Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 119 85
Rank change year-on-year -8 -34 -7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 788 1,324 2,587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.18% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.43% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 952 1,731
10th Percentile £367 £450 £428
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year - -3.36% +15.53%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £790 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £540
% change year-on-year +1.85% - +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 35 34
10th Percentile £60.25 £52.60 £49.30
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £68.31
90th Percentile £65.13 £75.00 £79.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 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 19 April 2024. 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 -1 682 £575 -1.88% 305
London +11 380 £613 -1.21% 114
UK excluding London -13 343 £550 +1.85% 205
Work from Home -46 221 £550 -4.35% 159
South East -21 90 £550 -2.22% 69
North of England +2 70 £475 -17.39% 49
East of England +29 56 £475 +35.71% 23
Scotland +29 47 £590 +24.87% 16
Yorkshire +31 41 £475 -16.67% 14
South West +1 40 £700 +16.67% 21
Midlands -29 27 £363 -32.87% 23
North West -23 25 £500 -13.04% 33
West Midlands -37 21 £375 -30.56% 20
Wales -10 13 £545 -7.00% 9
East Midlands +17 6 £356 -23.44% 3
North East +15 4 £488 -33.85% 2

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 63 (7.99%) Confluence
2 28 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.90%) Apache
4 11 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.14%) CMS
5 9 (1.14%) nginx
6 8 (1.02%) SAS
7 6 (0.76%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.76%) JBoss
8 4 (0.51%) Drupal
8 4 (0.51%) Luigi
9 3 (0.38%) CICS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.38%) Windchill
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Mingle
4 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.02%) ION MarketView
2 8 (1.02%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.51%) Shopify
4 3 (0.38%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) Magento
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.13%) RMDS
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 199 (25.25%) AWS
2 190 (24.11%) Azure
3 80 (10.15%) GitHub
4 74 (9.39%) GCP
5 60 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.82%) Serverless
7 32 (4.06%) OpenShift
8 28 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (3.30%) PaaS
10 23 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.79%) IaaS
12 20 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.16%) SaaS
15 16 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.70%) Modbus
1 37 (4.70%) RS-422
1 37 (4.70%) RS-485
2 27 (3.43%) Firewall
3 24 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.66%) DNS
5 16 (2.03%) Kerberos
6 15 (1.90%) HTTP
7 11 (1.40%) DHCP
7 11 (1.40%) SSL
8 9 (1.14%) VLAN
9 8 (1.02%) NAS
9 8 (1.02%) SAN
9 8 (1.02%) VPN
10 7 (0.89%) Internet
11 4 (0.51%) DMZ
11 4 (0.51%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.51%) SSH
12 3 (0.38%) 5G
13 2 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.87%) Relational Database
2 61 (7.74%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 45 (5.71%) MySQL
5 32 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 21 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (2.28%) KDB
11 17 (2.16%) Data Lake
12 16 (2.03%) Big Data
13 13 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.52%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.52%) Redis
15 10 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.89%) Power BI
17 6 (0.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 230 (29.19%) Jenkins
2 191 (24.24%) Git
3 133 (16.88%) JIRA
4 83 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 77 (9.77%) GitLab
6 69 (8.76%) Selenium
7 61 (7.74%) TeamCity
8 52 (6.60%) Bitbucket
9 47 (5.96%) Postman
10 41 (5.20%) SonarQube
11 36 (4.57%) REST Assured
12 35 (4.44%) Cypress.io
12 35 (4.44%) JUnit
13 29 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 29 (3.68%) TestRail
14 24 (3.05%) NUnit
15 19 (2.41%) Visual Studio
16 18 (2.28%) Gradle
17 17 (2.16%) WebDriver
18 16 (2.03%) Appium
General
1 248 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.04%) Finance
3 131 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.12%) Banking
5 42 (5.33%) Electronics
6 39 (4.95%) Front Office
7 38 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 22 (2.79%) Law
9 20 (2.54%) Retail
10 19 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 18 (2.28%) Investment Banking
12 16 (2.03%) Police
13 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.02%) Back Office
14 8 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.89%) Marketing
15 7 (0.89%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 286 (36.29%) Developer
2 97 (12.31%) Senior
3 79 (10.03%) Software Engineer
4 55 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 52 (6.60%) Senior Developer
6 51 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 43 (5.46%) Lead
8 40 (5.08%) C# Developer
9 38 (4.82%) Architect
10 35 (4.44%) C++ Software Engineer
11 32 (4.06%) Analyst
12 30 (3.81%) Data Engineer
13 29 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (3.68%) Test Analyst
14 28 (3.55%) React Developer
15 24 (3.05%) .NET Developer
15 24 (3.05%) Java Engineer
16 23 (2.92%) Python Developer
16 23 (2.92%) Tester
17 22 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (13.58%) .NET
2 98 (12.44%) REST
3 71 (9.01%) React
4 64 (8.12%) RESTful
5 59 (7.49%) Node.js
6 57 (7.23%) Kafka
7 55 (6.98%) Web Services
8 53 (6.73%) .NET Core
9 46 (5.84%) CSS
9 46 (5.84%) Spring
10 36 (4.57%) JSON
11 34 (4.31%) .NET Framework
11 34 (4.31%) HTML
12 33 (4.19%) AngularJS
13 31 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
14 30 (3.81%) XML
15 29 (3.68%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.43%) Redux
17 25 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
17 25 (3.17%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 37 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 26 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 22 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.28%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.52%) Clustering
11 12 (1.52%) Derivative
12 11 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.27%) Legacy Code
14 9 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 144 (18.27%) Linux
2 80 (10.15%) Windows
3 33 (4.19%) Unix
4 21 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 17 (2.16%) Android
7 10 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (1.02%) Solaris
9 6 (0.76%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.51%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.51%) zOS
11 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) VMS
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (59.64%) Agile
2 412 (52.28%) CI/CD
3 310 (39.34%) DevOps
4 255 (32.36%) Test Automation
5 206 (26.14%) TDD
6 181 (22.97%) Software Engineering
7 168 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (20.05%) Continuous Deployment
9 142 (18.02%) Continuous Delivery
10 120 (15.23%) Scrum
11 114 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (14.09%) Microservices
13 106 (13.45%) Unit Testing
14 104 (13.20%) Configuration Management
15 102 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (12.44%) Containerisation
17 83 (10.53%) Software Testing
18 81 (10.28%) Deployment Automation
19 80 (10.15%) Pair Programming
20 72 (9.14%) OO
Programming Languages
1 208 (26.40%) Python
2 168 (21.32%) Java
3 164 (20.81%) C#
4 163 (20.69%) SQL
5 112 (14.21%) JavaScript
6 69 (8.76%) PowerShell
6 69 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 65 (8.25%) C++
8 54 (6.85%) C
9 53 (6.73%) Bash
10 38 (4.82%) Scala
11 35 (4.44%) Go
12 29 (3.68%) PL/SQL
13 25 (3.17%) Ruby
14 24 (3.05%) Kotlin
15 23 (2.92%) Perl
16 19 (2.41%) PHP
17 17 (2.16%) Groovy
18 15 (1.90%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 146 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.64%) Degree
4 45 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (4.57%) DV Cleared
6 32 (4.06%) ISTQB
7 28 (3.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.63%) CISSP
9 5 (0.63%) SANS
10 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.38%) PMP
11 2 (0.25%) CCNP
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (10.79%) QA
2 9 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.02%) GDPR
3 8 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.76%) MISRA
4 6 (0.76%) MISRA C
5 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.38%) NCSC
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
5 3 (0.38%) WCAG
6 1 (0.13%) GxP
6 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) MiFID
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 165 (20.94%) Docker
2 34 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.63%) Firmware
7 4 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.51%) VirtualBox
7 4 (0.51%) zsh
8 3 (0.38%) vCloud
8 3 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.13%) GridGain
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) Postfix
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 147 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 140 (17.77%) Ansible
3 137 (17.39%) Terraform
4 39 (4.95%) Grafana
5 33 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.81%) Progress Chef
7 29 (3.68%) Puppet
8 22 (2.79%) PowerCLI
9 16 (2.03%) Kibana
10 15 (1.90%) Docker Swarm
10 15 (1.90%) Podman
11 11 (1.40%) Packer
12 9 (1.14%) Graylog
13 8 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.02%) Netcool
13 8 (1.02%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.89%) HP Fortify
14 7 (0.89%) Nessus
14 7 (0.89%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 94 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.90%) Oracle
3 33 (4.19%) Google
3 33 (4.19%) HP
4 31 (3.93%) Atlassian
4 31 (3.93%) Dell
5 29 (3.68%) Splunk
6 26 (3.30%) IBM
7 24 (3.05%) VMware
8 23 (2.92%) EMC
9 20 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 18 (2.28%) Databricks
11 16 (2.03%) ION Trading
12 15 (1.90%) SAP
13 13 (1.65%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.65%) TIBCO
14 10 (1.27%) Denodo
14 10 (1.27%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.27%) Talend
15 9 (1.14%) Cisco