CI/CD Contract Job Trends in England

CI/CD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 5,210 2,948 2,398
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.26% 10.51% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.27% 11.56% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,514 2,027 1,602
10th Percentile £385 £360 £400
25th Percentile £438 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £653
90th Percentile £709 £700 £765
UK median daily rate £523 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.45% -7.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 41 68
10th Percentile £49.94 £50.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £60.73 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77.13 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £74.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% -7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in England

CI/CD
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 CI/CD within the England region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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 +3 2,792 £538 +2.38% 3,854
North of England +4 1,012 £500 +2.56% 989
Yorkshire +2 493 £500 - 295
South East +1 468 £533 +6.50% 669
North West +6 394 £528 +11.52% 542
Midlands -6 363 £475 -5.00% 372
West Midlands -4 319 £477 -9.14% 243
South West +4 289 £540 -1.82% 431
East of England -2 148 £505 +1.00% 275
North East -3 133 £425 -11.69% 160
East Midlands -29 43 £463 +7.81% 129
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 258 (4.95%) Confluence
2 211 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 182 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 158 (3.03%) Apache
5 70 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 49 (0.94%) SAS
7 29 (0.56%) CMS
8 27 (0.52%) nginx
9 26 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.38%) Camunda
11 17 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
13 10 (0.19%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.17%) IIS
15 7 (0.13%) Mule
15 7 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.13%) WordPress
16 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
16 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.096%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 22 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.077%) Trello
6 4 (0.077%) Windchill
7 3 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.058%) Sketch
8 2 (0.038%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.019%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.019%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.019%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.019%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 38 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.15%) SAP CRM
6 6 (0.12%) Shopify
7 5 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.096%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.077%) Magento
8 4 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.077%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.077%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.058%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.058%) Endur
10 2 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.038%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,268 (43.53%) Azure
2 2,247 (43.13%) AWS
3 1,085 (20.83%) GitHub
4 905 (17.37%) GCP
5 847 (16.26%) Azure DevOps
6 708 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
7 551 (10.58%) Serverless
8 376 (7.22%) Amazon S3
9 357 (6.85%) Power Platform
10 353 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
11 280 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
12 262 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 244 (4.68%) Entra ID
14 214 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 210 (4.03%) Snowflake
16 205 (3.93%) Azure AKS
17 193 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
18 172 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
19 170 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
20 165 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 235 (4.51%) Firewall
2 158 (3.03%) DNS
3 139 (2.67%) Network Security
4 95 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 94 (1.80%) VPN
6 51 (0.98%) WAN
7 47 (0.90%) BGP
8 43 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 41 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 40 (0.77%) BIG-IP
11 38 (0.73%) DHCP
11 38 (0.73%) HTTP
12 37 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 35 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
13 35 (0.67%) SSL
14 34 (0.65%) Internet
15 28 (0.54%) OSPF
16 24 (0.46%) VLAN
17 23 (0.44%) 5G
17 23 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 264 (5.07%) Power BI
3 257 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 247 (4.74%) SQL Server
5 228 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 222 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 209 (4.01%) MongoDB
8 198 (3.80%) Data Lake
9 157 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
10 156 (2.99%) Metadata
11 124 (2.38%) BigQuery
12 113 (2.17%) Delta Lake
13 104 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 99 (1.90%) DynamoDB
15 98 (1.88%) MySQL
16 89 (1.71%) Redis
17 83 (1.59%) Oracle Database
18 79 (1.52%) Big Data
19 76 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
20 74 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1,043 (20.02%) Git
2 866 (16.62%) Jenkins
3 798 (15.32%) GitLab
4 431 (8.27%) JIRA
5 233 (4.47%) Selenium
6 173 (3.32%) JUnit
7 159 (3.05%) Cucumber
8 110 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 107 (2.05%) Maven
10 101 (1.94%) Gradle
11 95 (1.82%) Postman
12 91 (1.75%) Gatling
13 90 (1.73%) JMeter
14 88 (1.69%) Bitbucket
15 86 (1.65%) REST Assured
16 83 (1.59%) Cypress.io
17 72 (1.38%) Mockito
18 57 (1.09%) Claude Code
19 50 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
20 46 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,392 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 1,026 (19.69%) Finance
3 678 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 519 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 484 (9.29%) Banking
6 135 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (2.34%) Retail
8 80 (1.54%) Front Office
9 75 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 75 (1.44%) Military
10 70 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 62 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 55 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (0.96%) Marketing
14 49 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 48 (0.92%) Law
16 46 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 44 (0.84%) Manufacturing
18 35 (0.67%) Legal
19 34 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,060 (20.35%) Developer
2 924 (17.74%) Senior
3 620 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 524 (10.06%) Architect
5 498 (9.56%) Lead
6 411 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 281 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 237 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 237 (4.55%) Java Developer
9 236 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
10 226 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 226 (4.34%) Senior Developer
11 189 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
12 155 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 146 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 139 (2.67%) Java Engineer
14 139 (2.67%) Test Engineer
15 135 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 128 (2.46%) Python Developer
17 115 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,711 (32.84%) Terraform
2 816 (15.66%) REST
3 535 (10.27%) Kafka
4 466 (8.94%) React
5 437 (8.39%) Spring
6 428 (8.21%) .NET
7 421 (8.08%) RESTful
8 389 (7.47%) Spring Boot
9 264 (5.07%) Node.js
10 229 (4.40%) HTML
11 225 (4.32%) Playwright
12 203 (3.90%) JSON
13 201 (3.86%) PySpark
14 200 (3.84%) CSS
15 199 (3.82%) OAuth
16 149 (2.86%) AngularJS
17 137 (2.63%) SOAP
18 136 (2.61%) OAuth2
19 114 (2.19%) Middleware
20 110 (2.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1,105 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 393 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 345 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 258 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 218 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
6 216 (4.15%) AI Agents
7 141 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 127 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 100 (1.92%) Security Posture
10 95 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 86 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
13 75 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 71 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 67 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 65 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 62 (1.19%) Virtual Team
18 59 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
19 58 (1.11%) Algorithms
19 58 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 569 (10.92%) Linux
2 279 (5.36%) Windows
3 131 (2.51%) Unix
4 117 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 49 (0.94%) Android
7 41 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.50%) VMS
10 16 (0.31%) CentOS
11 15 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.27%) AIX
13 10 (0.19%) zOS
14 7 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.13%) Rocky
14 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.096%) Solaris
15 5 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.058%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,918 (56.01%) DevOps
2 2,021 (38.79%) Agile
3 1,807 (34.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,344 (25.80%) Test Automation
5 1,066 (20.46%) AI
6 1,059 (20.33%) Containerisation
7 1,056 (20.27%) Observability
8 1,010 (19.39%) Microservices
9 961 (18.45%) Software Engineering
10 874 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
11 859 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 744 (14.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 688 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
14 644 (12.36%) Analytics
15 623 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
16 607 (11.65%) Event-Driven
17 598 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
18 577 (11.07%) Scrum
19 565 (10.84%) Data Modelling
20 553 (10.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2,065 (39.64%) Python
2 1,236 (23.72%) SQL
3 1,093 (20.98%) Java
4 601 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 497 (9.54%) Bash
6 474 (9.10%) TypeScript
7 472 (9.06%) C#
8 460 (8.83%) PowerShell
9 232 (4.45%) Bicep
10 148 (2.84%) Go
11 109 (2.09%) Kotlin
11 109 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 92 (1.77%) Scala
13 71 (1.36%) Groovy
14 65 (1.25%) C++
15 57 (1.09%) Apex Code
16 45 (0.86%) T-SQL
17 44 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 44 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 39 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,543 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 1,242 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 311 (5.97%) Degree
4 269 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 188 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 180 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 180 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 149 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 104 (2.00%) CISSP
9 59 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (1.04%) ISTQB
11 50 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 44 (0.84%) CISM
13 40 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 40 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 26 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 25 (0.48%) CCSP
16 23 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 23 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (10.29%) QA
2 399 (7.66%) Data Quality
3 282 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 120 (2.30%) WCAG
5 97 (1.86%) GDPR
6 80 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 70 (1.34%) NIST
8 64 (1.23%) NCSC
9 27 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.48%) SLA
11 22 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.36%) GRC
13 18 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.23%) HL7
17 10 (0.19%) EU AI Act
18 8 (0.15%) Basel III
19 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,375 (26.39%) Docker
2 153 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.38%) vSphere
8 17 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.29%) Squid
11 13 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.15%) KVM
14 4 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.077%) HDFS
14 4 (0.077%) Postfix
14 4 (0.077%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.058%) Ceph
15 3 (0.058%) RACF
15 3 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,651 (31.69%) Kubernetes
2 539 (10.35%) Ansible
3 426 (8.18%) Grafana
4 323 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 88 (1.69%) Argo
6 59 (1.13%) Puppet
7 54 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 51 (0.98%) Kibana
9 46 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 36 (0.69%) Istio
11 32 (0.61%) Packer
12 31 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
13 24 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 22 (0.42%) Control-M
15 18 (0.35%) SCCM
16 16 (0.31%) Podman
17 13 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
18 10 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 9 (0.17%) Karpenter
19 9 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 859 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 402 (7.72%) Databricks
3 359 (6.89%) Google
4 244 (4.68%) Oracle
5 200 (3.84%) Splunk
6 146 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 140 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 135 (2.59%) VMware
9 119 (2.28%) ServiceNow
10 95 (1.82%) Red Hat
11 90 (1.73%) OpenAI
12 86 (1.65%) IBM
13 62 (1.19%) SAP
14 60 (1.15%) Cisco
15 59 (1.13%) Foundry
16 58 (1.11%) F5
17 53 (1.02%) Informatica
17 53 (1.02%) MuleSoft
18 41 (0.79%) Palo Alto
19 40 (0.77%) CyberArk