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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 141 105
Rank change year-on-year +16 -36 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 201 233 578
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.03% 1.52% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.73% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 158 425
10th Percentile £380 £360 £450
25th Percentile £459 £427 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.22% -
75th Percentile £625 £624 £650
90th Percentile £686 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.14% -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 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
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 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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 2 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 2 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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 10 (4.98%) nginx
3 5 (2.49%) Traefik
4 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.99%) CMS
5 3 (1.49%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.49%) JBoss
6 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.50%) IIS
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.75%) AWS
2 56 (27.86%) Azure
3 36 (17.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (10.95%) GitHub
6 21 (10.45%) Serverless
7 20 (9.95%) GCP
8 16 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (7.96%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.98%) Route 53
13 9 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.48%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.48%) PaaS
13 9 (4.48%) SaaS
14 8 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.44%) TCP/IP
2 24 (11.94%) DNS
3 19 (9.45%) HTTP
4 11 (5.47%) Firewall
5 9 (4.48%) VPN
6 7 (3.48%) Internet
7 6 (2.99%) SSL
8 4 (1.99%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.99%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.99%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.49%) IPsec
10 2 (1.00%) VSAN
11 1 (0.50%) DHCP
11 1 (0.50%) NAS
11 1 (0.50%) Network Security
11 1 (0.50%) SAN
11 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.50%) VLAN
11 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.93%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (12.44%) MongoDB
3 18 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (8.46%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.47%) MySQL
6 8 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.49%) Redis
9 4 (1.99%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.99%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.99%) Parquet
9 4 (1.99%) Presto
9 4 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.49%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (35.82%) Jenkins
2 50 (24.88%) Git
3 39 (19.40%) GitLab
4 35 (17.41%) JIRA
5 16 (7.96%) JUnit
6 14 (6.97%) Cucumber
6 14 (6.97%) Gradle
7 13 (6.47%) SonarQube
8 12 (5.97%) Cypress.io
9 9 (4.48%) Liquibase
9 9 (4.48%) Mockito
10 8 (3.98%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.98%) JMeter
10 8 (3.98%) REST Assured
10 8 (3.98%) Selenium
11 7 (3.48%) Maven
11 7 (3.48%) Visual Studio
12 6 (2.99%) Jasmine
12 6 (2.99%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.99%) Bitbucket
General
1 46 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.44%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.45%) Finance
4 16 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.97%) Banking
6 8 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.98%) Law
7 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.99%) Military
9 4 (1.99%) Police
9 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.49%) Electronics
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Games
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (32.34%) Developer
2 44 (21.89%) Senior
3 43 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.44%) Lead
5 20 (9.95%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (8.46%) Java Developer
8 16 (7.96%) Architect
9 15 (7.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (4.98%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.48%) React Developer
15 7 (3.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.41%) React
2 25 (12.44%) Spring
3 24 (11.94%) RESTful
3 24 (11.94%) Spring Boot
4 22 (10.95%) Node.js
5 19 (9.45%) Kafka
6 18 (8.96%) REST
7 16 (7.96%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (7.96%) OpenAPI
7 16 (7.96%) Swagger
8 14 (6.97%) GraphQL
9 12 (5.97%) Web Services
10 11 (5.47%) .NET
10 11 (5.47%) HTML
11 10 (4.98%) CSS
12 9 (4.48%) ARM Templates
12 9 (4.48%) cloud-init
13 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.48%) Keycloak
14 6 (2.99%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.48%) Cloud Native
1 9 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 9 (4.48%) PKI
2 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.99%) Derivative
4 5 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.49%) Equities
4 5 (2.49%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.49%) Replication
7 2 (1.00%) Animation
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.87%) Linux
2 20 (9.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (9.45%) Windows
4 14 (6.97%) Unix
5 9 (4.48%) CentOS
6 6 (2.99%) Android
7 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (75.62%) CI/CD
2 115 (57.21%) DevOps
3 96 (47.76%) Agile
4 59 (29.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (28.36%) Containerisation
6 47 (23.38%) Test Automation
7 45 (22.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 44 (21.89%) Microservices
8 44 (21.89%) Software Engineering
8 44 (21.89%) TDD
9 43 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (20.90%) Continuous Deployment
11 33 (16.42%) Deployment Automation
12 29 (14.43%) Mentoring
13 24 (11.94%) Configuration Management
14 22 (10.95%) Clean Code
15 19 (9.45%) Design Patterns
15 19 (9.45%) Scrum
15 19 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (8.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 74 (36.82%) Python
2 52 (25.87%) Java
3 50 (24.88%) SQL
4 41 (20.40%) Bash
4 41 (20.40%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.91%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.95%) C#
7 21 (10.45%) PowerShell
8 14 (6.97%) Go
9 8 (3.98%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.48%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.48%) Scala
11 5 (2.49%) C++
12 4 (1.99%) Ruby
13 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.49%) Perl
13 3 (1.49%) Swift
14 2 (1.00%) PHP
14 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (36.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.47%) Degree
5 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.00%) MCSE
8 2 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) MCAD
9 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.97%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) NCSC
3 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.99%) GDPR
5 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.49%) WCAG
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.00%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) GxP
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 74 (36.82%) Docker
2 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.49%) RACF
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (35.82%) Terraform
2 70 (34.83%) Kubernetes
3 44 (21.89%) Ansible
4 27 (13.43%) Grafana
5 23 (11.44%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.96%) Puppet
7 17 (8.46%) Progress Chef
8 15 (7.46%) Packer
9 8 (3.98%) Consul
9 8 (3.98%) Kibana
9 8 (3.98%) Rancher
10 7 (3.48%) Istio
10 7 (3.48%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.48%) linkerd
10 7 (3.48%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.49%) HAProxy
11 5 (2.49%) Podman
12 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (7.46%) Microsoft
1 15 (7.46%) Splunk
2 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.48%) Apple
3 7 (3.48%) Google
3 7 (3.48%) Okta
3 7 (3.48%) Oracle
4 5 (2.49%) ESET
5 4 (1.99%) SAP
5 4 (1.99%) VMware
6 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Isilon
8 1 (0.50%) Perforce
8 1 (0.50%) Qualys
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) TIBCO