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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 198 107
Rank change year-on-year -164 -91 +28
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 341 486 830
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.47% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.63% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 296 529
10th Percentile £400 £356 £363
25th Percentile £437 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £585 £627 £645
90th Percentile £660 £734 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 39
10th Percentile £53.75 - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.89 - -
90th Percentile £76.99 £73.75 £66.30
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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -157 301 £525 - 350
UK excluding London -131 192 £500 +5.26% 239
London -135 117 £550 - 181
Work from Home -126 112 £500 -6.28% 522
North of England -88 54 £500 +5.82% 54
South East -52 49 £545 +8.85% 33
South West -38 31 £525 - 42
West Midlands -49 25 £464 -5.60% 15
Midlands -60 25 £464 -2.32% 21
North East -32 19 £425 -18.27% 9
East of England -42 18 £450 -10.00% 30
Yorkshire -51 18 £600 +26.18% 13
North West -60 17 £500 +19.05% 32
Scotland -50 13 £518 +4.23% 48
Wales -15 4 £600 +29.73% 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 14 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.11%) Confluence
2 10 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.47%) SAS
4 5 (1.47%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.59%) Apache
5 2 (0.59%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.29%) Camunda
6 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.29%) Mule
6 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Mingle
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.59%) Findur
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (41.64%) AWS
2 94 (27.57%) Azure
3 54 (15.84%) GitHub
4 46 (13.49%) GCP
5 37 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (7.92%) Serverless
7 26 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (7.04%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.87%) Power Platform
10 16 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.40%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.93%) Route 53
16 9 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.23%) Network Security
2 7 (2.05%) Firewall
3 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.47%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.59%) Broadband
5 2 (0.59%) DHCP
5 2 (0.59%) DNS
5 2 (0.59%) Internet
5 2 (0.59%) IPv4
5 2 (0.59%) IPv6
5 2 (0.59%) NAS
5 2 (0.59%) PPP
5 2 (0.59%) RTP
5 2 (0.59%) SAN
5 2 (0.59%) UPnP
5 2 (0.59%) VoIP
5 2 (0.59%) VPN
5 2 (0.59%) WAN
5 2 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.74%) MongoDB
1 23 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.87%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (3.81%) Power BI
6 12 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.23%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.35%) Big Data
9 7 (2.05%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.05%) Presto
10 6 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.76%) MySQL
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.17%) Pentaho
12 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 80 (23.46%) Git
2 63 (18.48%) Jenkins
3 43 (12.61%) GitLab
4 38 (11.14%) Selenium
5 30 (8.80%) JIRA
6 23 (6.74%) Cucumber
7 22 (6.45%) JUnit
8 19 (5.57%) Maven
9 18 (5.28%) Postman
10 16 (4.69%) Cypress.io
11 15 (4.40%) REST Assured
12 13 (3.81%) SonarQube
13 11 (3.23%) Gradle
13 11 (3.23%) Mockito
14 9 (2.64%) Visual Studio
15 8 (2.35%) JMeter
16 7 (2.05%) XCUITest
17 6 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
17 6 (1.76%) MLflow
17 6 (1.76%) XCTest
General
1 120 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.77%) Public Sector
3 46 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (13.20%) Finance
5 20 (5.87%) Banking
6 11 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.35%) Military
8 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.76%) Front Office
9 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.47%) Law
10 5 (1.47%) Legal
11 4 (1.17%) Electronics
11 4 (1.17%) Games
12 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Local Government
12 3 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Back Office
13 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (31.09%) Developer
2 57 (16.72%) Senior
3 35 (10.26%) Java Developer
4 28 (8.21%) Architect
5 24 (7.04%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.04%) Test Engineer
6 21 (6.16%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.87%) Lead
8 17 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.40%) Analyst
9 15 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.11%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.11%) Scala Engineer
11 13 (3.81%) Backend Developer
11 13 (3.81%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.52%) Scala Developer
13 11 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Test Analyst
14 10 (2.93%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.35%) Terraform
2 46 (13.49%) RESTful
3 45 (13.20%) Spring
4 41 (12.02%) Spring Boot
5 40 (11.73%) React
6 39 (11.44%) Node.js
7 29 (8.50%) Kafka
7 29 (8.50%) REST
8 26 (7.62%) HTML
9 25 (7.33%) Play Framework
9 25 (7.33%) Playwright
10 23 (6.74%) CSS
11 22 (6.45%) AngularJS
12 20 (5.87%) Web Services
13 17 (4.99%) YAML
14 14 (4.11%) .NET
15 13 (3.81%) ActiveMQ
16 11 (3.23%) JSON
17 10 (2.93%) JPA
17 10 (2.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.23%) Blog
7 9 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.05%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.47%) PKI
11 4 (1.17%) Equities
11 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.88%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.88%) Genomics
12 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.48%) Linux
2 29 (8.50%) Windows
3 22 (6.45%) Unix
4 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.05%) VMS
6 5 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.88%) Android
9 2 (0.59%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (75.37%) CI/CD
2 239 (70.09%) Agile
3 144 (42.23%) Test Automation
4 140 (41.06%) DevOps
5 110 (32.26%) Continuous Delivery
6 102 (29.91%) Containerisation
7 95 (27.86%) TDD
8 83 (24.34%) Microservices
9 76 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (20.23%) Software Engineering
12 64 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (18.77%) Scrum
13 53 (15.54%) Continuous Deployment
14 52 (15.25%) Observability
15 51 (14.96%) Software Testing
16 43 (12.61%) BDD
17 42 (12.32%) Mentoring
18 41 (12.02%) AI
18 41 (12.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (34.90%) Python
2 98 (28.74%) Java
3 81 (23.75%) SQL
4 59 (17.30%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.68%) Bash
6 29 (8.50%) Scala
7 26 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.33%) C#
8 25 (7.33%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.52%) C++
9 12 (3.52%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.35%) C
10 8 (2.35%) Go
10 8 (2.35%) Perl
11 6 (1.76%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.76%) Swift
12 5 (1.47%) Ruby
13 4 (1.17%) Groovy
13 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.85%) DV Cleared
4 30 (8.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (7.33%) Degree
6 16 (4.69%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.59%) CCSP
13 2 (0.59%) CISSP
13 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.59%) MOS
13 2 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (18.18%) QA
2 40 (11.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.76%) WCAG
5 4 (1.17%) NIST
6 3 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.88%) GDPR
6 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (24.63%) Docker
2 15 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.47%) Postfix
4 5 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.29%) Samba
Systems Management
1 72 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 51 (14.96%) Grafana
3 23 (6.74%) Ansible
4 17 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.81%) Argo
6 11 (3.23%) Kibana
7 9 (2.64%) Puppet
8 8 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.47%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.88%) Salt
12 2 (0.59%) Nagios
12 2 (0.59%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.29%) OpenNMS
13 1 (0.29%) Podman
13 1 (0.29%) Rancher
13 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.21%) Google
3 20 (5.87%) Splunk
4 17 (4.99%) Oracle
5 15 (4.40%) VMware
6 13 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.64%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.35%) Cisco
9 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.05%) SAP
11 6 (1.76%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.76%) Conga
11 6 (1.76%) GoCardless
11 6 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.76%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.47%) Informatica
13 4 (1.17%) Databricks
13 4 (1.17%) Denodo
14 3 (0.88%) Palo Alto