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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,735 1,606 1,471
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.57% 11.98% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.28% 12.93% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,871 1,075 1,022
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 £730 £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 £66.83 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +2.82% -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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £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 £664 £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 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +12 339 £550 -9.84% 305
South London +2 70 £535 +0.47% 20
West London -4 50 £560 +15.45% 59
East London +4 11 £585 +8.33% 20
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
1 134 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.24%) Confluence
3 109 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.07%) Apache
5 37 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.69%) CMS
7 14 (0.51%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.037%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.037%) Sketch
7 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.15%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (44.97%) Azure
2 1,176 (43.00%) AWS
3 618 (22.60%) GitHub
4 459 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
5 432 (15.80%) GCP
6 419 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
7 328 (11.99%) Serverless
8 248 (9.07%) Amazon S3
9 225 (8.23%) Power Platform
10 210 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
11 183 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (5.63%) Snowflake
14 145 (5.30%) Entra ID
15 134 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (4.83%) dbt
17 130 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
18 107 (3.91%) Azure AKS
19 101 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.38%) Firewall
2 47 (1.72%) Network Security
3 46 (1.68%) DNS
4 34 (1.24%) VPN
5 31 (1.13%) Internet
6 28 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.77%) SSL
8 19 (0.69%) 5G
9 18 (0.66%) HTTP
10 11 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.40%) SAN
10 11 (0.40%) WAN
11 10 (0.37%) SSH
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.29%) BGP
14 7 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (0.18%) FTP
15 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.22%) Power BI
3 148 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (5.23%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 113 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 106 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 98 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (3.18%) Delta Lake
10 78 (2.85%) Metadata
11 74 (2.71%) BigQuery
12 71 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 58 (2.12%) Redis
14 51 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
15 49 (1.79%) MySQL
16 45 (1.65%) Big Data
17 44 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
17 44 (1.61%) DynamoDB
18 42 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 540 (19.74%) Git
2 441 (16.12%) Jenkins
3 374 (13.67%) GitLab
4 194 (7.09%) JIRA
5 98 (3.58%) Selenium
6 76 (2.78%) JUnit
7 58 (2.12%) Gradle
8 55 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 53 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.76%) Maven
11 47 (1.72%) JMeter
12 46 (1.68%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.61%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.50%) Postman
15 36 (1.32%) Mockito
16 33 (1.21%) REST Assured
17 25 (0.91%) Gatling
18 24 (0.88%) CircleCI
19 22 (0.80%) MLflow
20 21 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 695 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 692 (25.30%) Finance
3 334 (12.21%) Banking
4 301 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 267 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.71%) Front Office
7 69 (2.52%) Retail
8 64 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.43%) Marketing
11 34 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.13%) Law
13 30 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 27 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 22 (0.80%) Back Office
16 22 (0.80%) Military
17 20 (0.73%) Local Government
18 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 576 (21.06%) Developer
2 504 (18.43%) Senior
3 341 (12.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 289 (10.57%) Architect
5 272 (9.95%) Lead
6 248 (9.07%) Data Engineer
7 148 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 123 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 105 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 98 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 93 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
16 75 (2.74%) Python Developer
16 75 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
17 71 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
18 69 (2.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 67 (2.45%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 896 (32.76%) Terraform
2 438 (16.01%) REST
3 305 (11.15%) Kafka
4 258 (9.43%) React
5 255 (9.32%) .NET
6 222 (8.12%) RESTful
7 216 (7.90%) Spring
8 193 (7.06%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.19%) PySpark
10 114 (4.17%) Node.js
11 112 (4.10%) HTML
12 99 (3.62%) CSS
13 95 (3.47%) Playwright
14 94 (3.44%) OAuth
15 85 (3.11%) JSON
16 83 (3.03%) AngularJS
16 83 (3.03%) FastAPI
17 76 (2.78%) SOAP
18 67 (2.45%) Middleware
18 67 (2.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 582 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 226 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 142 (5.19%) AI Agents
5 119 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 115 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 37 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.32%) Replication
15 35 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 34 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.24%) Management Information System
17 31 (1.13%) NHS
17 31 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 258 (9.43%) Linux
2 125 (4.57%) Windows
3 81 (2.96%) Unix
4 49 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.02%) Android
7 25 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.51%) VMS
9 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.073%) Solaris
14 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,514 (55.36%) DevOps
2 1,005 (36.75%) Agile
3 946 (34.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 646 (23.62%) AI
5 611 (22.34%) Test Automation
6 534 (19.52%) Containerisation
7 530 (19.38%) Observability
8 527 (19.27%) Microservices
9 503 (18.39%) Software Engineering
10 416 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
11 394 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 382 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 362 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
14 351 (12.83%) Analytics
14 351 (12.83%) Event-Driven
15 347 (12.69%) Data Engineering
16 342 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
17 327 (11.96%) Data Modelling
18 307 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
19 293 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,159 (42.38%) Python
2 754 (27.57%) SQL
3 554 (20.26%) Java
4 304 (11.12%) JavaScript
5 277 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 268 (9.80%) C#
7 248 (9.07%) Bash
8 222 (8.12%) PowerShell
9 111 (4.06%) Bicep
10 80 (2.93%) Go
11 59 (2.16%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.79%) Scala
14 41 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 38 (1.39%) Apex Code
16 31 (1.13%) Groovy
17 29 (1.06%) C++
18 28 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.99%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.91%) Korn
Qualifications
1 720 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 640 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.63%) Degree
4 94 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 92 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.84%) CISSP
11 23 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.40%) GIAC
16 11 (0.40%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (9.84%) QA
2 257 (9.40%) Data Quality
3 88 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.54%) NIST
6 41 (1.50%) GDPR
7 24 (0.88%) NCSC
7 24 (0.88%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) SLA
9 15 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.44%) GRC
12 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
14 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 695 (25.41%) Docker
2 63 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.073%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.073%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.073%) KVM
11 2 (0.073%) RACF
11 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 829 (30.31%) Kubernetes
2 232 (8.48%) Grafana
3 227 (8.30%) Ansible
4 186 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.57%) Argo
6 34 (1.24%) Puppet
7 28 (1.02%) Kibana
8 21 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.66%) Packer
10 17 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.51%) Istio
12 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.40%) Control-M
14 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.29%) SCCM
15 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 472 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 264 (9.65%) Databricks
3 171 (6.25%) Google
4 141 (5.16%) Oracle
5 113 (4.13%) Splunk
6 89 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 64 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.19%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.72%) VMware
11 43 (1.57%) IBM
12 39 (1.43%) Foundry
13 34 (1.24%) Informatica
13 34 (1.24%) SAP
14 31 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.84%) New Relic
17 20 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.66%) Palantir
19 17 (0.62%) AppDynamics