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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 144 152
Rank change year-on-year -167 +8 -45
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 360 577 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.88% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.09% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 376 464
10th Percentile £360 £365 £363
25th Percentile £413 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -0.86%
75th Percentile £605 £666 £689
90th Percentile £727 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 56
10th Percentile £55.87 £26.30 £60.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £26.46 £62.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.93 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -30.88% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 £65.31
90th Percentile - £71.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

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 36,884 27,639 38,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 90.19% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,378 17,377 25,379
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -2.58% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,184 915 2,310
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £58.64
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.95 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.30% -0.77% -7.14%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -147 314 £518 -5.91% 150
UK excluding London -114 191 £500 - 144
London -119 128 £530 -11.67% 39
Work from Home -112 102 £511 -2.71% 108
North of England -81 63 £520 -0.95% 42
South East -55 51 £517 +3.40% 25
Yorkshire -45 45 £525 -4.55% 15
Midlands -47 40 £475 -6.86% 10
West Midlands -33 38 £478 -4.50% 8
East of England -14 22 £600 +28.34% 16
South West -39 19 £425 -30.61% 25
North West -60 14 £360 -28.08% 15
North East -18 6 £550 -8.33% 12
Scotland -12 5 £500 +7.24% 17
Wales -8 2 - - 11
East Midlands -34 2 £413 -20.86% 2

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 (3.06%) Apache
2 10 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.50%) JBoss
3 9 (2.50%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.22%) Confluence
5 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) Moodle
7 1 (0.28%) Mule
7 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 145 (40.28%) AWS
2 95 (26.39%) Azure
3 58 (16.11%) GitHub
4 49 (13.61%) GCP
5 48 (13.33%) Serverless
6 44 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (4.72%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.89%) IaaS
12 13 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.33%) Snowflake
14 11 (3.06%) AWS KMS
15 10 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.78%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.72%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.06%) Firewall
4 6 (1.67%) DNS
5 5 (1.39%) IPsec
5 5 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.39%) SSL
5 5 (1.39%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.83%) DHCP
6 3 (0.83%) HTTP
6 3 (0.83%) Modbus
6 3 (0.83%) RS-232
6 3 (0.83%) RS-422
6 3 (0.83%) RS-485
6 3 (0.83%) VPN
7 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.56%) RTMP
7 2 (0.56%) SAN
7 2 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.61%) NoSQL
2 44 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.22%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.67%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.67%) MySQL
11 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.11%) Power BI
11 4 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.83%) Big Data
12 3 (0.83%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.83%) Redis
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 96 (26.67%) Git
2 90 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 65 (18.06%) GitLab
4 30 (8.33%) JUnit
5 26 (7.22%) JIRA
6 25 (6.94%) Eclipse
7 23 (6.39%) Selenium
8 20 (5.56%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.72%) Gradle
10 15 (4.17%) Maven
10 15 (4.17%) Visual Studio
11 14 (3.89%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.89%) Liquibase
12 10 (2.78%) IntelliJ
12 10 (2.78%) Mockito
13 9 (2.50%) CircleCI
13 9 (2.50%) SonarQube
14 8 (2.22%) REST Assured
14 8 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (1.94%) Postman
General
1 119 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.28%) Finance
3 49 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 43 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.56%) Banking
6 19 (5.28%) Military
7 17 (4.72%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Front Office
11 4 (1.11%) Electronics
12 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.83%) Law
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
14 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (28.33%) Developer
2 65 (18.06%) Senior
3 57 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (12.78%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.22%) Java Developer
6 23 (6.39%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (5.28%) Lead
9 15 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (3.89%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) C# Software Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Python Developer
12 12 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.06%) REST
2 51 (14.17%) RESTful
3 50 (13.89%) Node.js
4 48 (13.33%) Web Services
5 39 (10.83%) Spring
6 37 (10.28%) React
7 30 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (6.67%) .NET
9 22 (6.11%) HTML
9 22 (6.11%) Kafka
10 21 (5.83%) CSS
10 21 (5.83%) Spring Boot
11 19 (5.28%) SOAP
12 17 (4.72%) JSON
13 16 (4.44%) Play Framework
13 16 (4.44%) Playwright
14 15 (4.17%) Hibernate
14 15 (4.17%) HTML5
15 13 (3.61%) AngularJS
15 13 (3.61%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 36 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.83%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.06%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.22%) Legacy Code
8 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.67%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.67%) Derivative
10 6 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.11%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 92 (25.56%) Linux
2 50 (13.89%) Windows
3 24 (6.67%) Unix
4 12 (3.33%) Android
5 8 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (69.17%) CI/CD
2 230 (63.89%) Agile
3 173 (48.06%) DevOps
4 119 (33.06%) Test Automation
5 118 (32.78%) Continuous Delivery
6 109 (30.28%) Microservices
7 88 (24.44%) Containerisation
7 88 (24.44%) TDD
8 87 (24.17%) Software Engineering
9 80 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (17.50%) Scrum
12 48 (13.33%) Computer Science
12 48 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (12.78%) Continuous Deployment
13 46 (12.78%) Design Patterns
14 37 (10.28%) Analytics
14 37 (10.28%) Unit Testing
15 36 (10.00%) SDLC
16 35 (9.72%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 122 (33.89%) Python
2 85 (23.61%) SQL
3 84 (23.33%) Java
4 58 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 54 (15.00%) C#
6 32 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 29 (8.06%) C++
7 29 (8.06%) Go
8 18 (5.00%) Bash
8 18 (5.00%) Scala
9 16 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 14 (3.89%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.22%) Swift
13 6 (1.67%) C
13 6 (1.67%) Embedded C++
14 5 (1.39%) JSX
14 5 (1.39%) Ruby
15 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 92 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 55 (15.28%) Degree
4 40 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.83%) Master's Degree
6 18 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (3.89%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.67%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.28%) ISEB
14 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.22%) QA
2 16 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.56%) NCSC
4 2 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (27.50%) Docker
2 11 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.39%) RACF
5 4 (1.11%) Postfix
6 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.56%) SRDF
8 1 (0.28%) Firmware
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (21.39%) Terraform
2 76 (21.11%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.61%) Grafana
4 36 (10.00%) Ansible
5 33 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.83%) Puppet
7 10 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.39%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.83%) Kibana
10 2 (0.56%) Argo
10 2 (0.56%) Podman
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 59 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.11%) Splunk
3 23 (6.39%) Google
4 15 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 15 (4.17%) Databricks
5 10 (2.78%) Oracle
6 9 (2.50%) webMethods
7 8 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.94%) VMware
9 5 (1.39%) F5
9 5 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.39%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.11%) Apple
11 3 (0.83%) Cisco
11 3 (0.83%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.83%) Foundry
11 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.83%) New Relic
11 3 (0.83%) TOWER Software