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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 156 118
Rank change year-on-year -212 -38 +2
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 272 529 817
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.83% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 2.01% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 343 526
10th Percentile £389 £355 £360
25th Percentile £438 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £688
90th Percentile £676 £715 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 53
10th Percentile £53.56 £44.19 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.19 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £66.13 £69.38 -
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 40,111 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,183 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -197 246 £525 - 102
UK excluding London -156 149 £500 +5.26% 71
London -159 97 £550 -4.76% 31
Work from Home -141 62 £500 -6.28% 46
North of England -90 42 £500 - 13
South East -85 35 £509 +1.80% 13
South West -32 28 £525 +33.93% 22
Yorkshire -44 26 £525 -2.33% 4
East of England -27 21 £495 -1.00% 13
Midlands -62 21 £469 +1.41% 7
West Midlands -48 20 £469 -2.55% 7
North West -67 15 £425 -10.53% 7
Scotland -22 3 £500 +6.10% 3
North East -20 2 £400 -33.33% 3
East Midlands -40 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 18 (6.62%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.94%) Confluence
4 5 (1.84%) SAS
4 5 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) Mule
5 2 (0.74%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) Moodle
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.37%) Findur
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (40.07%) AWS
2 79 (29.04%) Azure
3 42 (15.44%) GitHub
4 32 (11.76%) Serverless
5 27 (9.93%) GCP
6 26 (9.56%) Amazon S3
6 26 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (4.78%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.78%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.31%) AWS KMS
15 9 (3.31%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.88%) Ethernet
1 16 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.84%) IPsec
2 5 (1.84%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.84%) SSL
3 4 (1.47%) DNS
3 4 (1.47%) VPN
4 3 (1.10%) Firewall
4 3 (1.10%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) Modbus
4 3 (1.10%) RS-232
4 3 (1.10%) RS-422
4 3 (1.10%) RS-485
4 3 (1.10%) SAN
4 3 (1.10%) VSAN
5 2 (0.74%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.74%) Network Security
5 2 (0.74%) RTMP
5 2 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.40%) NoSQL
2 29 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (7.35%) MongoDB
5 17 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (5.15%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.68%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.31%) Big Data
8 9 (3.31%) Power BI
8 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.94%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.57%) Presto
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.21%) MySQL
12 5 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (1.47%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 60 (22.06%) Git
2 55 (20.22%) Jenkins
3 40 (14.71%) GitLab
4 23 (8.46%) JUnit
5 16 (5.88%) Eclipse
5 16 (5.88%) Gradle
5 16 (5.88%) JIRA
6 14 (5.15%) Maven
6 14 (5.15%) SonarQube
6 14 (5.15%) Visual Studio
7 13 (4.78%) Mockito
8 12 (4.41%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.04%) Selenium
10 10 (3.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (3.31%) DbUnit
11 9 (3.31%) jMock
12 7 (2.57%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.84%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.84%) XCTest
13 5 (1.84%) XCUITest
General
1 66 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.40%) Finance
5 17 (6.25%) Banking
6 16 (5.88%) Military
7 13 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.21%) Front Office
9 4 (1.47%) Electronics
9 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Law
10 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.10%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (32.72%) Developer
2 44 (16.18%) Senior
3 34 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.03%) Java Developer
5 25 (9.19%) Lead
6 24 (8.82%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.88%) Architect
10 15 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
11 12 (4.41%) Technical Architect
12 11 (4.04%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.68%) Administrator
14 9 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (3.31%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.31%) Senior Technical Architect
15 8 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (2.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.54%) Web Services
2 41 (15.07%) Node.js
3 30 (11.03%) RESTful
4 28 (10.29%) Spring
4 28 (10.29%) Spring Boot
5 26 (9.56%) REST
6 22 (8.09%) CSS
6 22 (8.09%) React
7 21 (7.72%) .NET
7 21 (7.72%) HTML
8 19 (6.99%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.78%) SOAP
10 11 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (4.04%) JPA
10 11 (4.04%) Kafka
11 10 (3.68%) Bootstrap
11 10 (3.68%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.31%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (3.31%) JSON
12 9 (3.31%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.31%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.57%) Legacy Code
5 7 (2.57%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.57%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.84%) Derivative
7 5 (1.84%) Equities
7 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.63%) Linux
2 35 (12.87%) Windows
3 16 (5.88%) Unix
4 10 (3.68%) Android
5 7 (2.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.74%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) AIX
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (66.91%) Agile
2 178 (65.44%) CI/CD
3 120 (44.12%) DevOps
4 92 (33.82%) Test Automation
5 77 (28.31%) Microservices
6 69 (25.37%) TDD
7 68 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 66 (24.26%) Continuous Delivery
9 65 (23.90%) Software Engineering
10 58 (21.32%) Scrum
11 44 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (11.40%) Unit Testing
16 29 (10.66%) AI
16 29 (10.66%) Design Patterns
16 29 (10.66%) Kanban
17 28 (10.29%) Code Quality
18 27 (9.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 89 (32.72%) Python
2 82 (30.15%) SQL
3 76 (27.94%) Java
4 50 (18.38%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.71%) C#
6 22 (8.09%) C++
7 14 (5.15%) Bash
7 14 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.78%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.31%) Scala
9 9 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.57%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.21%) C
11 6 (2.21%) Swift
12 5 (1.84%) Ruby
13 4 (1.47%) Bicep
13 4 (1.47%) Go
14 3 (1.10%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.56%) Degree
4 17 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.37%) ISEB
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.71%) QA
2 16 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.10%) NCSC
4 3 (1.10%) NIST
4 3 (1.10%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (22.79%) Docker
2 9 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.94%) Postfix
4 5 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.84%) RACF
4 5 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.74%) SRDF
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (20.22%) Terraform
2 44 (16.18%) Grafana
3 39 (14.34%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.99%) Ansible
5 18 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.04%) Puppet
6 11 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.68%) Kibana
8 6 (2.21%) Argo
8 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.74%) Podman
10 2 (0.74%) Rancher
11 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.37%) logstash
11 1 (0.37%) Nagios
11 1 (0.37%) Salt
11 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.99%) Splunk
3 15 (5.51%) Google
3 15 (5.51%) Oracle
4 11 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.68%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.68%) VMware
6 9 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.94%) Cisco
7 8 (2.94%) Databricks
8 6 (2.21%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.21%) Informatica
9 4 (1.47%) Denodo
10 3 (1.10%) New Relic
10 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.74%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.74%) HP
11 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.74%) TOWER Software