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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 200 110
Rank change year-on-year -138 -90 +30
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 396 462 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.40% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.54% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 295 494
10th Percentile £400 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £666 £736 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £497 £500
% change year-on-year +0.70% -0.70% -11.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 36
10th Percentile - £61.25 £62.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.92 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 £73.75 £67.50
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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -133 343 £525 - 501
UK excluding London -99 227 £500 +0.70% 321
Work from Home -85 133 £525 +3.35% 222
London -124 130 £575 +4.55% 240
North of England -93 61 £470 -6.09% 79
South East -52 56 £550 +10.00% 52
East of England -18 33 £450 -10.00% 39
South West -14 31 £525 -4.55% 36
West Midlands -59 26 £459 -8.20% 20
Midlands -61 26 £459 -4.18% 30
North East -24 23 £425 -20.56% 13
Yorkshire -56 20 £600 +19.88% 28
North West -58 18 £500 +17.65% 39
Scotland -47 17 £525 +6.49% 54
Wales -13 5 £600 +29.73% 14

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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.28%) Confluence
3 12 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.01%) SAS
5 4 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.76%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) Apache
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Mingle
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.51%) Findur
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (39.90%) AWS
2 99 (25.00%) Azure
3 65 (16.41%) GitHub
4 49 (12.37%) GCP
5 40 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.31%) Serverless
8 21 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (5.05%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.05%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.28%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.78%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.27%) PowerApps
16 8 (2.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.54%) Network Security
1 14 (3.54%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.03%) Ethernet
3 11 (2.78%) Firewall
4 9 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.52%) 4G
5 6 (1.52%) 5G
5 6 (1.52%) Broadband
5 6 (1.52%) DNS
5 6 (1.52%) IPv4
5 6 (1.52%) IPv6
5 6 (1.52%) PPP
5 6 (1.52%) UPnP
5 6 (1.52%) xDSL
6 5 (1.26%) Wireless
7 2 (0.51%) Internet
7 2 (0.51%) RTP
7 2 (0.51%) SAN
7 2 (0.51%) VPN
7 2 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 20 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.78%) Power BI
7 10 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.27%) Big Data
8 9 (2.27%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.77%) Presto
10 6 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.52%) MySQL
11 5 (1.26%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.01%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.01%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 89 (22.47%) Git
2 83 (20.96%) Jenkins
3 46 (11.62%) GitLab
4 39 (9.85%) Selenium
5 32 (8.08%) JIRA
6 29 (7.32%) Cucumber
7 24 (6.06%) JUnit
8 21 (5.30%) Visual Studio
9 19 (4.80%) Cypress.io
9 19 (4.80%) Maven
9 19 (4.80%) Postman
10 16 (4.04%) REST Assured
11 12 (3.03%) Eclipse
12 11 (2.78%) Gradle
12 11 (2.78%) JMeter
13 10 (2.53%) Mockito
13 10 (2.53%) SonarQube
14 9 (2.27%) TestNG
14 9 (2.27%) XCUITest
15 8 (2.02%) XCTest
General
1 135 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 53 (13.38%) Finance
4 46 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.56%) Banking
6 17 (4.29%) Military
7 14 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.02%) Local Government
10 6 (1.52%) Front Office
10 6 (1.52%) Legal
11 5 (1.26%) Games
11 5 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.26%) Law
11 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.01%) Electronics
12 4 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Retail
13 3 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (26.52%) Developer
2 65 (16.41%) Senior
3 37 (9.34%) Software Engineer
4 32 (8.08%) Test Engineer
5 31 (7.83%) Architect
6 30 (7.58%) Java Developer
7 27 (6.82%) Scala Engineer
8 22 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 20 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.29%) Lead
12 16 (4.04%) Analyst
12 16 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.54%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.54%) Scala Developer
14 13 (3.28%) Backend Developer
14 13 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.03%) Test Analyst
16 10 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (2.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.17%) Terraform
2 51 (12.88%) RESTful
3 49 (12.37%) Node.js
4 46 (11.62%) Spring
5 44 (11.11%) REST
6 43 (10.86%) React
7 42 (10.61%) Spring Boot
8 38 (9.60%) Play Framework
9 32 (8.08%) Kafka
10 31 (7.83%) Playwright
11 25 (6.31%) HTML
12 23 (5.81%) CSS
13 22 (5.56%) .NET
13 22 (5.56%) Web Services
14 20 (5.05%) AngularJS
14 20 (5.05%) YAML
15 12 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
16 9 (2.27%) JPA
16 9 (2.27%) JSON
16 9 (2.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.87%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.28%) Blog
5 13 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.53%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.02%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.52%) Wiki
12 5 (1.26%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.26%) PKI
13 4 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 77 (19.44%) Linux
2 45 (11.36%) Windows
3 24 (6.06%) Unix
4 10 (2.53%) VMS
5 9 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.76%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) AIX
8 2 (0.51%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) macOS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (73.74%) CI/CD
2 289 (72.98%) Agile
3 190 (47.98%) Test Automation
4 152 (38.38%) DevOps
5 129 (32.58%) Continuous Delivery
6 118 (29.80%) Containerisation
7 107 (27.02%) TDD
8 90 (22.73%) Software Engineering
9 89 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (21.21%) Microservices
11 81 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (19.70%) Scrum
13 66 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 62 (15.66%) Continuous Deployment
15 60 (15.15%) Observability
16 59 (14.90%) Software Testing
17 54 (13.64%) Validation
18 52 (13.13%) Data Protection
19 47 (11.87%) Clean Code
20 46 (11.62%) AI
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.57%) Python
2 103 (26.01%) Java
3 92 (23.23%) SQL
4 73 (18.43%) JavaScript
5 44 (11.11%) Scala
6 42 (10.61%) C#
7 35 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 34 (8.59%) Bash
9 30 (7.58%) PowerShell
10 25 (6.31%) C++
11 12 (3.03%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.53%) Go
13 9 (2.27%) Perl
14 8 (2.02%) C
14 8 (2.02%) Swift
15 6 (1.52%) Apex Code
15 6 (1.52%) Ruby
16 4 (1.01%) Groovy
16 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
16 4 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 160 (40.40%) Security Cleared
2 118 (29.80%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.10%) DV Cleared
4 36 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (7.07%) Degree
6 17 (4.29%) ISTQB
7 13 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.01%) CCSP
10 4 (1.01%) CISSP
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) MOS
12 2 (0.51%) SANS
13 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (16.92%) QA
2 48 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.52%) WCAG
6 3 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 3 (0.76%) NIST
6 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.51%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) GLBA
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 93 (23.48%) Docker
2 18 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.76%) Postfix
6 3 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
8 1 (0.25%) Samba
Systems Management
1 88 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 63 (15.91%) Grafana
3 28 (7.07%) Ansible
4 25 (6.31%) Kibana
5 17 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.79%) Argo
7 8 (2.02%) Puppet
7 8 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.26%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.76%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.51%) Nagios
12 2 (0.51%) Salt
13 1 (0.25%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.25%) linkerd
13 1 (0.25%) OpenNMS
13 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 50 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.33%) Google
3 23 (5.81%) Splunk
4 19 (4.80%) VMware
5 15 (3.79%) Oracle
6 13 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.02%) Databricks
10 7 (1.77%) SAP
11 6 (1.52%) Cisco
11 6 (1.52%) Conga
11 6 (1.52%) GoCardless
11 6 (1.52%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.26%) Blue Prism
12 5 (1.26%) IBM
13 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.01%) Informatica
13 4 (1.01%) Jaspersoft