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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 143 154
Rank change year-on-year -151 +11 -48
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 351 562 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.86% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.07% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 357 450
10th Percentile £363 £378 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -0.86%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £750 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 56
10th Percentile £53.72 £26.29 £60.25
25th Percentile £57.88 £26.41 £64.81
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 35,552 27,150 38,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.77% 89.86% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,564 16,816 25,267
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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 854 2,192
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.43 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -133 305 £523 -5.00% 101
UK excluding London -114 183 £500 - 80
London -117 125 £537 -10.50% 34
Work from Home -104 101 £511 -2.71% 51
North of England -83 65 £523 -0.48% 25
South East -54 50 £517 +3.40% 20
Yorkshire -40 46 £525 -4.42% 12
Midlands -42 37 £478 -8.39% 9
West Midlands -37 36 £480 -6.34% 8
East of England -16 17 £600 +28.34% 9
South West -33 16 £425 -36.33% 13
North West -57 15 £361 -27.68% 8
Scotland -9 7 £550 +17.96% 1
North East -21 6 £550 -8.33% 5
Wales -14 2 - - 5
East Midlands -32 1 £413 -20.86% 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 11 (3.13%) Apache
2 9 (2.56%) Confluence
2 9 (2.56%) JBoss
2 9 (2.56%) WebLogic
3 7 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Moodle
6 1 (0.28%) Mule
6 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 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
1 148 (42.17%) AWS
2 94 (26.78%) Azure
3 58 (16.52%) GitHub
4 52 (14.81%) GCP
5 49 (13.96%) Serverless
6 45 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.99%) IaaS
12 13 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 11 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.85%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.99%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.13%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.85%) Firewall
4 6 (1.71%) DNS
5 5 (1.42%) IPsec
5 5 (1.42%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.42%) SSL
5 5 (1.42%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.85%) DHCP
6 3 (0.85%) HTTP
6 3 (0.85%) Modbus
6 3 (0.85%) RS-232
6 3 (0.85%) RS-422
6 3 (0.85%) RS-485
7 2 (0.57%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.57%) RTMP
7 2 (0.57%) SAN
7 2 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.57%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.96%) NoSQL
2 43 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (6.27%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (1.99%) Big Data
9 6 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.71%) Couchbase
9 6 (1.71%) MySQL
10 5 (1.42%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.42%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.42%) Power BI
11 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.85%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.85%) Redis
13 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 97 (27.64%) Git
2 93 (26.50%) Jenkins
3 66 (18.80%) GitLab
4 29 (8.26%) JUnit
5 27 (7.69%) JIRA
6 20 (5.70%) Selenium
7 19 (5.41%) Cucumber
8 18 (5.13%) Eclipse
8 18 (5.13%) Liquibase
9 16 (4.56%) Gradle
10 15 (4.27%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.99%) Maven
12 10 (2.85%) IntelliJ
13 9 (2.56%) CircleCI
13 9 (2.56%) Mockito
13 9 (2.56%) SonarQube
13 9 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (2.28%) REST Assured
14 8 (2.28%) Visual Studio
15 7 (1.99%) JMeter
General
1 117 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.66%) Finance
3 47 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.40%) Banking
5 21 (5.98%) Financial Institution
6 13 (3.70%) Military
7 12 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Front Office
10 3 (0.85%) Electronics
10 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (29.06%) Developer
2 69 (19.66%) Senior
3 57 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (12.54%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.12%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.84%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (4.27%) Lead
8 15 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (3.99%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.70%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 13 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.42%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (19.66%) REST
2 54 (15.38%) RESTful
3 42 (11.97%) Node.js
4 41 (11.68%) Web Services
5 39 (11.11%) React
6 37 (10.54%) Spring
7 33 (9.40%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.84%) .NET
9 23 (6.55%) HTML
10 22 (6.27%) Kafka
11 21 (5.98%) CSS
12 20 (5.70%) Spring Boot
13 18 (5.13%) SOAP
14 17 (4.84%) JSON
15 16 (4.56%) Play Framework
15 16 (4.56%) Playwright
16 15 (4.27%) HTML5
17 14 (3.99%) Hibernate
18 13 (3.70%) AngularJS
18 13 (3.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.40%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.54%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.12%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.99%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.42%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.56%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.28%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.71%) CAN bus
11 6 (1.71%) Derivative
11 6 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.14%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 87 (24.79%) Linux
2 43 (12.25%) Windows
3 24 (6.84%) Unix
4 12 (3.42%) Android
5 8 (2.28%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.57%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (67.52%) CI/CD
2 222 (63.25%) Agile
3 173 (49.29%) DevOps
4 113 (32.19%) Continuous Delivery
4 113 (32.19%) Test Automation
5 112 (31.91%) Microservices
6 91 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 85 (24.22%) Software Engineering
8 81 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (22.79%) TDD
10 75 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (16.52%) Scrum
12 55 (15.67%) Computer Science
13 47 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (13.39%) Design Patterns
14 46 (13.11%) Continuous Deployment
15 38 (10.83%) Analytics
16 37 (10.54%) SDLC
17 35 (9.97%) Infrastructure Automation
18 34 (9.69%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 125 (35.61%) Python
2 83 (23.65%) Java
3 80 (22.79%) SQL
4 53 (15.10%) JavaScript
5 45 (12.82%) C#
6 34 (9.69%) Go
7 33 (9.40%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.12%) C++
9 18 (5.13%) Scala
10 17 (4.84%) Bash
11 15 (4.27%) Kotlin
11 15 (4.27%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.28%) Swift
13 6 (1.71%) Embedded C++
14 5 (1.42%) C
14 5 (1.42%) JSX
14 5 (1.42%) Ruby
15 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.85%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 84 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.66%) Degree
3 57 (16.24%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (7.12%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.57%) 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 (11.40%) QA
2 16 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.57%) NCSC
4 2 (0.57%) 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
1 102 (29.06%) Docker
2 11 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.42%) RACF
5 3 (0.85%) Postfix
5 3 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) SRDF
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 80 (22.79%) Terraform
3 51 (14.53%) Grafana
4 39 (11.11%) Ansible
5 35 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.70%) Puppet
7 10 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.42%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.85%) Kibana
10 2 (0.57%) Argo
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.57%) Podman
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) SCCM
11 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.97%) Splunk
3 25 (7.12%) Google
4 15 (4.27%) Databricks
5 14 (3.99%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.85%) Oracle
7 9 (2.56%) webMethods
8 8 (2.28%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.99%) VMware
10 5 (1.42%) F5
10 5 (1.42%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.14%) Apple
11 4 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco
12 3 (0.85%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.85%) Foundry
12 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.85%) New Relic
12 3 (0.85%) TOWER Software