Hybrid/Remote CircleCI Contract Job Trends

CircleCI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 304 385
Rank change year-on-year +18 +81 +98
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 18 32 24
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.16% 2.00% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 15
10th Percentile £420 £361 £478
25th Percentile £431 £500 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -17.24% +5.84%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £738
90th Percentile £688 £700 £741
UK median daily rate £613 £622 £700
% change year-on-year -1.53% -11.14% +3.70%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,552 1,601 2,619
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.03% 12.89% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 1,038 1,913
10th Percentile £325 £346 £357
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £609 £625
90th Percentile £662 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 20 89
10th Percentile £29.25 £21.42 £49.60
25th Percentile £55.31 £50.09 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.26 £84.36
90th Percentile - £71.63 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CircleCI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CircleCI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CircleCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

CircleCI daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CircleCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
1 11 (61.11%) GitHub
2 10 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Sentry
6 1 (5.56%) Apigee
6 1 (5.56%) Boomi
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) Figma
6 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.56%) Google Play
6 1 (5.56%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (16.67%) Redis
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Snyk
3 3 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (11.11%) Appium
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (5.56%) Postman
5 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (5.56%) WebStorm
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Django Developer
4 1 (5.56%) iOS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Web Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Loki
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Django
4 2 (11.11%) Express.js
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) Playwright
5 1 (5.56%) Puppeteer
5 1 (5.56%) Redux
5 1 (5.56%) Restlet
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) SwiftUI
5 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Observability
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) OWASP
5 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CSSLP
3 1 (5.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) GRC
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 7 (38.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) PagerDuty
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce