Continuous Integration Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continuous Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 111 90
Rank change year-on-year -31 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 236 551 1,266
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.57% 2.19% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.44% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 412 814
10th Percentile £360 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £495 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% +16.00%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 14
10th Percentile - £56.25 £49.30
25th Percentile - £64.88 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £64.00
90th Percentile - £73.25 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,241 22,603 40,082
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.73% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,876 15,973 29,084
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 538
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +50.28% +44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Continuous Integration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Integration trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Continuous Integration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (10.59%) Confluence
2 15 (6.36%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.97%) CMS
4 5 (2.12%) JBoss
5 4 (1.69%) Apache
5 4 (1.69%) Luigi
6 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.85%) IIS
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.42%) CICS
8 1 (0.42%) GemFire
8 1 (0.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.44%) Azure
2 81 (34.32%) AWS
3 33 (13.98%) GitHub
4 32 (13.56%) GCP
5 28 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.36%) IaaS
7 11 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (4.66%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.24%) PaaS
9 9 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.81%) SaaS
9 9 (3.81%) Serverless
10 8 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.97%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.97%) Rubrik
12 6 (2.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.63%) TCP/IP
2 15 (6.36%) Firewall
3 13 (5.51%) DNS
4 8 (3.39%) DHCP
4 8 (3.39%) VLAN
5 7 (2.97%) Kerberos
5 7 (2.97%) NAS
5 7 (2.97%) SAN
5 7 (2.97%) VPN
6 5 (2.12%) HTTP
7 2 (0.85%) SSL
8 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.42%) Network Security
8 1 (0.42%) NFC
8 1 (0.42%) PPP
8 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.42%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.63%) MySQL
2 18 (7.63%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.36%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.24%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.97%) Big Data
8 7 (2.97%) Redis
9 6 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.54%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.12%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.12%) DB2
10 5 (2.12%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.27%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (30.51%) Jenkins
2 62 (26.27%) Git
3 48 (20.34%) JIRA
4 42 (17.80%) GitLab
5 21 (8.90%) Selenium
6 16 (6.78%) Cucumber
6 16 (6.78%) Postman
7 14 (5.93%) Bitbucket
7 14 (5.93%) JMeter
7 14 (5.93%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.51%) TeamCity
9 12 (5.08%) Cypress.io
9 12 (5.08%) TestRail
10 11 (4.66%) REST Assured
11 9 (3.81%) Visual Studio
12 8 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (2.97%) Appium
13 7 (2.97%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (2.54%) TestNG
General
1 73 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.73%) Finance
3 27 (11.44%) Banking
4 25 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.24%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.39%) Back Office
7 8 (3.39%) Police
7 8 (3.39%) Retail
8 7 (2.97%) Law
9 6 (2.54%) Corporate Banking
9 6 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.54%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.12%) Front Office
11 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.85%) Military
14 1 (0.42%) Games
14 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (25.00%) Developer
2 39 (16.53%) Senior
3 19 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (7.20%) Software Engineer
5 16 (6.78%) Lead
6 15 (6.36%) Analyst
6 15 (6.36%) Architect
6 15 (6.36%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.36%) Test Analyst
7 13 (5.51%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.51%) React Developer
8 12 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.24%) Consultant
11 9 (3.81%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.81%) Tester
12 8 (3.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.86%) REST
2 25 (10.59%) .NET
3 24 (10.17%) React
4 22 (9.32%) Node.js
5 17 (7.20%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (6.78%) XML
7 15 (6.36%) ARM Templates
7 15 (6.36%) RESTful
8 14 (5.93%) Kafka
9 12 (5.08%) JSON
10 11 (4.66%) CSS
11 9 (3.81%) .NET Framework
11 9 (3.81%) HTML
11 9 (3.81%) SOAP
11 9 (3.81%) YAML
12 8 (3.39%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.39%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.39%) Java EE
12 8 (3.39%) Laravel
12 8 (3.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.24%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.81%) Clustering
4 7 (2.97%) Replication
5 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.27%) Wiki
9 2 (0.85%) CBDC
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.85%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.03%) Linux
2 38 (16.10%) Windows
3 11 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.81%) Solaris
4 9 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.39%) Unix
6 7 (2.97%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (2.54%) Android
8 4 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.85%) AIX
9 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.85%) VMS
9 2 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (60.17%) Agile
2 124 (52.54%) CI/CD
3 105 (44.49%) DevOps
4 89 (37.71%) Test Automation
5 53 (22.46%) Continuous Deployment
5 53 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (21.61%) Software Engineering
7 47 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.07%) Scrum
9 41 (17.37%) Continuous Delivery
10 39 (16.53%) Containerisation
11 34 (14.41%) Configuration Management
12 33 (13.98%) Analytics
13 31 (13.14%) Microservices
14 28 (11.86%) TDD
15 26 (11.02%) Software Testing
16 24 (10.17%) Test Strategy
17 22 (9.32%) Deployment Automation
17 22 (9.32%) SDLC
18 18 (7.63%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.24%) Python
2 45 (19.07%) SQL
3 40 (16.95%) Java
4 34 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.98%) C#
6 25 (10.59%) PowerShell
7 24 (10.17%) TypeScript
8 23 (9.75%) Bash
9 10 (4.24%) Go
10 9 (3.81%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.81%) PHP
11 8 (3.39%) Perl
12 7 (2.97%) Bicep
12 7 (2.97%) C++
13 6 (2.54%) Ruby
13 6 (2.54%) Scala
14 3 (1.27%) C
14 3 (1.27%) COBOL
14 3 (1.27%) Groovy
14 3 (1.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 38 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.75%) Degree
4 10 (4.24%) ISTQB
5 9 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCNP
9 1 (0.42%) CEH
9 1 (0.42%) CISSP
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
9 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
9 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.14%) QA
2 7 (2.97%) GDPR
2 7 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) NIST
4 2 (0.85%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) GxP
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (26.27%) Docker
2 13 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.27%) vCloud
4 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.27%) VirtualBox
4 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.27%) vSphere
4 3 (1.27%) zsh
5 2 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.42%) GridGain
6 1 (0.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 57 (24.15%) Terraform
2 52 (22.03%) Kubernetes
3 48 (20.34%) Ansible
4 16 (6.78%) Progress Chef
4 16 (6.78%) Puppet
5 15 (6.36%) Grafana
5 15 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (3.81%) Kibana
7 9 (3.81%) Tivoli
8 8 (3.39%) Podman
9 7 (2.97%) EMC NetWorker
9 7 (2.97%) Netcool
9 7 (2.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (2.54%) logstash
11 3 (1.27%) Autotask
11 3 (1.27%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.27%) Zipkin
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (13.14%) Oracle
2 25 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.63%) IBM
3 18 (7.63%) Splunk
4 13 (5.51%) EMC
5 12 (5.08%) VMware
6 10 (4.24%) Dell
6 10 (4.24%) Google
6 10 (4.24%) HP
7 9 (3.81%) Databricks
8 7 (2.97%) Cisco
8 7 (2.97%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.97%) Isilon
8 7 (2.97%) Qualys
8 7 (2.97%) Serena
8 7 (2.97%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.54%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.54%) SAP
10 5 (2.12%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.69%) Denodo