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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,103 1,354 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.94% 10.20% 6.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.35% 11.22% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 963 907
10th Percentile £369 £404 £425
25th Percentile £436 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £514 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.55% -2.22% -6.25%
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 - £60.81
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £68.75
% change year-on-year +1.96% -7.27% +4.79%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
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% - -7.17%
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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -5 226 £525 -8.70% 264
West London +7 70 £603 +47.31% 29
South London +6 63 £525 +8.25% 33
East London -2 8 £450 -10.00% 26
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 91 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (3.42%) Confluence
4 55 (2.62%) Apache
5 32 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
6 12 (0.57%) SAS
7 11 (0.52%) Appian
7 11 (0.52%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) Mendix
10 7 (0.33%) Camunda
10 7 (0.33%) nginx
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.095%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
7 1 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 15 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.095%) Endur
3 2 (0.095%) Magento
3 2 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.095%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.095%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Maximo
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.048%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 950 (45.17%) Azure
2 927 (44.08%) AWS
3 505 (24.01%) GitHub
4 360 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (16.17%) GCP
6 323 (15.36%) GitHub Actions
7 301 (14.31%) Serverless
8 202 (9.61%) Amazon S3
9 187 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 183 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (7.99%) Power Platform
12 128 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
13 123 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
15 98 (4.66%) Azure AKS
16 94 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 89 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 86 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (3.57%) Entra ID
20 74 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.95%) Firewall
2 52 (2.47%) Network Security
3 46 (2.19%) DNS
4 27 (1.28%) VPN
5 21 (1.00%) HTTP
6 16 (0.76%) WAN
7 15 (0.71%) SSL
8 14 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.57%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.33%) BGP
11 5 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.24%) MPLS
11 5 (0.24%) OSPF
11 5 (0.24%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.19%) Calico
12 4 (0.19%) Multicast
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 126 (5.99%) Data Lake
4 121 (5.75%) Power BI
5 118 (5.61%) NoSQL
6 94 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 73 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 70 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.62%) Delta Lake
11 54 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
11 54 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 53 (2.52%) BigQuery
13 47 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 44 (2.09%) Big Data
15 41 (1.95%) Metadata
16 38 (1.81%) DynamoDB
17 35 (1.66%) MySQL
18 32 (1.52%) Redis
19 28 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 388 (18.45%) Git
2 371 (17.64%) Jenkins
3 265 (12.60%) GitLab
4 154 (7.32%) JIRA
5 82 (3.90%) Selenium
6 60 (2.85%) Cucumber
6 60 (2.85%) JUnit
7 48 (2.28%) MLflow
8 46 (2.19%) Postman
9 40 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.66%) JMeter
11 31 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 25 (1.19%) Bitbucket
12 25 (1.19%) Mockito
13 24 (1.14%) Maven
14 21 (1.00%) TeamCity
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 19 (0.90%) Gatling
16 19 (0.90%) Gradle
17 14 (0.67%) CircleCI
General
1 544 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 470 (22.35%) Finance
3 235 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 207 (9.84%) Banking
5 165 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.04%) Front Office
8 38 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 33 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.19%) Retail
13 22 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.00%) Marketing
15 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.57%) Law
18 11 (0.52%) Legal
19 10 (0.48%) Military
19 10 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 507 (24.11%) Developer
2 331 (15.74%) Senior
3 249 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 205 (9.75%) Architect
5 194 (9.22%) Data Engineer
6 164 (7.80%) Lead
7 129 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 94 (4.47%) Software Engineer
11 92 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
12 89 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 88 (4.18%) Senior Developer
14 87 (4.14%) Java Developer
15 72 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
17 63 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 57 (2.71%) Python Engineer
19 56 (2.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 54 (2.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (12.22%) React
2 209 (9.94%) Kafka
3 202 (9.61%) Node.js
4 195 (9.27%) .NET
5 194 (9.22%) RESTful
6 186 (8.84%) REST
7 161 (7.66%) Spring
8 127 (6.04%) AngularJS
8 127 (6.04%) Spring Boot
9 107 (5.09%) Playwright
10 100 (4.76%) CSS
11 99 (4.71%) HTML
12 94 (4.47%) PySpark
13 83 (3.95%) OAuth
14 65 (3.09%) GraphQL
15 60 (2.85%) YAML
16 52 (2.47%) JSON
17 50 (2.38%) PyTorch
17 50 (2.38%) Vue
18 49 (2.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 412 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 41 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 34 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 31 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (1.43%) Derivative
13 29 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
16 24 (1.14%) Equities
17 23 (1.09%) Fixed Income
17 23 (1.09%) Low-Code
17 23 (1.09%) Private Cloud
17 23 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.32%) Linux
2 70 (3.33%) Windows
3 37 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.38%) Android
5 28 (1.33%) VMS
6 25 (1.19%) Unix
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.24%) CentOS
10 5 (0.24%) Solaris
10 5 (0.24%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,160 (55.16%) DevOps
2 689 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 682 (32.43%) Agile
4 472 (22.44%) Containerisation
5 439 (20.87%) Test Automation
6 388 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
7 378 (17.97%) AI
8 373 (17.74%) Microservices
9 332 (15.79%) Analytics
10 318 (15.12%) Observability
11 288 (13.69%) Software Engineering
12 246 (11.70%) Data Engineering
13 245 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
14 242 (11.51%) Data Modelling
15 236 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 226 (10.75%) Machine Learning
17 220 (10.46%) Full-Stack Development
18 210 (9.99%) ETL
19 193 (9.18%) Mentoring
20 187 (8.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 828 (39.37%) Python
2 553 (26.30%) SQL
3 399 (18.97%) Java
4 299 (14.22%) JavaScript
5 281 (13.36%) TypeScript
6 244 (11.60%) C#
7 130 (6.18%) Bash
8 102 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 74 (3.52%) Bicep
10 62 (2.95%) Scala
11 61 (2.90%) Go
12 32 (1.52%) C++
13 31 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 31 (1.47%) Ruby
14 30 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.90%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.90%) Swift
18 17 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 499 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 436 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.90%) Degree
4 74 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 68 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.90%) CISSP
14 18 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.48%) CCSP
19 9 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.51%) QA
2 135 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 81 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 81 (3.85%) GDPR
4 51 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.38%) NIST
6 29 (1.38%) NCSC
6 29 (1.38%) WCAG
7 27 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.67%) SLA
10 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.29%) MiFID
12 6 (0.29%) PSD2
13 4 (0.19%) GRC
13 4 (0.19%) HL7
13 4 (0.19%) SEPA
13 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 646 (30.72%) Docker
2 53 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.38%) vSphere
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.14%) zsh
9 2 (0.095%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.095%) Squid
10 1 (0.048%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.048%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.048%) etcd
10 1 (0.048%) IAG
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Postfix
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 699 (33.24%) Terraform
2 689 (32.76%) Kubernetes
3 159 (7.56%) Ansible
4 133 (6.32%) Grafana
5 117 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.33%) Argo
7 25 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.09%) Istio
9 13 (0.62%) Kibana
9 13 (0.62%) Puppet
10 11 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.38%) Rancher
13 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 307 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.03%) Databricks
3 129 (6.13%) Google
4 77 (3.66%) Oracle
5 65 (3.09%) Splunk
6 58 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 57 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.57%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.33%) VMware
11 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 20 (0.95%) Cisco
12 20 (0.95%) SAP
13 19 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 16 (0.76%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.67%) Foundry
15 14 (0.67%) IBM
16 13 (0.62%) Apple
16 13 (0.62%) Okta
16 13 (0.62%) Solace