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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 146 151
Rank change year-on-year -147 +5 -44
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 370 571 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.87% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.07% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 364 450
10th Percentile £362 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -8.70% -0.86%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £700
90th Percentile £739 £745 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 55
10th Percentile £56.09 £26.29 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.41 £64.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.66% -57.92% -
75th Percentile - £64.38 £66.25
90th Percentile - £74.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 36,087 27,535 38,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 89.98% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,916 17,126 25,279
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £739 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 888 2,215
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £72.71 £75.08 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -141 322 £520 -4.90% 100
UK excluding London -118 198 £500 - 79
London -114 128 £534 -11.08% 34
Work from Home -96 105 £509 -3.05% 52
North of England -79 67 £519 -1.19% 24
South East -57 50 £517 +3.40% 15
Yorkshire -45 48 £525 -4.55% 11
Midlands -37 40 £475 -8.87% 8
West Midlands -28 38 £478 -4.50% 7
East of England -11 24 £600 +28.34% 10
South West -39 19 £425 -33.59% 19
North West -63 15 £361 -25.86% 7
Scotland -14 7 £550 +17.96% 1
North East -20 6 £550 -8.33% 6
Wales -14 2 - - 4
East Midlands -24 2 £413 -21.05% 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 11 (2.97%) Apache
2 9 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.43%) Confluence
2 9 (2.43%) JBoss
2 9 (2.43%) WebLogic
3 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.27%) Moodle
5 1 (0.27%) Mule
5 1 (0.27%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 151 (40.81%) AWS
2 96 (25.95%) Azure
3 60 (16.22%) GitHub
4 52 (14.05%) GCP
5 50 (13.51%) Serverless
6 46 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.86%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.78%) IaaS
13 13 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.24%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (2.97%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.95%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.14%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.70%) Firewall
4 6 (1.62%) DNS
5 5 (1.35%) IPsec
5 5 (1.35%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.35%) SSL
5 5 (1.35%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.81%) DHCP
6 3 (0.81%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) Modbus
6 3 (0.81%) RS-232
6 3 (0.81%) RS-422
6 3 (0.81%) RS-485
7 2 (0.54%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.54%) RTMP
7 2 (0.54%) SAN
7 2 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.54%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.78%) NoSQL
2 44 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.16%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (1.89%) Big Data
9 7 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.62%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.62%) MySQL
11 5 (1.35%) Power BI
12 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.81%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.81%) Redis
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (26.49%) Git
2 95 (25.68%) Jenkins
3 68 (18.38%) GitLab
4 30 (8.11%) JUnit
5 27 (7.30%) Eclipse
5 27 (7.30%) JIRA
6 22 (5.95%) Selenium
7 19 (5.14%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.59%) Liquibase
8 17 (4.59%) Visual Studio
9 16 (4.32%) Gradle
10 15 (4.05%) Cypress.io
10 15 (4.05%) Maven
11 11 (2.97%) SonarQube
12 10 (2.70%) IntelliJ
12 10 (2.70%) Mockito
13 9 (2.43%) CircleCI
13 9 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (2.16%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 123 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.49%) Finance
3 49 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.54%) Banking
6 21 (5.68%) Military
7 20 (5.41%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Front Office
11 3 (0.81%) Electronics
11 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.81%) Law
11 3 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.81%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (28.38%) Developer
2 68 (18.38%) Senior
3 57 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (13.51%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.03%) Java Developer
6 24 (6.49%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (5.14%) Lead
9 15 (4.05%) C# Software Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) GCP Engineer
10 14 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Python Developer
11 13 (3.51%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.24%) C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (3.24%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (18.65%) REST
2 55 (14.86%) RESTful
3 51 (13.78%) Node.js
4 50 (13.51%) Web Services
5 40 (10.81%) React
6 38 (10.27%) Spring
7 33 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.49%) .NET
9 23 (6.22%) HTML
10 22 (5.95%) Kafka
11 21 (5.68%) CSS
11 21 (5.68%) Spring Boot
12 19 (5.14%) SOAP
13 17 (4.59%) JSON
14 16 (4.32%) Play Framework
14 16 (4.32%) Playwright
15 15 (4.05%) Hibernate
15 15 (4.05%) HTML5
16 14 (3.78%) AngularJS
17 13 (3.51%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.78%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.24%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.16%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.62%) CAN bus
11 6 (1.62%) Derivative
11 6 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.35%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 97 (26.22%) Linux
2 53 (14.32%) Windows
3 24 (6.49%) Unix
4 12 (3.24%) Android
5 8 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.54%) Solaris
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (68.11%) CI/CD
2 238 (64.32%) Agile
3 176 (47.57%) DevOps
4 122 (32.97%) Continuous Delivery
5 118 (31.89%) Test Automation
6 112 (30.27%) Microservices
7 92 (24.86%) Containerisation
7 92 (24.86%) Software Engineering
8 91 (24.59%) TDD
9 82 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 79 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (17.03%) Scrum
12 55 (14.86%) Computer Science
13 48 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (12.70%) Continuous Deployment
14 47 (12.70%) Design Patterns
15 43 (11.62%) Unit Testing
16 41 (11.08%) Analytics
17 37 (10.00%) SDLC
18 35 (9.46%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 130 (35.14%) Python
2 85 (22.97%) SQL
3 83 (22.43%) Java
4 62 (16.76%) JavaScript
5 55 (14.86%) C#
6 34 (9.19%) C++
7 33 (8.92%) Go
7 33 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.86%) Bash
8 18 (4.86%) Scala
9 16 (4.32%) Kotlin
10 15 (4.05%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.16%) Swift
12 6 (1.62%) Embedded C++
13 5 (1.35%) C
13 5 (1.35%) JSX
13 5 (1.35%) Ruby
14 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 92 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 62 (16.76%) Degree
4 47 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.49%) Master's Degree
6 17 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (4.05%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.51%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.62%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.27%) ISEB
15 1 (0.27%) OCP
15 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.35%) QA
2 16 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.54%) NCSC
4 2 (0.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) MiFID
5 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (27.84%) Docker
2 11 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.35%) RACF
5 4 (1.08%) Postfix
6 3 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.54%) SRDF
8 1 (0.27%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (21.89%) Kubernetes
2 80 (21.62%) Terraform
3 52 (14.05%) Grafana
4 39 (10.54%) Ansible
5 36 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.41%) Puppet
7 10 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.35%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.81%) Kibana
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.54%) Podman
11 1 (0.27%) Consul
11 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.27%) Istio
11 1 (0.27%) logstash
11 1 (0.27%) Rancher
11 1 (0.27%) SCCM
11 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.89%) Splunk
3 24 (6.49%) Google
4 15 (4.05%) Atlassian
4 15 (4.05%) Databricks
5 10 (2.70%) Oracle
6 9 (2.43%) webMethods
7 8 (2.16%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.89%) VMware
9 5 (1.35%) F5
9 5 (1.35%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.35%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.08%) Apple
11 3 (0.81%) Cisco
11 3 (0.81%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.81%) Foundry
11 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.81%) New Relic
11 3 (0.81%) TOWER Software