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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,779 1,619 1,459
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.75% 12.09% 9.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.47% 13.06% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 1,081 1,013
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £480
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 £734 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.08% -5.45% -8.33%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £663 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +12 344 £550 -8.41% 293
South London +2 70 £535 +0.47% 18
West London -4 50 £560 +13.71% 60
East London +5 11 £585 +8.33% 22
North London - 1 £650 - 6
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
1 138 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.10%) Confluence
3 111 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.06%) Apache
5 35 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.036%) Sketch
7 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.036%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.036%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (45.23%) Azure
2 1,195 (43.00%) AWS
3 622 (22.38%) GitHub
4 473 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 439 (15.80%) GCP
6 422 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
7 336 (12.09%) Serverless
8 249 (8.96%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.17%) Power Platform
10 215 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
12 161 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (5.58%) Snowflake
14 147 (5.29%) Entra ID
15 137 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 134 (4.82%) dbt
17 132 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
18 112 (4.03%) Azure AKS
19 103 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
20 99 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.37%) Firewall
2 49 (1.76%) DNS
3 48 (1.73%) Network Security
4 38 (1.37%) VPN
5 32 (1.15%) Internet
6 28 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.76%) SSL
8 19 (0.68%) 5G
9 18 (0.65%) HTTP
10 12 (0.43%) WAN
11 11 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.40%) SAN
12 9 (0.32%) 4G
12 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.32%) SSH
13 8 (0.29%) BGP
14 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
15 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.15%) Power BI
3 151 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (5.40%) SQL Server
5 132 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.14%) Data Lake
7 113 (4.07%) MongoDB
8 111 (3.99%) Relational Database
9 102 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.20%) Delta Lake
11 85 (3.06%) Metadata
12 73 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 73 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 61 (2.20%) Redis
14 51 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.80%) MySQL
16 47 (1.69%) DynamoDB
17 46 (1.66%) Big Data
18 45 (1.62%) Oracle Database
19 44 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 551 (19.83%) Git
2 456 (16.41%) Jenkins
3 383 (13.78%) GitLab
4 192 (6.91%) JIRA
5 103 (3.71%) Selenium
6 80 (2.88%) JUnit
7 59 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 59 (2.12%) Gradle
8 56 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 50 (1.80%) Maven
10 49 (1.76%) JMeter
11 45 (1.62%) Bitbucket
11 45 (1.62%) SonarQube
12 42 (1.51%) Postman
13 38 (1.37%) Mockito
14 33 (1.19%) REST Assured
15 26 (0.94%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.94%) Gatling
16 22 (0.79%) MLflow
17 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 717 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 698 (25.12%) Finance
3 339 (12.20%) Banking
4 315 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 278 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.73%) Front Office
7 70 (2.52%) Retail
8 67 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.44%) Marketing
11 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (1.19%) Law
13 30 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.83%) Back Office
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 20 (0.72%) Local Government
18 18 (0.65%) Police
19 17 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 577 (20.76%) Developer
2 515 (18.53%) Senior
3 350 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (10.65%) Architect
5 285 (10.26%) Lead
6 255 (9.18%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
8 148 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 130 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 124 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 120 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 101 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 92 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
16 81 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.70%) Python Developer
18 73 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
19 71 (2.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 67 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 917 (33.00%) Terraform
2 452 (16.26%) REST
3 310 (11.16%) Kafka
4 264 (9.50%) React
5 262 (9.43%) .NET
6 222 (7.99%) RESTful
7 219 (7.88%) Spring
8 195 (7.02%) Spring Boot
9 147 (5.29%) PySpark
10 116 (4.17%) Node.js
11 114 (4.10%) HTML
12 102 (3.67%) CSS
13 101 (3.63%) Playwright
14 98 (3.53%) OAuth
15 88 (3.17%) AngularJS
16 87 (3.13%) JSON
17 82 (2.95%) FastAPI
18 78 (2.81%) SOAP
19 70 (2.52%) Middleware
20 69 (2.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 592 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 141 (5.07%) AI Agents
5 122 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 122 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 98 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 38 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.33%) Replication
12 37 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 37 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
13 32 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 268 (9.64%) Linux
2 132 (4.75%) Windows
3 80 (2.88%) Unix
4 49 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.97%) Android
7 25 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.50%) VMS
9 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Solaris
14 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,546 (55.63%) DevOps
2 1,019 (36.67%) Agile
3 966 (34.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 656 (23.61%) AI
5 637 (22.92%) Test Automation
6 545 (19.61%) Observability
7 544 (19.58%) Containerisation
8 534 (19.22%) Microservices
9 513 (18.46%) Software Engineering
10 427 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
11 408 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 397 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 369 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
14 363 (13.06%) Analytics
15 360 (12.95%) Event-Driven
16 354 (12.74%) Data Engineering
17 353 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
18 333 (11.98%) Data Modelling
19 318 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
20 304 (10.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (42.32%) Python
2 762 (27.42%) SQL
3 557 (20.04%) Java
4 314 (11.30%) JavaScript
5 285 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 271 (9.75%) C#
7 254 (9.14%) Bash
8 232 (8.35%) PowerShell
9 118 (4.25%) Bicep
10 80 (2.88%) Go
11 59 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 57 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 48 (1.73%) Scala
14 40 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 39 (1.40%) Apex Code
16 35 (1.26%) Groovy
17 29 (1.04%) C++
18 28 (1.01%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.01%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.90%) Korn
Qualifications
1 741 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 661 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 159 (5.72%) Degree
4 97 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 95 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 94 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 75 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.86%) CISSP
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.54%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.40%) CISM
15 11 (0.40%) GIAC
15 11 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (9.93%) QA
2 267 (9.61%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.51%) GDPR
6 41 (1.48%) NIST
7 24 (0.86%) NCSC
7 24 (0.86%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) SLA
9 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.43%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
14 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 714 (25.69%) Docker
2 64 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 10 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.072%) KVM
10 2 (0.072%) RACF
10 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 845 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 238 (8.56%) Grafana
3 230 (8.28%) Ansible
4 185 (6.66%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.55%) Argo
6 36 (1.30%) Puppet
7 33 (1.19%) Kibana
8 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.65%) Packer
9 18 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.47%) Istio
11 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.40%) Control-M
13 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.29%) SCCM
14 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 487 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 268 (9.64%) Databricks
3 174 (6.26%) Google
4 145 (5.22%) Oracle
5 114 (4.10%) Splunk
6 90 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 66 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 48 (1.73%) VMware
10 43 (1.55%) IBM
11 42 (1.51%) Foundry
12 34 (1.22%) Informatica
12 34 (1.22%) SAP
13 31 (1.12%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.83%) New Relic
16 22 (0.79%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.65%) Cisco
17 18 (0.65%) Palantir