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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,148 1,313 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 10.32% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.20% 11.29% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 949 902
10th Percentile £393 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £639 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £47.25 - £50.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -8.70% -28.13%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £63.70
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +10.34% -11.59%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -5 248 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +6 69 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +3 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -2 11 £450 -10.00% 13
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 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.07%) Confluence
4 63 (2.93%) Apache
5 31 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.61%) CMS
7 12 (0.56%) Ethereum
8 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
8 11 (0.51%) Hyperledger
8 11 (0.51%) SAS
9 10 (0.47%) Mendix
10 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.37%) Appian
12 7 (0.33%) Camunda
12 7 (0.33%) nginx
13 6 (0.28%) IIS
13 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
14 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.093%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 18 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.093%) Endur
5 2 (0.093%) Magento
5 2 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.093%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.093%) 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 1,003 (46.69%) Azure
2 955 (44.46%) AWS
3 511 (23.79%) GitHub
4 400 (18.62%) Azure DevOps
5 348 (16.20%) GCP
6 325 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
7 313 (14.57%) Serverless
8 215 (10.01%) Amazon S3
9 202 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (8.61%) Power Platform
12 130 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 129 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
15 105 (4.89%) Azure AKS
16 96 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 94 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 90 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
19 83 (3.86%) Snowflake
20 79 (3.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.58%) Firewall
2 46 (2.14%) Network Security
3 40 (1.86%) DNS
4 27 (1.26%) VPN
5 23 (1.07%) HTTP
6 19 (0.88%) WAN
7 17 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) BGP
8 8 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.33%) SSL
10 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
10 6 (0.28%) 5G
10 6 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.28%) MPLS
10 6 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Multicast
12 4 (0.19%) 4G
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.38%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.15%) Power BI
4 128 (5.96%) SQL Server
5 120 (5.59%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
7 78 (3.63%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 74 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
10 58 (2.70%) Delta Lake
11 57 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
11 57 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (2.56%) BigQuery
13 53 (2.47%) Metadata
14 51 (2.37%) Big Data
15 50 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.96%) DynamoDB
17 33 (1.54%) Tableau
18 32 (1.49%) MySQL
18 32 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 400 (18.62%) Git
2 369 (17.18%) Jenkins
3 264 (12.29%) GitLab
4 148 (6.89%) JIRA
5 77 (3.58%) Selenium
6 61 (2.84%) JUnit
7 54 (2.51%) Cucumber
8 53 (2.47%) MLflow
9 43 (2.00%) Postman
10 35 (1.63%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.63%) REST Assured
11 32 (1.49%) JMeter
11 32 (1.49%) Mockito
12 26 (1.21%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.84%) Maven
14 17 (0.79%) Gatling
15 16 (0.74%) Gradle
15 16 (0.74%) Liquibase
15 16 (0.74%) SpecFlow
15 16 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 546 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 493 (22.95%) Finance
3 249 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 218 (10.15%) Banking
5 177 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.14%) Front Office
7 45 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.21%) Retail
13 21 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.88%) Legal
15 17 (0.79%) Marketing
16 15 (0.70%) Law
16 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.56%) Publishing
18 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 502 (23.37%) Developer
2 336 (15.64%) Senior
3 237 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 227 (10.57%) Architect
5 215 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 178 (8.29%) Lead
7 129 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
10 99 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 84 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 84 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 74 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 64 (2.98%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.93%) Python Developer
16 61 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
17 57 (2.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 55 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (11.41%) React
2 230 (10.71%) Kafka
3 203 (9.45%) REST
4 195 (9.08%) Node.js
5 189 (8.80%) .NET
5 189 (8.80%) RESTful
6 164 (7.64%) Spring
7 136 (6.33%) Spring Boot
8 131 (6.10%) AngularJS
9 106 (4.93%) PySpark
10 100 (4.66%) Playwright
11 91 (4.24%) CSS
12 90 (4.19%) HTML
13 77 (3.58%) OAuth
14 61 (2.84%) YAML
15 55 (2.56%) GraphQL
16 52 (2.42%) FastAPI
17 49 (2.28%) Pandas
18 48 (2.23%) PyTorch
19 47 (2.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 430 (20.02%) Cloud Native
2 137 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 61 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 42 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 37 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 34 (1.58%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 29 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.30%) Equities
13 28 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.26%) Derivative
14 27 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (1.21%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.70%) Linux
2 68 (3.17%) Windows
3 30 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.30%) Unix
4 28 (1.30%) VMS
5 23 (1.07%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.23%) zOS
8 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.14%) Solaris
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.047%) AIX
10 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (55.07%) DevOps
2 717 (33.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 692 (32.22%) Agile
4 501 (23.32%) Containerisation
5 451 (21.00%) Test Automation
6 408 (18.99%) AI
7 401 (18.67%) Microservices
8 364 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 352 (16.39%) Analytics
9 352 (16.39%) Observability
10 308 (14.34%) Software Engineering
11 280 (13.04%) Data Modelling
12 269 (12.52%) Data Engineering
12 269 (12.52%) Data Pipeline
13 255 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 245 (11.41%) Machine Learning
15 222 (10.34%) ETL
16 209 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
17 203 (9.45%) Platform Engineering
18 201 (9.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 869 (40.46%) Python
2 602 (28.03%) SQL
3 408 (18.99%) Java
4 270 (12.57%) TypeScript
5 265 (12.34%) JavaScript
6 247 (11.50%) C#
7 126 (5.87%) Bash
8 105 (4.89%) PowerShell
9 81 (3.77%) Bicep
10 63 (2.93%) Scala
11 55 (2.56%) Go
12 39 (1.82%) Ruby
13 31 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.30%) C++
14 28 (1.30%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.16%) Apex Code
16 24 (1.12%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.61%) Rust
17 13 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 522 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 457 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.01%) Degree
4 79 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 73 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.84%) CISSP
12 18 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.42%) CISM
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (8.29%) QA
2 162 (7.54%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.05%) GDPR
4 73 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 58 (2.70%) NIST
6 55 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.49%) NCSC
8 30 (1.40%) WCAG
9 27 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.93%) SLA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.19%) GRC
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 641 (29.84%) Docker
2 52 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.093%) HDFS
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) IAG
10 1 (0.047%) Squid
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 722 (33.61%) Terraform
2 674 (31.38%) Kubernetes
3 147 (6.84%) Ansible
4 138 (6.42%) Grafana
5 120 (5.59%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.77%) Argo
7 20 (0.93%) Istio
7 20 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.88%) Puppet
9 13 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.51%) Kibana
11 9 (0.42%) Rancher
12 8 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.23%) Packer
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 338 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 212 (9.87%) Databricks
3 125 (5.82%) Google
4 87 (4.05%) Oracle
5 66 (3.07%) Splunk
6 61 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.61%) OpenAI
9 29 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 20 (0.93%) VMware
12 18 (0.84%) Cisco
12 18 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 18 (0.84%) IBM
12 18 (0.84%) SAP
13 17 (0.79%) Foundry
14 13 (0.61%) UiPath
15 12 (0.56%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.56%) Solace