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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,109 1,313 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 10.27% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 11.27% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 943 910
10th Percentile £383 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.90% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £56.50 - £49.60
25th Percentile £62.69 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £88.75 - £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.42% -5.11%

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 14,757 11,654 16,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.76% 91.18% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,899 7,809 11,494
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 162 342
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £71.75 £77.25 £69.43
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -2 241 £550 -4.35% 215
West London +6 68 £603 +47.31% 15
South London +3 59 £525 +10.53% 9
East London -5 7 £450 -10.00% 12
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
1 100 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 84 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.18%) Confluence
4 60 (2.84%) Apache
5 31 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
7 11 (0.52%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
8 10 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.43%) Appian
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.28%) Camunda
10 6 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.28%) nginx
10 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.095%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.095%) Endur
5 2 (0.095%) Magento
5 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.095%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.095%) Shopify
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.047%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.047%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 972 (46.09%) Azure
2 936 (44.38%) AWS
3 509 (24.13%) GitHub
4 381 (18.07%) Azure DevOps
5 337 (15.98%) GCP
6 319 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
7 309 (14.65%) Serverless
8 209 (9.91%) Amazon S3
9 194 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 190 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
11 180 (8.53%) Power Platform
12 130 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
13 124 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
15 97 (4.60%) Azure AKS
16 93 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 91 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 87 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
19 79 (3.75%) Snowflake
20 74 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.56%) Firewall
2 49 (2.32%) Network Security
3 38 (1.80%) DNS
4 23 (1.09%) VPN
5 20 (0.95%) HTTP
6 17 (0.81%) WAN
7 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
10 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
11 6 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.28%) MPLS
11 6 (0.28%) OSPF
11 6 (0.28%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
13 4 (0.19%) Internet
13 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 129 (6.12%) Power BI
4 125 (5.93%) SQL Server
5 116 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 104 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (3.56%) MongoDB
9 60 (2.84%) Delta Lake
10 58 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (2.61%) BigQuery
13 51 (2.42%) Big Data
14 49 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 49 (2.32%) Metadata
15 39 (1.85%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.56%) MySQL
17 32 (1.52%) Tableau
18 31 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 396 (18.78%) Git
2 361 (17.12%) Jenkins
3 255 (12.09%) GitLab
4 145 (6.88%) JIRA
5 80 (3.79%) Selenium
6 61 (2.89%) JUnit
7 57 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 54 (2.56%) MLflow
9 45 (2.13%) Postman
10 38 (1.80%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.66%) JMeter
11 35 (1.66%) REST Assured
12 31 (1.47%) Mockito
13 26 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.90%) Gradle
14 19 (0.90%) Maven
15 17 (0.81%) Gatling
15 17 (0.81%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.71%) Appium
16 15 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 532 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 477 (22.62%) Finance
3 245 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 210 (9.96%) Banking
5 175 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.18%) Front Office
7 44 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (1.99%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.14%) Retail
13 20 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.71%) Legal
14 15 (0.71%) Marketing
14 15 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.66%) Law
16 12 (0.57%) Publishing
17 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 502 (23.80%) Developer
2 328 (15.55%) Senior
3 225 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 212 (10.05%) Architect
5 211 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 172 (8.16%) Lead
7 124 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 122 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
9 96 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 95 (4.50%) Software Engineer
11 84 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 81 (3.84%) Senior Developer
13 80 (3.79%) Java Developer
14 71 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 62 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
16 61 (2.89%) Python Engineer
17 59 (2.80%) Python Developer
18 56 (2.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 55 (2.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (11.81%) React
2 221 (10.48%) Kafka
3 197 (9.34%) REST
4 196 (9.29%) Node.js
5 191 (9.06%) .NET
5 191 (9.06%) RESTful
6 164 (7.78%) Spring
7 131 (6.21%) AngularJS
8 129 (6.12%) Spring Boot
9 102 (4.84%) Playwright
10 101 (4.79%) PySpark
11 97 (4.60%) CSS
12 96 (4.55%) HTML
13 81 (3.84%) OAuth
14 58 (2.75%) YAML
15 57 (2.70%) GraphQL
16 52 (2.47%) FastAPI
17 51 (2.42%) Vue
18 50 (2.37%) PyTorch
19 49 (2.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 421 (19.96%) Cloud Native
2 122 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 41 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 32 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.42%) Derivative
12 29 (1.38%) Equities
13 27 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.28%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (1.14%) Low-Code
16 24 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.78%) Linux
2 67 (3.18%) Windows
3 34 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.28%) Android
4 27 (1.28%) Unix
4 27 (1.28%) VMS
5 11 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.24%) zOS
7 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.095%) Solaris
9 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.047%) AIX
10 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (54.86%) DevOps
2 680 (32.24%) Agile
3 679 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 478 (22.66%) Containerisation
5 440 (20.86%) Test Automation
6 397 (18.82%) AI
7 380 (18.02%) Microservices
8 369 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 350 (16.60%) Analytics
10 334 (15.84%) Observability
11 295 (13.99%) Software Engineering
12 271 (12.85%) Data Modelling
13 266 (12.61%) Data Engineering
14 259 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
15 249 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 241 (11.43%) Machine Learning
17 215 (10.19%) ETL
18 212 (10.05%) Full-Stack Development
19 196 (9.29%) Migration
20 195 (9.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 852 (40.40%) Python
2 595 (28.21%) SQL
3 404 (19.16%) Java
4 276 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 272 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 245 (11.62%) C#
7 119 (5.64%) Bash
8 98 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 75 (3.56%) Bicep
10 63 (2.99%) Scala
11 53 (2.51%) Go
12 39 (1.85%) Ruby
13 30 (1.42%) C++
13 30 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.09%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.81%) Swift
18 16 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 509 (24.13%) Security Cleared
2 445 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.35%) Degree
4 77 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 68 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (0.90%) CISSP
11 19 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.47%) CCSP
14 9 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.49%) QA
2 155 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.13%) GDPR
4 76 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (2.61%) NIST
7 30 (1.42%) NCSC
7 30 (1.42%) WCAG
8 29 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.90%) SLA
11 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 628 (29.78%) Docker
2 49 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.095%) HDFS
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) IAG
9 1 (0.047%) Squid
9 1 (0.047%) zsh
Systems Management
1 689 (32.67%) Terraform
2 663 (31.44%) Kubernetes
3 145 (6.88%) Ansible
4 130 (6.16%) Grafana
5 113 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.09%) Argo
7 23 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.00%) Istio
9 14 (0.66%) Puppet
10 11 (0.52%) Kibana
11 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.43%) Rancher
12 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 323 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.00%) Databricks
3 127 (6.02%) Google
4 81 (3.84%) Oracle
5 62 (2.94%) Splunk
6 58 (2.75%) OpenAI
7 56 (2.66%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.00%) VMware
11 20 (0.95%) Cisco
11 20 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 19 (0.90%) SAP
13 17 (0.81%) Foundry
14 16 (0.76%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.71%) IBM
16 13 (0.62%) UiPath
17 12 (0.57%) Citrix
17 12 (0.57%) Solace