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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,173 1,300 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.56% 10.26% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% 11.20% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,466 930 908
10th Percentile £393 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.41% -9.28%
75th Percentile £645 £713 £688
90th Percentile £747 £838 £791
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £48.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £59.13 £51.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £80.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +12.17% -12.35%

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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -3 253 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +9 72 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +1 61 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -2 10 £450 -15.69% 13
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 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.99%) Apache
4 63 (2.90%) Confluence
5 34 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.51%) SAS
7 10 (0.46%) CMS
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Camunda
11 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Findur
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
5 1 (0.046%) Actimize
5 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (46.34%) Azure
2 973 (44.78%) AWS
3 510 (23.47%) GitHub
4 402 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
5 332 (15.28%) GCP
6 321 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
7 317 (14.59%) Serverless
8 222 (10.22%) Amazon S3
9 210 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
11 189 (8.70%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
13 130 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
15 111 (5.11%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 95 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 92 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
19 87 (4.00%) Entra ID
20 83 (3.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.36%) Firewall
2 44 (2.02%) Network Security
3 36 (1.66%) DNS
4 26 (1.20%) HTTP
5 21 (0.97%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.37%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
10 6 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.28%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Internet
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 137 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (6.12%) Power BI
4 124 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 123 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 110 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
7 78 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 77 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 73 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (2.76%) Delta Lake
11 58 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
11 58 (2.67%) Metadata
12 55 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (2.53%) BigQuery
13 53 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 51 (2.35%) Big Data
15 44 (2.02%) DynamoDB
16 34 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
17 32 (1.47%) Tableau
18 31 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 397 (18.27%) Git
2 347 (15.97%) Jenkins
3 254 (11.69%) GitLab
4 143 (6.58%) JIRA
5 78 (3.59%) Selenium
6 61 (2.81%) JUnit
7 51 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.30%) MLflow
9 44 (2.02%) Postman
10 36 (1.66%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.66%) REST Assured
11 34 (1.56%) Mockito
12 30 (1.38%) JMeter
13 23 (1.06%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 18 (0.83%) Gradle
14 18 (0.83%) Maven
15 17 (0.78%) Liquibase
16 16 (0.74%) Appium
16 16 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 538 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 505 (23.24%) Finance
3 251 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 227 (10.45%) Banking
5 174 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.07%) Front Office
8 42 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 23 (1.06%) Legal
12 23 (1.06%) Retail
13 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.78%) Marketing
15 16 (0.74%) Law
15 16 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.55%) Publishing
17 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 501 (23.06%) Developer
2 337 (15.51%) Senior
3 240 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 236 (10.86%) Architect
5 220 (10.12%) Data Engineer
6 185 (8.51%) Lead
7 135 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
8 129 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
9 105 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 105 (4.83%) Software Engineer
10 101 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
11 92 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 83 (3.82%) Senior Developer
13 75 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
14 69 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 66 (3.04%) Python Developer
16 64 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
17 60 (2.76%) Python Engineer
18 58 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (11.00%) React
2 225 (10.35%) Kafka
3 200 (9.20%) REST
4 192 (8.84%) RESTful
5 191 (8.79%) .NET
5 191 (8.79%) Node.js
6 174 (8.01%) Spring
7 146 (6.72%) Spring Boot
8 123 (5.66%) AngularJS
9 108 (4.97%) PySpark
10 91 (4.19%) Playwright
11 84 (3.87%) HTML
12 81 (3.73%) CSS
13 79 (3.64%) OAuth
14 62 (2.85%) YAML
15 55 (2.53%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.44%) Pandas
17 51 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
18 49 (2.25%) FastAPI
19 47 (2.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 438 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 140 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 38 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 35 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 30 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.33%) Equities
10 29 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.24%) Derivative
12 27 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.10%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.63%) Linux
2 72 (3.31%) Windows
3 31 (1.43%) Unix
4 28 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.29%) VMS
5 25 (1.15%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (54.81%) DevOps
2 732 (33.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 698 (32.12%) Agile
4 503 (23.15%) Containerisation
5 446 (20.52%) Test Automation
6 426 (19.60%) AI
7 418 (19.24%) Microservices
8 368 (16.94%) Analytics
9 357 (16.43%) Observability
10 344 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (14.17%) Software Engineering
12 290 (13.35%) Data Modelling
13 279 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
14 268 (12.33%) Data Engineering
15 258 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 246 (11.32%) Machine Learning
17 228 (10.49%) ETL
18 213 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
19 206 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 206 (9.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 854 (39.30%) Python
2 612 (28.16%) SQL
3 416 (19.14%) Java
4 262 (12.06%) TypeScript
5 251 (11.55%) JavaScript
6 250 (11.50%) C#
7 126 (5.80%) Bash
8 106 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.00%) Bicep
10 60 (2.76%) Scala
11 49 (2.25%) Go
12 42 (1.93%) Ruby
13 34 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.33%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.29%) Apex Code
15 28 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 25 (1.15%) C++
18 11 (0.51%) C
18 11 (0.51%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 540 (24.85%) Security Cleared
2 477 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.89%) Degree
4 83 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.74%) CISSP
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.42%) QA
2 166 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.05%) GDPR
4 71 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 61 (2.81%) NIST
6 56 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.47%) NCSC
8 30 (1.38%) WCAG
9 26 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.97%) SLA
11 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.32%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) GRC
14 5 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) MiFID
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 623 (28.67%) Docker
2 58 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) HDFS
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.046%) Squid
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 729 (33.55%) Terraform
2 672 (30.92%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.40%) Ansible
4 128 (5.89%) Grafana
5 114 (5.25%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.79%) Argo
7 22 (1.01%) Istio
7 22 (1.01%) Puppet
7 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.46%) Kibana
10 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.37%) Rancher
11 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.71%) Databricks
3 120 (5.52%) Google
4 90 (4.14%) Oracle
5 67 (3.08%) Splunk
6 64 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.67%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 22 (1.01%) VMware
12 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 20 (0.92%) IBM
14 18 (0.83%) SAP
15 17 (0.78%) Foundry
16 15 (0.69%) Cisco
17 11 (0.51%) Lotus
17 11 (0.51%) Okta
17 11 (0.51%) UiPath