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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,708 1,534 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.39% 11.56% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.07% 12.49% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,837 1,017 1,000
10th Percentile £400 £373 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £49.25 £29.75 -
25th Percentile - £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -25.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +3.46% -3.70% -10.00%

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 17,965 12,280 14,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,777 8,103 9,542
10th Percentile £359 £330 £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 £675 £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 310 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +11 347 £550 -10.20% 300
South London +2 66 £537 -0.79% 21
West London -10 47 £560 +15.45% 115
East London +6 11 £588 +8.80% 26
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
1 126 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 118 (4.36%) Confluence
3 104 (3.84%) Apache Spark
4 79 (2.92%) Apache
5 38 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.66%) CMS
7 16 (0.59%) Camunda
8 12 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.037%) Sketch
6 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.074%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,222 (45.13%) Azure
2 1,168 (43.13%) AWS
3 607 (22.42%) GitHub
4 465 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
5 429 (15.84%) GCP
6 411 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
7 325 (12.00%) Serverless
8 242 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.42%) Power Platform
10 212 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
12 154 (5.69%) Snowflake
13 150 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 143 (5.28%) Entra ID
15 138 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (4.91%) dbt
17 127 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
18 111 (4.10%) Azure AKS
19 106 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.36%) Firewall
2 42 (1.55%) Network Security
3 41 (1.51%) DNS
4 35 (1.29%) VPN
5 30 (1.11%) Internet
6 26 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.78%) 5G
7 21 (0.78%) HTTP
8 19 (0.70%) SSL
9 13 (0.48%) WAN
10 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.41%) SAN
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.33%) SSH
13 7 (0.26%) BGP
13 7 (0.26%) FTP
13 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 175 (6.46%) Power BI
3 150 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 127 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.25%) Data Lake
7 109 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 105 (3.88%) Relational Database
9 93 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.25%) Delta Lake
11 81 (2.99%) Metadata
12 73 (2.70%) BigQuery
13 70 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (2.10%) Redis
15 50 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (1.70%) DynamoDB
17 45 (1.66%) MySQL
18 41 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
18 41 (1.51%) Big Data
19 40 (1.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 530 (19.57%) Git
2 439 (16.21%) Jenkins
3 361 (13.33%) GitLab
4 195 (7.20%) JIRA
5 98 (3.62%) Selenium
6 78 (2.88%) JUnit
7 55 (2.03%) Gradle
8 54 (1.99%) Cypress.io
9 50 (1.85%) Cucumber
10 48 (1.77%) JMeter
11 46 (1.70%) Maven
11 46 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 42 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 39 (1.44%) Mockito
14 38 (1.40%) Postman
15 33 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.92%) Gatling
18 22 (0.81%) MLflow
19 20 (0.74%) Claude Code
General
1 691 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 670 (24.74%) Finance
3 325 (12.00%) Banking
4 302 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 252 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.73%) Front Office
7 66 (2.44%) Retail
8 60 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.29%) Marketing
12 31 (1.14%) Law
13 30 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.81%) Legal
15 22 (0.81%) Military
16 20 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.66%) Local Government
18 17 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 571 (21.09%) Developer
2 494 (18.24%) Senior
3 327 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 305 (11.26%) Architect
5 271 (10.01%) Lead
6 248 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
9 130 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 128 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 127 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 96 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
16 81 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (2.73%) Python Developer
18 71 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 70 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
20 67 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 885 (32.68%) Terraform
2 415 (15.32%) REST
3 284 (10.49%) Kafka
4 256 (9.45%) React
5 242 (8.94%) .NET
6 220 (8.12%) RESTful
7 210 (7.75%) Spring
8 187 (6.91%) Spring Boot
9 143 (5.28%) PySpark
10 121 (4.47%) Node.js
11 108 (3.99%) HTML
12 96 (3.55%) CSS
13 92 (3.40%) Playwright
14 84 (3.10%) JSON
15 83 (3.06%) AngularJS
15 83 (3.06%) OAuth
16 80 (2.95%) FastAPI
17 76 (2.81%) SOAP
18 63 (2.33%) Middleware
18 63 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 566 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 227 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 135 (4.99%) AI Agents
5 118 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 102 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 38 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.26%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 32 (1.18%) Replication
17 31 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 246 (9.08%) Linux
2 121 (4.47%) Windows
3 80 (2.95%) Unix
4 49 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.03%) Android
7 24 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.55%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.074%) CentOS
15 2 (0.074%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,496 (55.24%) DevOps
2 988 (36.48%) Agile
3 942 (34.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 636 (23.49%) AI
5 598 (22.08%) Test Automation
6 558 (20.61%) Containerisation
7 529 (19.53%) Microservices
8 527 (19.46%) Observability
9 493 (18.21%) Software Engineering
10 409 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
11 376 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 371 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 366 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
14 359 (13.26%) Analytics
15 344 (12.70%) Event-Driven
16 339 (12.52%) Data Engineering
17 334 (12.33%) Data Modelling
18 332 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
19 302 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
20 287 (10.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (41.58%) Python
2 743 (27.44%) SQL
3 555 (20.49%) Java
4 293 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 274 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 259 (9.56%) C#
7 226 (8.35%) Bash
8 219 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 112 (4.14%) Bicep
10 74 (2.73%) Go
11 58 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 51 (1.88%) Scala
14 42 (1.55%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 30 (1.11%) Groovy
17 29 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 27 (1.00%) C++
20 25 (0.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 710 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 634 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 150 (5.54%) Degree
4 103 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 92 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 83 (3.06%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.74%) CISSP
11 20 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.41%) GIAC
15 11 (0.41%) PhD
16 10 (0.37%) CISM
17 9 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (9.75%) QA
2 250 (9.23%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 46 (1.70%) NIST
5 45 (1.66%) GDPR
6 44 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.89%) NCSC
7 24 (0.89%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) SLA
9 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.30%) 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
1 688 (25.41%) Docker
2 64 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.074%) HDFS
10 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.074%) KVM
10 2 (0.074%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.074%) Varnish
10 2 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 809 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 222 (8.20%) Grafana
3 219 (8.09%) Ansible
4 179 (6.61%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.37%) Argo
6 31 (1.14%) Puppet
7 25 (0.92%) Kibana
8 23 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.70%) Packer
10 15 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.41%) Control-M
12 11 (0.41%) Istio
13 8 (0.30%) SCCM
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.18%) Nagios
15 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 467 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 252 (9.31%) Databricks
3 162 (5.98%) Google
4 144 (5.32%) Oracle
5 113 (4.17%) Splunk
6 91 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 61 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 50 (1.85%) VMware
11 45 (1.66%) IBM
12 38 (1.40%) Foundry
13 34 (1.26%) Informatica
14 33 (1.22%) Red Hat
15 31 (1.14%) SAP
16 26 (0.96%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.89%) New Relic
18 22 (0.81%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.70%) Cisco
20 18 (0.66%) Palantir