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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 112 142
Rank change year-on-year -93 +30 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 461 783 885
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 2.08% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.42% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 490 617
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -10.87% +0.26%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £688
90th Percentile £737 £751 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 44
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.10 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £77.50
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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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 -91 389 £525 - 204
UK excluding London -69 253 £500 - 163
Work from Home -34 167 £508 +1.60% 168
London -92 163 £550 - 64
North of England -34 82 £501 +0.20% 31
Yorkshire -19 49 £501 -12.58% 9
South East -14 46 £501 +5.37% 63
Midlands -33 46 £492 -1.70% 9
Scotland +20 40 £493 +4.06% 6
West Midlands -37 39 £500 - 8
East of England -23 27 £500 - 28
North West -35 25 £425 +6.25% 18
South West -21 17 £550 -14.89% 25
North East -10 9 £535 +32.10% 4
East Midlands - 7 £421 - 2
Wales -3 6 £463 -13.95% 3

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 39 (8.46%) Confluence
2 17 (3.69%) WebLogic
3 10 (2.17%) JBoss
4 9 (1.95%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) Mule
6 4 (0.87%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.65%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.22%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.87%) Simulink
2 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 208 (45.12%) AWS
2 116 (25.16%) Azure
3 83 (18.00%) GCP
4 64 (13.88%) GitHub
5 56 (12.15%) Serverless
6 48 (10.41%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (4.12%) Amazon S3
10 18 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (3.04%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.39%) IaaS
16 10 (2.17%) Azure AKS
16 10 (2.17%) OpenShift
16 10 (2.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.72%) TCP/IP
2 22 (4.77%) Firewall
3 17 (3.69%) Ethernet
4 15 (3.25%) DNS
5 9 (1.95%) Network Security
6 8 (1.74%) Wireshark
7 7 (1.52%) HTTP
8 6 (1.30%) Internet
9 5 (1.08%) LAN
10 4 (0.87%) VPN
10 4 (0.87%) WAN
11 3 (0.65%) Multicast
12 2 (0.43%) DMZ
12 2 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.22%) DHCP
13 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.22%) SAN
13 1 (0.22%) SSL
13 1 (0.22%) VoIP
13 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.32%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 27 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 26 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (4.56%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (3.25%) MySQL
8 13 (2.82%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.39%) Big Data
10 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.95%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.52%) MariaDB
13 6 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.30%) Power BI
14 5 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.08%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (35.36%) Jenkins
2 120 (26.03%) Git
3 73 (15.84%) GitLab
3 73 (15.84%) JIRA
4 38 (8.24%) Liquibase
5 29 (6.29%) SonarQube
6 25 (5.42%) Maven
7 24 (5.21%) JUnit
8 23 (4.99%) Eclipse
8 23 (4.99%) Visual Studio
9 22 (4.77%) Cucumber
10 21 (4.56%) CircleCI
11 20 (4.34%) Selenium
12 19 (4.12%) Cypress.io
13 18 (3.90%) Gradle
14 16 (3.47%) Bitbucket
15 13 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
15 13 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (2.39%) Mockito
17 10 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 151 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.22%) Finance
3 57 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.20%) Banking
6 25 (5.42%) Financial Institution
6 25 (5.42%) Military
7 16 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.17%) Law
9 7 (1.52%) Front Office
9 7 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.43%) Automotive
12 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 138 (29.93%) Developer
2 68 (14.75%) Senior
3 56 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (11.71%) Software Engineer
5 38 (8.24%) Java Developer
6 36 (7.81%) Architect
7 35 (7.59%) Lead
8 29 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.56%) Technical Architect
12 20 (4.34%) C++ Software Engineer
13 18 (3.90%) C# Software Engineer
13 18 (3.90%) GCP Engineer
14 16 (3.47%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.25%) Technical Leader
16 14 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
16 14 (3.04%) Tester
17 13 (2.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (19.74%) RESTful
2 80 (17.35%) REST
3 65 (14.10%) Node.js
4 52 (11.28%) React
5 46 (9.98%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (9.54%) Spring
7 41 (8.89%) Kafka
8 39 (8.46%) Web Services
9 35 (7.59%) Spring Boot
10 34 (7.38%) HTML
11 32 (6.94%) CSS
12 29 (6.29%) .NET
13 20 (4.34%) AngularJS
14 19 (4.12%) GraphQL
15 18 (3.90%) SOAP
16 16 (3.47%) Hibernate
17 15 (3.25%) HTML5
17 15 (3.25%) Spring Batch
18 14 (3.04%) JSON
18 14 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 43 (9.33%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.47%) Virtual Team
6 14 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.60%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.39%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.52%) Derivative
13 6 (1.30%) CAN bus
13 6 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.30%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 124 (26.90%) Linux
2 53 (11.50%) Windows
3 26 (5.64%) Unix
4 17 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.82%) Android
6 9 (1.95%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.30%) CentOS
8 4 (0.87%) Solaris
9 2 (0.43%) Debian
9 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.22%) MVS
10 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (71.37%) CI/CD
2 287 (62.26%) Agile
3 220 (47.72%) DevOps
4 144 (31.24%) Continuous Delivery
5 138 (29.93%) Microservices
6 126 (27.33%) TDD
7 124 (26.90%) Test Automation
8 116 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (22.78%) Software Engineering
10 96 (20.82%) Containerisation
11 93 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (18.22%) Continuous Deployment
13 71 (15.40%) Scrum
14 70 (15.18%) Computer Science
15 49 (10.63%) Design Patterns
16 44 (9.54%) High Availability
17 42 (9.11%) Unit Testing
18 41 (8.89%) Code Quality
19 40 (8.68%) BDD
19 40 (8.68%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 160 (34.71%) Python
2 139 (30.15%) Java
3 95 (20.61%) SQL
4 84 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 64 (13.88%) Go
6 63 (13.67%) TypeScript
7 55 (11.93%) C#
8 50 (10.85%) Bash
9 41 (8.89%) C++
10 29 (6.29%) Perl
11 21 (4.56%) Kotlin
12 18 (3.90%) PowerShell
13 13 (2.82%) Scala
14 9 (1.95%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.52%) Bicep
16 6 (1.30%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.30%) Swift
17 5 (1.08%) PHP
17 5 (1.08%) PL/SQL
17 5 (1.08%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 124 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 101 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 76 (16.49%) Degree
4 59 (12.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (6.94%) Master's Degree
6 26 (5.64%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.87%) CISSP
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) CISM
13 1 (0.22%) OCP
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.24%) QA
2 20 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.30%) WCAG
5 4 (0.87%) NCSC
6 3 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 143 (31.02%) Docker
2 15 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.30%) Postfix
6 3 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.43%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.22%) Firmware
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.22%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.22%) SRDF
8 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 141 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 124 (26.90%) Terraform
3 75 (16.27%) Grafana
4 69 (14.97%) Ansible
5 66 (14.32%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.69%) Puppet
7 15 (3.25%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.74%) CSIRT
9 7 (1.52%) Kibana
10 4 (0.87%) Consul
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.87%) Packer
11 3 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.65%) Podman
11 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.43%) Argo
12 2 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.43%) Icinga
12 2 (0.43%) Nagios
12 2 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 54 (11.71%) Splunk
2 48 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 42 (9.11%) Google
4 22 (4.77%) Oracle
5 19 (4.12%) Atlassian
6 16 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.39%) VMware
8 10 (2.17%) Databricks
9 9 (1.95%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.95%) F5
10 8 (1.74%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (1.30%) Apple
12 6 (1.30%) GoldenSource
12 6 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.08%) webMethods
14 4 (0.87%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.87%) IBM
15 3 (0.65%) Okta