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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,733 1,558 1,460
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.51% 11.74% 9.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.22% 12.68% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 1,042 1,015
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £528 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -8.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -6.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% - -
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.60 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £325 £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 £663 £669 £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 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 29 September 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 September 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 September 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 +12 346 £550 -10.20% 283
South London +4 68 £535 -1.15% 20
West London -8 48 £560 +15.45% 98
East London +4 10 £585 +8.33% 23
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 132 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.24%) Confluence
3 104 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 82 (3.00%) Apache
5 38 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.62%) CMS
7 15 (0.55%) Camunda
8 12 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) 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 27 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.22%) Shopify
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
4 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.037%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (44.79%) Azure
2 1,176 (43.03%) AWS
3 613 (22.43%) GitHub
4 461 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
5 424 (15.51%) GCP
6 413 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
7 327 (11.96%) Serverless
8 243 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.31%) Power Platform
10 214 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
11 175 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
12 154 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (5.56%) Snowflake
14 143 (5.23%) Entra ID
15 136 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (4.87%) dbt
17 128 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
18 105 (3.84%) Azure AKS
19 101 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
20 93 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.31%) Firewall
2 44 (1.61%) Network Security
3 43 (1.57%) DNS
4 34 (1.24%) VPN
5 30 (1.10%) Internet
6 27 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.77%) SSL
8 20 (0.73%) 5G
8 20 (0.73%) HTTP
9 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
10 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.40%) SAN
11 10 (0.37%) SSH
11 10 (0.37%) WAN
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.26%) BGP
13 7 (0.26%) FTP
14 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.26%) Power BI
3 154 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 129 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.32%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.99%) MongoDB
8 101 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 94 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 78 (2.85%) Metadata
12 74 (2.71%) BigQuery
13 72 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.16%) Redis
15 50 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.76%) MySQL
17 46 (1.68%) DynamoDB
18 42 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
19 41 (1.50%) Big Data
20 40 (1.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 528 (19.32%) Git
2 440 (16.10%) Jenkins
3 370 (13.54%) GitLab
4 193 (7.06%) JIRA
5 98 (3.59%) Selenium
6 77 (2.82%) JUnit
7 57 (2.09%) Gradle
8 55 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 52 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 49 (1.79%) JMeter
11 46 (1.68%) Maven
12 45 (1.65%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.61%) SonarQube
14 42 (1.54%) Postman
15 38 (1.39%) Mockito
16 34 (1.24%) REST Assured
17 26 (0.95%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.91%) Gatling
19 22 (0.80%) MLflow
20 21 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 692 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 685 (25.06%) Finance
3 335 (12.26%) Banking
4 300 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 258 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.78%) Front Office
7 67 (2.45%) Retail
8 63 (2.31%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.28%) Marketing
12 30 (1.10%) Law
13 28 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 26 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.84%) Military
17 19 (0.70%) Back Office
18 18 (0.66%) Legal
18 18 (0.66%) Local Government
19 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 574 (21.00%) Developer
2 503 (18.40%) Senior
3 330 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 300 (10.98%) Architect
5 270 (9.88%) Lead
6 251 (9.18%) Data Engineer
7 152 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 131 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.32%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 97 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
14 95 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
15 80 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.67%) Python Developer
17 72 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
18 70 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 67 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 890 (32.56%) Terraform
2 430 (15.73%) REST
3 300 (10.98%) Kafka
4 261 (9.55%) React
5 249 (9.11%) .NET
6 225 (8.23%) RESTful
7 216 (7.90%) Spring
8 193 (7.06%) Spring Boot
9 140 (5.12%) PySpark
10 115 (4.21%) Node.js
11 109 (3.99%) HTML
12 96 (3.51%) CSS
13 93 (3.40%) OAuth
13 93 (3.40%) Playwright
14 84 (3.07%) JSON
15 79 (2.89%) SOAP
16 78 (2.85%) AngularJS
16 78 (2.85%) FastAPI
17 67 (2.45%) Middleware
18 66 (2.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 578 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 230 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 140 (5.12%) AI Agents
5 119 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 110 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 34 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.24%) Replication
15 32 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 31 (1.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 256 (9.37%) Linux
2 125 (4.57%) Windows
3 82 (3.00%) Unix
4 48 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.06%) Android
7 25 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.51%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.11%) Solaris
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.073%) CentOS
15 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,505 (55.07%) DevOps
2 996 (36.44%) Agile
3 942 (34.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 649 (23.75%) AI
5 611 (22.36%) Test Automation
6 545 (19.94%) Containerisation
7 528 (19.32%) Observability
8 527 (19.28%) Microservices
9 498 (18.22%) Software Engineering
10 411 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 393 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 377 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 361 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
14 358 (13.10%) Analytics
15 347 (12.70%) Event-Driven
16 343 (12.55%) Data Engineering
17 339 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
18 333 (12.18%) Data Modelling
19 305 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
20 292 (10.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (41.64%) Python
2 744 (27.22%) SQL
3 553 (20.23%) Java
4 300 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 276 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 264 (9.66%) C#
7 237 (8.67%) Bash
8 220 (8.05%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.13%) Bicep
10 77 (2.82%) Go
11 61 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 58 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.79%) Scala
14 41 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 40 (1.46%) Apex Code
16 30 (1.10%) Groovy
17 29 (1.06%) C++
18 28 (1.02%) PL/SQL
19 27 (0.99%) T-SQL
20 25 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 715 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 636 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 153 (5.60%) Degree
4 99 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 94 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 86 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.84%) CISSP
12 22 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.40%) GIAC
17 11 (0.40%) PhD
18 10 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (9.84%) QA
2 252 (9.22%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.57%) GDPR
4 43 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.54%) NIST
6 24 (0.88%) NCSC
6 24 (0.88%) WCAG
7 18 (0.66%) SLA
8 15 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.44%) GRC
10 11 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
14 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.22%) MiFID
16 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 691 (25.28%) Docker
2 63 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
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%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.073%) Varnish
11 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 822 (30.08%) Kubernetes
2 225 (8.23%) Grafana
3 224 (8.20%) Ansible
4 183 (6.70%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.46%) Argo
6 33 (1.21%) Puppet
7 28 (1.02%) Kibana
8 24 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.70%) Packer
10 16 (0.59%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.48%) Istio
12 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.40%) Control-M
14 8 (0.29%) SCCM
15 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 469 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 257 (9.40%) Databricks
3 166 (6.07%) Google
4 137 (5.01%) Oracle
5 113 (4.13%) Splunk
6 90 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.41%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 49 (1.79%) VMware
11 45 (1.65%) IBM
12 38 (1.39%) Foundry
13 34 (1.24%) SAP
14 33 (1.21%) Informatica
15 32 (1.17%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.95%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.84%) New Relic
18 21 (0.77%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.70%) Cisco
20 18 (0.66%) Palantir