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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 127 148
Rank change year-on-year -152 +21 -48
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 361 653 719
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 2.07% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 2.32% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 407 477
10th Percentile £373 £384 £400
25th Percentile £413 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.71%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £552
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 53
10th Percentile £55.21 £26.32 £60.65
25th Percentile £62.19 £26.81 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £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 33,264 28,130 38,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.54% 88.98% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,071 17,089 25,387
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 886 1,898
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.96 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -10.76% +16.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.82 £74.93 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.41 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.08% -18.91% +44.23%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -146 312 £525 -4.55% 171
UK excluding London -134 180 £500 - 163
London -96 136 £550 -8.33% 47
Work from Home -98 115 £518 -1.43% 81
North of England -92 59 £520 -0.95% 37
South East -42 53 £517 +3.40% 48
Yorkshire -63 39 £525 -4.55% 14
Midlands -61 35 £525 -4.55% 11
West Midlands -60 34 £525 -4.55% 2
South West -37 16 £425 -36.33% 25
East of England -27 15 £475 -5.00% 17
North West -56 13 £375 -21.05% 17
Scotland -16 11 £600 +26.65% 19
North East -18 7 £520 -13.33% 6
Wales -18 2 - - 9
East Midlands -28 1 £413 -20.86% 8

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 24 (6.65%) Confluence
2 11 (3.05%) Apache
3 10 (2.77%) JBoss
3 10 (2.77%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.55%) CMS
6 2 (0.55%) Mule
6 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 143 (39.61%) AWS
2 92 (25.48%) Azure
3 63 (17.45%) GCP
4 52 (14.40%) GitHub
5 50 (13.85%) Serverless
6 43 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.88%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.32%) Azure AKS
12 12 (3.32%) IaaS
13 11 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.05%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.16%) Firewall
3 12 (3.32%) Ethernet
4 8 (2.22%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.39%) DNS
6 4 (1.11%) HTTP
7 3 (0.83%) DHCP
7 3 (0.83%) Network Security
8 2 (0.55%) Multicast
8 2 (0.55%) RTMP
8 2 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.28%) FCoE
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) IPsec
9 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.28%) NAS
9 1 (0.28%) SAN
9 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.02%) NoSQL
2 41 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.16%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.22%) Power BI
9 7 (1.94%) Big Data
10 6 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.66%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.39%) MySQL
12 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.83%) DB2
12 3 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (27.15%) Git
1 98 (27.15%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.73%) GitLab
3 41 (11.36%) JIRA
4 23 (6.37%) Selenium
5 22 (6.09%) Eclipse
5 22 (6.09%) JUnit
5 22 (6.09%) Liquibase
6 21 (5.82%) Cucumber
7 16 (4.43%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.88%) Gradle
9 12 (3.32%) Visual Studio
10 10 (2.77%) IntelliJ
10 10 (2.77%) Maven
10 10 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (2.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.94%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.94%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.94%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.66%) Postman
General
1 130 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.28%) Finance
3 47 (13.02%) Banking
3 47 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.37%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.71%) Military
7 13 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Front Office
9 6 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.39%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (30.75%) Developer
2 63 (17.45%) Senior
3 57 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (12.74%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.93%) Java Developer
5 25 (6.93%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.26%) Lead
7 18 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (3.88%) Python Developer
8 14 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.32%) Administrator
10 12 (3.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (3.32%) Tester
11 11 (3.05%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.28%) REST
1 66 (18.28%) RESTful
2 54 (14.96%) Node.js
3 48 (13.30%) React
4 38 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 37 (10.25%) Spring
6 33 (9.14%) Web Services
7 30 (8.31%) .NET
8 29 (8.03%) HTML
9 27 (7.48%) CSS
10 24 (6.65%) Kafka
11 19 (5.26%) JSON
12 17 (4.71%) HTML5
12 17 (4.71%) Play Framework
12 17 (4.71%) Spring Boot
13 16 (4.43%) Playwright
13 16 (4.43%) SOAP
14 14 (3.88%) J2EE
14 14 (3.88%) XML
15 11 (3.05%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.54%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.88%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.66%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.66%) Derivative
10 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.39%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.11%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (24.65%) Linux
2 45 (12.47%) Windows
3 21 (5.82%) Unix
4 13 (3.60%) Android
5 8 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.83%) Solaris
8 2 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) MVS
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (70.64%) CI/CD
2 231 (63.99%) Agile
3 174 (48.20%) DevOps
4 120 (33.24%) Continuous Delivery
5 113 (31.30%) Test Automation
6 109 (30.19%) Microservices
7 90 (24.93%) Containerisation
8 88 (24.38%) Software Engineering
9 80 (22.16%) TDD
10 79 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 77 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (16.07%) Continuous Deployment
13 57 (15.79%) Computer Science
14 51 (14.13%) Scrum
15 46 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (12.74%) Design Patterns
16 40 (11.08%) Infrastructure Automation
17 36 (9.97%) Unit Testing
18 35 (9.70%) Non-Functional Testing
19 33 (9.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 124 (34.35%) Python
2 91 (25.21%) Java
3 75 (20.78%) SQL
4 60 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.30%) C#
6 42 (11.63%) Go
7 36 (9.97%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.76%) C++
9 21 (5.82%) Bash
10 19 (5.26%) Scala
11 15 (4.16%) PowerShell
12 13 (3.60%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.22%) Ruby
13 8 (2.22%) Swift
14 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.66%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.66%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.39%) JSX
16 5 (1.39%) Perl
17 4 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.17%) Degree
3 61 (16.90%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.65%) Master's Degree
6 13 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB
12 1 (0.28%) OCP
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.25%) QA
2 20 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.83%) WCAG
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) NCSC
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 108 (29.92%) Docker
2 10 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) NFS
7 1 (0.28%) RACF
7 1 (0.28%) SRDF
7 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (27.15%) Kubernetes
2 86 (23.82%) Terraform
3 50 (13.85%) Grafana
4 44 (12.19%) Ansible
5 37 (10.25%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.54%) Puppet
7 8 (2.22%) CSIRT
8 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.11%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.55%) Argo
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.55%) Podman
12 1 (0.28%) Consul
12 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.28%) logstash
12 1 (0.28%) Rancher
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
12 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.47%) Splunk
3 25 (6.93%) Google
4 17 (4.71%) Databricks
5 15 (4.16%) Atlassian
6 13 (3.60%) Oracle
7 9 (2.49%) F5
7 9 (2.49%) webMethods
8 8 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.94%) Apple
10 6 (1.66%) VMware
11 5 (1.39%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.11%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.11%) DocuSign
12 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.83%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.83%) Foundry
14 2 (0.55%) GoldenSource