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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,614 1,470 1,346
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.98% 10.75% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.57% 11.64% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,745 998 948
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.45% -5.46%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £738 £768 £806
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -10.65%

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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +8 327 £550 -12.00% 175
South London +1 65 £550 +4.27% 15
West London +6 50 £560 +13.71% 37
East London +6 12 £585 +62.50% 16
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 128 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (3.98%) Confluence
3 98 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.95%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.077%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (45.14%) Azure
2 1,139 (43.57%) AWS
3 594 (22.72%) GitHub
4 465 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
6 394 (15.07%) GCP
7 295 (11.29%) Serverless
8 236 (9.03%) Amazon S3
9 225 (8.61%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
11 153 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 131 (5.01%) Snowflake
14 125 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (4.59%) Entra ID
16 119 (4.55%) dbt
17 118 (4.51%) Azure AKS
18 116 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
19 106 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
20 88 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.79%) Firewall
2 43 (1.64%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
4 35 (1.34%) VPN
5 29 (1.11%) Internet
6 23 (0.88%) HTTP
7 19 (0.73%) 5G
8 17 (0.65%) SSL
8 17 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.61%) WAN
10 11 (0.42%) 4G
11 10 (0.38%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) BGP
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 6 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (6.58%) Power BI
2 150 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 124 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 121 (4.63%) Data Lake
7 94 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 90 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 80 (3.06%) Delta Lake
10 78 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 73 (2.79%) Metadata
13 69 (2.64%) BigQuery
14 61 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.91%) DynamoDB
16 49 (1.87%) Redis
17 48 (1.84%) Big Data
18 45 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 467 (17.87%) Git
2 407 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 332 (12.70%) GitLab
4 185 (7.08%) JIRA
5 80 (3.06%) Selenium
6 69 (2.64%) JUnit
7 48 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.72%) JMeter
9 44 (1.68%) Gradle
10 41 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.49%) Mockito
11 39 (1.49%) Postman
12 38 (1.45%) Bitbucket
13 35 (1.34%) Maven
14 33 (1.26%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 29 (1.11%) CircleCI
17 28 (1.07%) MLflow
18 23 (0.88%) Gatling
19 21 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 633 (24.22%) Finance
2 627 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 316 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.32%) Banking
5 211 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.22%) Front Office
7 57 (2.18%) Investment Banking
7 57 (2.18%) Retail
8 44 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.11%) Law
11 29 (1.11%) Marketing
11 29 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 24 (0.92%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Local Government
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 559 (21.38%) Developer
2 474 (18.13%) Senior
3 293 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 287 (10.98%) Architect
5 271 (10.37%) Lead
6 233 (8.91%) Data Engineer
7 157 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 150 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
9 136 (5.20%) Software Engineer
10 135 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 121 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 114 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 111 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
14 92 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 70 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 68 (2.60%) Python Developer
18 64 (2.45%) AWS DevOps
19 60 (2.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (13.73%) REST
2 256 (9.79%) React
3 244 (9.33%) .NET
3 244 (9.33%) Kafka
4 209 (8.00%) RESTful
5 202 (7.73%) Spring
6 169 (6.47%) Spring Boot
7 135 (5.16%) PySpark
8 132 (5.05%) Node.js
9 104 (3.98%) AngularJS
9 104 (3.98%) HTML
10 95 (3.63%) Playwright
11 87 (3.33%) CSS
12 79 (3.02%) JSON
13 73 (2.79%) OAuth
14 67 (2.56%) FastAPI
15 66 (2.52%) SOAP
16 59 (2.26%) OAuth2
17 57 (2.18%) GraphQL
17 57 (2.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 537 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 219 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 97 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 95 (3.63%) AI Agents
6 85 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 31 (1.19%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.19%) Security Posture
14 27 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 191 (7.31%) Linux
2 112 (4.28%) Windows
3 61 (2.33%) Unix
4 36 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.11%) Android
7 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.19%) Solaris
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.077%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,448 (55.39%) DevOps
2 935 (35.77%) Agile
3 865 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 568 (21.73%) Test Automation
5 561 (21.46%) Containerisation
6 552 (21.12%) AI
7 523 (20.01%) Microservices
8 461 (17.64%) Software Engineering
9 452 (17.29%) Observability
10 377 (14.42%) Analytics
11 360 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
13 338 (12.93%) Data Modelling
14 334 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 318 (12.17%) Data Engineering
16 303 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
17 288 (11.02%) Event-Driven
18 276 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
19 274 (10.48%) Machine Learning
20 271 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (38.64%) Python
2 716 (27.39%) SQL
3 528 (20.20%) Java
4 287 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 278 (10.64%) C#
6 272 (10.41%) TypeScript
7 200 (7.65%) Bash
8 192 (7.35%) PowerShell
9 105 (4.02%) Bicep
10 59 (2.26%) Go
11 55 (2.10%) Kotlin
12 49 (1.87%) Apex Code
13 47 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.76%) Scala
15 34 (1.30%) Ruby
16 33 (1.26%) PL/SQL
17 30 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 21 (0.80%) C++
20 19 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 680 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 615 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.09%) Degree
4 101 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 72 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (0.80%) CISSP
11 20 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.46%) CISM
14 12 (0.46%) GIAC
14 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) PhD
15 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (8.99%) QA
2 218 (8.34%) Data Quality
3 98 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.22%) GDPR
5 49 (1.87%) NIST
6 45 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.22%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 21 (0.80%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.34%) GRC
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
17 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 681 (26.05%) Docker
2 61 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.077%) KVM
11 2 (0.077%) Postfix
11 2 (0.077%) Varnish
11 2 (0.077%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Firmware
12 1 (0.038%) IAG
12 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 833 (31.87%) Terraform
2 767 (29.34%) Kubernetes
3 196 (7.50%) Grafana
4 186 (7.12%) Ansible
5 163 (6.24%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.22%) Argo
7 30 (1.15%) Puppet
8 21 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.73%) Packer
10 18 (0.69%) Kibana
11 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.46%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) Control-M
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 403 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.00%) Databricks
3 138 (5.28%) Google
4 119 (4.55%) Oracle
5 102 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.48%) Splunk
7 64 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 45 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 43 (1.64%) VMware
11 34 (1.30%) IBM
12 30 (1.15%) Informatica
13 29 (1.11%) Foundry
14 28 (1.07%) SAP
15 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.88%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.84%) Cisco
17 22 (0.84%) New Relic
18 21 (0.80%) Palantir
19 18 (0.69%) CyberArk