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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,133 1,299 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.63% 10.29% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 11.26% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 937 902
10th Percentile £393 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £518 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -5.91% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £47.25 - £50.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -8.70% -25.81%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £63.70
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +10.34% -11.59%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £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 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -6 244 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +6 70 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +3 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London +2 11 £450 -10.00% 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
1 100 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 82 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.14%) Confluence
4 65 (3.05%) Apache
5 31 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) SAS
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.42%) nginx
10 8 (0.38%) Appian
11 7 (0.33%) Camunda
11 7 (0.33%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) 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 18 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.094%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.094%) Shopify
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) Endur
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
1 998 (46.79%) Azure
2 955 (44.77%) AWS
3 511 (23.96%) GitHub
4 396 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (15.94%) GCP
6 325 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
7 310 (14.53%) Serverless
8 212 (9.94%) Amazon S3
9 202 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (8.67%) Power Platform
12 130 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 127 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
15 105 (4.92%) Azure AKS
16 97 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 92 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 88 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
19 83 (3.89%) Snowflake
20 77 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.56%) Firewall
2 44 (2.06%) Network Security
3 39 (1.83%) DNS
4 26 (1.22%) VPN
5 24 (1.13%) HTTP
6 18 (0.84%) WAN
7 17 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.33%) BGP
9 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.28%) 5G
9 6 (0.28%) OSPF
9 6 (0.28%) SSL
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.23%) MPLS
10 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.52%) Data Lake
2 135 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (6.14%) Power BI
4 126 (5.91%) SQL Server
5 117 (5.49%) NoSQL
6 107 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 74 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 72 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
10 61 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 57 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
11 57 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.58%) Metadata
13 50 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 50 (2.34%) Big Data
14 41 (1.92%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.55%) Tableau
16 32 (1.50%) Redis
17 30 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 399 (18.71%) Git
2 359 (16.83%) Jenkins
3 258 (12.10%) GitLab
4 147 (6.89%) JIRA
5 78 (3.66%) Selenium
6 61 (2.86%) JUnit
7 54 (2.53%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.44%) MLflow
9 44 (2.06%) Postman
10 36 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 32 (1.50%) JMeter
11 32 (1.50%) Mockito
12 25 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.84%) Maven
14 16 (0.75%) Appium
14 16 (0.75%) Gatling
14 16 (0.75%) Liquibase
14 16 (0.75%) SpecFlow
15 15 (0.70%) Gradle
General
1 531 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 486 (22.78%) Finance
3 252 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.36%) Banking
5 174 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (1.97%) Front Office
8 41 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.22%) Retail
13 21 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.94%) Legal
15 18 (0.84%) Marketing
16 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.66%) Law
18 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.56%) Publishing
19 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 495 (23.21%) Developer
2 334 (15.66%) Senior
3 236 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 226 (10.60%) Architect
5 214 (10.03%) Data Engineer
6 179 (8.39%) Lead
7 131 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 100 (4.69%) Software Engineer
10 98 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
11 85 (3.98%) Java Developer
12 82 (3.84%) Senior Developer
13 79 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 74 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 62 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
15 62 (2.91%) Python Developer
15 62 (2.91%) Python Engineer
16 56 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 56 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (11.39%) React
2 225 (10.55%) Kafka
3 201 (9.42%) REST
4 194 (9.10%) Node.js
5 189 (8.86%) .NET
6 188 (8.81%) RESTful
7 164 (7.69%) Spring
8 135 (6.33%) Spring Boot
9 127 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 107 (5.02%) PySpark
11 98 (4.59%) Playwright
12 88 (4.13%) CSS
13 87 (4.08%) HTML
14 78 (3.66%) OAuth
15 61 (2.86%) YAML
16 56 (2.63%) GraphQL
17 51 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.30%) Pandas
19 48 (2.25%) PyTorch
20 46 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 428 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 138 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 40 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 38 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.31%) Equities
10 28 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.27%) Derivative
12 26 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.17%) Fixed Income
14 24 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.56%) Linux
2 68 (3.19%) Windows
3 31 (1.45%) Unix
4 29 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.31%) VMS
6 23 (1.08%) Android
7 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Solaris
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.047%) AIX
11 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (55.09%) DevOps
2 712 (33.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 691 (32.40%) Agile
4 495 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 445 (20.86%) Test Automation
6 415 (19.46%) AI
7 402 (18.85%) Microservices
8 352 (16.50%) Analytics
9 349 (16.36%) Observability
9 349 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (14.11%) Software Engineering
11 282 (13.22%) Data Modelling
12 271 (12.71%) Data Pipeline
13 269 (12.61%) Data Engineering
14 250 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 244 (11.44%) Machine Learning
16 224 (10.50%) ETL
17 209 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
18 203 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
19 202 (9.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 854 (40.04%) Python
2 602 (28.22%) SQL
3 402 (18.85%) Java
4 269 (12.61%) TypeScript
5 259 (12.14%) JavaScript
6 244 (11.44%) C#
7 117 (5.49%) Bash
8 101 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 81 (3.80%) Bicep
10 60 (2.81%) Scala
11 50 (2.34%) Go
12 40 (1.88%) Ruby
13 34 (1.59%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.36%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.22%) Apex Code
16 26 (1.22%) C++
17 24 (1.13%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.56%) Swift
19 11 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 527 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 463 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.95%) Degree
4 79 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 71 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 71 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 17 (0.80%) CISSP
12 14 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.42%) CISM
17 8 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.39%) QA
2 164 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.08%) GDPR
4 72 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 58 (2.72%) NIST
6 56 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.50%) NCSC
8 30 (1.41%) WCAG
9 27 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.94%) SLA
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.28%) MiFID
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 630 (29.54%) Docker
2 50 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.094%) HDFS
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) IAG
9 1 (0.047%) Squid
9 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.047%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 720 (33.76%) Terraform
2 665 (31.18%) Kubernetes
3 136 (6.38%) Ansible
4 130 (6.09%) Grafana
5 113 (5.30%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.78%) Argo
7 20 (0.94%) Istio
8 19 (0.89%) Puppet
8 19 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.47%) Kibana
11 8 (0.38%) Rancher
12 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.23%) Packer
14 4 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 339 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 210 (9.85%) Databricks
3 121 (5.67%) Google
4 88 (4.13%) Oracle
5 65 (3.05%) Splunk
6 62 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.67%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 20 (0.94%) IBM
12 19 (0.89%) VMware
13 18 (0.84%) Cisco
13 18 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 18 (0.84%) SAP
14 17 (0.80%) Foundry
15 13 (0.61%) UiPath
16 11 (0.52%) New Relic
16 11 (0.52%) Okta