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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 124 149
Rank change year-on-year -131 +25 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 402 682 741
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 2.04% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.31% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 426 486
10th Percentile £363 £382 £406
25th Percentile £420 £433 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -0.86%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £683
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £552
% change year-on-year - -9.38% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 48
10th Percentile £55.87 £26.32 -
25th Percentile - £26.81 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.04
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
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 32,632 29,487 37,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.11% 88.32% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,578 17,975 25,172
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,027 953 1,511
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £53.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.69 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.33% +40.63%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -133 332 £525 -4.55% 622
UK excluding London -103 211 £500 - 577
London -97 142 £550 -8.33% 102
Work from Home -75 137 £509 -3.05% 256
North of England -73 70 £516 -1.67% 135
Yorkshire -40 50 £516 -18.06% 57
South East -44 50 £528 +5.50% 149
Midlands -43 39 £525 -4.55% 97
West Midlands -40 36 £525 -4.55% 52
Scotland +12 28 £522 +11.55% 30
East of England -25 18 £475 -5.00% 91
South West -27 13 £450 -32.58% 60
North West -49 13 £389 -15.95% 65
North East -14 8 £520 -5.45% 14
Wales -15 4 £463 -13.95% 19
East Midlands -13 3 £340 -34.88% 41

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 27 (6.72%) Confluence
2 19 (4.73%) WebLogic
3 11 (2.74%) Apache
3 11 (2.74%) JBoss
4 4 (1.00%) Mule
5 3 (0.75%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.25%) CICS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 172 (42.79%) AWS
2 108 (26.87%) Azure
3 78 (19.40%) GCP
4 60 (14.93%) GitHub
5 56 (13.93%) Serverless
6 48 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.48%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 12 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.99%) IaaS
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.74%) Snowflake
14 10 (2.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.72%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.23%) Firewall
3 15 (3.73%) Ethernet
4 14 (3.48%) DNS
5 8 (1.99%) HTTP
5 8 (1.99%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.00%) Internet
6 4 (1.00%) Network Security
7 3 (0.75%) DHCP
8 2 (0.50%) Multicast
8 2 (0.50%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) FCoE
9 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.25%) NAS
9 1 (0.25%) SAN
9 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 49 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 29 (7.21%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.47%) Relational Database
6 21 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.49%) MySQL
7 10 (2.49%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.24%) Big Data
9 8 (1.99%) Power BI
10 7 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.49%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.00%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 117 (29.10%) Jenkins
2 109 (27.11%) Git
3 72 (17.91%) GitLab
4 51 (12.69%) JIRA
5 30 (7.46%) Liquibase
6 25 (6.22%) Eclipse
7 24 (5.97%) Selenium
8 22 (5.47%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.98%) JUnit
10 17 (4.23%) Cypress.io
11 16 (3.98%) Visual Studio
12 14 (3.48%) CircleCI
13 13 (3.23%) Bitbucket
13 13 (3.23%) Gradle
14 12 (2.99%) SonarQube
15 11 (2.74%) IntelliJ
16 10 (2.49%) Maven
16 10 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
17 9 (2.24%) Postman
18 8 (1.99%) JMeter
General
1 140 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.91%) Finance
3 56 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 50 (12.44%) Banking
5 41 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.22%) Financial Institution
7 22 (5.47%) Military
8 15 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Automotive
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Front Office
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (29.60%) Developer
2 69 (17.16%) Senior
3 64 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (12.44%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.97%) Java Developer
5 28 (6.97%) Lead
6 25 (6.22%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.98%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (3.73%) Architect
11 15 (3.73%) C++ Software Engineer
11 15 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (3.48%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) Technical Architect
14 12 (2.99%) Technical Leader
15 11 (2.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (19.40%) RESTful
2 72 (17.91%) REST
3 62 (15.42%) Node.js
4 51 (12.69%) React
5 49 (12.19%) Elastic Stack
6 40 (9.95%) Spring
7 36 (8.96%) HTML
8 34 (8.46%) Kafka
8 34 (8.46%) Web Services
9 33 (8.21%) CSS
10 32 (7.96%) .NET
11 21 (5.22%) JSON
11 21 (5.22%) Spring Boot
12 18 (4.48%) HTML5
13 17 (4.23%) Play Framework
14 16 (3.98%) Playwright
14 16 (3.98%) XML
15 15 (3.73%) J2EE
15 15 (3.73%) SOAP
16 12 (2.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.48%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.49%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 101 (25.12%) Linux
2 48 (11.94%) Windows
3 23 (5.72%) Unix
4 13 (3.23%) Android
5 9 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.75%) CentOS
8 3 (0.75%) Solaris
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.25%) MVS
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
10 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (75.37%) CI/CD
2 258 (64.18%) Agile
3 197 (49.00%) DevOps
4 149 (37.06%) Continuous Delivery
5 126 (31.34%) Microservices
6 122 (30.35%) Test Automation
7 105 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 101 (25.12%) TDD
9 100 (24.88%) Containerisation
10 97 (24.13%) Software Engineering
11 85 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (17.41%) Continuous Deployment
13 66 (16.42%) Computer Science
14 54 (13.43%) Scrum
15 53 (13.18%) Design Patterns
16 45 (11.19%) Unit Testing
17 43 (10.70%) Infrastructure Automation
18 42 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 41 (10.20%) Code Quality
19 41 (10.20%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 137 (34.08%) Python
2 102 (25.37%) Java
3 79 (19.65%) SQL
4 70 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 54 (13.43%) C#
6 53 (13.18%) Go
7 47 (11.69%) TypeScript
8 30 (7.46%) Bash
9 29 (7.21%) C++
10 20 (4.98%) Scala
11 17 (4.23%) PowerShell
12 14 (3.48%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.24%) Perl
14 8 (1.99%) Ruby
14 8 (1.99%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.74%) Swift
16 6 (1.49%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 5 (1.24%) JSX
17 5 (1.24%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 69 (17.16%) Degree
4 55 (13.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (7.46%) Master's Degree
6 18 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.49%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.49%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.50%) CISM
15 1 (0.25%) ISEB
15 1 (0.25%) OCP
15 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.45%) QA
2 20 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) NCSC
4 3 (0.75%) WCAG
5 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 121 (30.10%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) RACF
7 1 (0.25%) SRDF
7 1 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 125 (31.09%) Kubernetes
2 111 (27.61%) Terraform
3 71 (17.66%) Grafana
4 57 (14.18%) Ansible
4 57 (14.18%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.47%) Puppet
6 8 (1.99%) CSIRT
6 8 (1.99%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.74%) Kibana
8 3 (0.75%) Consul
9 2 (0.50%) Argo
9 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.50%) logstash
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.50%) Packer
9 2 (0.50%) Podman
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) SCCM
10 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (13.43%) Microsoft
1 54 (13.43%) Splunk
2 37 (9.20%) Google
3 23 (5.72%) Oracle
4 18 (4.48%) Databricks
5 15 (3.73%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.99%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.24%) F5
7 9 (2.24%) webMethods
8 7 (1.74%) Apple
9 6 (1.49%) GoldenSource
9 6 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.49%) VMware
10 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.24%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.00%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.75%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.50%) CyberArk