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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 125 137
Rank change year-on-year -93 +12 -47
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 447 725 867
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.97% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.28% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 444 598
10th Percentile £364 £368 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.88%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £688
90th Percentile £739 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 50
10th Percentile £61.25 £26.69 £64.93
25th Percentile - £62.38 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.25 £71.97
90th Percentile - £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 32,181 31,778 41,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.57% 86.49% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,153 19,119 27,753
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 1,159 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -22.89% +25.71%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -26.97% +44.76%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -105 378 £525 -2.10% 272
UK excluding London -98 235 £500 - 172
Work from Home -47 170 £523 +4.50% 154
London -68 162 £550 -4.35% 114
North of England -58 76 £519 +3.75% 35
Yorkshire -34 48 £516 -18.06% 9
Midlands -44 47 £500 -4.31% 21
West Midlands -35 44 £500 -2.44% 15
South East -42 44 £528 +5.50% 63
Scotland +9 33 £550 +20.55% 4
East of England -25 27 £475 -9.52% 26
North West -47 21 £406 +1.56% 24
South West -35 15 £525 -18.76% 25
North East -8 8 £520 +22.35% 3
Wales -14 4 £463 -13.95% 3
East Midlands -10 3 £340 -34.88% 6

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 31 (6.94%) Confluence
2 19 (4.25%) WebLogic
3 14 (3.13%) Apache
3 14 (3.13%) JBoss
4 4 (0.89%) Mule
4 4 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.67%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.67%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 196 (43.85%) AWS
2 112 (25.06%) Azure
3 79 (17.67%) GCP
4 67 (14.99%) GitHub
5 52 (11.63%) Serverless
6 51 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (4.25%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.25%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.68%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.46%) IaaS
15 10 (2.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.28%) TCP/IP
2 22 (4.92%) Ethernet
3 17 (3.80%) Firewall
4 13 (2.91%) DNS
5 9 (2.01%) Network Security
6 8 (1.79%) Wireshark
7 6 (1.34%) HTTP
8 4 (0.89%) LAN
8 4 (0.89%) WAN
9 3 (0.67%) DHCP
9 3 (0.67%) Internet
10 2 (0.45%) Multicast
11 1 (0.22%) FCoE
11 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.22%) NAS
11 1 (0.22%) SAN
11 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.22%) SSL
11 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (12.53%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 28 (6.26%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.04%) MongoDB
6 24 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.46%) MySQL
9 9 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.01%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.79%) Big Data
10 8 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.57%) Power BI
12 6 (1.34%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.34%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.12%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 143 (31.99%) Jenkins
2 125 (27.96%) Git
3 69 (15.44%) GitLab
4 64 (14.32%) JIRA
5 38 (8.50%) Liquibase
6 32 (7.16%) Eclipse
7 27 (6.04%) JUnit
7 27 (6.04%) Visual Studio
8 23 (5.15%) Selenium
9 22 (4.92%) Cucumber
10 21 (4.70%) SonarQube
11 18 (4.03%) CircleCI
12 17 (3.80%) Bitbucket
12 17 (3.80%) Cypress.io
12 17 (3.80%) Maven
13 13 (2.91%) Gradle
14 12 (2.68%) IntelliJ
15 11 (2.46%) Mockito
16 10 (2.24%) Bitbucket Server
16 10 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 161 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.79%) Finance
3 62 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 50 (11.19%) Banking
5 47 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (6.71%) Military
7 27 (6.04%) Financial Institution
8 21 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.01%) Law
11 7 (1.57%) Front Office
12 6 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.89%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.45%) Automotive
15 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Retail
16 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (30.43%) Developer
2 81 (18.12%) Senior
3 59 (13.20%) Software Engineer
4 57 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (8.95%) Java Developer
6 32 (7.16%) Lead
6 32 (7.16%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.04%) Architect
8 23 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (4.70%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.47%) C++ Software Engineer
11 19 (4.25%) Technical Architect
12 16 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (3.36%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (20.13%) RESTful
2 82 (18.34%) REST
3 69 (15.44%) Node.js
4 55 (12.30%) React
5 51 (11.41%) Spring
6 47 (10.51%) Elastic Stack
6 47 (10.51%) Web Services
7 43 (9.62%) Kafka
8 36 (8.05%) HTML
9 33 (7.38%) CSS
9 33 (7.38%) Spring Boot
10 29 (6.49%) .NET
11 21 (4.70%) SOAP
12 20 (4.47%) JSON
13 19 (4.25%) Hibernate
14 18 (4.03%) HTML5
15 17 (3.80%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.80%) Play Framework
16 15 (3.36%) Playwright
17 14 (3.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (10.07%) Cloud Native
3 37 (8.28%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.36%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.79%) Derivative
11 7 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.34%) CAN bus
12 6 (1.34%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 120 (26.85%) Linux
2 61 (13.65%) Windows
3 25 (5.59%) Unix
4 16 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.91%) Android
6 10 (2.24%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.57%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.34%) CentOS
9 3 (0.67%) Solaris
10 2 (0.45%) Debian
10 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) MVS
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (73.83%) CI/CD
2 285 (63.76%) Agile
3 208 (46.53%) DevOps
4 164 (36.69%) Continuous Delivery
5 137 (30.65%) Microservices
6 134 (29.98%) TDD
7 127 (28.41%) Test Automation
8 114 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 113 (25.28%) Software Engineering
10 103 (23.04%) Containerisation
11 99 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (16.78%) Continuous Deployment
13 71 (15.88%) Computer Science
14 64 (14.32%) Scrum
15 56 (12.53%) Design Patterns
16 51 (11.41%) Unit Testing
17 50 (11.19%) Code Quality
18 48 (10.74%) Infrastructure Automation
19 44 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
20 43 (9.62%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 155 (34.68%) Python
2 129 (28.86%) Java
3 92 (20.58%) SQL
4 83 (18.57%) JavaScript
5 62 (13.87%) C#
6 61 (13.65%) Go
7 60 (13.42%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.84%) Bash
8 44 (9.84%) C++
9 21 (4.70%) Perl
9 21 (4.70%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.47%) Kotlin
10 20 (4.47%) Scala
11 7 (1.57%) Bicep
11 7 (1.57%) Swift
12 6 (1.34%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.12%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 76 (17.00%) Degree
4 58 (12.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (7.16%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CISSP
12 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.45%) CISM
13 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.22%) OCP
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.50%) QA
2 20 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.89%) NCSC
5 3 (0.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (31.54%) Docker
2 15 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.89%) Postfix
5 4 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.22%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) NFS
8 1 (0.22%) SRDF
8 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 115 (25.73%) Terraform
3 76 (17.00%) Grafana
4 63 (14.09%) Prometheus
5 62 (13.87%) Ansible
6 20 (4.47%) Puppet
7 11 (2.46%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.01%) Kibana
9 8 (1.79%) CSIRT
10 7 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.89%) Consul
11 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.89%) Packer
12 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.45%) Argo
13 2 (0.45%) Icinga
13 2 (0.45%) Nagios
13 2 (0.45%) Salt
14 1 (0.22%) SCCM
14 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.53%) Splunk
3 37 (8.28%) Google
4 22 (4.92%) Oracle
5 21 (4.70%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.91%) Databricks
7 11 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.24%) VMware
9 9 (2.01%) F5
9 9 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.01%) webMethods
10 8 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.57%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.57%) Apple
12 6 (1.34%) GoldenSource
13 5 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.89%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (0.67%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.67%) New Relic