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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 151 123
Rank change year-on-year -218 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 291 551 816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.89% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.08% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 353 521
10th Percentile £377 £355 £363
25th Percentile £429 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -4.98% -5.47%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £688
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 39,921 26,554 37,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.86% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,152 17,143 24,256
10th Percentile £319 £308 £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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 1,068 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.24 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.71 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.52% -23.29% +1.39%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -197 261 £525 -0.19% 134
UK excluding London -168 143 £500 - 107
London -137 118 £537 -8.40% 52
Work from Home -142 73 £509 -5.21% 85
North of England -106 41 £500 -4.76% 19
South East -88 34 £505 +0.90% 29
Yorkshire -55 25 £521 -25.54% 3
East of England -31 22 £485 -3.00% 20
Midlands -72 22 £464 -2.32% 8
South West -39 21 £425 +0.95% 22
West Midlands -53 21 £464 -7.20% 8
North West -64 15 £425 -10.53% 11
Scotland -27 4 £500 +5.26% 6
North East -23 2 £400 -38.46% 5
East Midlands -37 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 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.72%) SAS
5 3 (1.03%) Apache
6 2 (0.69%) JBoss
6 2 (0.69%) Mule
6 2 (0.69%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.34%) Findur
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 126 (43.30%) AWS
2 90 (30.93%) Azure
3 48 (16.49%) GitHub
4 35 (12.03%) Serverless
5 32 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (10.65%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.31%) GCP
8 29 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.12%) Power Platform
16 11 (3.78%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (3.78%) IaaS
17 9 (3.09%) OpenShift
17 9 (3.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) Ethernet
1 17 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.72%) IPsec
2 5 (1.72%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.72%) SSL
3 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 4 (1.37%) HTTP
3 4 (1.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.03%) Firewall
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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.65%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (10.65%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (4.81%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.78%) Power BI
7 10 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.09%) Big Data
8 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.41%) Presto
11 6 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.06%) MySQL
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.37%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (1.37%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 69 (23.71%) Git
2 59 (20.27%) Jenkins
3 39 (13.40%) GitLab
4 26 (8.93%) JUnit
5 18 (6.19%) Eclipse
6 16 (5.50%) JIRA
7 15 (5.15%) Gradle
7 15 (5.15%) Selenium
7 15 (5.15%) Visual Studio
8 14 (4.81%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.81%) Maven
8 14 (4.81%) Mockito
8 14 (4.81%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.44%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (3.44%) Cypress.io
10 9 (3.09%) DbUnit
10 9 (3.09%) jMock
11 7 (2.41%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.06%) Postman
12 6 (2.06%) REST Assured
General
1 72 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.09%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.03%) Finance
5 18 (6.19%) Banking
6 17 (5.84%) Military
7 16 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Front Office
8 6 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Electronics
9 4 (1.37%) Law
9 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (31.62%) Developer
2 51 (17.53%) Senior
3 39 (13.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.65%) Java Developer
5 26 (8.93%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.59%) Lead
7 19 (6.53%) Data Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Senior Developer
8 17 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.47%) Python Developer
10 12 (4.12%) Architect
10 12 (4.12%) C# Software Engineer
10 12 (4.12%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.78%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Administrator
12 10 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Senior Architect
13 9 (3.09%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.87%) Web Services
2 45 (15.46%) Node.js
3 36 (12.37%) RESTful
3 36 (12.37%) Spring
4 28 (9.62%) REST
4 28 (9.62%) Spring Boot
5 26 (8.93%) React
6 24 (8.25%) CSS
7 21 (7.22%) HTML
8 20 (6.87%) .NET
9 17 (5.84%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.50%) Kafka
11 14 (4.81%) SOAP
12 11 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (3.78%) Hibernate
12 11 (3.78%) JPA
12 11 (3.78%) JSON
13 10 (3.44%) Bootstrap
13 10 (3.44%) Play Framework
14 9 (3.09%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.44%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.41%) Legacy Code
6 7 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.72%) Derivative
8 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.37%) Equities
9 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.40%) Linux
2 37 (12.71%) Windows
3 17 (5.84%) Unix
4 10 (3.44%) Android
5 6 (2.06%) 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
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (65.64%) CI/CD
2 188 (64.60%) Agile
3 129 (44.33%) DevOps
4 96 (32.99%) Test Automation
5 85 (29.21%) Microservices
6 78 (26.80%) TDD
7 74 (25.43%) Containerisation
8 73 (25.09%) Software Engineering
9 70 (24.05%) Continuous Delivery
10 62 (21.31%) Scrum
11 55 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (12.71%) Design Patterns
13 37 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (12.37%) Continuous Deployment
14 36 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (12.03%) Code Quality
16 32 (11.00%) SDLC
17 31 (10.65%) Kanban
17 31 (10.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 105 (36.08%) Python
2 88 (30.24%) SQL
3 85 (29.21%) Java
4 58 (19.93%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.43%) C#
6 23 (7.90%) C++
7 22 (7.56%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.84%) Bash
9 13 (4.47%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.78%) Scala
11 9 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.06%) C
13 5 (1.72%) Go
13 5 (1.72%) Ruby
13 5 (1.72%) Swift
14 4 (1.37%) Bicep
14 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.03%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.62%) Degree
4 19 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.06%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.34%) ISEB
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.09%) QA
2 13 (4.47%) 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
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
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 74 (25.43%) Docker
2 8 (2.75%) 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 62 (21.31%) Terraform
2 47 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 46 (15.81%) Grafana
4 20 (6.87%) Ansible
5 18 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.15%) Puppet
7 10 (3.44%) Kibana
7 10 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.03%) Rancher
10 2 (0.69%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Podman
11 1 (0.34%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.34%) Istio
11 1 (0.34%) logstash
11 1 (0.34%) Nagios
11 1 (0.34%) Salt
11 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.56%) Splunk
3 15 (5.15%) Oracle
4 12 (4.12%) Google
5 10 (3.44%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.09%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.75%) Databricks
8 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.06%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.06%) Informatica
9 6 (2.06%) VMware
10 5 (1.72%) Cisco
10 5 (1.72%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.37%) Denodo
12 3 (1.03%) Cribl.io
12 3 (1.03%) New Relic
12 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.69%) Broadcom
13 2 (0.69%) HP
13 2 (0.69%) OpenAI