Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 119 121
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 -28
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 533 810 1,196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.90% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.21% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 520 860
10th Percentile £355 £360 £448
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -6.38% -1.76%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -13.64% -2.65% +4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 53 29
10th Percentile £44.19 £60.25 £55.50
25th Percentile £62.19 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £69.38 - £75.00
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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 17 Contract 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 17 May 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 -31 440 £525 -4.55% 510
UK excluding London -13 239 £475 -13.64% 382
London -50 228 £575 -2.13% 217
Work from Home +6 191 £534 -1.66% 369
North of England +13 66 £475 -9.09% 96
South East +22 60 £500 -9.09% 105
North West +43 46 £475 -9.09% 55
Scotland -2 34 £475 -9.52% 25
South West +31 28 £392 -44.00% 44
Midlands +8 25 £469 +30.57% 49
West Midlands -8 14 £500 +36.99% 34
East of England -14 14 £500 +5.26% 42
Yorkshire -20 14 £500 -2.44% 25
East Midlands +16 11 £340 -4.49% 14
Northern Ireland - 9 £325 - 15
North East -2 6 £550 +12.82% 16
Wales -9 4 £425 -21.30% 16

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (7.32%) Confluence
2 11 (2.06%) JBoss
3 9 (1.69%) nginx
4 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.75%) CMS
5 4 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.56%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.56%) Traefik
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.19%) Simulink
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.75%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 233 (43.71%) AWS
2 153 (28.71%) Azure
3 69 (12.95%) GCP
4 62 (11.63%) GitHub
5 59 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (8.44%) Serverless
8 38 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 29 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (5.25%) OpenShift
12 24 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (4.13%) IaaS
14 19 (3.56%) PaaS
14 19 (3.56%) SaaS
15 18 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (3.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.82%) DNS
2 27 (5.07%) TCP/IP
3 25 (4.69%) Firewall
4 24 (4.50%) HTTP
5 15 (2.81%) VPN
6 8 (1.50%) Internet
7 6 (1.13%) SSL
8 5 (0.94%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.75%) VSAN
9 4 (0.75%) WAN
10 3 (0.56%) IPsec
10 3 (0.56%) LAN
10 3 (0.56%) Network Security
10 3 (0.56%) VLAN
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.38%) NAS
11 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 43 (8.07%) MongoDB
4 32 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.00%) NoSQL
5 26 (4.88%) MySQL
6 15 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 14 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 14 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.88%) RDBMS
9 9 (1.69%) Big Data
9 9 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.31%) Power BI
11 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.13%) CockroachDB
11 6 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 181 (33.96%) Jenkins
2 148 (27.77%) Git
3 104 (19.51%) JIRA
4 68 (12.76%) GitLab
5 43 (8.07%) JUnit
6 39 (7.32%) Cucumber
7 38 (7.13%) SonarQube
8 35 (6.57%) Selenium
9 31 (5.82%) Gradle
10 26 (4.88%) Cypress.io
11 25 (4.69%) Mockito
12 24 (4.50%) TeamCity
13 23 (4.32%) Bitbucket
13 23 (4.32%) Liquibase
14 22 (4.13%) Maven
14 22 (4.13%) REST Assured
15 17 (3.19%) JMeter
16 15 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
17 14 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (2.44%) CircleCI
General
1 154 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 98 (18.39%) Finance
3 75 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.00%) Banking
6 30 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 28 (5.25%) Marketing
8 26 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 25 (4.69%) Electronics
10 16 (3.00%) Front Office
11 13 (2.44%) Military
12 12 (2.25%) Law
13 11 (2.06%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.06%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Retail
16 4 (0.75%) Police
17 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 170 (31.89%) Developer
2 87 (16.32%) Senior
3 74 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 64 (12.01%) Lead
5 54 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 46 (8.63%) Architect
6 46 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 31 (5.82%) Java Engineer
7 31 (5.82%) Senior Developer
8 28 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (4.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 25 (4.69%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.38%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.19%) Technical Architect
15 16 (3.00%) Data Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (15.76%) React
2 66 (12.38%) RESTful
2 66 (12.38%) Spring Boot
3 64 (12.01%) Spring
4 55 (10.32%) REST
5 48 (9.01%) Kafka
6 46 (8.63%) HTML
7 39 (7.32%) Swagger
8 38 (7.13%) CSS
8 38 (7.13%) Node.js
8 38 (7.13%) OpenAPI
9 34 (6.38%) Web Services
10 30 (5.63%) .NET
10 30 (5.63%) AngularJS
11 24 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (4.50%) JSON
12 23 (4.32%) GraphQL
13 18 (3.38%) HTML5
13 18 (3.38%) Spring Batch
14 17 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.82%) Public Cloud
2 30 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.75%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.00%) Equities
6 15 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 14 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.25%) Derivative
8 12 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.50%) PKI
13 7 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 117 (21.95%) Linux
2 46 (8.63%) Windows
3 35 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (4.50%) Unix
5 16 (3.00%) Android
6 8 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.31%) CentOS
7 7 (1.31%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.38%) Solaris
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (68.11%) CI/CD
2 268 (50.28%) Agile
3 257 (48.22%) DevOps
4 158 (29.64%) Test Automation
5 140 (26.27%) Continuous Delivery
6 137 (25.70%) Microservices
7 131 (24.58%) Software Engineering
8 125 (23.45%) TDD
9 121 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (22.14%) Containerisation
11 110 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 100 (18.76%) Continuous Deployment
13 72 (13.51%) Scrum
14 60 (11.26%) Deployment Automation
15 54 (10.13%) Configuration Management
16 53 (9.94%) Design Patterns
16 53 (9.94%) Migration
17 52 (9.76%) Code Quality
17 52 (9.76%) Mentoring
18 48 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 195 (36.59%) Python
2 186 (34.90%) Java
3 132 (24.77%) SQL
4 100 (18.76%) JavaScript
5 81 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 68 (12.76%) Bash
7 57 (10.69%) C#
8 37 (6.94%) PowerShell
9 28 (5.25%) Go
10 26 (4.88%) C++
11 21 (3.94%) Perl
12 15 (2.81%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.63%) Shell Script
14 11 (2.06%) C
14 11 (2.06%) Ruby
15 9 (1.69%) Scala
16 7 (1.31%) Erlang
16 7 (1.31%) Objective-C
16 7 (1.31%) Prolog
16 7 (1.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 154 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 120 (22.51%) SC Cleared
3 59 (11.07%) Degree
4 35 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.94%) MCSE
11 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.75%) PMP
11 4 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.38%) QA
2 18 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.69%) GDPR
5 8 (1.50%) NCSC
6 7 (1.31%) WCAG
7 6 (1.13%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.75%) NIST
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.56%) GxP
10 2 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.19%) HL7
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 153 (28.71%) Docker
2 20 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.75%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.75%) Postfix
5 4 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.56%) RACF
7 2 (0.38%) Firmware
7 2 (0.38%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.38%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.38%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) LXC
8 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 162 (30.39%) Kubernetes
2 120 (22.51%) Terraform
3 79 (14.82%) Ansible
4 38 (7.13%) Grafana
5 33 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 29 (5.44%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.07%) Puppet
8 15 (2.81%) Kibana
9 14 (2.63%) Packer
10 10 (1.88%) Podman
11 9 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.50%) Istio
13 5 (0.94%) Consul
13 5 (0.94%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.94%) Rancher
14 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.75%) linkerd
14 4 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.94%) Google
3 32 (6.00%) SAP
4 28 (5.25%) Oracle
4 28 (5.25%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.69%) Splunk
6 15 (2.81%) VMware
7 13 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.88%) Apple
10 9 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.31%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.13%) Adobe
12 6 (1.13%) Cisco
12 6 (1.13%) Databricks
12 6 (1.13%) IBM
13 5 (0.94%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.75%) LabVantage
14 4 (0.75%) Sitecore