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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 126 141
Rank change year-on-year -101 +15 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 450 714 868
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.97% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.28% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 440 599
10th Percentile £363 £366 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -1.88%
75th Percentile £614 £648 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 50
10th Percentile £61.25 £29.70 £64.09
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.50 £71.97
90th Percentile - £67.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -98 382 £525 -1.69% 291
UK excluding London -82 240 £500 - 170
Work from Home -45 169 £518 +3.50% 155
London -76 160 £550 -4.35% 127
North of England -58 78 £518 +3.50% 34
Yorkshire -33 50 £515 -18.25% 7
Midlands -39 49 £482 -7.85% 17
West Midlands -35 44 £500 -4.76% 12
South East -36 43 £525 +5.00% 58
Scotland +12 33 £550 +23.60% 5
East of England -31 28 £500 -2.44% 32
North West -48 20 £410 +2.50% 25
South West -27 16 £525 -21.35% 27
North East -10 9 £535 +25.88% 3
East Midlands -15 5 £421 -19.47% 5
Wales -10 4 £463 -13.95% 3

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 32 (7.11%) Confluence
2 20 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 14 (3.11%) Apache
3 14 (3.11%) JBoss
4 4 (0.89%) Mule
4 4 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.67%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.67%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 201 (44.67%) AWS
2 119 (26.44%) Azure
3 79 (17.56%) GCP
4 68 (15.11%) GitHub
5 52 (11.56%) Serverless
6 51 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.22%) Amazon S3
8 19 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.67%) AWS KMS
13 11 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (2.44%) IaaS
14 10 (2.22%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 22 (4.89%) Ethernet
3 17 (3.78%) Firewall
4 12 (2.67%) DNS
5 9 (2.00%) Network Security
6 8 (1.78%) Wireshark
7 6 (1.33%) HTTP
8 5 (1.11%) Internet
9 4 (0.89%) LAN
9 4 (0.89%) WAN
10 2 (0.44%) DHCP
10 2 (0.44%) DMZ
10 2 (0.44%) Multicast
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) FCoE
11 1 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.22%) NAS
11 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (12.67%) NoSQL
3 31 (6.89%) MongoDB
4 29 (6.44%) SQL Server
5 28 (6.22%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.11%) MySQL
8 12 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.56%) Big Data
11 7 (1.56%) Power BI
12 6 (1.33%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.33%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.11%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 147 (32.67%) Jenkins
2 130 (28.89%) Git
3 70 (15.56%) GitLab
4 64 (14.22%) JIRA
5 39 (8.67%) Liquibase
6 32 (7.11%) Eclipse
7 28 (6.22%) Visual Studio
8 27 (6.00%) JUnit
9 24 (5.33%) Selenium
9 24 (5.33%) SonarQube
10 22 (4.89%) Cucumber
11 18 (4.00%) CircleCI
11 18 (4.00%) Maven
12 17 (3.78%) Bitbucket
12 17 (3.78%) Cypress.io
13 14 (3.11%) Gradle
14 13 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (2.67%) IntelliJ
16 10 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
16 10 (2.22%) Mockito
General
1 162 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.67%) Finance
3 62 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.89%) Banking
5 47 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (6.44%) Military
7 27 (6.00%) Financial Institution
8 21 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.00%) Law
11 6 (1.33%) Front Office
11 6 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.44%) Automotive
14 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 135 (30.00%) Developer
2 79 (17.56%) Senior
3 59 (13.11%) Software Engineer
4 56 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (8.44%) Java Developer
6 31 (6.89%) Lead
7 29 (6.44%) Architect
7 29 (6.44%) Senior Developer
8 24 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (4.67%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.44%) C++ Software Engineer
11 19 (4.22%) Technical Architect
12 17 (3.78%) Tester
13 16 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
13 16 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.33%) Automation Tester
14 15 (3.33%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (20.89%) RESTful
2 81 (18.00%) REST
3 71 (15.78%) Node.js
4 54 (12.00%) React
5 52 (11.56%) Spring
6 49 (10.89%) Web Services
7 46 (10.22%) Elastic Stack
8 43 (9.56%) Kafka
9 37 (8.22%) HTML
10 34 (7.56%) CSS
10 34 (7.56%) Spring Boot
11 29 (6.44%) .NET
12 20 (4.44%) SOAP
13 19 (4.22%) HTML5
13 19 (4.22%) JSON
14 18 (4.00%) Hibernate
15 17 (3.78%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.78%) Play Framework
16 15 (3.33%) XML
17 14 (3.11%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 37 (8.22%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.56%) Derivative
11 7 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.33%) CAN bus
12 6 (1.33%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.33%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 121 (26.89%) Linux
2 59 (13.11%) Windows
3 24 (5.33%) Unix
4 16 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.89%) Android
6 9 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.56%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.33%) CentOS
9 3 (0.67%) Solaris
10 2 (0.44%) Debian
10 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.22%) MVS
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (74.44%) CI/CD
2 280 (62.22%) Agile
3 210 (46.67%) DevOps
4 165 (36.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 138 (30.67%) Microservices
6 134 (29.78%) TDD
7 128 (28.44%) Test Automation
8 113 (25.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 112 (24.89%) Software Engineering
10 101 (22.44%) Containerisation
11 98 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (17.56%) Continuous Deployment
13 71 (15.78%) Computer Science
14 62 (13.78%) Scrum
15 56 (12.44%) Design Patterns
16 48 (10.67%) Code Quality
16 48 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
16 48 (10.67%) Unit Testing
17 43 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 42 (9.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 157 (34.89%) Python
2 132 (29.33%) Java
3 96 (21.33%) SQL
4 86 (19.11%) JavaScript
5 63 (14.00%) C#
5 63 (14.00%) Go
6 59 (13.11%) TypeScript
7 47 (10.44%) Bash
8 44 (9.78%) C++
9 23 (5.11%) Perl
10 21 (4.67%) PowerShell
11 20 (4.44%) Kotlin
11 20 (4.44%) Scala
12 7 (1.56%) Bicep
12 7 (1.56%) Swift
13 6 (1.33%) Embedded C++
14 5 (1.11%) JSX
14 5 (1.11%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.11%) R
14 5 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 98 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 76 (16.89%) Degree
4 58 (12.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (7.11%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CISSP
12 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.44%) CISM
15 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.22%) OCP
15 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.67%) QA
2 19 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.89%) NCSC
5 3 (0.67%) WCAG
6 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (31.56%) Docker
2 14 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.89%) Postfix
4 4 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
6 1 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.22%) SRDF
6 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 114 (25.33%) Terraform
3 74 (16.44%) Grafana
4 64 (14.22%) Ansible
5 62 (13.78%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.44%) Puppet
7 11 (2.44%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.78%) CSIRT
8 8 (1.78%) Kibana
9 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.89%) Consul
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.89%) Packer
11 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.44%) Argo
12 2 (0.44%) Icinga
12 2 (0.44%) Nagios
12 2 (0.44%) Salt
13 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.22%) Splunk
3 36 (8.00%) Google
4 22 (4.89%) Oracle
5 20 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.89%) Databricks
7 11 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.00%) F5
8 9 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.00%) VMware
8 9 (2.00%) webMethods
9 8 (1.78%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.56%) Apple
11 6 (1.33%) GoldenSource
12 5 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.89%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
14 3 (0.67%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.67%) PagerDuty