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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 124 142
Rank change year-on-year -105 +18 -52
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 442 729 868
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.97% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.28% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 442 598
10th Percentile £363 £371 £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 £620 £650 £688
90th Percentile £742 £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 24 50
10th Percentile £61.25 £26.69 £64.93
25th Percentile - £62.38 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £65.25 £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 31,979 31,998 41,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.50% 86.61% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,013 19,257 27,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,115 1,171 1,588
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -109 373 £528 -1.86% 171
UK excluding London -92 231 £500 - 127
Work from Home -37 167 £525 +1.94% 111
London -69 161 £550 -4.35% 58
North of England -57 76 £519 +3.75% 26
Yorkshire -25 48 £516 -18.06% 6
Midlands -41 45 £500 -4.31% 17
South East -44 43 £530 +6.00% 51
West Midlands -31 42 £500 -2.44% 13
Scotland +4 33 £550 +20.55% 1
East of England -26 27 £475 -9.52% 18
North West -46 21 £406 +1.56% 19
South West -35 14 £525 -21.35% 17
North East -10 8 £520 +22.35% 2
Wales -13 4 £463 -13.95% 4
East Midlands -8 3 £340 -34.88% 4

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 31 (7.01%) Confluence
2 19 (4.30%) WebLogic
3 14 (3.17%) Apache
3 14 (3.17%) JBoss
4 4 (0.90%) Mule
4 4 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.68%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.68%) Simulink
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.23%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 193 (43.67%) AWS
2 110 (24.89%) Azure
3 78 (17.65%) GCP
4 67 (15.16%) GitHub
5 52 (11.76%) Serverless
6 51 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.49%) IaaS
15 10 (2.26%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.37%) TCP/IP
2 22 (4.98%) Ethernet
3 17 (3.85%) Firewall
4 13 (2.94%) DNS
5 9 (2.04%) Network Security
6 8 (1.81%) Wireshark
7 6 (1.36%) HTTP
8 4 (0.90%) LAN
8 4 (0.90%) WAN
9 3 (0.68%) DHCP
9 3 (0.68%) Internet
10 2 (0.45%) Multicast
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.23%) FCoE
11 1 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.23%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.23%) NAS
11 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.23%) SSL
11 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (12.67%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 27 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.49%) MySQL
7 10 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.81%) Big Data
9 8 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.58%) Power BI
11 6 (1.36%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.13%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 141 (31.90%) Jenkins
2 123 (27.83%) Git
3 69 (15.61%) GitLab
4 64 (14.48%) JIRA
5 38 (8.60%) Liquibase
6 32 (7.24%) Eclipse
7 27 (6.11%) Visual Studio
8 25 (5.66%) JUnit
9 23 (5.20%) Selenium
10 22 (4.98%) Cucumber
11 19 (4.30%) SonarQube
12 18 (4.07%) CircleCI
13 17 (3.85%) Bitbucket
13 17 (3.85%) Cypress.io
14 15 (3.39%) Maven
15 13 (2.94%) Gradle
16 12 (2.71%) IntelliJ
17 10 (2.26%) Mockito
17 10 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
18 9 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 161 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.00%) Finance
3 61 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 50 (11.31%) Banking
5 47 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (6.79%) Military
7 27 (6.11%) Financial Institution
8 21 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.04%) Law
11 7 (1.58%) Front Office
12 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.45%) Automotive
15 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Retail
16 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (29.86%) Developer
2 80 (18.10%) Senior
3 59 (13.35%) Software Engineer
4 57 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (8.37%) Java Developer
6 31 (7.01%) Lead
6 31 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.11%) Architect
8 23 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (4.75%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.52%) C++ Software Engineer
11 19 (4.30%) Technical Architect
12 16 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.17%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (19.91%) RESTful
2 79 (17.87%) REST
3 69 (15.61%) Node.js
4 54 (12.22%) React
5 48 (10.86%) Spring
6 47 (10.63%) Elastic Stack
7 45 (10.18%) Web Services
8 43 (9.73%) Kafka
9 36 (8.14%) HTML
10 33 (7.47%) CSS
11 31 (7.01%) Spring Boot
12 29 (6.56%) .NET
13 20 (4.52%) JSON
14 19 (4.30%) SOAP
15 18 (4.07%) HTML5
16 17 (3.85%) Hibernate
16 17 (3.85%) Play Framework
17 15 (3.39%) AngularJS
17 15 (3.39%) Playwright
18 14 (3.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.09%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (10.18%) Cloud Native
3 37 (8.37%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.81%) Derivative
11 7 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.36%) CAN bus
12 6 (1.36%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 119 (26.92%) Linux
2 61 (13.80%) Windows
3 25 (5.66%) Unix
4 16 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.94%) Android
6 10 (2.26%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.36%) CentOS
9 3 (0.68%) Solaris
10 2 (0.45%) Debian
10 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) MVS
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
11 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (74.21%) CI/CD
2 282 (63.80%) Agile
3 207 (46.83%) DevOps
4 163 (36.88%) Continuous Delivery
5 133 (30.09%) Microservices
6 130 (29.41%) TDD
7 126 (28.51%) Test Automation
8 114 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 113 (25.57%) Software Engineering
10 100 (22.62%) Containerisation
11 98 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (16.74%) Continuous Deployment
13 71 (16.06%) Computer Science
14 62 (14.03%) Scrum
15 55 (12.44%) Design Patterns
16 51 (11.54%) Unit Testing
17 49 (11.09%) Code Quality
18 48 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
19 44 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
20 42 (9.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 153 (34.62%) Python
2 126 (28.51%) Java
3 88 (19.91%) SQL
4 83 (18.78%) JavaScript
5 62 (14.03%) C#
6 61 (13.80%) Go
7 60 (13.57%) TypeScript
8 44 (9.95%) Bash
8 44 (9.95%) C++
9 21 (4.75%) Perl
9 21 (4.75%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.52%) Kotlin
10 20 (4.52%) Scala
11 7 (1.58%) Bicep
11 7 (1.58%) Swift
12 6 (1.36%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.13%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 117 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 76 (17.19%) Degree
4 58 (13.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (7.24%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.52%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.90%) CISSP
12 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.45%) CISM
13 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.23%) OCP
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.60%) QA
2 20 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.90%) NCSC
5 3 (0.68%) WCAG
6 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 137 (31.00%) Docker
2 15 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.68%) Postfix
6 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) SRDF
8 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 115 (26.02%) Terraform
3 75 (16.97%) Grafana
4 62 (14.03%) Ansible
4 62 (14.03%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.52%) Puppet
6 11 (2.49%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.04%) Kibana
8 8 (1.81%) CSIRT
9 7 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.90%) Consul
10 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.90%) Packer
11 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.45%) Argo
12 2 (0.45%) Icinga
12 2 (0.45%) Nagios
12 2 (0.45%) Salt
13 1 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 60 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.67%) Splunk
3 37 (8.37%) Google
4 21 (4.75%) Oracle
5 20 (4.52%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.94%) Databricks
7 11 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.26%) VMware
9 9 (2.04%) F5
9 9 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.04%) webMethods
10 8 (1.81%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.58%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.58%) Apple
12 6 (1.36%) GoldenSource
13 5 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.90%) DocuSign
15 3 (0.68%) Cribl.io
15 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
15 3 (0.68%) PagerDuty