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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,827 1,431 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.76% 9.58% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 10.63% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,002 1,012
10th Percentile £368 £406 £425
25th Percentile £435 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +0.21% -6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.36% -3.51% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.95
25th Percentile £52.88 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £72.00
90th Percentile £68.95 - £73.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -1.89% -11.67% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,080 13,458 16,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.13% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,640 11,962
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 +1 214 £550 -8.33% 298
West London +7 58 £603 +30.27% 39
South London +9 55 £525 -2.42% 42
East London -4 11 £540 +8.00% 31
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 82 (4.49%) Confluence
2 66 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.97%) Apache
5 28 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.93%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 7 (0.38%) HCL Notes
9 6 (0.33%) Mendix
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.16%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.055%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 826 (45.21%) AWS
2 778 (42.58%) Azure
3 428 (23.43%) GitHub
4 308 (16.86%) GCP
5 306 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
6 300 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
7 244 (13.36%) Serverless
8 169 (9.25%) Amazon S3
9 146 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
10 128 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 113 (6.19%) Power Platform
12 99 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
12 99 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
13 93 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 84 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 82 (4.49%) Azure AKS
16 81 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 65 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
18 65 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.54%) Firewall
2 66 (3.61%) DNS
3 36 (1.97%) Network Security
4 30 (1.64%) VPN
5 21 (1.15%) HTTP
5 21 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.93%) SSL
7 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (0.66%) SSH
8 12 (0.66%) WAN
9 11 (0.60%) SMTP
10 10 (0.55%) FTP
10 10 (0.55%) IMAP
10 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.33%) BGP
11 6 (0.33%) DHCP
11 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
11 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.27%) MPLS
12 5 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 96 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.38%) Power BI
5 75 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 73 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 55 (3.01%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.19%) BigQuery
11 39 (2.13%) Delta Lake
12 34 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (1.59%) Big Data
16 28 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (1.48%) MySQL
18 26 (1.42%) Metadata
19 22 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
20 21 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 365 (19.98%) Jenkins
2 335 (18.34%) Git
3 227 (12.42%) GitLab
4 144 (7.88%) JIRA
5 71 (3.89%) Selenium
6 47 (2.57%) Cypress.io
7 46 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 46 (2.52%) JUnit
8 36 (1.97%) Postman
9 34 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 30 (1.64%) TeamCity
11 27 (1.48%) Maven
11 27 (1.48%) MLflow
12 26 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 26 (1.42%) JMeter
13 25 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (1.20%) Gradle
15 21 (1.15%) Mockito
16 20 (1.09%) CircleCI
17 19 (1.04%) REST Assured
General
1 484 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 402 (22.00%) Finance
3 210 (11.49%) Banking
4 188 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 149 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 47 (2.57%) Front Office
8 35 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.59%) Marketing
12 26 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.15%) Retail
14 17 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.71%) Publishing
16 11 (0.60%) Back Office
16 11 (0.60%) Electronics
16 11 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 473 (25.89%) Developer
2 297 (16.26%) Senior
3 242 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 153 (8.37%) Architect
5 144 (7.88%) Data Engineer
6 121 (6.62%) Lead
7 110 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 103 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
9 100 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
10 92 (5.04%) Java Developer
11 88 (4.82%) Senior Developer
12 82 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 68 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.50%) Python Engineer
16 62 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 61 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 54 (2.96%) Python Developer
20 50 (2.74%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (12.64%) React
2 203 (11.11%) Node.js
3 193 (10.56%) Kafka
4 175 (9.58%) RESTful
5 163 (8.92%) REST
6 162 (8.87%) .NET
7 136 (7.44%) Spring
8 108 (5.91%) Spring Boot
9 104 (5.69%) AngularJS
10 90 (4.93%) CSS
11 88 (4.82%) HTML
12 82 (4.49%) Playwright
13 70 (3.83%) GraphQL
14 61 (3.34%) YAML
15 59 (3.23%) JSON
16 57 (3.12%) OAuth
17 56 (3.07%) PySpark
18 53 (2.90%) .NET Core
19 50 (2.74%) Vue
20 45 (2.46%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 327 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 126 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 39 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.81%) AI Agents
7 33 (1.81%) Derivative
8 32 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (1.70%) Hedge funds
9 31 (1.70%) Replication
10 29 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 29 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.20%) Fixed Income
15 21 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 178 (9.74%) Linux
2 67 (3.67%) Windows
3 39 (2.13%) Android
3 39 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.59%) Unix
5 27 (1.48%) VMS
6 20 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.055%) tvOS
12 1 (0.055%) watchOS
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (57.25%) DevOps
2 659 (36.07%) Agile
3 594 (32.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 384 (21.02%) Containerisation
5 372 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
6 369 (20.20%) Test Automation
7 349 (19.10%) Microservices
8 271 (14.83%) Software Engineering
9 244 (13.36%) Observability
10 229 (12.53%) AI
11 228 (12.48%) Analytics
12 200 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
13 180 (9.85%) Data Engineering
14 177 (9.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 171 (9.36%) Migration
16 163 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 162 (8.87%) Machine Learning
18 155 (8.48%) Mentoring
19 149 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
20 146 (7.99%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 727 (39.79%) Python
2 415 (22.71%) SQL
3 391 (21.40%) Java
4 266 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 243 (13.30%) TypeScript
6 208 (11.38%) C#
7 156 (8.54%) Bash
8 116 (6.35%) PowerShell
9 98 (5.36%) Go
10 67 (3.67%) Bicep
11 47 (2.57%) C++
12 36 (1.97%) Scala
13 30 (1.64%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.59%) Rust
15 25 (1.37%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.26%) Ruby
16 23 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 21 (1.15%) Groovy
18 18 (0.99%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 393 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 346 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.79%) Degree
4 68 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (0.93%) CISSP
11 16 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.49%) OSCP
16 7 (0.38%) CCSP
16 7 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.99%) QA
2 84 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 82 (4.49%) GDPR
4 65 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.24%) NIST
7 20 (1.09%) WCAG
8 16 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.82%) NCSC
9 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.49%) MiFID
11 9 (0.49%) SLA
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.22%) PERC
15 3 (0.16%) HL7
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 591 (32.35%) Docker
2 50 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.66%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.27%) vSphere
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 632 (34.59%) Kubernetes
2 622 (34.04%) Terraform
3 166 (9.09%) Ansible
4 156 (8.54%) Grafana
5 137 (7.50%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.79%) Argo
7 22 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.15%) Istio
9 18 (0.99%) Kibana
9 18 (0.99%) Puppet
9 18 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (0.66%) Nessus
12 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.49%) Rancher
14 8 (0.44%) Packer
15 7 (0.38%) logstash
16 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 237 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 175 (9.58%) Databricks
3 125 (6.84%) Google
4 75 (4.11%) Oracle
5 58 (3.17%) Splunk
6 52 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 32 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.26%) VMware
12 20 (1.09%) SAP
13 18 (0.99%) Solace
14 17 (0.93%) Cisco
15 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 16 (0.88%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.60%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.55%) Qualys