Continuous Integration Contracts in England

Continuous Integration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 125 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 -34 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 712 1,002 1,957
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.95% 2.08% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.31% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 721 1,310
10th Percentile £358 £450 £444
25th Percentile £456 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £689 £688 £703
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.74% -1.71% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 26 22
10th Percentile - £58.13 £52.63
25th Percentile £61.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £71.13 £67.81
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.23
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in England.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in England.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in England

Continuous Integration
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +9 408 £588 -2.12% 121
South East +13 82 £550 +3.53% 74
North of England +17 73 £523 -12.92% 53
East of England +19 56 £475 +35.71% 27
Yorkshire +35 48 £513 -10.09% 15
South West -4 41 £700 +12.00% 33
Midlands -10 34 £358 -33.70% 30
West Midlands -11 28 £360 -33.33% 27
North West -9 20 £523 -16.40% 36
East Midlands +15 6 £356 -41.28% 3
North East +7 5 £488 -40.84% 2
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 68 (9.55%) Confluence
2 30 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.97%) Apache
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.26%) CMS
5 9 (1.26%) SAS
6 8 (1.12%) JBoss
7 5 (0.70%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.70%) nginx
7 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.56%) Luigi
9 3 (0.42%) Drupal
9 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.42%) IIS
9 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.28%) CICS
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) Traefik
10 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.42%) Windchill
3 2 (0.28%) Mingle
4 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.14%) Simulink
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.54%) ION MarketView
2 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.42%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.28%) Endur
4 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) RMDS
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (24.58%) Azure
2 164 (23.03%) AWS
3 73 (10.25%) GCP
4 61 (8.57%) GitHub
5 52 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (5.34%) Serverless
7 29 (4.07%) PaaS
8 22 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (2.81%) OpenShift
10 19 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 19 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.67%) IaaS
11 17 (2.39%) Apigee
11 17 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 35 (4.92%) Modbus
2 35 (4.92%) RS-422
2 35 (4.92%) RS-485
3 32 (4.49%) DNS
4 25 (3.51%) HTTP
5 24 (3.37%) Firewall
6 17 (2.39%) VPN
7 12 (1.69%) SSL
8 11 (1.54%) DHCP
8 11 (1.54%) Ethernet
9 8 (1.12%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.98%) SSH
10 7 (0.98%) VLAN
11 6 (0.84%) NAS
11 6 (0.84%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (0.42%) Internet
12 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.43%) NoSQL
2 47 (6.60%) Relational Database
3 45 (6.32%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.48%) MySQL
5 26 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (3.37%) KDB
7 23 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 23 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.67%) Big Data
10 19 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.54%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.54%) Redis
14 10 (1.40%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 206 (28.93%) Jenkins
2 165 (23.17%) Git
3 126 (17.70%) JIRA
4 79 (11.10%) GitLab
5 73 (10.25%) Selenium
6 71 (9.97%) Cucumber
7 58 (8.15%) Postman
8 53 (7.44%) TeamCity
9 43 (6.04%) Bitbucket
10 38 (5.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 37 (5.20%) REST Assured
12 36 (5.06%) SonarQube
13 31 (4.35%) JUnit
14 28 (3.93%) TestRail
15 26 (3.65%) JMeter
16 25 (3.51%) Appium
16 25 (3.51%) Cypress.io
16 25 (3.51%) Visual Studio
17 22 (3.09%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.81%) NUnit
General
1 249 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 146 (20.51%) Finance
3 126 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.41%) Banking
5 36 (5.06%) Front Office
5 36 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.92%) Electronics
7 27 (3.79%) Back Office
8 22 (3.09%) Law
8 22 (3.09%) Retail
9 20 (2.81%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 15 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.83%) Police
13 12 (1.69%) Military
14 7 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 232 (32.58%) Developer
2 106 (14.89%) Senior
3 73 (10.25%) Software Engineer
4 52 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 49 (6.88%) Analyst
5 49 (6.88%) Java Developer
6 47 (6.60%) Senior Developer
7 45 (6.32%) Lead
7 45 (6.32%) Test Analyst
8 38 (5.34%) C++ Software Engineer
9 37 (5.20%) Data Engineer
10 34 (4.78%) Architect
11 31 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (4.21%) C# Developer
13 25 (3.51%) Tester
14 24 (3.37%) Java Engineer
14 24 (3.37%) Python Developer
15 23 (3.23%) React Developer
16 20 (2.81%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
17 19 (2.67%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (13.06%) .NET
2 82 (11.52%) REST
3 61 (8.57%) Web Services
4 57 (8.01%) Node.js
5 51 (7.16%) React
6 47 (6.60%) RESTful
7 45 (6.32%) .NET Core
8 41 (5.76%) JSON
8 41 (5.76%) Kafka
9 38 (5.34%) CSS
10 36 (5.06%) Spring
11 33 (4.63%) HTML
11 33 (4.63%) XML
12 32 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (4.07%) AngularJS
14 28 (3.93%) Middleware
15 26 (3.65%) .NET Framework
16 25 (3.51%) ARM Templates
16 25 (3.51%) Java EE
17 23 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
2 37 (5.20%) Mobile App
3 30 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 22 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.11%) Derivative
9 15 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.97%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.54%) Cloud Native
14 10 (1.40%) Clustering
14 10 (1.40%) Legacy Code
15 7 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 123 (17.28%) Linux
2 54 (7.58%) Windows
3 31 (4.35%) Android
4 29 (4.07%) Unix
5 15 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.12%) Solaris
8 6 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.56%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.42%) zOS
11 2 (0.28%) AIX
11 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
12 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (61.94%) Agile
2 367 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 290 (40.73%) DevOps
4 240 (33.71%) Test Automation
5 187 (26.26%) TDD
6 173 (24.30%) Software Engineering
7 158 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (19.66%) Continuous Deployment
9 136 (19.10%) Scrum
10 125 (17.56%) Continuous Delivery
11 104 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 101 (14.19%) Software Testing
13 98 (13.76%) Unit Testing
14 94 (13.20%) Containerisation
15 91 (12.78%) Microservices
16 89 (12.50%) Configuration Management
17 78 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 76 (10.67%) Pair Programming
19 74 (10.39%) Analytics
20 68 (9.55%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (28.37%) Python
2 150 (21.07%) Java
3 149 (20.93%) C#
3 149 (20.93%) SQL
4 105 (14.75%) JavaScript
5 71 (9.97%) C++
6 70 (9.83%) PowerShell
7 53 (7.44%) TypeScript
8 46 (6.46%) Bash
9 40 (5.62%) C
10 37 (5.20%) Kotlin
11 36 (5.06%) Scala
12 26 (3.65%) Go
13 18 (2.53%) Perl
14 17 (2.39%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.69%) Ruby
16 10 (1.40%) PHP
16 10 (1.40%) Shell Script
17 9 (1.26%) Bicep
17 9 (1.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 139 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.83%) Degree
4 44 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 30 (4.21%) ISTQB
7 26 (3.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.70%) CISSP
10 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) OCP
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.28%) SANS
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.52%) QA
2 9 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.84%) GDPR
3 6 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) NCSC
4 3 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.14%) GxP
5 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) MISRA
5 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 141 (19.80%) Docker
2 28 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) VirtualBox
5 4 (0.56%) zsh
6 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) GridGain
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 122 (17.13%) Ansible
3 119 (16.71%) Terraform
4 54 (7.58%) Grafana
5 37 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 29 (4.07%) Progress Chef
7 27 (3.79%) Puppet
8 23 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (3.09%) PowerCLI
10 19 (2.67%) Kibana
11 15 (2.11%) Podman
12 13 (1.83%) logstash
13 8 (1.12%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.98%) Graylog
15 6 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.84%) Netcool
15 6 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.70%) Nessus
16 5 (0.70%) Packer
16 5 (0.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 92 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.58%) Oracle
3 35 (4.92%) Splunk
4 33 (4.63%) Google
4 33 (4.63%) HP
5 28 (3.93%) Dell
6 25 (3.51%) Atlassian
7 23 (3.23%) Databricks
8 22 (3.09%) IBM
9 21 (2.95%) EMC
9 21 (2.95%) ION Trading
10 17 (2.39%) Denodo
10 17 (2.39%) Talend
10 17 (2.39%) VMware
11 15 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.69%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.69%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.26%) SAP
14 8 (1.12%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.12%) Red Hat