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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 147 130
Rank change year-on-year -199 -17 -13
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 300 568 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.94% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.14% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 361 496
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £414 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £690
90th Percentile £681 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 46
10th Percentile £53.56 £26.31 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile £66.13 £66.75 £65.63
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 39,015 26,568 37,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.69% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,668 17,198 24,355
10th Percentile £316 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,023 2,389
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.92 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.28% -12.12% -8.65%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -194 265 £523 -2.06% 108
UK excluding London -166 145 £490 -2.00% 83
London -142 119 £537 -10.50% 37
Work from Home -131 80 £516 -3.86% 41
North of England -99 43 £500 -4.76% 25
South East -89 35 £509 +1.80% 11
Yorkshire -51 26 £521 -25.54% 1
Midlands -60 25 £475 - 7
West Midlands -49 24 £475 -5.00% 7
East of England -20 21 £600 +24.03% 9
South West -39 18 £425 -5.56% 21
North West -70 16 £392 -21.62% 14
Scotland -23 4 £414 -12.10% 8
North East -26 2 £400 -38.46% 10
East Midlands -39 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 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.00%) Apache
4 5 (1.67%) Confluence
4 5 (1.67%) JBoss
4 5 (1.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.67%) Mule
5 2 (0.67%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.67%) SAS
5 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.33%) Moodle
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 124 (41.33%) AWS
2 93 (31.00%) Azure
3 50 (16.67%) GitHub
4 36 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (11.67%) Serverless
6 34 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (9.67%) GCP
8 26 (8.67%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.67%) IaaS
16 10 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (3.00%) Power Platform
18 8 (2.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (5.67%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.67%) DNS
3 5 (1.67%) IPsec
3 5 (1.67%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.67%) SSL
4 4 (1.33%) Firewall
4 4 (1.33%) VPN
5 3 (1.00%) HTTP
5 3 (1.00%) Modbus
5 3 (1.00%) RS-232
5 3 (1.00%) RS-422
5 3 (1.00%) RS-485
5 3 (1.00%) VSAN
6 2 (0.67%) DHCP
6 2 (0.67%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.67%) RTMP
6 2 (0.67%) SAN
6 2 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (5.33%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.00%) Big Data
8 9 (3.00%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.67%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.33%) Power BI
10 7 (2.33%) Presto
11 6 (2.00%) MySQL
12 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.33%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.33%) SQLite
14 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (24.67%) Git
2 71 (23.67%) Jenkins
3 39 (13.00%) GitLab
4 29 (9.67%) JUnit
5 21 (7.00%) Eclipse
5 21 (7.00%) Selenium
6 18 (6.00%) JIRA
7 16 (5.33%) Cucumber
8 15 (5.00%) Visual Studio
9 14 (4.67%) Maven
10 13 (4.33%) Mockito
10 13 (4.33%) SonarQube
11 12 (4.00%) Gradle
12 10 (3.33%) Cypress.io
13 9 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (2.67%) DbUnit
14 8 (2.67%) jMock
15 7 (2.33%) CircleCI
15 7 (2.33%) JMeter
15 7 (2.33%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (13.67%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.67%) Finance
4 21 (7.00%) Banking
5 17 (5.67%) Military
6 15 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.00%) Front Office
9 4 (1.33%) Electronics
9 4 (1.33%) Law
9 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Local Government
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (30.33%) Developer
2 52 (17.33%) Senior
3 43 (14.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (9.67%) Java Developer
5 27 (9.00%) Software Engineer
6 22 (7.33%) Lead
7 21 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.33%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.00%) Architect
11 12 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.67%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.33%) Administrator
13 10 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.00%) Senior Technical Architect
14 9 (3.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.33%) Web Services
2 44 (14.67%) Node.js
3 38 (12.67%) Spring
4 37 (12.33%) REST
5 36 (12.00%) RESTful
6 27 (9.00%) React
7 24 (8.00%) Spring Boot
8 23 (7.67%) CSS
8 23 (7.67%) HTML
9 21 (7.00%) .NET
10 19 (6.33%) Kafka
11 16 (5.33%) SOAP
12 15 (5.00%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.67%) JSON
13 14 (4.67%) Play Framework
14 13 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (4.33%) Hibernate
15 10 (3.33%) Bootstrap
15 10 (3.33%) HTML5
15 10 (3.33%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.33%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.33%) Legacy Code
6 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.67%) Derivative
8 5 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.33%) Equities
9 4 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 76 (25.33%) Linux
2 42 (14.00%) Windows
3 21 (7.00%) Unix
4 10 (3.33%) Android
5 7 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.00%) VMS
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.33%) AIX
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (65.33%) CI/CD
2 193 (64.33%) Agile
3 137 (45.67%) DevOps
4 103 (34.33%) Test Automation
5 89 (29.67%) Microservices
6 83 (27.67%) TDD
7 79 (26.33%) Continuous Delivery
8 73 (24.33%) Containerisation
9 68 (22.67%) Software Engineering
10 63 (21.00%) Scrum
11 58 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (13.00%) Design Patterns
14 37 (12.33%) Code Quality
14 37 (12.33%) Continuous Deployment
15 36 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 34 (11.33%) SDLC
16 34 (11.33%) Unit Testing
17 32 (10.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 109 (36.33%) Python
2 87 (29.00%) Java
3 84 (28.00%) SQL
4 56 (18.67%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.67%) C#
6 24 (8.00%) C++
7 21 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.33%) Bash
8 16 (5.33%) Scala
9 13 (4.33%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.67%) Go
12 7 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.33%) Ruby
13 6 (2.00%) C
13 6 (2.00%) Swift
14 3 (1.00%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 80 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.33%) Degree
4 21 (7.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.00%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.33%) ISEB
13 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.33%) QA
2 12 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.00%) NCSC
3 3 (1.00%) NIST
3 3 (1.00%) WCAG
4 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (27.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Postfix
3 6 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.67%) RACF
4 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.67%) SRDF
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (20.00%) Terraform
2 51 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (13.67%) Grafana
4 20 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.33%) Ansible
6 18 (6.00%) Puppet
7 10 (3.33%) Kibana
8 9 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.00%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.00%) Rancher
11 2 (0.67%) Podman
12 1 (0.33%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.33%) Consul
12 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.33%) Istio
12 1 (0.33%) logstash
12 1 (0.33%) Salt
12 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.00%) Splunk
3 13 (4.33%) Google
4 12 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.00%) Databricks
4 12 (4.00%) Oracle
5 8 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.33%) VMware
7 5 (1.67%) Cisco
7 5 (1.67%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.33%) webMethods
9 3 (1.00%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.00%) New Relic
9 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.67%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.67%) HP
10 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.67%) TOWER Software