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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,770 1,600 1,455
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.68% 12.02% 9.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 12.98% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 1,071 1,008
10th Percentile £400 £364 £413
25th Percentile £450 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £54.25 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% -8.33%

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 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
Central London +11 342 £550 -9.13% 286
South London +2 70 £535 +0.47% 22
West London -6 50 £560 +13.71% 60
East London +4 11 £585 +8.33% 21
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
1 136 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.19%) Confluence
3 110 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.03%) Apache
5 37 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 14 (0.51%) Camunda
8 12 (0.43%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.036%) Sketch
7 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.036%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.036%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,248 (45.05%) Azure
2 1,187 (42.85%) AWS
3 624 (22.53%) GitHub
4 468 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
5 438 (15.81%) GCP
6 419 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
7 334 (12.06%) Serverless
8 249 (8.99%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.23%) Power Platform
10 212 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
12 158 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (5.60%) Snowflake
14 150 (5.42%) Entra ID
15 135 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (4.77%) dbt
17 131 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
18 110 (3.97%) Azure AKS
19 102 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
20 96 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.38%) Firewall
2 48 (1.73%) Network Security
3 47 (1.70%) DNS
4 35 (1.26%) VPN
5 32 (1.16%) Internet
6 28 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.76%) SSL
8 19 (0.69%) 5G
9 18 (0.65%) HTTP
10 12 (0.43%) WAN
11 11 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.40%) SAN
12 10 (0.36%) SSH
13 9 (0.32%) 4G
13 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.29%) BGP
15 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
16 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.17%) Power BI
3 149 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 146 (5.27%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 114 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 110 (3.97%) Relational Database
8 99 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 81 (2.92%) Metadata
11 74 (2.67%) BigQuery
12 71 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 60 (2.17%) Redis
14 51 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.81%) MySQL
16 46 (1.66%) Big Data
16 46 (1.66%) DynamoDB
17 45 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
17 45 (1.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 547 (19.75%) Git
2 448 (16.17%) Jenkins
3 379 (13.68%) GitLab
4 193 (6.97%) JIRA
5 101 (3.65%) Selenium
6 78 (2.82%) JUnit
7 59 (2.13%) Gradle
8 57 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 53 (1.91%) Cypress.io
10 49 (1.77%) Maven
11 48 (1.73%) JMeter
12 46 (1.66%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.62%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.48%) Postman
15 37 (1.34%) Mockito
16 33 (1.19%) REST Assured
17 26 (0.94%) Gatling
18 24 (0.87%) CircleCI
19 22 (0.79%) MLflow
20 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 711 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 703 (25.38%) Finance
3 340 (12.27%) Banking
4 312 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 274 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.74%) Front Office
7 70 (2.53%) Retail
8 67 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.44%) Marketing
11 34 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.12%) Law
13 30 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.83%) Back Office
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 20 (0.72%) Local Government
18 17 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 580 (20.94%) Developer
2 510 (18.41%) Senior
3 346 (12.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (10.69%) Architect
5 279 (10.07%) Lead
6 250 (9.03%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 134 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 130 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 123 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 99 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 94 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
16 81 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.71%) Python Developer
18 71 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 71 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
19 67 (2.42%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (32.82%) Terraform
2 446 (16.10%) REST
3 309 (11.16%) Kafka
4 261 (9.42%) React
5 258 (9.31%) .NET
6 225 (8.12%) RESTful
7 221 (7.98%) Spring
8 197 (7.11%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.13%) PySpark
10 118 (4.26%) Node.js
11 113 (4.08%) HTML
12 101 (3.65%) CSS
13 98 (3.54%) OAuth
14 97 (3.50%) Playwright
15 88 (3.18%) JSON
16 85 (3.07%) AngularJS
17 83 (3.00%) FastAPI
18 78 (2.82%) SOAP
19 70 (2.53%) Middleware
20 69 (2.49%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 589 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 230 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 143 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 121 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
6 119 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 98 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 42 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 39 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 38 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.34%) Replication
14 37 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 35 (1.26%) Algorithms
17 32 (1.16%) Public Cloud
18 31 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 265 (9.57%) Linux
2 128 (4.62%) Windows
3 82 (2.96%) Unix
4 49 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.01%) Android
7 25 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.51%) VMS
9 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Solaris
14 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,536 (55.45%) DevOps
2 1,015 (36.64%) Agile
3 960 (34.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 651 (23.50%) AI
5 621 (22.42%) Test Automation
6 544 (19.64%) Containerisation
7 539 (19.46%) Observability
8 534 (19.28%) Microservices
9 512 (18.48%) Software Engineering
10 425 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
11 402 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 390 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 366 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
14 358 (12.92%) Analytics
14 358 (12.92%) Event-Driven
15 350 (12.64%) Data Engineering
16 348 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
17 331 (11.95%) Data Modelling
18 312 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
19 301 (10.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,169 (42.20%) Python
2 760 (27.44%) SQL
3 562 (20.29%) Java
4 307 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 281 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 268 (9.68%) C#
7 255 (9.21%) Bash
8 228 (8.23%) PowerShell
9 117 (4.22%) Bicep
10 80 (2.89%) Go
11 59 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 59 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.77%) Scala
13 41 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 39 (1.41%) Apex Code
15 32 (1.16%) Groovy
16 29 (1.05%) C++
17 28 (1.01%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.01%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.90%) Korn
Qualifications
1 736 (26.57%) Security Cleared
2 656 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 157 (5.67%) Degree
4 98 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 95 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 93 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 75 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.87%) CISSP
10 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.40%) CISM
16 11 (0.40%) GIAC
16 11 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (9.86%) QA
2 262 (9.46%) Data Quality
3 91 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.52%) GDPR
5 42 (1.52%) NIST
6 24 (0.87%) NCSC
6 24 (0.87%) WCAG
7 18 (0.65%) SLA
8 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.43%) GRC
11 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.29%) Basel III
13 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.22%) MiFID
14 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 709 (25.60%) Docker
2 65 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.072%) KVM
10 2 (0.072%) RACF
10 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 844 (30.47%) Kubernetes
2 238 (8.59%) Grafana
3 231 (8.34%) Ansible
4 187 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.59%) Argo
6 35 (1.26%) Puppet
7 30 (1.08%) Kibana
8 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.65%) Packer
10 17 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.51%) Istio
12 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.40%) Control-M
14 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.29%) SCCM
15 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 480 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 266 (9.60%) Databricks
3 174 (6.28%) Google
4 144 (5.20%) Oracle
5 113 (4.08%) Splunk
6 90 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.35%) Dynatrace
9 64 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 48 (1.73%) VMware
11 43 (1.55%) IBM
12 40 (1.44%) Foundry
13 34 (1.23%) Informatica
13 34 (1.23%) SAP
14 31 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.83%) New Relic
17 22 (0.79%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.65%) Cisco
18 18 (0.65%) Palantir