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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 124 92
Rank change year-on-year +8 -32 -14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 815 1,216 2,477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 2.11% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.35% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 873 1,625
10th Percentile £360 £448 £425
25th Percentile £452 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £596
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -1.34% +13.43%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £543
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.15% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 30
10th Percentile £60.25 £55.50 £51.13
25th Percentile £61.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £68.31
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.44
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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
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% -6.98%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +5 709 £550 -7.56% 327
London +7 403 £588 -2.33% 117
UK excluding London +6 350 £550 -2.65% 235
Work from Home -31 233 £533 -8.19% 200
South East 0 83 £550 +4.76% 57
North of England +2 74 £511 -14.79% 58
East of England +27 56 £475 +35.71% 25
Scotland +43 48 £525 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire +41 48 £513 -10.09% 15
South West -8 40 £700 +12.22% 40
Midlands -10 35 £359 -33.52% 27
West Midlands -16 29 £365 -32.41% 23
North West -10 21 £511 -17.37% 39
Wales -1 14 £540 -7.85% 10
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -41.28% 4
North East +5 5 £488 -33.85% 4

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 74 (9.08%) Confluence
2 38 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.21%) Apache
4 11 (1.35%) 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 (0.61%) IIS
7 5 (0.61%) 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 9 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.10%) ION MarketView
2 8 (0.98%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
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%) 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
1 203 (24.91%) Azure
2 200 (24.54%) AWS
3 81 (9.94%) GCP
3 81 (9.94%) GitHub
4 64 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (5.15%) Serverless
6 31 (3.80%) OpenShift
7 28 (3.44%) PaaS
8 27 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.94%) IaaS
11 20 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (2.45%) Apigee
11 20 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.79%) TCP/IP
2 35 (4.29%) Modbus
2 35 (4.29%) RS-422
2 35 (4.29%) RS-485
3 32 (3.93%) Firewall
4 31 (3.80%) DNS
5 26 (3.19%) HTTP
6 16 (1.96%) VPN
7 14 (1.72%) Kerberos
8 13 (1.60%) SSL
9 11 (1.35%) Ethernet
10 10 (1.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.86%) Internet
11 7 (0.86%) SSH
11 7 (0.86%) VLAN
12 6 (0.74%) NAS
12 6 (0.74%) SAN
13 3 (0.37%) 5G
13 3 (0.37%) BIG-IP
13 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.98%) Relational Database
2 63 (7.73%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.26%) MySQL
4 48 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 31 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 22 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.70%) KDB
10 21 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.58%) Big Data
11 19 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.35%) DB2
15 11 (1.35%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.35%) Redis
16 10 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 236 (28.96%) Jenkins
2 212 (26.01%) Git
3 142 (17.42%) JIRA
4 88 (10.80%) GitLab
5 85 (10.43%) Cucumber
6 77 (9.45%) Selenium
7 72 (8.83%) Postman
8 56 (6.87%) TeamCity
9 53 (6.50%) Bitbucket
10 41 (5.03%) JUnit
11 39 (4.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 39 (4.79%) SonarQube
12 37 (4.54%) Cypress.io
12 37 (4.54%) REST Assured
13 31 (3.80%) Visual Studio
14 28 (3.44%) TestRail
15 24 (2.94%) Appium
16 23 (2.82%) JMeter
17 22 (2.70%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.58%) NUnit
General
1 282 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 159 (19.51%) Finance
3 136 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.34%) Banking
5 41 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.79%) Electronics
7 38 (4.66%) Front Office
8 28 (3.44%) Back Office
9 22 (2.70%) Law
9 22 (2.70%) Retail
10 20 (2.45%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.72%) Police
14 12 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.47%) Military
15 6 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 273 (33.50%) Developer
2 113 (13.87%) Senior
3 78 (9.57%) Software Engineer
4 63 (7.73%) Java Developer
5 61 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 53 (6.50%) Senior Developer
7 51 (6.26%) Analyst
8 48 (5.89%) Test Analyst
9 44 (5.40%) Lead
10 39 (4.79%) Architect
11 38 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
11 38 (4.66%) Data Engineer
12 35 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
13 33 (4.05%) C# Developer
14 26 (3.19%) Tester
15 25 (3.07%) Java Engineer
16 24 (2.94%) React Developer
17 22 (2.70%) Python Developer
18 21 (2.58%) Consultant
19 20 (2.45%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (12.88%) .NET
2 102 (12.52%) REST
3 66 (8.10%) RESTful
4 65 (7.98%) Web Services
5 64 (7.85%) Node.js
6 60 (7.36%) Kafka
6 60 (7.36%) React
7 54 (6.63%) Spring
8 50 (6.13%) JSON
9 49 (6.01%) .NET Core
10 44 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
11 42 (5.15%) XML
12 40 (4.91%) CSS
13 33 (4.05%) Spring Boot
14 32 (3.93%) HTML
15 31 (3.80%) AngularJS
16 30 (3.68%) .NET Framework
17 28 (3.44%) ARM Templates
18 27 (3.31%) SOAP
19 26 (3.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 37 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (1.84%) Derivative
10 15 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.84%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.23%) Clustering
13 10 (1.23%) Legacy Code
13 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.26%) Linux
2 81 (9.94%) Windows
3 40 (4.91%) Unix
4 31 (3.80%) Android
5 19 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.72%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.23%) Solaris
8 8 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.61%) 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
1 507 (62.21%) Agile
2 427 (52.39%) CI/CD
3 324 (39.75%) DevOps
4 282 (34.60%) Test Automation
5 196 (24.05%) TDD
6 191 (23.44%) Software Engineering
7 171 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (19.26%) Continuous Deployment
9 146 (17.91%) Continuous Delivery
10 139 (17.06%) Scrum
11 122 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 112 (13.74%) Configuration Management
13 108 (13.25%) Unit Testing
14 106 (13.01%) Microservices
15 102 (12.52%) Containerisation
16 100 (12.27%) Software Testing
17 93 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 83 (10.18%) Analytics
19 78 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
20 76 (9.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 220 (26.99%) Python
2 178 (21.84%) SQL
3 175 (21.47%) Java
4 162 (19.88%) C#
5 112 (13.74%) JavaScript
6 75 (9.20%) PowerShell
7 72 (8.83%) C++
8 64 (7.85%) TypeScript
9 60 (7.36%) Bash
10 52 (6.38%) C
11 43 (5.28%) Kotlin
12 42 (5.15%) Scala
13 35 (4.29%) Go
14 25 (3.07%) Ruby
15 24 (2.94%) PL/SQL
16 23 (2.82%) Perl
17 18 (2.21%) PHP
17 18 (2.21%) Shell Script
18 17 (2.09%) Groovy
19 9 (1.10%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 146 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.83%) Degree
4 45 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.68%) ISTQB
7 26 (3.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.61%) 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
13 1 (0.12%) CCNP
13 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.12%) ISEB
13 1 (0.12%) PhD
13 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (12.64%) QA
2 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.74%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.61%) MISRA
5 5 (0.61%) 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 (20.86%) Docker
2 35 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.49%) Firmware
6 4 (0.49%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.49%) zsh
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%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 155 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 144 (17.67%) Ansible
3 142 (17.42%) Terraform
4 56 (6.87%) Grafana
5 45 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.54%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.42%) Puppet
8 24 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
9 23 (2.82%) Kibana
10 22 (2.70%) PowerCLI
11 15 (1.84%) Podman
12 13 (1.60%) logstash
13 10 (1.23%) Tivoli
14 9 (1.10%) Packer
15 8 (0.98%) 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
1 109 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.33%) Oracle
3 36 (4.42%) Splunk
4 34 (4.17%) HP
5 31 (3.80%) Google
5 31 (3.80%) IBM
6 29 (3.56%) Atlassian
6 29 (3.56%) Dell
7 24 (2.94%) Databricks
8 21 (2.58%) EMC
9 20 (2.45%) VMware
10 19 (2.33%) ION Trading
11 18 (2.21%) Denodo
11 18 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 18 (2.21%) Talend
12 14 (1.72%) SAP
13 12 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.47%) TIBCO
14 11 (1.35%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.23%) AppDynamics