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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 134 159
Rank change year-on-year -144 +25 -61
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 356 643 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 2.06% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 2.31% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 401 472
10th Percentile £375 £385 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.37%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £553
% change year-on-year - -9.50% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 54
10th Percentile £55.21 £26.32 £60.33
25th Percentile £62.19 £26.81 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.94
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 32,948 27,851 38,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.34% 89.03% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,870 16,883 25,489
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 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 881 1,954
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.80% +41.24%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -145 308 £525 -4.55% 169
UK excluding London -122 178 £500 - 161
London -89 133 £550 -8.33% 48
Work from Home -87 115 £518 -1.19% 92
North of England -83 58 £520 -0.95% 36
South East -50 53 £517 +3.40% 47
Yorkshire -51 39 £525 -4.55% 15
Midlands -60 35 £525 -4.55% 11
West Midlands -50 34 £525 -4.55% 2
South West -36 16 £425 -36.33% 25
East of England -24 15 £475 -5.00% 17
North West -45 13 £375 -21.05% 15
Scotland -9 10 £600 +26.65% 19
North East -20 7 £520 -13.33% 6
Wales -14 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 22 (6.18%) Confluence
2 11 (3.09%) Apache
3 10 (2.81%) JBoss
3 10 (2.81%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Mule
6 2 (0.56%) 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 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 141 (39.61%) AWS
2 91 (25.56%) Azure
3 62 (17.42%) GCP
4 52 (14.61%) GitHub
5 50 (14.04%) Serverless
6 43 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.93%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.37%) Azure AKS
12 12 (3.37%) IaaS
13 11 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.09%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.34%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.21%) Firewall
3 12 (3.37%) Ethernet
4 8 (2.25%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.40%) DNS
6 4 (1.12%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) DHCP
7 3 (0.84%) Network Security
8 2 (0.56%) Multicast
8 2 (0.56%) RTMP
8 2 (0.56%) 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 (13.20%) NoSQL
2 40 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.06%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.21%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.25%) Power BI
9 7 (1.97%) Big Data
10 6 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.69%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.40%) MySQL
12 3 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 97 (27.25%) Git
2 96 (26.97%) Jenkins
3 64 (17.98%) GitLab
4 39 (10.96%) JIRA
5 22 (6.18%) Eclipse
5 22 (6.18%) JUnit
5 22 (6.18%) Liquibase
5 22 (6.18%) Selenium
6 20 (5.62%) Cucumber
7 16 (4.49%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.93%) Gradle
9 12 (3.37%) Visual Studio
10 10 (2.81%) IntelliJ
10 10 (2.81%) Maven
10 10 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.97%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.97%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 128 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.26%) Finance
3 46 (12.92%) Banking
3 46 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.46%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.78%) Military
7 13 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.69%) Front Office
9 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.40%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (30.34%) Developer
2 63 (17.70%) Senior
3 57 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (12.64%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 23 (6.46%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.34%) Lead
8 18 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (3.93%) Python Developer
9 14 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.37%) Administrator
11 12 (3.37%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (3.37%) Tester
12 11 (3.09%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.54%) REST
2 64 (17.98%) RESTful
3 52 (14.61%) Node.js
4 46 (12.92%) React
5 37 (10.39%) Elastic Stack
6 36 (10.11%) Spring
7 33 (9.27%) Web Services
8 30 (8.43%) .NET
9 27 (7.58%) HTML
10 25 (7.02%) CSS
11 24 (6.74%) Kafka
12 19 (5.34%) JSON
13 17 (4.78%) Play Framework
13 17 (4.78%) Spring Boot
14 16 (4.49%) HTML5
14 16 (4.49%) Playwright
14 16 (4.49%) SOAP
15 14 (3.93%) J2EE
15 14 (3.93%) XML
16 11 (3.09%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.02%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.09%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.09%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.69%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.69%) Derivative
10 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.40%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (25.00%) Linux
2 45 (12.64%) Windows
3 21 (5.90%) Unix
4 12 (3.37%) Android
5 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.84%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.56%) 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
1 250 (70.22%) CI/CD
2 229 (64.33%) Agile
3 173 (48.60%) DevOps
4 118 (33.15%) Continuous Delivery
5 111 (31.18%) Test Automation
6 106 (29.78%) Microservices
7 89 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 86 (24.16%) Software Engineering
9 79 (22.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (21.91%) TDD
11 77 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (16.01%) Computer Science
12 57 (16.01%) Continuous Deployment
13 50 (14.04%) Scrum
14 46 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (12.08%) Design Patterns
16 40 (11.24%) Infrastructure Automation
17 35 (9.83%) Unit Testing
18 34 (9.55%) Non-Functional Testing
19 33 (9.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.27%) Python
2 89 (25.00%) Java
3 73 (20.51%) SQL
4 58 (16.29%) JavaScript
5 47 (13.20%) C#
6 41 (11.52%) Go
7 35 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 27 (7.58%) C++
9 20 (5.62%) Bash
10 19 (5.34%) Scala
11 15 (4.21%) PowerShell
12 13 (3.65%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.25%) Ruby
13 8 (2.25%) Swift
14 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.69%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.69%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.40%) JSX
17 4 (1.12%) Perl
17 4 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.42%) Degree
3 59 (16.57%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.74%) Master's Degree
6 13 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.40%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.56%) 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 (10.39%) QA
2 20 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.84%) 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
1 106 (29.78%) Docker
2 10 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) 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 95 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 85 (23.88%) Terraform
3 50 (14.04%) Grafana
4 43 (12.08%) Ansible
5 37 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.62%) Puppet
7 8 (2.25%) CSIRT
8 7 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.12%) Kibana
10 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.56%) Argo
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.56%) 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 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.64%) Splunk
3 25 (7.02%) Google
4 17 (4.78%) Databricks
5 14 (3.93%) Atlassian
6 13 (3.65%) Oracle
7 9 (2.53%) F5
7 9 (2.53%) webMethods
8 8 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.97%) Apple
10 6 (1.69%) VMware
11 5 (1.40%) PagerDuty
11 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.12%) DocuSign
12 4 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.84%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.84%) Foundry
14 2 (0.56%) GoldenSource