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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,531 1,426 1,375
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.77% 10.48% 8.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.35% 11.37% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 954 974
10th Percentile £400 £380 £411
25th Percentile £455 £438 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £567
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -6.79% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £812
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.00 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -13.93% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +2.13%

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 17,636 12,537 14,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.16% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,638 8,379 10,607
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £686
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 278 237 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.39
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.81 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -9.40% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +2 302 £550 -12.00% 142
South London +1 55 £541 +1.81% 7
West London +12 53 £560 +13.71% 26
East London +6 11 £543 +40.91% 22
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
1 112 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (4.03%) Confluence
3 94 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 68 (2.69%) Apache
5 26 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.40%) SAS
8 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.32%) Camunda
9 8 (0.32%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.079%) Trello
5 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.040%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,120 (44.25%) Azure
2 1,112 (43.94%) AWS
3 561 (22.17%) GitHub
4 427 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
5 375 (14.82%) GCP
6 373 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
7 302 (11.93%) Serverless
8 242 (9.56%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.46%) Power Platform
10 200 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
11 145 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 114 (4.50%) Entra ID
13 113 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
13 113 (4.46%) Azure AKS
13 113 (4.46%) Snowflake
14 112 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 103 (4.07%) dbt
16 101 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
17 87 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.73%) Firewall
2 41 (1.62%) Network Security
3 34 (1.34%) DNS
4 33 (1.30%) VPN
5 25 (0.99%) HTTP
5 25 (0.99%) Internet
6 19 (0.75%) 5G
7 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.59%) WAN
9 11 (0.43%) 4G
9 11 (0.43%) SSL
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 7 (0.28%) LTE
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 5 (0.20%) MPLS
14 5 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (6.05%) Power BI
2 143 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 123 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 87 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 74 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 71 (2.81%) Delta Lake
11 67 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 67 (2.65%) Metadata
12 65 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
13 61 (2.41%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.02%) DynamoDB
15 48 (1.90%) Big Data
16 43 (1.70%) Redis
17 39 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
19 27 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 446 (17.62%) Git
2 388 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 301 (11.89%) GitLab
4 179 (7.07%) JIRA
5 73 (2.88%) Selenium
6 69 (2.73%) JUnit
7 44 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 44 (1.74%) JMeter
8 43 (1.70%) Cucumber
9 42 (1.66%) Gradle
10 39 (1.54%) Mockito
11 38 (1.50%) Postman
12 37 (1.46%) REST Assured
13 35 (1.38%) MLflow
14 32 (1.26%) Maven
15 31 (1.22%) Bitbucket
16 29 (1.15%) SonarQube
17 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
18 24 (0.95%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 598 (23.63%) Finance
2 587 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 311 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 275 (10.87%) Banking
5 202 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.21%) Front Office
7 54 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 53 (2.09%) Retail
9 52 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.19%) Law
12 30 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.03%) Legal
14 24 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.87%) Marketing
16 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 535 (21.14%) Developer
2 439 (17.34%) Senior
3 295 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 277 (10.94%) Architect
5 258 (10.19%) Lead
6 218 (8.61%) Data Engineer
7 152 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
8 148 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
9 130 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 123 (4.86%) Software Engineer
11 117 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 111 (4.39%) Senior Developer
13 100 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 87 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 79 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.57%) Python Developer
19 64 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
20 60 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (13.12%) REST
2 247 (9.76%) React
3 233 (9.21%) Kafka
4 231 (9.13%) .NET
5 207 (8.18%) RESTful
6 196 (7.74%) Spring
7 167 (6.60%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.22%) Node.js
9 128 (5.06%) PySpark
10 105 (4.15%) AngularJS
11 100 (3.95%) HTML
12 92 (3.63%) Playwright
13 87 (3.44%) CSS
14 75 (2.96%) JSON
15 72 (2.84%) OAuth
16 65 (2.57%) FastAPI
16 65 (2.57%) SOAP
17 56 (2.21%) GraphQL
17 56 (2.21%) OAuth2
18 55 (2.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 520 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 219 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 86 (3.40%) AI Agents
6 84 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 43 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 37 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 35 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.34%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.15%) Linux
2 107 (4.23%) Windows
3 56 (2.21%) Unix
4 33 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.03%) Android
7 25 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) zOS
14 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (55.04%) DevOps
2 890 (35.16%) Agile
3 833 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 553 (21.85%) Containerisation
5 539 (21.30%) Test Automation
6 531 (20.98%) AI
7 505 (19.95%) Microservices
8 425 (16.79%) Observability
9 422 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 364 (14.38%) Analytics
11 336 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
12 335 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
13 318 (12.56%) Data Modelling
14 314 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 300 (11.85%) Data Engineering
16 296 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
17 273 (10.79%) Machine Learning
18 271 (10.71%) Event-Driven
19 261 (10.31%) Migration
20 256 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 965 (38.13%) Python
2 676 (26.71%) SQL
3 496 (19.60%) Java
4 266 (10.51%) TypeScript
5 264 (10.43%) C#
6 256 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 193 (7.63%) Bash
8 172 (6.80%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.87%) Bicep
10 62 (2.45%) Go
11 51 (2.02%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 45 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 43 (1.70%) Scala
15 36 (1.42%) Ruby
16 29 (1.15%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.07%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 17 (0.67%) Groovy
19 16 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 643 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 580 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.29%) Degree
4 98 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 68 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.75%) CISSP
12 17 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.47%) CISM
16 12 (0.47%) GIAC
16 12 (0.47%) PhD
16 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (9.01%) QA
2 202 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.29%) GDPR
5 52 (2.05%) NIST
6 43 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.34%) WCAG
8 26 (1.03%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.43%) GRC
12 8 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 641 (25.33%) Docker
2 64 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 2 (0.079%) Varnish
13 1 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.040%) Samba
Systems Management
1 806 (31.85%) Terraform
2 735 (29.04%) Kubernetes
3 198 (7.82%) Grafana
4 184 (7.27%) Ansible
5 162 (6.40%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.19%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 18 (0.71%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
12 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.28%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 373 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.51%) Databricks
3 129 (5.10%) Google
4 115 (4.54%) Oracle
5 99 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.56%) Splunk
7 56 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 42 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 40 (1.58%) VMware
11 30 (1.19%) Foundry
11 30 (1.19%) IBM
12 28 (1.11%) SAP
13 27 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 26 (1.03%) Informatica
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
16 21 (0.83%) Cisco
16 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.79%) CyberArk
18 17 (0.67%) New Relic