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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,909 1,388 1,340
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 10.06% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.25% 11.12% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 971 1,017
10th Percentile £363 £406 £425
25th Percentile £431 £495 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +2.59% -7.20%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £736 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £565 £568
% change year-on-year -9.29% -0.44% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -2 208 £525 -8.70% 211
West London +6 70 £603 +26.84% 44
South London +8 57 £525 -2.42% 33
East London -9 8 £495 -3.65% 44
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 79 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 70 (3.67%) Confluence
3 63 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 45 (2.36%) Apache
5 34 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.68%) CMS
6 13 (0.68%) nginx
7 11 (0.58%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.58%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.52%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.47%) Appian
9 9 (0.47%) Mendix
10 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.37%) Camunda
12 6 (0.31%) SAS
13 5 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.26%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.26%) IIS
14 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.052%) Actimize
4 1 (0.052%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.052%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.052%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.052%) Maximo
4 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.052%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.052%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 836 (43.79%) AWS
2 830 (43.48%) Azure
3 464 (24.31%) GitHub
4 324 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
5 312 (16.34%) GitHub Actions
6 303 (15.87%) GCP
7 280 (14.67%) Serverless
8 191 (10.01%) Amazon S3
9 172 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 142 (7.44%) Power Platform
12 117 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
13 110 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
14 105 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 96 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 87 (4.56%) Azure AKS
17 79 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
18 76 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
19 71 (3.72%) Azure Functions
20 68 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.14%) Firewall
2 52 (2.72%) DNS
3 49 (2.57%) Network Security
4 25 (1.31%) VPN
5 24 (1.26%) HTTP
6 15 (0.79%) SSL
7 14 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.68%) WAN
9 11 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.47%) SSH
11 8 (0.42%) SMTP
12 7 (0.37%) DHCP
12 7 (0.37%) FTP
12 7 (0.37%) IMAP
12 7 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.26%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.21%) BGP
14 4 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
14 4 (0.21%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.21%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 101 (5.29%) Power BI
5 100 (5.24%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 77 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (3.72%) MongoDB
8 66 (3.46%) Relational Database
9 45 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.20%) BigQuery
11 41 (2.15%) Delta Lake
12 40 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (1.83%) Big Data
14 33 (1.73%) Metadata
14 33 (1.73%) MySQL
15 32 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.68%) DynamoDB
16 29 (1.52%) Redis
17 26 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 361 (18.91%) Jenkins
2 349 (18.28%) Git
3 244 (12.78%) GitLab
4 142 (7.44%) JIRA
5 74 (3.88%) Selenium
6 51 (2.67%) JUnit
7 49 (2.57%) Cucumber
8 41 (2.15%) Cypress.io
9 39 (2.04%) MLflow
10 37 (1.94%) Postman
11 27 (1.41%) JMeter
11 27 (1.41%) TeamCity
12 26 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 24 (1.26%) Maven
13 24 (1.26%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.15%) Bitbucket
15 21 (1.10%) Gradle
16 20 (1.05%) Mockito
17 18 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (0.68%) Gatling
General
1 512 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 441 (23.10%) Finance
3 203 (10.63%) Banking
4 201 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (2.46%) Front Office
7 43 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 34 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 30 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.36%) Marketing
12 24 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.05%) Retail
14 14 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.63%) Military
15 12 (0.63%) Publishing
16 11 (0.58%) Electronics
16 11 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 488 (25.56%) Developer
2 286 (14.98%) Senior
3 254 (13.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 170 (8.91%) Architect
4 170 (8.91%) Data Engineer
5 129 (6.76%) Lead
6 119 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
7 111 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
8 90 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
8 90 (4.71%) Senior Developer
9 84 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 84 (4.40%) Java Developer
10 76 (3.98%) Software Engineer
11 74 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 68 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
13 66 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 63 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 57 (2.99%) Python Engineer
16 55 (2.88%) Python Developer
16 55 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (12.68%) React
2 201 (10.53%) Kafka
3 197 (10.32%) Node.js
4 189 (9.90%) RESTful
5 174 (9.11%) REST
6 164 (8.59%) .NET
7 148 (7.75%) Spring
8 120 (6.29%) Spring Boot
9 109 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 91 (4.77%) CSS
11 87 (4.56%) Playwright
12 85 (4.45%) HTML
13 78 (4.09%) OAuth
14 73 (3.82%) GraphQL
15 72 (3.77%) PySpark
16 64 (3.35%) YAML
17 57 (2.99%) JSON
18 50 (2.62%) .NET Core
19 48 (2.51%) Next.js
19 48 (2.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 376 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 46 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 40 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 33 (1.73%) Algorithms
7 33 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 31 (1.62%) Derivative
9 28 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.41%) Replication
11 26 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.20%) Equities
13 23 (1.20%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 22 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.06%) Linux
2 68 (3.56%) Windows
3 34 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.68%) VMS
5 30 (1.57%) Android
6 27 (1.41%) Unix
7 18 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 12 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.31%) CentOS
11 6 (0.31%) Solaris
12 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.21%) zOS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,074 (56.26%) DevOps
2 642 (33.63%) Agile
3 618 (32.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 436 (22.84%) Containerisation
5 382 (20.01%) Problem-Solving
6 381 (19.96%) Test Automation
7 337 (17.65%) Microservices
8 303 (15.87%) AI
9 272 (14.25%) Analytics
9 272 (14.25%) Observability
10 252 (13.20%) Software Engineering
11 218 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
12 199 (10.42%) Data Engineering
13 197 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 186 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 185 (9.69%) Machine Learning
16 182 (9.53%) Data Modelling
17 170 (8.91%) ETL
18 168 (8.80%) Migration
19 162 (8.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 748 (39.18%) Python
2 469 (24.57%) SQL
3 379 (19.85%) Java
4 266 (13.93%) JavaScript
5 257 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 207 (10.84%) C#
7 129 (6.76%) Bash
8 112 (5.87%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.61%) Bicep
10 63 (3.30%) Go
11 55 (2.88%) Scala
12 37 (1.94%) C++
13 30 (1.57%) Ruby
14 26 (1.36%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 23 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.20%) Rust
17 17 (0.89%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.84%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 450 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 391 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.50%) Degree
4 70 (3.67%) AWS Certification
5 68 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 67 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.94%) CISSP
11 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
13 12 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.47%) OSCP
16 7 (0.37%) CCSP
17 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.44%) QA
2 111 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.45%) GDPR
4 62 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 53 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.62%) NIST
7 28 (1.47%) NCSC
8 26 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 22 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.94%) WCAG
11 11 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.52%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) MiFID
13 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.26%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.21%) PERC
15 4 (0.21%) PSD2
15 4 (0.21%) SEPA
15 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 619 (32.43%) Docker
2 48 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.47%) Squid
6 7 (0.37%) DFS Replication
6 7 (0.37%) Dovecot
6 7 (0.37%) Postfix
7 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.31%) vSphere
7 6 (0.31%) zsh
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) Veritas File System
10 3 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) etcd
11 1 (0.052%) KVM
Systems Management
1 645 (33.79%) Kubernetes
2 634 (33.21%) Terraform
3 151 (7.91%) Ansible
4 122 (6.39%) Grafana
5 113 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.57%) Argo
7 26 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.20%) Istio
9 16 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.79%) Kibana
11 13 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
12 12 (0.63%) Puppet
13 10 (0.52%) Rancher
14 9 (0.47%) Nessus
15 7 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.31%) logstash
16 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
16 6 (0.31%) Packer
17 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 278 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.74%) Databricks
3 123 (6.44%) Google
4 73 (3.82%) Oracle
5 62 (3.25%) Splunk
6 56 (2.93%) OpenAI
7 52 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.67%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.20%) VMware
12 21 (1.10%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.00%) SAP
14 17 (0.89%) Solace
15 15 (0.79%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.73%) Cisco
17 12 (0.63%) Adobe
18 11 (0.58%) Apple
18 11 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.58%) UiPath