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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,977 1,387 1,299
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.07% 10.27% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.40% 11.34% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 968 986
10th Percentile £368 £406 £425
25th Percentile £435 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +2.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.88% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -2 215 £525 -8.70% 165
West London +8 72 £603 +36.31% 29
South London +9 55 £525 -2.42% 10
East London -6 9 £450 -12.41% 16
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 84 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 68 (3.44%) Confluence
3 65 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (2.63%) Apache
5 35 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.61%) CMS
7 11 (0.56%) Appian
7 11 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.56%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.51%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.51%) nginx
9 9 (0.46%) Mendix
9 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SAS
12 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
13 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.051%) Actimize
4 1 (0.051%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.051%) Maximo
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.051%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.051%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.051%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.051%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 875 (44.26%) Azure
2 869 (43.96%) AWS
3 472 (23.87%) GitHub
4 331 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
5 318 (16.08%) GCP
6 314 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
7 288 (14.57%) Serverless
8 199 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 175 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 168 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 149 (7.54%) Power Platform
12 117 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
13 115 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
14 110 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 98 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 91 (4.60%) Azure AKS
17 81 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
18 78 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (3.79%) Azure Functions
20 73 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.00%) Firewall
2 52 (2.63%) DNS
3 50 (2.53%) Network Security
4 26 (1.32%) VPN
5 22 (1.11%) HTTP
6 15 (0.76%) SSL
7 13 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.66%) WAN
8 11 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.35%) DHCP
10 6 (0.30%) FTP
10 6 (0.30%) IMAP
10 6 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (0.30%) SMTP
10 6 (0.30%) SSH
11 5 (0.25%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.20%) BGP
12 4 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (0.20%) Multicast
12 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (6.07%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 110 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 104 (5.26%) Power BI
5 78 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 76 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (3.69%) MongoDB
8 68 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
11 44 (2.23%) BigQuery
12 42 (2.12%) Delta Lake
13 38 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.77%) Big Data
14 35 (1.77%) MySQL
15 34 (1.72%) Metadata
16 33 (1.67%) DynamoDB
17 32 (1.62%) Redis
18 28 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 364 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 361 (18.26%) Git
3 253 (12.80%) GitLab
4 142 (7.18%) JIRA
5 74 (3.74%) Selenium
6 51 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 49 (2.48%) JUnit
8 44 (2.23%) MLflow
9 40 (2.02%) Postman
10 39 (1.97%) Cypress.io
11 30 (1.52%) JMeter
12 27 (1.37%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.26%) TeamCity
14 21 (1.06%) Bitbucket
14 21 (1.06%) Maven
15 20 (1.01%) Gradle
15 20 (1.01%) Mockito
16 18 (0.91%) SonarQube
17 15 (0.76%) Gatling
17 15 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 524 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 448 (22.66%) Finance
3 212 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 199 (10.07%) Banking
5 161 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.33%) Front Office
7 45 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 32 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 31 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.37%) Marketing
12 25 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.16%) Retail
14 19 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.61%) Law
16 12 (0.61%) Military
17 11 (0.56%) Electronics
17 11 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 495 (25.04%) Developer
2 301 (15.23%) Senior
3 259 (13.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 183 (9.26%) Architect
5 182 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 136 (6.88%) Lead
7 121 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 112 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
9 91 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 88 (4.45%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 86 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 80 (4.05%) Software Engineer
14 79 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 73 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (3.49%) AWS DevOps
17 63 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 57 (2.88%) Python Engineer
19 56 (2.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 54 (2.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (12.70%) React
2 209 (10.57%) Kafka
3 203 (10.27%) Node.js
4 189 (9.56%) RESTful
5 182 (9.21%) REST
6 164 (8.30%) .NET
7 152 (7.69%) Spring
8 125 (6.32%) Spring Boot
9 109 (5.51%) AngularJS
10 95 (4.81%) CSS
10 95 (4.81%) Playwright
11 87 (4.40%) HTML
12 83 (4.20%) OAuth
13 75 (3.79%) PySpark
14 73 (3.69%) GraphQL
15 63 (3.19%) YAML
16 56 (2.83%) JSON
17 49 (2.48%) Vue
18 48 (2.43%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.43%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 390 (19.73%) Cloud Native
2 126 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (2.43%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.28%) Mobile App
6 41 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 39 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 31 (1.57%) Derivative
10 29 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 25 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 25 (1.26%) Replication
13 24 (1.21%) Equities
13 24 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 24 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 170 (8.60%) Linux
2 70 (3.54%) Windows
3 34 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.62%) VMS
5 30 (1.52%) Android
6 28 (1.42%) Unix
7 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.30%) CentOS
10 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.25%) Solaris
11 5 (0.25%) zOS
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (55.03%) DevOps
2 650 (32.88%) Agile
3 642 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 444 (22.46%) Containerisation
5 399 (20.18%) Test Automation
6 381 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
7 347 (17.55%) Microservices
8 333 (16.84%) AI
9 293 (14.82%) Analytics
10 289 (14.62%) Observability
11 261 (13.20%) Software Engineering
12 228 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
13 217 (10.98%) Data Engineering
14 206 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
15 205 (10.37%) Data Modelling
16 197 (9.96%) Machine Learning
17 196 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 189 (9.56%) ETL
19 174 (8.80%) Migration
20 172 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 780 (39.45%) Python
2 487 (24.63%) SQL
3 393 (19.88%) Java
4 275 (13.91%) JavaScript
5 267 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 208 (10.52%) C#
7 129 (6.53%) Bash
8 107 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 72 (3.64%) Bicep
10 69 (3.49%) Go
11 60 (3.03%) Scala
12 36 (1.82%) C++
13 31 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 30 (1.52%) Ruby
15 26 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.21%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.11%) Rust
18 18 (0.91%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.86%) Apex Code
20 16 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 459 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 400 (20.23%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.37%) Degree
4 68 (3.44%) AWS Certification
4 68 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 66 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.91%) CISSP
9 18 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (0.46%) OSCP
14 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (7.69%) QA
2 125 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.45%) GDPR
4 69 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 53 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.53%) NIST
7 27 (1.37%) NCSC
7 27 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.06%) WCAG
9 12 (0.61%) SLA
10 11 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.30%) MiFID
11 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.25%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.20%) GRC
13 4 (0.20%) PERC
13 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 623 (31.51%) Docker
2 51 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.40%) Squid
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.30%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.30%) Postfix
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) zsh
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) HDFS
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.051%) etcd
10 1 (0.051%) KVM
Systems Management
1 676 (34.19%) Kubernetes
2 657 (33.23%) Terraform
3 149 (7.54%) Ansible
4 133 (6.73%) Grafana
5 119 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.58%) Argo
7 27 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.16%) Istio
9 16 (0.81%) Kibana
10 13 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (0.61%) Puppet
12 10 (0.51%) Rancher
13 8 (0.40%) Nessus
14 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.30%) logstash
15 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.30%) Packer
15 6 (0.30%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 292 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 195 (9.86%) Databricks
3 125 (6.32%) Google
4 74 (3.74%) Oracle
5 62 (3.14%) Splunk
6 61 (3.09%) OpenAI
7 53 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.21%) VMware
12 21 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.96%) SAP
14 16 (0.81%) Solace
15 15 (0.76%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.71%) Cisco
17 13 (0.66%) Adobe
17 13 (0.66%) UiPath
18 12 (0.61%) Atlassian
19 11 (0.56%) Apple