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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 143 133
Rank change year-on-year -197 -10 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 317 560 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.91% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 2.11% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 369 488
10th Percentile £358 £359 £368
25th Percentile £414 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £653 £688
90th Percentile £723 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 47
10th Percentile £53.56 £26.30 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.46 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.93 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -30.88% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile £66.13 £67.63 £65.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

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 38,187 26,485 38,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.72% 90.45% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,174 17,211 24,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 968 2,341
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.04 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.86 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.53 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year +1.52% -0.88% -11.97%

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 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -173 281 £520 -3.21% 108
UK excluding London -147 166 £500 - 82
London -136 118 £530 -11.67% 32
Work from Home -118 86 £513 -4.25% 47
North of England -81 59 £518 -1.43% 24
Yorkshire -46 41 £525 -8.70% 4
South East -73 39 £530 +6.00% 15
Midlands -56 32 £503 +0.50% 7
West Midlands -37 31 £503 +0.50% 6
East of England -19 22 £550 +10.00% 7
South West -43 18 £413 -18.64% 25
North West -62 16 £360 -28.00% 8
Scotland -21 4 £414 -11.15% 3
North East -21 3 £400 -33.33% 12
Wales -17 1 - - 3
East Midlands -38 1 - - 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 10 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.21%) Confluence
3 5 (1.58%) Apache
4 4 (1.26%) JBoss
4 4 (1.26%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.32%) Moodle
6 1 (0.32%) Mule
6 1 (0.32%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 133 (41.96%) AWS
2 94 (29.65%) Azure
3 52 (16.40%) GitHub
4 46 (14.51%) Serverless
5 39 (12.30%) GCP
6 38 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.79%) AWS KMS
11 12 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (3.79%) Snowflake
12 11 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.47%) IaaS
13 9 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (2.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.36%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.58%) DNS
3 5 (1.58%) IPsec
3 5 (1.58%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.58%) SSL
4 4 (1.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.95%) HTTP
5 3 (0.95%) Modbus
5 3 (0.95%) RS-232
5 3 (0.95%) RS-422
5 3 (0.95%) RS-485
5 3 (0.95%) VPN
5 3 (0.95%) VSAN
6 2 (0.63%) DHCP
6 2 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.63%) RTMP
6 2 (0.63%) SAN
6 2 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.32%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.20%) NoSQL
2 43 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.79%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.52%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.52%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.52%) MySQL
8 6 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.89%) Power BI
9 5 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.26%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.26%) SQLite
11 3 (0.95%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (25.87%) Git
2 81 (25.55%) Jenkins
3 55 (17.35%) GitLab
4 26 (8.20%) JUnit
5 22 (6.94%) JIRA
6 20 (6.31%) Eclipse
7 19 (5.99%) Selenium
8 18 (5.68%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.73%) Visual Studio
10 12 (3.79%) Cypress.io
10 12 (3.79%) Gradle
10 12 (3.79%) Maven
11 11 (3.47%) Mockito
11 11 (3.47%) SonarQube
12 10 (3.15%) Liquibase
13 8 (2.52%) JMeter
13 8 (2.52%) Postman
13 8 (2.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (2.21%) CircleCI
General
1 102 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.46%) Finance
3 45 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (10.41%) Banking
6 18 (5.68%) Military
7 15 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.10%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Front Office
11 4 (1.26%) Electronics
11 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.95%) Law
13 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (29.34%) Developer
2 64 (20.19%) Senior
3 47 (14.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (11.04%) Software Engineer
5 27 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 25 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (5.68%) Lead
9 13 (4.10%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Architect
10 12 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) C# Software Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Python Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Technical Architect
10 12 (3.79%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Python Developer
11 11 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.15%) Administrator
12 10 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.40%) REST
2 50 (15.77%) Web Services
3 48 (15.14%) Node.js
4 45 (14.20%) RESTful
5 35 (11.04%) Spring
6 31 (9.78%) React
7 25 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (6.94%) .NET
9 21 (6.62%) Kafka
9 21 (6.62%) Spring Boot
10 19 (5.99%) CSS
11 17 (5.36%) HTML
12 14 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.42%) SOAP
13 13 (4.10%) JSON
14 12 (3.79%) Playwright
15 11 (3.47%) Hibernate
15 11 (3.47%) HTML5
15 11 (3.47%) Play Framework
16 9 (2.84%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (8.83%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 16 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.73%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.21%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.58%) Derivative
10 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.26%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.26%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.26%) PKI
11 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.18%) Linux
2 44 (13.88%) Windows
3 15 (4.73%) Unix
4 11 (3.47%) Android
5 7 (2.21%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.95%) VMS
6 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.32%) AIX
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (68.14%) CI/CD
2 209 (65.93%) Agile
3 151 (47.63%) DevOps
4 108 (34.07%) Test Automation
5 103 (32.49%) Microservices
6 99 (31.23%) Continuous Delivery
7 85 (26.81%) TDD
8 82 (25.87%) Containerisation
9 74 (23.34%) Software Engineering
10 65 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 61 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (18.61%) Scrum
13 42 (13.25%) Continuous Deployment
13 42 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (12.93%) Design Patterns
15 39 (12.30%) Computer Science
16 38 (11.99%) Unit Testing
17 34 (10.73%) Code Quality
18 33 (10.41%) SDLC
19 32 (10.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 115 (36.28%) Python
2 80 (25.24%) SQL
3 78 (24.61%) Java
4 53 (16.72%) JavaScript
5 46 (14.51%) C#
6 26 (8.20%) C++
7 25 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.62%) Go
9 17 (5.36%) Bash
10 14 (4.42%) Kotlin
10 14 (4.42%) Scala
11 10 (3.15%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.89%) C
13 6 (1.89%) Ruby
13 6 (1.89%) Swift
14 4 (1.26%) JSX
15 3 (0.95%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.95%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.95%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 82 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.14%) Degree
4 32 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.68%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.79%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.89%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.32%) ISEB
14 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.88%) QA
2 13 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.95%) NCSC
3 3 (0.95%) NIST
3 3 (0.95%) WCAG
4 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.32%) MiFID
4 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (26.81%) Docker
2 6 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.58%) Postfix
3 5 (1.58%) RACF
3 5 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.63%) SRDF
5 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (20.50%) Kubernetes
2 64 (20.19%) Terraform
3 45 (14.20%) Grafana
4 30 (9.46%) Ansible
5 29 (9.15%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.36%) Puppet
7 10 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) Rancher
10 2 (0.63%) Podman
11 1 (0.32%) Argo
11 1 (0.32%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.32%) Consul
11 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.32%) Istio
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.78%) Splunk
3 18 (5.68%) Google
4 13 (4.10%) Databricks
5 12 (3.79%) Atlassian
5 12 (3.79%) Oracle
6 7 (2.21%) VMware
7 6 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.58%) Cisco
8 5 (1.58%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.26%) webMethods
10 3 (0.95%) Cribl.io
10 3 (0.95%) New Relic
10 3 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.63%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.63%) TOWER Software