Continuous Integration Contracts

Continuous Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 123 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 -30 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 810 1,184 2,453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.07% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.30% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 851 1,601
10th Percentile £360 £445 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% -1.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £540
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 23
10th Percentile £60.25 £52.21 £52.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £70.00 £67.88
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the UK

Continuous Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +8 711 £550 -7.56% 356
London +8 411 £575 -4.25% 122
UK excluding London +3 336 £550 -2.65% 282
Work from Home -20 235 £543 -6.47% 224
South East -2 81 £550 +4.76% 78
North of England +12 71 £523 -12.92% 68
East of England +26 55 £475 +35.71% 29
Yorkshire +39 48 £513 -10.09% 15
South West -1 41 £700 +12.00% 35
Scotland +41 39 £525 - 23
Midlands -15 34 £358 -33.70% 33
West Midlands -14 28 £360 -33.33% 30
North West -17 18 £523 -15.56% 46
Wales +1 15 £545 -7.00% 16
East Midlands +18 6 £356 -41.28% 3
North East +7 5 £488 -40.84% 7

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 73 (9.01%) Confluence
2 39 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.22%) Apache
4 13 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.23%) CMS
5 10 (1.23%) JBoss
5 10 (1.23%) SAS
6 6 (0.74%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
7 5 (0.62%) IIS
7 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.49%) Luigi
9 3 (0.37%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) Drupal
9 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.37%) Windchill
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.25%) Mingle
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.12%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.36%) ION MarketView
2 9 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.25%) Endur
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) RMDS
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 206 (25.43%) Azure
2 197 (24.32%) AWS
3 86 (10.62%) GCP
4 83 (10.25%) GitHub
5 64 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (5.06%) Serverless
7 33 (4.07%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.58%) PaaS
9 28 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.96%) IaaS
12 21 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (2.47%) Apigee
13 20 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.22%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 17 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.94%) TCP/IP
2 34 (4.20%) Modbus
2 34 (4.20%) RS-422
2 34 (4.20%) RS-485
3 32 (3.95%) DNS
3 32 (3.95%) Firewall
4 26 (3.21%) HTTP
5 17 (2.10%) VPN
6 14 (1.73%) Kerberos
6 14 (1.73%) SSL
7 11 (1.36%) DHCP
7 11 (1.36%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.86%) Internet
8 7 (0.86%) SSH
8 7 (0.86%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) NAS
9 6 (0.74%) SAN
10 3 (0.37%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (8.02%) Relational Database
2 63 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.30%) MySQL
4 47 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 31 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 25 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.96%) KDB
9 23 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 23 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.59%) Big Data
11 19 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.36%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.36%) Redis
16 10 (1.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 237 (29.26%) Jenkins
2 205 (25.31%) Git
3 137 (16.91%) JIRA
4 92 (11.36%) GitLab
5 77 (9.51%) Selenium
6 76 (9.38%) Cucumber
7 73 (9.01%) Postman
8 53 (6.54%) TeamCity
9 52 (6.42%) Bitbucket
10 41 (5.06%) Cypress.io
11 39 (4.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 39 (4.81%) SonarQube
12 37 (4.57%) REST Assured
13 36 (4.44%) JUnit
14 30 (3.70%) Visual Studio
15 27 (3.33%) TestRail
16 26 (3.21%) Appium
16 26 (3.21%) JMeter
17 22 (2.72%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.59%) Gradle
General
1 270 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 160 (19.75%) Finance
3 134 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.64%) Banking
5 38 (4.69%) Electronics
5 38 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.32%) Front Office
7 29 (3.58%) Back Office
8 23 (2.84%) Retail
9 22 (2.72%) Law
10 19 (2.35%) Aerospace
10 19 (2.35%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.60%) Police
13 12 (1.48%) Military
14 7 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (32.96%) Developer
2 115 (14.20%) Senior
3 77 (9.51%) Software Engineer
4 60 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 59 (7.28%) Java Developer
6 52 (6.42%) Analyst
7 51 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 48 (5.93%) Test Analyst
9 47 (5.80%) Lead
10 40 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.81%) Architect
12 37 (4.57%) C++ Software Engineer
13 35 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (3.83%) C# Developer
15 28 (3.46%) Tester
16 26 (3.21%) Java Engineer
17 24 (2.96%) Python Developer
18 23 (2.84%) React Developer
19 21 (2.59%) Full Stack Developer
20 19 (2.35%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (12.72%) .NET
2 96 (11.85%) REST
3 67 (8.27%) Web Services
4 65 (8.02%) Node.js
5 63 (7.78%) RESTful
6 61 (7.53%) React
7 54 (6.67%) Kafka
8 50 (6.17%) JSON
9 48 (5.93%) Spring
10 47 (5.80%) .NET Core
11 43 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (5.19%) XML
13 40 (4.94%) CSS
14 34 (4.20%) HTML
15 31 (3.83%) AngularJS
16 29 (3.58%) .NET Framework
16 29 (3.58%) Spring Boot
17 28 (3.46%) ARM Templates
17 28 (3.46%) Middleware
18 27 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.80%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.69%) Mobile App
2 38 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.22%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.85%) Derivative
11 15 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.73%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.48%) Legacy Code
15 10 (1.23%) Clustering
15 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 154 (19.01%) Linux
2 76 (9.38%) Windows
3 40 (4.94%) Unix
4 32 (3.95%) Android
5 18 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.73%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.23%) Solaris
8 8 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.62%) VxWorks
11 4 (0.49%) AIX
11 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.49%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.49%) zOS
12 2 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.25%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (61.36%) Agile
2 427 (52.72%) CI/CD
3 326 (40.25%) DevOps
4 288 (35.56%) Test Automation
5 195 (24.07%) Software Engineering
6 191 (23.58%) TDD
7 174 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (19.01%) Continuous Deployment
9 143 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
10 142 (17.53%) Scrum
11 124 (15.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 112 (13.83%) Configuration Management
13 107 (13.21%) Unit Testing
14 103 (12.72%) Containerisation
15 102 (12.59%) Microservices
16 101 (12.47%) Software Testing
17 86 (10.62%) Analytics
18 84 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 78 (9.63%) Deployment Automation
20 76 (9.38%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 226 (27.90%) Python
2 170 (20.99%) SQL
3 164 (20.25%) Java
4 157 (19.38%) C#
5 114 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 74 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 70 (8.64%) C++
8 62 (7.65%) TypeScript
9 60 (7.41%) Bash
10 51 (6.30%) C
11 45 (5.56%) Kotlin
12 42 (5.19%) Scala
13 35 (4.32%) Go
14 25 (3.09%) Ruby
15 23 (2.84%) Perl
16 20 (2.47%) PL/SQL
17 19 (2.35%) PHP
18 18 (2.22%) Shell Script
19 16 (1.98%) Groovy
20 9 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 144 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.14%) Degree
4 47 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.58%) ISTQB
7 25 (3.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.62%) CISSP
11 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.37%) PMP
11 3 (0.37%) SANS
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.25%) OCP
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.12%) CCNP
13 1 (0.12%) ISEB
13 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.96%) QA
2 9 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.74%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.62%) MISRA
5 5 (0.62%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.37%) NCSC
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) GxP
7 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.12%) MiFID
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 170 (20.99%) Docker
2 36 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.49%) Firmware
6 4 (0.49%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.49%) zsh
7 3 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.37%) vCloud
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.12%) GridGain
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 157 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 146 (18.02%) Ansible
3 143 (17.65%) Terraform
4 56 (6.91%) Grafana
5 45 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.57%) Progress Chef
7 35 (4.32%) Puppet
8 24 (2.96%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (2.72%) PowerCLI
10 21 (2.59%) Kibana
11 15 (1.85%) Podman
12 13 (1.60%) logstash
13 10 (1.23%) Tivoli
14 9 (1.11%) Packer
15 8 (0.99%) Graylog
16 6 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.74%) HP Fortify
16 6 (0.74%) Netcool
16 6 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 6 (0.74%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 112 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.77%) Oracle
3 37 (4.57%) Google
4 36 (4.44%) Splunk
5 34 (4.20%) HP
6 29 (3.58%) Atlassian
6 29 (3.58%) Dell
7 26 (3.21%) IBM
8 25 (3.09%) Databricks
9 21 (2.59%) EMC
9 21 (2.59%) ION Trading
10 20 (2.47%) VMware
11 18 (2.22%) Denodo
11 18 (2.22%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.22%) Talend
12 14 (1.73%) SAP
13 12 (1.48%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.48%) TIBCO
14 11 (1.36%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.23%) AppDynamics