CI/CD Contract Job Trends in London

CI/CD
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,610 1,453 1,357
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.97% 10.72% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.61% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 985 954
10th Percentile £400 £371 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £808
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -21.29%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Central London +8 323 £550 -12.00% 144
South London +4 68 £538 +1.90% 20
West London +8 51 £560 +13.71% 41
East London +3 11 £588 +33.52% 17
North London - 1 £650 - 2
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 127 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.02%) Confluence
3 99 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.95%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,179 (45.17%) Azure
2 1,142 (43.75%) AWS
3 591 (22.64%) GitHub
4 466 (17.85%) Azure DevOps
5 402 (15.40%) GitHub Actions
6 389 (14.90%) GCP
7 294 (11.26%) Serverless
8 239 (9.16%) Amazon S3
9 226 (8.66%) Power Platform
10 201 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
12 142 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 137 (5.25%) Snowflake
14 125 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (4.60%) Entra ID
16 118 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
16 118 (4.52%) dbt
17 114 (4.37%) Azure AKS
18 110 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
19 87 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.87%) Firewall
2 44 (1.69%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
3 36 (1.38%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 24 (0.92%) HTTP
6 20 (0.77%) 5G
7 18 (0.69%) SSL
7 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 3GPP
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
12 8 (0.31%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 6 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (6.55%) Power BI
2 150 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 123 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 93 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 93 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 80 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
8 78 (2.99%) Delta Lake
9 75 (2.87%) Metadata
10 74 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 68 (2.61%) BigQuery
12 60 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
13 48 (1.84%) Big Data
14 47 (1.80%) Redis
15 46 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (1.76%) DynamoDB
16 36 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
17 32 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 462 (17.70%) Git
2 414 (15.86%) Jenkins
3 328 (12.57%) GitLab
4 188 (7.20%) JIRA
5 80 (3.07%) Selenium
6 71 (2.72%) JUnit
7 48 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.72%) Gradle
9 44 (1.69%) JMeter
10 40 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.49%) Mockito
12 38 (1.46%) Postman
13 37 (1.42%) Bitbucket
14 36 (1.38%) Maven
15 32 (1.23%) SonarQube
16 31 (1.19%) REST Assured
17 27 (1.03%) CircleCI
18 26 (1.00%) MLflow
19 22 (0.84%) Gatling
20 21 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 635 (24.33%) Finance
1 635 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 310 (11.88%) Public Sector
3 296 (11.34%) Banking
4 214 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.22%) Front Office
6 57 (2.18%) Investment Banking
6 57 (2.18%) Retail
7 45 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.15%) Law
10 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.11%) Marketing
12 24 (0.92%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Local Government
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 552 (21.15%) Developer
2 467 (17.89%) Senior
3 297 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 289 (11.07%) Architect
5 270 (10.34%) Lead
6 233 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
8 148 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
9 134 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 132 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 120 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 116 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 107 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
15 85 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
16 75 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.61%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
20 62 (2.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (13.87%) REST
2 254 (9.73%) Kafka
3 251 (9.62%) React
4 240 (9.20%) .NET
5 207 (7.93%) RESTful
6 202 (7.74%) Spring
7 171 (6.55%) Spring Boot
8 133 (5.10%) PySpark
9 124 (4.75%) Node.js
10 104 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 103 (3.95%) HTML
12 90 (3.45%) Playwright
13 86 (3.30%) CSS
14 79 (3.03%) JSON
15 69 (2.64%) OAuth
16 68 (2.61%) FastAPI
17 67 (2.57%) SOAP
18 59 (2.26%) Next.js
19 56 (2.15%) GraphQL
20 55 (2.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 541 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 219 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 99 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 97 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 41 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 38 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.34%) Mobile App
15 33 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.19%) Fixed Income
17 30 (1.15%) Algorithms
17 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
18 28 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 200 (7.66%) Linux
2 112 (4.29%) Windows
3 64 (2.45%) Unix
4 39 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.07%) Android
5 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.077%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,455 (55.75%) DevOps
2 931 (35.67%) Agile
3 861 (32.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 553 (21.19%) Test Automation
5 552 (21.15%) AI
6 548 (21.00%) Containerisation
7 517 (19.81%) Microservices
8 453 (17.36%) Observability
9 449 (17.20%) Software Engineering
10 370 (14.18%) Analytics
11 365 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
12 351 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
13 339 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 335 (12.84%) Data Modelling
15 313 (11.99%) Data Engineering
16 306 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
17 294 (11.26%) Event-Driven
18 291 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 273 (10.46%) Migration
20 264 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (38.70%) Python
2 721 (27.62%) SQL
3 530 (20.31%) Java
4 281 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 274 (10.50%) C#
6 265 (10.15%) TypeScript
7 203 (7.78%) Bash
8 202 (7.74%) PowerShell
9 107 (4.10%) Bicep
10 58 (2.22%) Go
11 53 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.95%) Apex Code
13 46 (1.76%) Scala
14 45 (1.72%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.26%) Ruby
16 30 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.92%) C++
19 21 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 684 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 621 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 130 (4.98%) Degree
4 100 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 73 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.77%) CISSP
11 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.46%) GIAC
14 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) PhD
15 11 (0.42%) CISM
16 8 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (8.81%) QA
2 215 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.22%) GDPR
5 48 (1.84%) NIST
6 44 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.11%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 22 (0.84%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.34%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 671 (25.71%) Docker
2 61 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 835 (31.99%) Terraform
2 763 (29.23%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.62%) Grafana
4 189 (7.24%) Ansible
5 166 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.26%) Puppet
7 31 (1.19%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
9 20 (0.77%) Packer
10 15 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Control-M
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 400 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 210 (8.05%) Databricks
3 137 (5.25%) Google
4 123 (4.71%) Oracle
5 104 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.49%) Splunk
7 68 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 43 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.65%) VMware
10 35 (1.34%) IBM
11 31 (1.19%) Informatica
12 28 (1.07%) Foundry
12 28 (1.07%) MuleSoft
12 28 (1.07%) SAP
13 27 (1.03%) Red Hat
14 23 (0.88%) New Relic
15 22 (0.84%) Cisco
16 20 (0.77%) Palantir
17 18 (0.69%) CyberArk