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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 165 112
Rank change year-on-year -196 -53 +16
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 336 559 855
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.71% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.89% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 353 558
10th Percentile £400 £354 £360
25th Percentile £450 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £654
90th Percentile £663 £702 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +7.68% -10.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 58
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £60.25
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.19 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.38 £66.08
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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -181 305 £525 - 171
UK excluding London -141 190 £505 +7.68% 130
London -152 119 £550 -4.35% 74
Work from Home -130 100 £515 -3.47% 72
North of England -82 55 £500 +16.96% 36
South West -19 40 £525 +40.94% 43
South East -90 40 £539 +7.70% 15
Yorkshire -38 31 £513 +7.89% 4
East of England -21 27 £495 -1.00% 8
Midlands -63 22 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -67 21 £469 -3.79% 6
North West -78 17 £459 +9.35% 21
North East -29 8 £400 -27.27% 11
Scotland -55 5 £500 +6.38% 8
Wales -16 3 £600 +29.73% 1
East Midlands -26 1 - - 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 18 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.57%) Confluence
4 10 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.49%) SAS
6 4 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) CMS
7 2 (0.60%) Mule
7 2 (0.60%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) Moodle
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.89%) Findur
3 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (39.88%) AWS
2 95 (28.27%) Azure
3 51 (15.18%) GitHub
4 38 (11.31%) GCP
5 36 (10.71%) Serverless
6 31 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (8.04%) Amazon S3
8 26 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (5.36%) Power Platform
12 16 (4.76%) OpenShift
13 13 (3.87%) Route 53
14 12 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.27%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 13 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.79%) Firewall
3 6 (1.79%) Network Security
4 4 (1.19%) IPsec
4 4 (1.19%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.19%) SAN
4 4 (1.19%) SSL
5 3 (0.89%) Modbus
5 3 (0.89%) RS-232
5 3 (0.89%) RS-422
5 3 (0.89%) RS-485
5 3 (0.89%) VPN
5 3 (0.89%) VSAN
5 3 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.60%) NAS
6 2 (0.60%) RTMP
7 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (6.85%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (5.06%) DynamoDB
5 17 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.27%) Power BI
7 8 (2.38%) Big Data
7 8 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.08%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.08%) MySQL
8 7 (2.08%) Presto
8 7 (2.08%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.19%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 68 (20.24%) Git
2 61 (18.15%) Jenkins
3 44 (13.10%) GitLab
4 27 (8.04%) JUnit
5 21 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 21 (6.25%) JIRA
5 21 (6.25%) Selenium
6 18 (5.36%) Maven
6 18 (5.36%) SonarQube
6 18 (5.36%) Visual Studio
7 17 (5.06%) REST Assured
8 16 (4.76%) Eclipse
9 15 (4.46%) Mockito
10 14 (4.17%) Postman
11 12 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
11 12 (3.57%) Gradle
12 11 (3.27%) Cypress.io
12 11 (3.27%) DbUnit
12 11 (3.27%) jMock
13 10 (2.98%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.48%) Public Sector
3 51 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.10%) Finance
5 20 (5.95%) Banking
6 16 (4.76%) Military
7 12 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.38%) Electronics
9 7 (2.08%) Law
10 5 (1.49%) Front Office
10 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Games
12 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
13 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (30.95%) Developer
2 48 (14.29%) Senior
3 39 (11.61%) Java Developer
4 29 (8.63%) Architect
5 28 (8.33%) Lead
6 27 (8.04%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 18 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.36%) Test Engineer
9 16 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.76%) Backend Developer
9 16 (4.76%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (3.27%) Analyst
13 10 (2.98%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.98%) Test Analyst
14 9 (2.68%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.88%) Node.js
2 47 (13.99%) Web Services
3 45 (13.39%) Spring
4 41 (12.20%) Spring Boot
5 40 (11.90%) RESTful
6 34 (10.12%) React
7 32 (9.52%) REST
8 24 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 24 (7.14%) CSS
9 23 (6.85%) .NET
9 23 (6.85%) HTML
10 20 (5.95%) Playwright
11 19 (5.65%) Kafka
12 15 (4.46%) SOAP
12 15 (4.46%) YAML
13 14 (4.17%) JPA
14 13 (3.87%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (3.27%) PowerMock
15 11 (3.27%) Spring Batch
15 11 (3.27%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.46%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.08%) PKI
8 6 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.19%) Blog
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.19%) Equities
10 4 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.19%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (22.32%) Linux
2 42 (12.50%) Windows
3 14 (4.17%) Unix
4 12 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.79%) Android
5 6 (1.79%) VMS
6 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.60%) Solaris
8 1 (0.30%) AIX
8 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (68.15%) CI/CD
2 223 (66.37%) Agile
3 146 (43.45%) DevOps
4 120 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 97 (28.87%) TDD
6 92 (27.38%) Continuous Delivery
7 88 (26.19%) Containerisation
8 84 (25.00%) Microservices
9 76 (22.62%) Software Engineering
10 67 (19.94%) Scrum
11 51 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 50 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (12.50%) AI
15 40 (11.90%) BDD
16 39 (11.61%) Observability
17 37 (11.01%) Design Patterns
17 37 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
18 36 (10.71%) Code Quality
18 36 (10.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 113 (33.63%) Python
2 94 (27.98%) Java
3 89 (26.49%) SQL
4 63 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 43 (12.80%) C#
6 28 (8.33%) Bash
7 24 (7.14%) C++
8 21 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 19 (5.65%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.57%) Scala
11 10 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.98%) Swift
12 9 (2.68%) C
12 9 (2.68%) Go
13 8 (2.38%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.79%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.19%) Bicep
15 4 (1.19%) Ruby
15 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 78 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.93%) Degree
4 22 (6.55%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.17%) ISTQB
7 13 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.68%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.30%) MBA
15 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.50%) QA
2 26 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.89%) NCSC
5 3 (0.89%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) PMO
6 2 (0.60%) WCAG
7 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 82 (24.40%) Docker
2 15 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.68%) Postfix
4 7 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.79%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.19%) RACF
7 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.60%) SRDF
9 1 (0.30%) NFS
9 1 (0.30%) Samba
9 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (19.05%) Terraform
2 63 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.58%) Grafana
4 21 (6.25%) Ansible
4 21 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.87%) Argo
6 12 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.68%) Kibana
7 9 (2.68%) Puppet
8 5 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.49%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.60%) Nagios
9 2 (0.60%) Rancher
9 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.30%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.30%) OpenNMS
10 1 (0.30%) Salt
10 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.14%) Google
3 20 (5.95%) Splunk
4 19 (5.65%) Oracle
5 15 (4.46%) VMware
6 13 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.27%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.27%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (2.98%) Cisco
8 10 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.68%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.08%) SAP
11 6 (1.79%) Conga
11 6 (1.79%) GoCardless
11 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.49%) Informatica
13 4 (1.19%) Denodo
14 3 (0.89%) Databricks
14 3 (0.89%) Dell
14 3 (0.89%) Palo Alto