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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 122 150
Rank change year-on-year -133 +28 -53
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 402 683 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 2.05% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.32% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 427 490
10th Percentile £363 £383 £413
25th Percentile £418 £434 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.03%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £677
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £553
% change year-on-year - -9.50% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 47
10th Percentile £55.87 £26.32 -
25th Percentile - £26.81 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £69.32
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
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 32,495 29,409 38,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.07% 88.28% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,479 17,921 25,423
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 952 1,523
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.65 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.72 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -131 332 £525 -4.55% 442
UK excluding London -100 212 £500 - 389
London -97 141 £550 -8.33% 91
Work from Home -70 136 £509 -3.05% 250
North of England -71 71 £515 -1.90% 99
Yorkshire -37 50 £516 -18.06% 39
South East -35 49 £530 +6.00% 98
Midlands -50 39 £525 -4.55% 60
West Midlands -37 36 £525 -4.55% 34
Scotland +5 28 £522 +11.55% 21
East of England -26 18 £475 -5.00% 59
South West -29 14 £450 -32.58% 44
North West -50 14 £375 -18.92% 49
North East -12 8 £520 -5.45% 12
Wales -12 4 £463 -13.95% 14
East Midlands -19 3 £340 -34.88% 24

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 27 (6.72%) Confluence
2 19 (4.73%) WebLogic
3 12 (2.99%) JBoss
4 11 (2.74%) Apache
5 4 (1.00%) Mule
6 3 (0.75%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 173 (43.03%) AWS
2 108 (26.87%) Azure
3 78 (19.40%) GCP
4 59 (14.68%) GitHub
5 56 (13.93%) Serverless
6 48 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.48%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 12 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.99%) IaaS
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.72%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.23%) Firewall
3 15 (3.73%) Ethernet
4 14 (3.48%) DNS
5 8 (1.99%) HTTP
5 8 (1.99%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.00%) Internet
6 4 (1.00%) Network Security
7 3 (0.75%) DHCP
8 2 (0.50%) Multicast
8 2 (0.50%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) IPsec
9 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.25%) LAN
9 1 (0.25%) SAN
9 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.25%) VoIP
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
9 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 50 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 29 (7.21%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.47%) Relational Database
6 21 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.49%) MySQL
7 10 (2.49%) Oracle Database
8 8 (1.99%) Big Data
9 7 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (1.74%) Power BI
10 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.49%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 119 (29.60%) Jenkins
2 110 (27.36%) Git
3 72 (17.91%) GitLab
4 52 (12.94%) JIRA
5 31 (7.71%) Liquibase
6 25 (6.22%) Eclipse
7 24 (5.97%) Selenium
8 22 (5.47%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.98%) JUnit
10 17 (4.23%) Cypress.io
11 16 (3.98%) Visual Studio
12 14 (3.48%) CircleCI
13 13 (3.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (3.23%) Gradle
13 13 (3.23%) SonarQube
14 11 (2.74%) IntelliJ
15 10 (2.49%) Maven
15 10 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (2.24%) Postman
17 8 (1.99%) JMeter
General
1 139 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.66%) Finance
3 56 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 50 (12.44%) Banking
5 40 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.22%) Financial Institution
7 22 (5.47%) Military
8 15 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Front Office
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (29.60%) Developer
2 68 (16.92%) Senior
3 64 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (12.44%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.97%) Java Developer
6 27 (6.72%) Lead
7 25 (6.22%) Senior Developer
8 21 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
11 16 (3.98%) GCP Engineer
11 16 (3.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) Architect
12 15 (3.73%) C++ Software Engineer
12 15 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (3.48%) C# Software Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Technical Architect
15 12 (2.99%) Technical Leader
15 12 (2.99%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (19.40%) RESTful
2 72 (17.91%) REST
3 62 (15.42%) Node.js
4 50 (12.44%) React
5 49 (12.19%) Elastic Stack
6 40 (9.95%) Spring
7 36 (8.96%) HTML
8 35 (8.71%) Kafka
9 34 (8.46%) Web Services
10 33 (8.21%) CSS
11 32 (7.96%) .NET
12 22 (5.47%) Spring Boot
13 21 (5.22%) JSON
14 18 (4.48%) HTML5
15 17 (4.23%) Play Framework
16 16 (3.98%) Playwright
16 16 (3.98%) XML
17 15 (3.73%) J2EE
17 15 (3.73%) SOAP
18 12 (2.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.48%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.49%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.00%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 103 (25.62%) Linux
2 49 (12.19%) Windows
3 23 (5.72%) Unix
4 13 (3.23%) Android
5 9 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.75%) CentOS
7 3 (0.75%) Solaris
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.25%) MVS
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (75.87%) CI/CD
2 257 (63.93%) Agile
3 197 (49.00%) DevOps
4 149 (37.06%) Continuous Delivery
5 127 (31.59%) Microservices
6 123 (30.60%) Test Automation
7 104 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 100 (24.88%) Containerisation
8 100 (24.88%) TDD
9 97 (24.13%) Software Engineering
10 84 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (17.66%) Continuous Deployment
12 66 (16.42%) Computer Science
13 54 (13.43%) Scrum
14 53 (13.18%) Design Patterns
15 45 (11.19%) Unit Testing
16 43 (10.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 42 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (10.45%) Non-Functional Testing
18 41 (10.20%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 137 (34.08%) Python
2 103 (25.62%) Java
3 77 (19.15%) SQL
4 70 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 54 (13.43%) C#
5 54 (13.43%) Go
6 47 (11.69%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.96%) Bash
8 29 (7.21%) C++
9 20 (4.98%) Scala
10 17 (4.23%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.48%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.74%) Perl
13 8 (1.99%) Ruby
13 8 (1.99%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.74%) Swift
15 6 (1.49%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.49%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.24%) JSX
16 5 (1.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 107 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 69 (17.16%) Degree
4 55 (13.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (7.46%) Master's Degree
6 18 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.49%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.00%) CISSP
12 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CISM
14 1 (0.25%) ISEB
14 1 (0.25%) OCP
14 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.20%) QA
2 20 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) NCSC
4 3 (0.75%) WCAG
5 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 123 (30.60%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) RACF
7 1 (0.25%) SRDF
7 1 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 125 (31.09%) Kubernetes
2 110 (27.36%) Terraform
3 70 (17.41%) Grafana
4 58 (14.43%) Ansible
5 56 (13.93%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.47%) Puppet
7 9 (2.24%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.99%) CSIRT
8 8 (1.99%) Kibana
8 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.75%) Consul
10 2 (0.50%) Argo
10 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.50%) logstash
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.50%) Packer
10 2 (0.50%) Podman
11 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.25%) SCCM
11 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (13.68%) Splunk
2 54 (13.43%) Microsoft
3 36 (8.96%) Google
4 23 (5.72%) Oracle
5 18 (4.48%) Databricks
6 15 (3.73%) Atlassian
7 13 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.24%) F5
8 9 (2.24%) webMethods
9 7 (1.74%) Apple
10 6 (1.49%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.49%) GoldenSource
10 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.49%) VMware
11 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.24%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.00%) DocuSign
13 3 (0.75%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central