AWS KMS
14 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.38%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.82%) Firewall
4 6 (1.69%) DNS
5 5 (1.41%) IPsec
5 5 (1.41%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.41%) SSL
5 5 (1.41%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.85%) DHCP
6 3 (0.85%) HTTP
6 3 (0.85%) Modbus
6 3 (0.85%) Network Security
6 3 (0.85%) RS-232
6 3 (0.85%) RS-422
6 3 (0.85%) RS-485
7 2 (0.56%) RTMP
7 2 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.56%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.68%) NoSQL
2 42 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.51%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (1.97%) Big Data
8 6 (1.69%) Couchbase
8 6 (1.69%) MySQL
8 6 (1.69%) Power BI
9 5 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.85%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.85%) Redis
12 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (27.61%) Git
2 93 (26.20%) Jenkins
3 67 (18.87%) GitLab
4 29 (8.17%) JIRA
5 28 (7.89%) JUnit
6 20 (5.63%) Selenium
7 19 (5.35%) Cucumber
7 19 (5.35%) Eclipse
8 18 (5.07%) Liquibase
9 16 (4.51%) Cypress.io
9 16 (4.51%) Gradle
10 13 (3.66%) Maven
11 10 (2.82%) IntelliJ
12 9 (2.54%) CircleCI
12 9 (2.54%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (2.54%) Visual Studio
13 8 (2.25%) Mockito
13 8 (2.25%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.97%) Postman
General
1 118 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.18%) Finance
3 47 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 39 (10.99%) Banking
5 36 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.92%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.94%) Military
8 12 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.41%) Front Office
12 3 (0.85%) Electronics
12 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
14 1 (0.28%) Marketing
14 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (29.58%) Developer
2 70 (19.72%) Senior
3 57 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.04%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.76%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (3.94%) GCP Engineer
9 14 (3.94%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.66%) Lead
10 13 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.38%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.38%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (3.10%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.15%) REST
2 54 (15.21%) RESTful
3 43 (12.11%) Node.js
4 41 (11.55%) Web Services
5 40 (11.27%) React
6 37 (10.42%) Spring
7 33 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (7.04%) .NET
9 23 (6.48%) HTML
9 23 (6.48%) Kafka
10 21 (5.92%) CSS
11 19 (5.35%) Spring Boot
12 17 (4.79%) JSON
12 17 (4.79%) SOAP
13 16 (4.51%) Play Framework
13 16 (4.51%) Playwright
14 15 (4.23%) HTML5
15 13 (3.66%) Hibernate
15 13 (3.66%) J2EE
16 12 (3.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.94%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.38%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.54%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.25%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.69%) CAN bus
11 6 (1.69%) Derivative
11 6 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.13%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 89 (25.07%) Linux
2 45 (12.68%) Windows
3 22 (6.20%) Unix
4 12 (3.38%) Android
5 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (67.32%) CI/CD
2 225 (63.38%) Agile
3 175 (49.30%) DevOps
4 116 (32.68%) Continuous Delivery
5 112 (31.55%) Microservices
6 110 (30.99%) Test Automation
7 91 (25.63%) Containerisation
8 85 (23.94%) Software Engineering
9 81 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (22.82%) TDD
10 72 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (16.06%) Computer Science
12 53 (14.93%) Scrum
13 47 (13.24%) Continuous Deployment
13 47 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (13.24%) Design Patterns
14 39 (10.99%) Infrastructure Automation
15 37 (10.42%) SDLC
16 36 (10.14%) Unit Testing
17 34 (9.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.37%) Python
2 83 (23.38%) Java
3 77 (21.69%) SQL
4 54 (15.21%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.96%) C#
6 34 (9.58%) Go
6 34 (9.58%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.61%) C++
8 18 (5.07%) Scala
9 17 (4.79%) Bash
10 15 (4.23%) Kotlin
10 15 (4.23%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.25%) Swift
12 6 (1.69%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.41%) C
13 5 (1.41%) JSX
13 5 (1.41%) Ruby
14 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.85%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.03%) Degree
3 58 (16.34%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (7.32%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.69%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.28%) ISEB
13 1 (0.28%) OCP
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.27%) QA
2 16 (4.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.56%) NCSC
4 2 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (29.30%) Docker
2 11 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.41%) RACF
5 4 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.56%) Postfix
7 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.28%) Firmware
8 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (23.94%) Terraform
2 84 (23.66%) Kubernetes
3 50 (14.08%) Grafana
4 38 (10.70%) Ansible
5 35 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.35%) Puppet
7 11 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.41%) CSIRT
9 4 (1.13%) Kibana
10 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.56%) Argo
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.56%) Podman
12 1 (0.28%) Consul
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) Istio
12 1 (0.28%) logstash
12 1 (0.28%) Rancher
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
12 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.70%) Splunk
3 25 (7.04%) Google
4 15 (4.23%) Databricks
5 14 (3.94%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.82%) Oracle
7 9 (2.54%) webMethods
8 8 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.69%) VMware
10 5 (1.41%) F5
10 5 (1.41%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.13%) Apple
12 3 (0.85%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.85%) Foundry
12 3 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.85%) New Relic
13 2 (0.56%) DocuSign
13 2 (0.56%) OpenAI