Continuous Integration Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Continuous Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 140 108
Rank change year-on-year +13 -32 -19
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 204 232 578
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.06% 1.51% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.72% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 157 424
10th Percentile £381 £360 £450
25th Percentile £463 £434 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.22% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £683 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -4.59% -6.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 19
10th Percentile £40.78 - £52.40
25th Percentile £61.25 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £72.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Continuous Integration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Integration trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Continuous Integration hourly rate histogram 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 12 (5.88%) Confluence
2 10 (4.90%) nginx
3 5 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.45%) Traefik
4 4 (1.96%) CMS
5 3 (1.47%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.47%) JBoss
6 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.49%) Apache
7 1 (0.49%) Camunda
7 1 (0.49%) IIS
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (48.04%) AWS
2 55 (26.96%) Azure
3 36 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (15.20%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (10.78%) GitHub
6 20 (9.80%) GCP
7 19 (9.31%) Serverless
8 16 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (6.86%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.37%) PaaS
11 13 (6.37%) SaaS
12 12 (5.88%) IaaS
13 11 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (4.90%) Route 53
15 9 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (4.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.25%) TCP/IP
2 24 (11.76%) DNS
3 19 (9.31%) HTTP
4 11 (5.39%) Firewall
5 9 (4.41%) VPN
6 7 (3.43%) Internet
7 6 (2.94%) SSL
7 6 (2.94%) VSAN
8 4 (1.96%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.96%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.47%) IPsec
10 1 (0.49%) DHCP
10 1 (0.49%) NAS
10 1 (0.49%) Network Security
10 1 (0.49%) SAN
10 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.49%) VLAN
10 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (12.25%) MongoDB
3 18 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.39%) MySQL
5 8 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.45%) Redis
8 4 (1.96%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.96%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.96%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.96%) Parquet
8 4 (1.96%) Presto
8 4 (1.96%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.98%) GIS
Development Applications
1 73 (35.78%) Jenkins
2 48 (23.53%) Git
3 40 (19.61%) GitLab
4 35 (17.16%) JIRA
5 16 (7.84%) JUnit
6 14 (6.86%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.86%) Gradle
7 13 (6.37%) SonarQube
8 12 (5.88%) Cypress.io
9 9 (4.41%) Liquibase
9 9 (4.41%) Mockito
10 8 (3.92%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.92%) JMeter
10 8 (3.92%) REST Assured
10 8 (3.92%) Selenium
11 7 (3.43%) Maven
11 7 (3.43%) Visual Studio
12 6 (2.94%) Jasmine
12 6 (2.94%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.29%) Finance
4 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.88%) Banking
6 8 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.92%) Law
7 7 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.96%) Military
9 4 (1.96%) Police
9 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.47%) Electronics
10 3 (1.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.98%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (31.37%) Developer
2 48 (23.53%) Senior
3 43 (21.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.27%) Lead
5 20 (9.80%) Architect
6 18 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 15 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 12 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.39%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.92%) Senior Architect
14 7 (3.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.14%) React
2 25 (12.25%) Spring
3 24 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 22 (10.78%) Node.js
4 22 (10.78%) RESTful
5 19 (9.31%) Kafka
6 17 (8.33%) REST
7 16 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (7.84%) OpenAPI
7 16 (7.84%) Swagger
8 12 (5.88%) GraphQL
8 12 (5.88%) Web Services
9 11 (5.39%) HTML
10 10 (4.90%) CSS
11 9 (4.41%) .NET
11 9 (4.41%) ARM Templates
11 9 (4.41%) cloud-init
12 8 (3.92%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.43%) Keycloak
14 6 (2.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) PKI
2 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.94%) Derivative
5 5 (2.45%) Equities
5 5 (2.45%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.47%) Replication
8 2 (0.98%) Animation
8 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.47%) Linux
2 20 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (9.31%) Windows
4 14 (6.86%) Unix
5 9 (4.41%) CentOS
6 6 (2.94%) Android
7 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (75.49%) CI/CD
2 113 (55.39%) DevOps
3 95 (46.57%) Agile
4 63 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (30.39%) Containerisation
6 50 (24.51%) Continuous Delivery
7 49 (24.02%) Microservices
8 48 (23.53%) Test Automation
9 44 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (21.57%) Software Engineering
9 44 (21.57%) TDD
10 43 (21.08%) Continuous Deployment
11 33 (16.18%) Deployment Automation
12 27 (13.24%) Mentoring
13 24 (11.76%) Configuration Management
14 20 (9.80%) Clean Code
15 19 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (8.82%) Migration
16 18 (8.82%) Scrum
17 17 (8.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 74 (36.27%) Python
2 52 (25.49%) Java
2 52 (25.49%) SQL
3 41 (20.10%) Bash
4 39 (19.12%) TypeScript
5 36 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 21 (10.29%) PowerShell
7 20 (9.80%) C#
8 14 (6.86%) Go
9 8 (3.92%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.43%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.43%) Scala
11 5 (2.45%) C++
12 4 (1.96%) Ruby
13 3 (1.47%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.47%) Perl
13 3 (1.47%) Swift
14 2 (0.98%) PHP
14 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 74 (36.27%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.35%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.88%) Degree
5 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.94%) MCSE
6 6 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.47%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.49%) MCAD
11 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.86%) QA
2 13 (6.37%) NCSC
3 6 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.94%) NIST
4 4 (1.96%) GDPR
5 3 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.49%) GxP
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) HL7
7 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 75 (36.76%) Docker
2 8 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.47%) RACF
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (35.29%) Terraform
2 71 (34.80%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.57%) Ansible
4 27 (13.24%) Grafana
5 23 (11.27%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.82%) Puppet
7 17 (8.33%) Progress Chef
8 15 (7.35%) Packer
9 8 (3.92%) Consul
9 8 (3.92%) Kibana
9 8 (3.92%) Rancher
10 7 (3.43%) Istio
10 7 (3.43%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.43%) linkerd
10 7 (3.43%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.45%) HAProxy
11 5 (2.45%) Podman
12 3 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.49%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (7.35%) Microsoft
1 15 (7.35%) Splunk
2 12 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.92%) Oracle
3 8 (3.92%) VMware
4 7 (3.43%) Apple
4 7 (3.43%) Cisco
4 7 (3.43%) Google
4 7 (3.43%) Okta
5 6 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.45%) ESET
7 4 (1.96%) SAP
8 3 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.49%) Adobe
10 1 (0.49%) IBM
10 1 (0.49%) Qualys
10 1 (0.49%) Serena
10 1 (0.49%) Sybase