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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 121 143
Rank change year-on-year -98 +22 -50
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 458 714 866
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.97% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.29% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 440 593
10th Percentile £363 £363 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% -1.02%
75th Percentile £616 £639 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £555
% change year-on-year - -9.91% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 50
10th Percentile £61.25 £29.70 £64.09
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.50 £71.97
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 31,669 31,225 41,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.16% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,839 18,782 27,829
10th Percentile £297 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,104 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -18.92% +23.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.53 £33.00 £43.83
% change year-on-year -31.73% -24.70% +51.64%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 12 November 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 -102 386 £525 - 282
UK excluding London -80 247 £500 - 174
Work from Home -48 168 £518 +1.97% 155
London -70 162 £550 -4.35% 124
North of England -53 82 £518 +3.50% 39
Yorkshire -16 52 £515 -6.36% 11
Midlands -32 50 £483 -7.56% 19
West Midlands -36 45 £500 -4.76% 14
South East -30 43 £525 +8.25% 57
Scotland +21 36 £525 +17.98% 4
East of England -31 24 £500 -2.44% 32
North West -44 21 £493 +23.13% 26
South West -27 17 £525 -21.35% 23
North East -10 10 £520 +24.55% 3
Wales -13 6 £463 -13.95% 5
East Midlands -6 5 £421 -19.47% 5

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 33 (7.21%) Confluence
2 20 (4.37%) WebLogic
3 14 (3.06%) Apache
3 14 (3.06%) JBoss
4 4 (0.87%) Mule
4 4 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.66%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Simulink
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 207 (45.20%) AWS
2 122 (26.64%) Azure
3 80 (17.47%) GCP
4 70 (15.28%) GitHub
5 54 (11.79%) Serverless
6 52 (11.35%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (4.15%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (3.93%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.62%) AWS KMS
13 11 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (2.40%) IaaS
14 10 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.77%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.71%) Ethernet
2 17 (3.71%) Firewall
3 12 (2.62%) DNS
4 9 (1.97%) Network Security
5 8 (1.75%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.53%) HTTP
7 5 (1.09%) Internet
8 4 (0.87%) LAN
8 4 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) DMZ
9 2 (0.44%) Multicast
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.22%) FCoE
10 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.22%) NAS
10 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (12.45%) NoSQL
3 30 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 29 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.90%) SQL Server
6 24 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.28%) MySQL
8 13 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.97%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.75%) Big Data
10 8 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.53%) Power BI
12 6 (1.31%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.31%) MariaDB
12 6 (1.31%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 153 (33.41%) Jenkins
2 131 (28.60%) Git
3 74 (16.16%) GitLab
4 65 (14.19%) JIRA
5 39 (8.52%) Liquibase
6 29 (6.33%) JUnit
7 27 (5.90%) Eclipse
8 25 (5.46%) Selenium
9 24 (5.24%) SonarQube
10 23 (5.02%) Cucumber
10 23 (5.02%) Visual Studio
11 20 (4.37%) Cypress.io
11 20 (4.37%) Maven
12 19 (4.15%) CircleCI
13 17 (3.71%) Bitbucket
14 14 (3.06%) Gradle
15 13 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (2.62%) IntelliJ
17 10 (2.18%) JMeter
17 10 (2.18%) Mockito
General
1 159 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.78%) Finance
3 66 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.70%) Banking
5 46 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.90%) Financial Institution
7 25 (5.46%) Military
8 16 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.75%) Law
11 6 (1.31%) Front Office
11 6 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.44%) Automotive
14 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.44%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 137 (29.91%) Developer
2 80 (17.47%) Senior
3 56 (12.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (12.01%) Software Engineer
5 38 (8.30%) Java Developer
6 33 (7.21%) Architect
7 32 (6.99%) Lead
8 29 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 25 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.37%) Technical Architect
12 19 (4.15%) C++ Software Engineer
13 18 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
14 17 (3.71%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (3.71%) Tester
15 16 (3.49%) Python Developer
15 16 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.28%) Automation Tester
17 14 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (20.96%) RESTful
2 82 (17.90%) REST
3 70 (15.28%) Node.js
4 58 (12.66%) React
5 52 (11.35%) Spring
6 46 (10.04%) Elastic Stack
7 43 (9.39%) Web Services
8 42 (9.17%) Kafka
9 37 (8.08%) HTML
10 34 (7.42%) CSS
10 34 (7.42%) Spring Boot
11 29 (6.33%) .NET
12 21 (4.59%) SOAP
13 20 (4.37%) HTML5
14 18 (3.93%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.93%) Hibernate
14 18 (3.93%) JSON
15 17 (3.71%) Play Framework
16 15 (3.28%) Playwright
16 15 (3.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (9.83%) Cloud Native
3 38 (8.30%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.02%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.62%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.53%) Derivative
11 7 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.31%) CAN bus
12 6 (1.31%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 116 (25.33%) Linux
2 55 (12.01%) Windows
3 25 (5.46%) Unix
4 16 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.84%) Android
6 10 (2.18%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.31%) CentOS
9 3 (0.66%) Solaris
10 2 (0.44%) Debian
10 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) MVS
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 285 (62.23%) Agile
3 212 (46.29%) DevOps
4 164 (35.81%) Continuous Delivery
5 143 (31.22%) Microservices
6 132 (28.82%) TDD
7 126 (27.51%) Test Automation
8 114 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 109 (23.80%) Software Engineering
10 99 (21.62%) Containerisation
11 98 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (17.47%) Continuous Deployment
13 72 (15.72%) Computer Science
14 65 (14.19%) Scrum
15 58 (12.66%) Design Patterns
16 49 (10.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 47 (10.26%) Code Quality
18 45 (9.83%) BDD
19 43 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 43 (9.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 161 (35.15%) Python
2 138 (30.13%) Java
3 99 (21.62%) SQL
4 85 (18.56%) JavaScript
5 63 (13.76%) Go
6 62 (13.54%) TypeScript
7 58 (12.66%) C#
8 47 (10.26%) Bash
9 39 (8.52%) C++
10 24 (5.24%) Perl
11 21 (4.59%) Kotlin
12 20 (4.37%) PowerShell
12 20 (4.37%) Scala
13 7 (1.53%) Bicep
13 7 (1.53%) Swift
14 6 (1.31%) Embedded C++
15 5 (1.09%) JSX
15 5 (1.09%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.09%) Ruby
15 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 101 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 77 (16.81%) Degree
4 58 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (7.21%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.59%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.87%) CISSP
13 3 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.44%) CISM
15 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.22%) OCP
15 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.52%) QA
2 22 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.31%) WCAG
5 4 (0.87%) NCSC
6 3 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (31.66%) Docker
2 15 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.87%) Postfix
5 4 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.44%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) KVM
7 1 (0.22%) NFS
7 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.22%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.22%) SRDF
7 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 138 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 117 (25.55%) Terraform
3 74 (16.16%) Grafana
4 65 (14.19%) Ansible
5 63 (13.76%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.15%) Puppet
7 11 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.75%) CSIRT
8 8 (1.75%) Kibana
9 7 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.87%) Consul
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.87%) Packer
11 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.44%) Argo
12 2 (0.44%) Icinga
12 2 (0.44%) Nagios
12 2 (0.44%) Salt
13 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (12.01%) Splunk
2 51 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.08%) Google
4 22 (4.80%) Oracle
5 20 (4.37%) Atlassian
6 14 (3.06%) Databricks
7 11 (2.40%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.18%) VMware
9 9 (1.97%) F5
9 9 (1.97%) webMethods
10 8 (1.75%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.53%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.53%) Apple
12 6 (1.31%) GoldenSource
13 5 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.87%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (0.66%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.66%) ForgeRock