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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 145 153
Rank change year-on-year -149 +8 -46
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 361 569 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.87% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.08% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 362 449
10th Percentile £361 £376 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -8.70% -0.86%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £688
90th Percentile £742 £750 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 56
10th Percentile £55.65 £26.29 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.41 £64.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.66% -57.92% -
75th Percentile - £64.38 £66.25
90th Percentile - £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -140 315 £521 -5.23% 109
UK excluding London -115 192 £500 - 86
London -125 127 £534 -11.08% 36
Work from Home -102 104 £511 -2.71% 58
North of England -80 65 £523 -0.48% 29
South East -59 50 £517 +3.40% 19
Yorkshire -44 46 £525 -4.42% 14
Midlands -41 38 £478 -8.39% 11
West Midlands -34 37 £480 -6.34% 10
East of England -11 23 £600 +28.34% 9
South West -37 18 £425 -36.33% 14
North West -62 15 £361 -27.68% 10
Scotland -10 7 £550 +17.96% 1
North East -22 6 £550 -8.33% 5
Wales -13 2 - - 5
East Midlands -31 1 £413 -20.86% 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 (3.05%) Apache
2 9 (2.49%) Confluence
2 9 (2.49%) JBoss
2 9 (2.49%) WebLogic
3 7 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.55%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Moodle
6 1 (0.28%) Mule
6 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 149 (41.27%) AWS
2 94 (26.04%) Azure
3 59 (16.34%) GitHub
4 52 (14.40%) GCP
5 49 (13.57%) Serverless
6 45 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.99%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.88%) IaaS
13 13 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.32%) Snowflake
15 11 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.05%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.22%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.54%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.71%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.77%) Firewall
4 6 (1.66%) DNS
5 5 (1.39%) IPsec
5 5 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.39%) SSL
5 5 (1.39%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.83%) DHCP
6 3 (0.83%) HTTP
6 3 (0.83%) Modbus
6 3 (0.83%) RS-232
6 3 (0.83%) RS-422
6 3 (0.83%) RS-485
7 2 (0.55%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.55%) RTMP
7 2 (0.55%) SAN
7 2 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.55%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.57%) NoSQL
2 44 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (6.09%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.43%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (1.94%) Big Data
9 6 (1.66%) Couchbase
9 6 (1.66%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.66%) MySQL
10 5 (1.39%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.39%) Power BI
11 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.83%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.83%) Redis
13 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 98 (27.15%) Git
2 95 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 68 (18.84%) GitLab
4 30 (8.31%) JUnit
5 27 (7.48%) JIRA
6 25 (6.93%) Eclipse
7 21 (5.82%) Selenium
8 19 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 18 (4.99%) Liquibase
10 16 (4.43%) Gradle
11 15 (4.16%) Cypress.io
11 15 (4.16%) Maven
11 15 (4.16%) Visual Studio
12 10 (2.77%) IntelliJ
12 10 (2.77%) Mockito
12 10 (2.77%) SonarQube
13 9 (2.49%) CircleCI
13 9 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (2.22%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.94%) Postman
General
1 122 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.17%) Finance
3 48 (13.30%) Public Sector
4 41 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (11.08%) Banking
6 21 (5.82%) Financial Institution
7 19 (5.26%) Military
8 16 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Front Office
11 3 (0.83%) Electronics
11 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Law
11 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.55%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (28.81%) Developer
2 69 (19.11%) Senior
3 57 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (13.57%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.20%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.65%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (4.16%) Lead
8 15 (4.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
10 13 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.60%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.60%) Python Engineer
10 13 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.32%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (3.32%) Test Engineer
11 12 (3.32%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (19.39%) REST
2 55 (15.24%) RESTful
3 48 (13.30%) Node.js
3 48 (13.30%) Web Services
4 39 (10.80%) React
5 38 (10.53%) Spring
6 33 (9.14%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (6.65%) .NET
8 23 (6.37%) HTML
9 22 (6.09%) Kafka
10 21 (5.82%) CSS
10 21 (5.82%) Spring Boot
11 19 (5.26%) SOAP
12 17 (4.71%) JSON
13 16 (4.43%) Play Framework
13 16 (4.43%) Playwright
14 15 (4.16%) Hibernate
14 15 (4.16%) HTML5
15 14 (3.88%) AngularJS
16 13 (3.60%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.25%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.99%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.32%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.77%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.49%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.22%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.66%) CAN bus
11 6 (1.66%) Derivative
11 6 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.11%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.11%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 96 (26.59%) Linux
2 51 (14.13%) Windows
3 24 (6.65%) Unix
4 12 (3.32%) Android
5 8 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (67.59%) CI/CD
2 231 (63.99%) Agile
3 174 (48.20%) DevOps
4 120 (33.24%) Continuous Delivery
5 114 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 113 (31.30%) Microservices
7 92 (25.48%) Containerisation
8 91 (25.21%) Software Engineering
9 88 (24.38%) TDD
10 81 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (16.34%) Scrum
13 55 (15.24%) Computer Science
14 47 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (13.02%) Design Patterns
15 46 (12.74%) Continuous Deployment
16 41 (11.36%) Unit Testing
17 38 (10.53%) Analytics
18 37 (10.25%) SDLC
19 35 (9.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 126 (34.90%) Python
2 84 (23.27%) Java
3 81 (22.44%) SQL
4 59 (16.34%) JavaScript
5 52 (14.40%) C#
6 34 (9.42%) Go
7 33 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.86%) C++
9 18 (4.99%) Scala
10 17 (4.71%) Bash
11 16 (4.43%) Kotlin
12 15 (4.16%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.22%) Swift
14 6 (1.66%) Embedded C++
15 5 (1.39%) C
15 5 (1.39%) JSX
15 5 (1.39%) Ruby
16 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.83%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 89 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.17%) Degree
3 61 (16.90%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (6.93%) Master's Degree
6 17 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (4.16%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.60%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.66%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.66%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.28%) ISEB
14 1 (0.28%) OCP
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.36%) QA
2 16 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.55%) NCSC
4 2 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
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%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (28.53%) Docker
2 11 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.39%) RACF
5 4 (1.11%) Postfix
6 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.55%) SRDF
8 1 (0.28%) Firmware
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (22.44%) Kubernetes
2 80 (22.16%) Terraform
3 52 (14.40%) Grafana
4 39 (10.80%) Ansible
5 36 (9.97%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.54%) Puppet
7 10 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.39%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.83%) Kibana
10 2 (0.55%) Argo
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.55%) Podman
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) SCCM
11 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.63%) Splunk
3 25 (6.93%) Google
4 15 (4.16%) Atlassian
4 15 (4.16%) Databricks
5 10 (2.77%) Oracle
6 9 (2.49%) webMethods
7 8 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.94%) VMware
9 5 (1.39%) F5
9 5 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.39%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.11%) Apple
11 3 (0.83%) Cisco
11 3 (0.83%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.83%) Foundry
11 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.83%) New Relic
11 3 (0.83%) TOWER Software