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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 130 159
Rank change year-on-year -158 +29 -57
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 347 648 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 2.06% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.31% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 399 473
10th Percentile £373 £390 £400
25th Percentile £413 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -0.63%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £553
% change year-on-year - -9.50% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 55
10th Percentile £54.99 £26.31 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.66 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile - £76.25 £76.53
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 33,821 28,022 39,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.29% 89.12% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,401 17,008 25,726
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,033 874 2,031
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.00 £16.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year -19.29% -16.12% +31.77%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -154 300 £525 -4.55% 133
UK excluding London -135 172 £500 - 115
London -111 131 £550 -8.33% 49
Work from Home -101 112 £518 -1.43% 87
South East -44 53 £517 +3.40% 34
North of England -92 53 £525 - 31
Yorkshire -55 36 £525 -4.42% 13
Midlands -59 35 £525 -4.55% 3
West Midlands -55 34 £525 -4.55% 1
South West -39 16 £425 -36.33% 18
East of England -25 15 £475 -5.00% 11
North West -58 11 £368 -24.45% 16
Scotland -12 9 £600 +26.65% 16
North East -22 7 £520 -13.33% 2
Wales -12 2 - - 6
East Midlands -25 1 £413 -20.86% 2

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 22 (6.34%) Confluence
2 11 (3.17%) Apache
3 9 (2.59%) JBoss
3 9 (2.59%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.58%) CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.29%) CICS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 138 (39.77%) AWS
2 90 (25.94%) Azure
3 58 (16.71%) GCP
4 52 (14.99%) GitHub
5 49 (14.12%) Serverless
6 43 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.03%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.75%) IaaS
12 12 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.46%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.17%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.19%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.32%) Firewall
3 11 (3.17%) Ethernet
4 8 (2.31%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.44%) DNS
6 4 (1.15%) HTTP
7 3 (0.86%) DHCP
7 3 (0.86%) Network Security
8 2 (0.58%) IPsec
8 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.58%) Multicast
8 2 (0.58%) RTMP
8 2 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.58%) SSL
9 1 (0.29%) Internet
9 1 (0.29%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.29%) NAS
9 1 (0.29%) SAN
9 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.97%) NoSQL
2 39 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.05%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.59%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.31%) Power BI
9 7 (2.02%) Big Data
10 6 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.73%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.86%) MySQL
12 3 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.58%) DB2
13 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.58%) Redis
13 2 (0.58%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 94 (27.09%) Git
2 93 (26.80%) Jenkins
3 64 (18.44%) GitLab
4 39 (11.24%) JIRA
5 22 (6.34%) Selenium
6 21 (6.05%) Eclipse
6 21 (6.05%) JUnit
7 19 (5.48%) Cucumber
7 19 (5.48%) Liquibase
8 16 (4.61%) Cypress.io
9 14 (4.03%) Gradle
10 11 (3.17%) Visual Studio
11 10 (2.88%) IntelliJ
11 10 (2.88%) Maven
11 10 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (2.02%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.02%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.02%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.73%) Postman
General
1 124 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.87%) Finance
3 44 (12.68%) Banking
3 44 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.05%) Financial Institution
6 15 (4.32%) Military
7 12 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.73%) Front Office
9 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.44%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Retail
13 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (30.26%) Developer
2 64 (18.44%) Senior
3 54 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.20%) Senior Developer
6 23 (6.63%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (4.90%) Lead
9 14 (4.03%) Python Developer
9 14 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.46%) Administrator
11 12 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (3.46%) Tester
12 11 (3.17%) Android Developer
12 11 (3.17%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.73%) REST
2 60 (17.29%) RESTful
3 49 (14.12%) Node.js
4 44 (12.68%) React
5 35 (10.09%) Elastic Stack
6 34 (9.80%) Spring
7 31 (8.93%) Web Services
8 27 (7.78%) .NET
9 23 (6.63%) HTML
10 22 (6.34%) Kafka
11 21 (6.05%) CSS
12 17 (4.90%) JSON
12 17 (4.90%) Play Framework
13 16 (4.61%) Playwright
13 16 (4.61%) SOAP
14 15 (4.32%) HTML5
14 15 (4.32%) Spring Boot
15 12 (3.46%) J2EE
15 12 (3.46%) XML
16 11 (3.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.24%) Cloud Native
1 39 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.63%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.03%) Security Posture
5 12 (3.46%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.73%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.73%) Derivative
10 6 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.44%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.15%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.78%) Linux
2 45 (12.97%) Windows
3 21 (6.05%) Unix
4 12 (3.46%) Android
5 8 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Solaris
8 2 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) MVS
9 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (69.74%) CI/CD
2 221 (63.69%) Agile
3 168 (48.41%) DevOps
4 114 (32.85%) Continuous Delivery
5 110 (31.70%) Test Automation
6 102 (29.39%) Microservices
7 85 (24.50%) Containerisation
8 82 (23.63%) Software Engineering
9 78 (22.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (21.04%) TDD
12 57 (16.43%) Computer Science
13 54 (15.56%) Continuous Deployment
14 49 (14.12%) Scrum
15 46 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (12.39%) Design Patterns
17 38 (10.95%) Infrastructure Automation
18 33 (9.51%) Unit Testing
19 32 (9.22%) Non-Functional Testing
19 32 (9.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (34.29%) Python
2 81 (23.34%) Java
3 71 (20.46%) SQL
4 53 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 44 (12.68%) C#
6 37 (10.66%) Go
7 34 (9.80%) TypeScript
8 26 (7.49%) C++
9 19 (5.48%) Bash
9 19 (5.48%) Scala
10 15 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.75%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.31%) Swift
13 7 (2.02%) Ruby
13 7 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.73%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.73%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.44%) JSX
16 4 (1.15%) R
17 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 61 (17.58%) Degree
3 58 (16.71%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.92%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.17%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.29%) ISEB
14 1 (0.29%) OCP
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.66%) QA
2 18 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.58%) WCAG
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) MiFID
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (29.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.58%) RACF
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) NFS
7 1 (0.29%) SRDF
7 1 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (25.94%) Kubernetes
2 83 (23.92%) Terraform
3 48 (13.83%) Grafana
4 40 (11.53%) Ansible
5 35 (10.09%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.76%) Puppet
7 8 (2.31%) CSIRT
7 8 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.15%) Kibana
9 3 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.58%) Argo
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.58%) Podman
11 1 (0.29%) Consul
11 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) Rancher
11 1 (0.29%) SCCM
11 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.82%) Splunk
3 25 (7.20%) Google
4 16 (4.61%) Databricks
5 14 (4.03%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.88%) Oracle
7 9 (2.59%) F5
7 9 (2.59%) webMethods
8 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.02%) Apple
10 6 (1.73%) VMware
11 5 (1.44%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.15%) DocuSign
13 3 (0.86%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.86%) Foundry
13 3 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.58%) ForgeRock
14 2 (0.58%) New Relic
14 2 (0.58%) Palantir