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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 131 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 -37 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 832 1,107 2,422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.99% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.21% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 794 1,586
10th Percentile £358 £438 £425
25th Percentile £443 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -1.04% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £570 £540
% change year-on-year -7.81% +5.56% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 27 20
10th Percentile £60.25 £51.92 £54.88
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.25 £61.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.75
90th Percentile £65.70 £75.00 £75.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +64.56%

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 37,078 50,015 79,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 89.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 34,589 56,207
10th Percentile £300 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £646
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 1,687 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +17 737 £550 -8.33% 319
London +3 410 £588 -2.08% 96
UK excluding London +29 361 £526 -7.81% 243
Work from Home -8 236 £525 -8.70% 187
North of England +18 83 £475 -17.39% 60
South East -5 79 £550 +3.29% 65
East of England +28 60 £485 +36.62% 29
Yorkshire +37 48 £513 -10.09% 12
South West +18 45 £700 +12.00% 35
Midlands +7 42 £358 -33.70% 28
Scotland +39 37 £500 -5.66% 21
West Midlands 0 36 £359 -33.52% 25
North West -7 26 £500 -16.67% 40
Wales +2 15 £545 -7.00% 8
North East +8 9 £430 -41.66% 8
East Midlands +10 6 £356 -41.28% 3

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 69 (8.29%) Confluence
2 36 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.68%) Apache
4 13 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.20%) CMS
5 10 (1.20%) JBoss
5 10 (1.20%) SAS
6 7 (0.84%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.60%) IIS
7 5 (0.60%) nginx
7 5 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.48%) Appian
8 4 (0.48%) Luigi
9 3 (0.36%) CICS
9 3 (0.36%) Drupal
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.36%) Windchill
3 2 (0.24%) Mingle
3 2 (0.24%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) ION MarketView
2 9 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.24%) Endur
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
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 211 (25.36%) Azure
2 204 (24.52%) AWS
3 87 (10.46%) GCP
4 83 (9.98%) GitHub
5 63 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (5.17%) Serverless
7 33 (3.97%) OpenShift
8 29 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (3.49%) PaaS
9 25 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (3.00%) IaaS
10 21 (2.52%) Apigee
11 20 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (2.16%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 16 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 35 (4.21%) RS-485
3 34 (4.09%) Modbus
3 34 (4.09%) RS-422
4 31 (3.73%) DNS
4 31 (3.73%) Firewall
5 26 (3.13%) HTTP
6 17 (2.04%) VPN
7 14 (1.68%) SSL
8 13 (1.56%) Kerberos
9 11 (1.32%) Ethernet
10 10 (1.20%) DHCP
11 9 (1.08%) SSH
12 7 (0.84%) Internet
13 6 (0.72%) VLAN
14 5 (0.60%) NAS
14 5 (0.60%) SAN
15 3 (0.36%) BIG-IP
15 3 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.81%) NoSQL
2 64 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 63 (7.57%) MySQL
4 46 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 34 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 25 (3.00%) KDB
9 24 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 23 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 22 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (2.40%) Big Data
13 19 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.44%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.32%) Delta Lake
17 11 (1.32%) Redis
18 10 (1.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 238 (28.61%) Jenkins
2 215 (25.84%) Git
3 135 (16.23%) JIRA
4 98 (11.78%) GitLab
5 80 (9.62%) Selenium
6 77 (9.25%) Cucumber
7 71 (8.53%) Postman
8 50 (6.01%) Bitbucket
9 49 (5.89%) TeamCity
10 39 (4.69%) Cypress.io
10 39 (4.69%) JUnit
11 38 (4.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 38 (4.57%) SonarQube
12 36 (4.33%) REST Assured
13 28 (3.37%) Visual Studio
14 26 (3.13%) Appium
15 25 (3.00%) JMeter
15 25 (3.00%) TestRail
16 22 (2.64%) Gradle
16 22 (2.64%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 163 (19.59%) Finance
3 135 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.53%) Banking
5 38 (4.57%) Electronics
5 38 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.21%) Front Office
7 29 (3.49%) Back Office
8 24 (2.88%) Retail
9 22 (2.64%) Law
10 21 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.40%) Aerospace
12 18 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.56%) Police
14 12 (1.44%) Military
15 7 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (0.84%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.60%) Games
16 5 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 280 (33.65%) Developer
2 116 (13.94%) Senior
3 82 (9.86%) Software Engineer
4 68 (8.17%) Java Developer
5 63 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (5.89%) Analyst
6 49 (5.89%) Senior Developer
7 46 (5.53%) Lead
8 45 (5.41%) Test Analyst
9 41 (4.93%) Architect
10 39 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 37 (4.45%) C++ Software Engineer
12 32 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.61%) Tester
14 28 (3.37%) C# Developer
15 27 (3.25%) Python Developer
16 26 (3.13%) Java Engineer
17 22 (2.64%) Full Stack Developer
18 20 (2.40%) React Developer
19 19 (2.28%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (12.02%) .NET
1 100 (12.02%) REST
2 73 (8.77%) RESTful
2 73 (8.77%) Web Services
3 61 (7.33%) Node.js
4 60 (7.21%) Spring
5 54 (6.49%) Kafka
5 54 (6.49%) React
6 52 (6.25%) JSON
7 44 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
7 44 (5.29%) XML
8 43 (5.17%) .NET Core
9 37 (4.45%) Spring Boot
10 36 (4.33%) CSS
11 33 (3.97%) Java EE
12 32 (3.85%) AngularJS
12 32 (3.85%) SOAP
13 31 (3.73%) HTML
14 29 (3.49%) .NET Framework
15 28 (3.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (4.45%) Mobile App
4 35 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (3.61%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (2.04%) Derivative
10 17 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.92%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.80%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.68%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.44%) Legacy Code
15 12 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (18.87%) Linux
2 72 (8.65%) Windows
3 47 (5.65%) Unix
4 31 (3.73%) Android
5 16 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.56%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.08%) Solaris
8 8 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.60%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.48%) AIX
10 4 (0.48%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.48%) zOS
11 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.24%) VMS
13 1 (0.12%) CentOS
13 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (60.22%) Agile
2 433 (52.04%) CI/CD
3 330 (39.66%) DevOps
4 293 (35.22%) Test Automation
5 215 (25.84%) Software Engineering
6 190 (22.84%) TDD
7 179 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (19.35%) Scrum
9 156 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
10 146 (17.55%) Continuous Delivery
11 131 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 123 (14.78%) Configuration Management
13 110 (13.22%) Software Testing
14 105 (12.62%) Unit Testing
15 103 (12.38%) Microservices
16 99 (11.90%) Containerisation
17 95 (11.42%) Analytics
18 81 (9.74%) OO
19 79 (9.50%) Pair Programming
20 76 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 226 (27.16%) Python
2 183 (22.00%) Java
3 169 (20.31%) SQL
4 156 (18.75%) C#
5 111 (13.34%) JavaScript
6 74 (8.89%) C++
7 70 (8.41%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.97%) TypeScript
9 57 (6.85%) Bash
10 53 (6.37%) C
11 45 (5.41%) Scala
12 44 (5.29%) Kotlin
13 37 (4.45%) Go
14 27 (3.25%) Ruby
15 25 (3.00%) Perl
16 22 (2.64%) Shell Script
17 19 (2.28%) PHP
17 19 (2.28%) PL/SQL
18 16 (1.92%) Groovy
19 11 (1.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 150 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.77%) Degree
4 48 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.49%) ISTQB
7 23 (2.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.48%) CISSP
11 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.36%) PMP
11 3 (0.36%) SANS
12 2 (0.24%) OCP
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.12%) ISEB
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (13.34%) QA
2 9 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.60%) GDPR
4 5 (0.60%) MISRA
4 5 (0.60%) MISRA C
4 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.24%) 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%) NCSC
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (19.83%) Docker
2 36 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.48%) Firmware
5 4 (0.48%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.36%) vCloud
6 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) vSphere
6 3 (0.36%) zsh
7 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.12%) GridGain
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 154 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 152 (18.27%) Ansible
2 152 (18.27%) Terraform
3 68 (8.17%) Grafana
4 46 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.81%) Progress Chef
6 36 (4.33%) Puppet
7 23 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (2.40%) Kibana
8 20 (2.40%) PowerCLI
9 13 (1.56%) logstash
9 13 (1.56%) Podman
10 9 (1.08%) Tivoli
11 8 (0.96%) Graylog
11 8 (0.96%) Packer
12 6 (0.72%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.72%) Nessus
12 6 (0.72%) WebInspect
12 6 (0.72%) Zipkin
13 5 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 111 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.29%) Oracle
3 41 (4.93%) Google
4 34 (4.09%) Splunk
5 31 (3.73%) HP
6 28 (3.37%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.37%) Denodo
6 28 (3.37%) Talend
7 26 (3.13%) Dell
8 25 (3.00%) IBM
9 23 (2.76%) ION Trading
10 22 (2.64%) Databricks
11 20 (2.40%) EMC
12 19 (2.28%) Salesforce
13 17 (2.04%) VMware
14 14 (1.68%) SAP
15 13 (1.56%) ServiceNow
16 12 (1.44%) TIBCO
17 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
18 10 (1.20%) AppDynamics