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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 146 131
Rank change year-on-year -205 -15 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 294 569 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.94% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.14% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 359 503
10th Percentile £358 £355 £364
25th Percentile £421 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £648 £689
90th Percentile £684 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 49
10th Percentile £53.56 £26.31 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile £66.13 £66.75 £65.25
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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -197 261 £523 -2.06% 108
UK excluding London -167 141 £500 - 85
London -151 119 £537 -10.50% 39
Work from Home -125 80 £516 -3.86% 40
North of England -104 42 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -93 34 £509 +1.80% 14
Midlands -69 26 £475 - 9
West Midlands -46 25 £475 -5.00% 9
Yorkshire -52 25 £521 -25.54%
East of England -21 19 £600 +24.03% 8
South West -43 18 £425 -5.56% 20
North West -62 16 £392 -17.58% 13
Scotland -25 3 £500 +6.10% 13
North East -25 2 £400 -38.46% 7
East Midlands -41 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 18 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.04%) Apache
4 5 (1.70%) Confluence
4 5 (1.70%) JBoss
4 5 (1.70%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) Mule
5 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.34%) Moodle
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.34%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 122 (41.50%) AWS
2 93 (31.63%) Azure
3 50 (17.01%) GitHub
4 35 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (11.22%) Serverless
7 28 (9.52%) GCP
8 27 (9.18%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.74%) IaaS
16 10 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (3.06%) AWS KMS
17 9 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (3.06%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.78%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.70%) DNS
3 5 (1.70%) IPsec
3 5 (1.70%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.70%) SSL
4 4 (1.36%) VPN
5 3 (1.02%) Firewall
5 3 (1.02%) HTTP
5 3 (1.02%) Modbus
5 3 (1.02%) RS-232
5 3 (1.02%) RS-422
5 3 (1.02%) RS-485
5 3 (1.02%) VSAN
6 2 (0.68%) DHCP
6 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.68%) RTMP
6 2 (0.68%) SAN
6 2 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.56%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (8.16%) MongoDB
5 18 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (5.44%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.40%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.06%) Big Data
10 8 (2.72%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.38%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.38%) Power BI
11 7 (2.38%) Presto
12 6 (2.04%) MySQL
13 5 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.36%) Apache Hudi
14 4 (1.36%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.36%) SQLite
15 3 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (24.83%) Git
2 67 (22.79%) Jenkins
3 36 (12.24%) GitLab
4 30 (10.20%) JUnit
5 21 (7.14%) Eclipse
6 20 (6.80%) Selenium
7 16 (5.44%) Cucumber
7 16 (5.44%) JIRA
8 15 (5.10%) Maven
8 15 (5.10%) Visual Studio
9 14 (4.76%) Mockito
9 14 (4.76%) SonarQube
10 12 (4.08%) Gradle
11 10 (3.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (3.40%) Cypress.io
12 9 (3.06%) DbUnit
12 9 (3.06%) jMock
13 7 (2.38%) CircleCI
13 7 (2.38%) Postman
13 7 (2.38%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 41 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.24%) Finance
5 19 (6.46%) Banking
6 17 (5.78%) Military
7 16 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.04%) Front Office
10 4 (1.36%) Electronics
10 4 (1.36%) Law
10 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Retail
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (30.61%) Developer
2 51 (17.35%) Senior
3 42 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (10.20%) Java Developer
5 26 (8.84%) Software Engineer
6 22 (7.48%) Lead
7 21 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.10%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.08%) Architect
11 12 (4.08%) C# Software Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.40%) Administrator
13 10 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.06%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.06%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.03%) Web Services
2 43 (14.63%) Node.js
3 39 (13.27%) Spring
4 37 (12.59%) REST
5 35 (11.90%) RESTful
6 25 (8.50%) React
6 25 (8.50%) Spring Boot
7 23 (7.82%) CSS
7 23 (7.82%) HTML
8 21 (7.14%) .NET
9 19 (6.46%) Kafka
10 17 (5.78%) SOAP
11 16 (5.44%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.76%) Hibernate
12 14 (4.76%) JSON
12 14 (4.76%) Play Framework
13 12 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.74%) Bootstrap
14 11 (3.74%) JPA
15 10 (3.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.38%) Legacy Code
7 7 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.04%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.70%) Derivative
9 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.36%) Equities
10 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.36%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.15%) Linux
2 39 (13.27%) Windows
3 20 (6.80%) Unix
4 10 (3.40%) Android
5 7 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.02%) VMS
7 2 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (65.65%) CI/CD
2 190 (64.63%) Agile
3 133 (45.24%) DevOps
4 99 (33.67%) Test Automation
5 87 (29.59%) Microservices
6 83 (28.23%) TDD
7 78 (26.53%) Continuous Delivery
8 71 (24.15%) Containerisation
9 67 (22.79%) Software Engineering
10 64 (21.77%) Scrum
11 57 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 50 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (13.27%) Design Patterns
14 37 (12.59%) Continuous Deployment
15 36 (12.24%) Code Quality
16 34 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 34 (11.56%) Unit Testing
17 33 (11.22%) Kanban
17 33 (11.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.71%) Python
2 87 (29.59%) Java
3 84 (28.57%) SQL
4 55 (18.71%) JavaScript
5 43 (14.63%) C#
6 23 (7.82%) C++
7 21 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.44%) Bash
9 15 (5.10%) Scala
10 13 (4.42%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.40%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.38%) Go
13 6 (2.04%) C
13 6 (2.04%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.04%) Ruby
13 6 (2.04%) Swift
14 3 (1.02%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 80 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.22%) Degree
4 20 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.34%) ISEB
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.29%) QA
2 11 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.02%) NCSC
3 3 (1.02%) NIST
3 3 (1.02%) WCAG
4 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (27.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.72%) Postfix
3 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.70%) RACF
4 5 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.68%) SRDF
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (19.73%) Terraform
2 49 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 41 (13.95%) Grafana
4 19 (6.46%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.12%) Puppet
6 17 (5.78%) Ansible
7 10 (3.40%) Kibana
8 9 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.02%) Rancher
11 2 (0.68%) Podman
12 1 (0.34%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.34%) Istio
12 1 (0.34%) logstash
12 1 (0.34%) Salt
12 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.82%) Splunk
3 13 (4.42%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.08%) Databricks
4 12 (4.08%) Google
5 11 (3.74%) Oracle
6 9 (3.06%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.38%) VMware
8 5 (1.70%) Cisco
8 5 (1.70%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.36%) webMethods
10 3 (1.02%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.02%) New Relic
10 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.68%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.68%) HP
11 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.68%) TOWER Software