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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,128 1,323 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.79% 10.38% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.24% 11.38% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 956 905
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £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 6 1 4
10th Percentile £56.50 - £49.60
25th Percentile £62.69 £51.25 £53.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -9.09% -23.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% -5.50%

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 14,942 11,630 15,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.82% 91.27% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,020 7,810 11,431
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 232 164 342
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.18 £69.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -4 243 £530 -7.83% 194
West London +7 68 £603 +47.31% 23
South London +3 59 £525 +10.53% 20
East London -4 10 £450 -10.00% 18
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 99 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.15%) Confluence
4 60 (2.82%) Apache
5 32 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
6 12 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
8 10 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.42%) Appian
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.28%) Camunda
10 6 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.28%) nginx
10 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.094%) Endur
5 2 (0.094%) Magento
5 2 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.094%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.094%) 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
1 981 (46.10%) Azure
2 944 (44.36%) AWS
3 517 (24.30%) GitHub
4 385 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
5 339 (15.93%) GCP
6 323 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
7 312 (14.66%) Serverless
8 211 (9.92%) Amazon S3
9 196 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 189 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (8.69%) Power Platform
12 130 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 118 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
15 100 (4.70%) Azure AKS
16 94 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 92 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 87 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (3.76%) Snowflake
20 74 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.62%) Firewall
2 49 (2.30%) Network Security
3 39 (1.83%) DNS
4 24 (1.13%) VPN
5 21 (0.99%) HTTP
6 17 (0.80%) WAN
7 15 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.42%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
10 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
11 6 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.28%) MPLS
11 6 (0.28%) OSPF
11 6 (0.28%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.23%) 5G
13 4 (0.19%) Internet
13 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (6.39%) Data Lake
3 131 (6.16%) Power BI
4 128 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 119 (5.59%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 76 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
10 59 (2.77%) Delta Lake
11 58 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
13 52 (2.44%) BigQuery
14 50 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 50 (2.35%) Big Data
14 50 (2.35%) Metadata
15 41 (1.93%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.55%) MySQL
16 33 (1.55%) Tableau
17 31 (1.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 402 (18.89%) Git
2 368 (17.29%) Jenkins
3 261 (12.27%) GitLab
4 147 (6.91%) JIRA
5 78 (3.67%) Selenium
6 62 (2.91%) JUnit
7 56 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.44%) MLflow
9 44 (2.07%) Postman
10 37 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.64%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.50%) JMeter
12 32 (1.50%) Mockito
13 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 21 (0.99%) Gradle
15 20 (0.94%) Maven
16 17 (0.80%) Gatling
16 17 (0.80%) TeamCity
17 15 (0.70%) Appium
17 15 (0.70%) Liquibase
General
1 544 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 485 (22.79%) Finance
3 243 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 213 (10.01%) Banking
5 177 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.16%) Front Office
7 44 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.17%) Retail
13 20 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.70%) Law
14 15 (0.70%) Legal
14 15 (0.70%) Marketing
14 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.56%) Publishing
16 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 508 (23.87%) Developer
2 333 (15.65%) Senior
3 230 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 215 (10.10%) Architect
5 214 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 169 (7.94%) Lead
7 123 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
8 122 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 97 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 97 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
9 97 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 85 (3.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 83 (3.90%) Senior Developer
12 81 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 70 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 62 (2.91%) Python Engineer
15 61 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
15 61 (2.87%) Python Developer
16 55 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 55 (2.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (11.89%) React
2 224 (10.53%) Kafka
3 201 (9.45%) REST
4 197 (9.26%) Node.js
5 194 (9.12%) RESTful
6 191 (8.98%) .NET
7 165 (7.75%) Spring
8 131 (6.16%) AngularJS
8 131 (6.16%) Spring Boot
9 102 (4.79%) PySpark
10 101 (4.75%) Playwright
11 97 (4.56%) CSS
12 96 (4.51%) HTML
13 80 (3.76%) OAuth
14 61 (2.87%) YAML
15 56 (2.63%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.49%) Vue
17 52 (2.44%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.26%) JSON
18 48 (2.26%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 425 (19.97%) Cloud Native
2 128 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 42 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (1.41%) Derivative
12 29 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.36%) Equities
13 27 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 24 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.81%) Linux
2 68 (3.20%) Windows
3 33 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.32%) Unix
5 27 (1.27%) VMS
6 26 (1.22%) Android
7 11 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.094%) Solaris
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (55.08%) DevOps
2 693 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 685 (32.19%) Agile
4 489 (22.98%) Containerisation
5 441 (20.72%) Test Automation
6 400 (18.80%) AI
7 390 (18.33%) Microservices
8 375 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
9 352 (16.54%) Analytics
10 335 (15.74%) Observability
11 296 (13.91%) Software Engineering
12 274 (12.88%) Data Modelling
13 269 (12.64%) Data Engineering
14 261 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
15 250 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 242 (11.37%) Machine Learning
17 220 (10.34%) ETL
18 214 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
19 199 (9.35%) Migration
20 197 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 863 (40.55%) Python
2 600 (28.20%) SQL
3 406 (19.08%) Java
4 274 (12.88%) JavaScript
5 273 (12.83%) TypeScript
6 247 (11.61%) C#
7 127 (5.97%) Bash
8 103 (4.84%) PowerShell
9 78 (3.67%) Bicep
10 63 (2.96%) Scala
11 54 (2.54%) Go
12 41 (1.93%) Ruby
13 30 (1.41%) C++
14 29 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.36%) Shell Script
15 28 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.13%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.75%) Rust
17 16 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 516 (24.25%) Security Cleared
2 452 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 135 (6.34%) Degree
4 78 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 69 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.94%) CISSP
12 19 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.47%) CCSP
16 9 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (8.36%) QA
2 157 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.14%) GDPR
4 74 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (2.54%) NIST
7 30 (1.41%) NCSC
7 30 (1.41%) WCAG
8 29 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.89%) SLA
11 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 6 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 641 (30.12%) Docker
2 50 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.094%) HDFS
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) IAG
9 1 (0.047%) Squid
9 1 (0.047%) zsh
Systems Management
1 702 (32.99%) Terraform
2 676 (31.77%) Kubernetes
3 147 (6.91%) Ansible
4 135 (6.34%) Grafana
5 118 (5.55%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.11%) Argo
7 23 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.99%) Istio
9 18 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.52%) Kibana
12 9 (0.42%) Rancher
13 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.23%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 327 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 213 (10.01%) Databricks
3 128 (6.02%) Google
4 82 (3.85%) Oracle
5 63 (2.96%) Splunk
6 56 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 56 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.94%) Cisco
11 20 (0.94%) VMware
12 18 (0.85%) SAP
13 17 (0.80%) Foundry
14 16 (0.75%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.70%) IBM
16 13 (0.61%) UiPath
17 12 (0.56%) Citrix
17 12 (0.56%) Solace