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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 149 131
Rank change year-on-year -202 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 294 563 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.92% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.12% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 360 503
10th Percentile £356 £355 £364
25th Percentile £413 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -7.49% -1.30%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £689
90th Percentile £690 £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 47
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 £65.50
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 39,057 26,521 37,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.17% 90.63% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,711 17,185 24,560
10th Percentile £315 £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 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,313 1,013 2,392
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -5.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.19 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +27.59% -12.29% -8.15%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -201 260 £509 -4.59% 108
UK excluding London -161 148 £500 - 82
London -154 114 £530 -11.67% 32
Work from Home -133 79 £509 -5.21% 47
North of England -104 44 £500 -4.76% 24
South East -90 36 £530 +6.00% 15
Midlands -60 28 £475 - 7
West Midlands -51 27 £475 -5.00% 6
Yorkshire -55 26 £521 -25.54% 4
East of England -31 21 £600 +24.03% 7
South West -35 18 £425 -5.56% 25
North West -62 16 £392 -21.62% 8
Scotland -23 4 £414 -12.10% 3
North East -25 3 £400 -38.46% 12
East Midlands -43 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 11 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.72%) 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
1 117 (39.80%) AWS
2 93 (31.63%) Azure
3 47 (15.99%) GitHub
4 37 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (11.56%) Serverless
6 33 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.18%) GCP
8 20 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.46%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.74%) IaaS
15 10 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (3.06%) Power Platform
17 8 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.78%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.70%) DNS
3 5 (1.70%) Firewall
3 5 (1.70%) IPsec
3 5 (1.70%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.70%) SSL
4 4 (1.36%) VPN
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%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 29 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (5.78%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.72%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.72%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.38%) Power BI
10 6 (2.04%) MySQL
11 5 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.36%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.36%) SQLite
13 3 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (24.49%) Git
2 64 (21.77%) Jenkins
3 40 (13.61%) GitLab
4 28 (9.52%) JUnit
5 21 (7.14%) Eclipse
5 21 (7.14%) Selenium
6 18 (6.12%) JIRA
7 17 (5.78%) Cucumber
8 15 (5.10%) Visual Studio
9 13 (4.42%) Maven
10 12 (4.08%) Gradle
10 12 (4.08%) Mockito
10 12 (4.08%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.72%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (2.72%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.72%) JMeter
11 8 (2.72%) Postman
11 8 (2.72%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.38%) DbUnit
12 7 (2.38%) jMock
General
1 85 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.93%) Finance
4 35 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.14%) Banking
6 17 (5.78%) Military
7 15 (5.10%) 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%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Police
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (29.93%) Developer
2 53 (18.03%) Senior
3 44 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 26 (8.84%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Lead
6 21 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) Architect
8 12 (4.08%) C# Software Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) Technical Architect
9 11 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (3.74%) Python Developer
9 11 (3.74%) Python Engineer
9 11 (3.74%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (3.40%) Administrator
10 10 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.40%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.06%) Senior Technical Architect
11 9 (3.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.35%) Web Services
2 44 (14.97%) Node.js
3 38 (12.93%) Spring
4 37 (12.59%) REST
5 31 (10.54%) RESTful
6 25 (8.50%) React
7 23 (7.82%) Spring Boot
8 21 (7.14%) .NET
9 19 (6.46%) Kafka
10 16 (5.44%) CSS
10 16 (5.44%) HTML
11 15 (5.10%) SOAP
12 14 (4.76%) AngularJS
12 14 (4.76%) JSON
13 13 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (4.08%) Hibernate
15 11 (3.74%) Play Framework
16 10 (3.40%) HTML5
17 9 (3.06%) Gherkin
17 9 (3.06%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.42%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.70%) Derivative
8 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.70%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.36%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.36%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (23.47%) Linux
2 42 (14.29%) Windows
3 15 (5.10%) 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
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.34%) AIX
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (67.01%) CI/CD
2 188 (63.95%) Agile
3 138 (46.94%) DevOps
4 96 (32.65%) Test Automation
5 90 (30.61%) Microservices
6 84 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 84 (28.57%) TDD
7 70 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 63 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 58 (19.73%) Scrum
10 55 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (13.27%) Design Patterns
14 38 (12.93%) Unit Testing
15 37 (12.59%) Continuous Deployment
16 35 (11.90%) Code Quality
17 32 (10.88%) SDLC
18 31 (10.54%) Validation
19 29 (9.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.01%) Python
2 80 (27.21%) Java
3 78 (26.53%) SQL
4 47 (15.99%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.97%) C#
6 24 (8.16%) C++
7 19 (6.46%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.44%) Bash
9 13 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 13 (4.42%) Scala
10 10 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.72%) Go
11 8 (2.72%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.38%) Ruby
13 6 (2.04%) C
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 76 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.88%) Degree
4 19 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.06%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.04%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) ISEB
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.31%) QA
2 12 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.02%) NCSC
3 3 (1.02%) NIST
3 3 (1.02%) WCAG
4 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (24.83%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.04%) Postfix
3 5 (1.70%) RACF
3 5 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.68%) SRDF
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Firmware
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (17.69%) Terraform
2 51 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.22%) Grafana
4 19 (6.46%) Ansible
4 19 (6.46%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.12%) Puppet
6 9 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.02%) Kibana
8 3 (1.02%) Rancher
9 2 (0.68%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.34%) Istio
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) Salt
10 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.78%) Splunk
3 12 (4.08%) Databricks
3 12 (4.08%) Oracle
4 11 (3.74%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.74%) Google
5 7 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (2.38%) VMware
6 5 (1.70%) Cisco
6 5 (1.70%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.36%) webMethods
8 3 (1.02%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.02%) New Relic
8 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.68%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.68%) HP
9 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.68%) TOWER Software