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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,499 1,392 1,423
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.88% 10.48% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.50% 11.37% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 930 1,020
10th Percentile £400 £381 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -6.77% -7.18%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £807 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.25 £62.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +7.60% -6.72% +2.13%

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 17,240 12,243 15,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.20% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,454 8,171 11,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 0 286 £550 -10.71% 186
West London +5 53 £603 +22.34% 25
South London +3 47 £538 +1.03% 6
East London +6 10 £500 +100.00% 19
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 111 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.76%) Confluence
4 70 (2.80%) Apache
5 29 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Camunda
8 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Appian
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
14 3 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.080%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Magento
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.12%) Endur
7 3 (0.12%) Findur
7 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.080%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.080%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.040%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,118 (44.74%) AWS
2 1,101 (44.06%) Azure
3 551 (22.05%) GitHub
4 427 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
5 363 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
6 352 (14.09%) GCP
7 315 (12.61%) Serverless
8 250 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 213 (8.52%) Power Platform
10 211 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 144 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
13 118 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 118 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
14 113 (4.52%) Azure AKS
15 111 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 111 (4.44%) Snowflake
16 107 (4.28%) Entra ID
17 103 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
18 97 (3.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.80%) Firewall
2 46 (1.84%) Network Security
3 32 (1.28%) DNS
3 32 (1.28%) VPN
4 24 (0.96%) HTTP
5 20 (0.80%) Internet
6 17 (0.68%) WAN
7 16 (0.64%) 5G
8 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.36%) SSL
11 8 (0.32%) 4G
11 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
13 6 (0.24%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.00%) Power BI
2 144 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 130 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 129 (5.16%) Data Lake
6 126 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
7 93 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 87 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 78 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 71 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 71 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
11 70 (2.80%) Delta Lake
12 67 (2.68%) Metadata
13 55 (2.20%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.04%) Big Data
15 49 (1.96%) DynamoDB
16 41 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
18 36 (1.44%) Redis
19 31 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 437 (17.49%) Git
2 383 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 302 (12.08%) GitLab
4 168 (6.72%) JIRA
5 75 (3.00%) JUnit
6 71 (2.84%) Selenium
7 45 (1.80%) Postman
8 44 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.72%) JMeter
10 41 (1.64%) Mockito
11 39 (1.56%) MLflow
12 38 (1.52%) Gradle
12 38 (1.52%) REST Assured
13 33 (1.32%) Cypress.io
14 27 (1.08%) Maven
15 26 (1.04%) Bitbucket
15 26 (1.04%) CircleCI
16 25 (1.00%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.84%) Gatling
18 19 (0.76%) Liquibase
General
1 601 (24.05%) Finance
2 587 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 304 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 276 (11.04%) Banking
5 196 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.28%) Investment Banking
8 50 (2.00%) Front Office
9 49 (1.96%) Retail
10 44 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.12%) Law
12 28 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.00%) Legal
15 22 (0.88%) Marketing
16 15 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 511 (20.45%) Developer
2 421 (16.85%) Senior
3 295 (11.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 278 (11.12%) Architect
5 248 (9.92%) Lead
6 229 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 158 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 117 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 101 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.00%) Senior Developer
14 79 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 68 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
16 68 (2.72%) Python Developer
17 66 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 64 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (12.04%) REST
2 239 (9.56%) React
3 230 (9.20%) Kafka
4 224 (8.96%) .NET
5 210 (8.40%) RESTful
6 203 (8.12%) Spring
7 174 (6.96%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.36%) PySpark
9 126 (5.04%) Node.js
10 111 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 85 (3.40%) HTML
12 80 (3.20%) Playwright
13 78 (3.12%) OAuth
14 71 (2.84%) CSS
15 67 (2.68%) JSON
16 61 (2.44%) FastAPI
16 61 (2.44%) SOAP
17 56 (2.24%) GraphQL
17 56 (2.24%) OAuth2
18 53 (2.12%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 526 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 188 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 69 (2.76%) AI Agents
6 52 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 41 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 38 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 38 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.36%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 175 (7.00%) Linux
2 107 (4.28%) Windows
3 52 (2.08%) Unix
4 27 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.92%) Android
5 23 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.44%) VMS
7 10 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) zOS
11 2 (0.080%) AIX
11 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,370 (54.82%) DevOps
2 838 (33.53%) Agile
3 837 (33.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 557 (22.29%) Containerisation
5 513 (20.53%) Test Automation
6 508 (20.33%) AI
7 470 (18.81%) Microservices
8 410 (16.41%) Observability
9 389 (15.57%) Software Engineering
10 381 (15.25%) Analytics
11 328 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
12 327 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
13 319 (12.77%) Data Modelling
14 307 (12.28%) Data Engineering
15 303 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 289 (11.56%) Platform Engineering
17 273 (10.92%) Machine Learning
18 252 (10.08%) Migration
19 249 (9.96%) Event-Driven
20 240 (9.60%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 961 (38.46%) Python
2 682 (27.29%) SQL
3 485 (19.41%) Java
4 276 (11.04%) C#
5 254 (10.16%) TypeScript
6 242 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 183 (7.32%) Bash
8 163 (6.52%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.84%) Bicep
10 54 (2.16%) Scala
11 53 (2.12%) Go
12 45 (1.80%) Apex Code
13 42 (1.68%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 34 (1.36%) Ruby
16 30 (1.20%) T-SQL
17 27 (1.08%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.56%) SOQL
19 14 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 642 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 577 (23.09%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.28%) Degree
4 90 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 69 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.88%) CISSP
11 20 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.48%) CISM
15 12 (0.48%) GIAC
15 12 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.40%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (8.44%) QA
2 198 (7.92%) Data Quality
3 91 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 66 (2.64%) GDPR
5 64 (2.56%) NIST
6 53 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.40%) NCSC
8 28 (1.12%) WCAG
9 23 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.88%) SLA
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.24%) COBIT
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 651 (26.05%) Docker
2 60 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.080%) HDFS
11 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.080%) Postfix
12 1 (0.040%) IAG
12 1 (0.040%) NFS
12 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.040%) Samba
12 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 818 (32.73%) Terraform
2 747 (29.89%) Kubernetes
3 182 (7.28%) Grafana
4 176 (7.04%) Ansible
5 153 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.08%) Argo
7 26 (1.04%) Puppet
8 23 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.72%) Kibana
10 15 (0.60%) Packer
11 12 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.44%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 354 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 192 (7.68%) Databricks
3 110 (4.40%) Oracle
4 107 (4.28%) Google
5 97 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 92 (3.68%) Splunk
7 56 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.28%) VMware
11 29 (1.16%) Foundry
12 28 (1.12%) IBM
12 28 (1.12%) Informatica
13 26 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 26 (1.04%) SAP
14 23 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.88%) Palantir
15 22 (0.88%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.72%) Cisco
17 14 (0.56%) Okta