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

6 months to
4 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 2,749 1,611 1,468
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.57% 11.93% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.27% 12.88% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 1,078 1,020
10th Percentile £400 £364 £413
25th Percentile £450 £435 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £728 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £54.25 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.83 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +1.28% -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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £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 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +12 342 £550 -9.84% 313
South London +3 70 £535 +0.47% 21
West London -5 51 £560 +15.45% 89
East London +6 11 £585 +8.33% 18
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 134 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.22%) Confluence
3 109 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.06%) Apache
5 38 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.69%) CMS
7 14 (0.51%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
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 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.073%) 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 26 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.15%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.073%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.036%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.036%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (44.85%) Azure
2 1,183 (43.03%) AWS
3 618 (22.48%) GitHub
4 459 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
5 432 (15.71%) GCP
6 418 (15.21%) GitHub Actions
7 331 (12.04%) Serverless
8 249 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 226 (8.22%) Power Platform
10 211 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
11 184 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (5.67%) Snowflake
14 147 (5.35%) Entra ID
15 135 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 134 (4.87%) dbt
17 130 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
18 107 (3.89%) Azure AKS
19 101 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.36%) Firewall
2 47 (1.71%) Network Security
3 46 (1.67%) DNS
4 34 (1.24%) VPN
5 31 (1.13%) Internet
6 28 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.76%) SSL
8 19 (0.69%) 5G
9 18 (0.65%) HTTP
10 11 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.40%) SAN
10 11 (0.40%) WAN
11 10 (0.36%) SSH
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.29%) BGP
14 7 (0.25%) FTP
14 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.22%) Power BI
3 150 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 131 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 114 (4.15%) MongoDB
7 107 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 98 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (3.16%) Delta Lake
10 78 (2.84%) Metadata
11 74 (2.69%) BigQuery
12 71 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 58 (2.11%) Redis
14 51 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.82%) MySQL
16 45 (1.64%) Big Data
17 44 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
17 44 (1.60%) DynamoDB
18 42 (1.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 543 (19.75%) Git
2 441 (16.04%) Jenkins
3 375 (13.64%) GitLab
4 194 (7.06%) JIRA
5 98 (3.56%) Selenium
6 77 (2.80%) JUnit
7 59 (2.15%) Gradle
8 55 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 53 (1.93%) Cypress.io
10 48 (1.75%) Maven
11 47 (1.71%) JMeter
12 46 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.60%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.49%) Postman
15 37 (1.35%) Mockito
16 33 (1.20%) REST Assured
17 25 (0.91%) Gatling
18 24 (0.87%) CircleCI
19 22 (0.80%) MLflow
20 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 698 (25.39%) Finance
1 698 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 336 (12.22%) Banking
3 301 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 267 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (2.69%) Front Office
6 69 (2.51%) Retail
7 64 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 43 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.42%) Marketing
10 34 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (1.13%) Law
12 30 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 27 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.80%) Back Office
15 22 (0.80%) Military
16 20 (0.73%) Local Government
17 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 578 (21.03%) Developer
2 505 (18.37%) Senior
3 340 (12.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 293 (10.66%) Architect
5 274 (9.97%) Lead
6 251 (9.13%) Data Engineer
7 149 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
8 146 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 123 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 120 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 98 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 94 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
16 78 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.73%) Python Developer
18 72 (2.62%) Senior Data Engineer
19 69 (2.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 67 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 898 (32.67%) Terraform
2 443 (16.11%) REST
3 307 (11.17%) Kafka
4 260 (9.46%) React
5 255 (9.28%) .NET
6 222 (8.08%) RESTful
7 217 (7.89%) Spring
8 194 (7.06%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.17%) PySpark
10 114 (4.15%) Node.js
11 112 (4.07%) HTML
12 99 (3.60%) CSS
13 95 (3.46%) Playwright
14 94 (3.42%) OAuth
15 87 (3.16%) JSON
16 83 (3.02%) AngularJS
16 83 (3.02%) FastAPI
17 78 (2.84%) SOAP
18 67 (2.44%) Middleware
18 67 (2.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 583 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 226 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 142 (5.17%) AI Agents
5 120 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 115 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.49%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 37 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.31%) Replication
15 35 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 34 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.24%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
18 31 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 259 (9.42%) Linux
2 125 (4.55%) Windows
3 81 (2.95%) Unix
4 50 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.05%) Android
7 25 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.55%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.51%) VMS
10 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.073%) CentOS
15 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.073%) Solaris
15 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.036%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,518 (55.22%) DevOps
2 1,010 (36.74%) Agile
3 950 (34.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 650 (23.64%) AI
5 616 (22.41%) Test Automation
6 536 (19.50%) Containerisation
7 534 (19.43%) Observability
8 529 (19.24%) Microservices
9 506 (18.41%) Software Engineering
10 417 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
11 396 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 384 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 364 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
14 356 (12.95%) Analytics
15 351 (12.77%) Event-Driven
16 349 (12.70%) Data Engineering
17 343 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
18 332 (12.08%) Data Modelling
19 308 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
20 295 (10.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,163 (42.31%) Python
2 758 (27.57%) SQL
3 555 (20.19%) Java
4 304 (11.06%) JavaScript
5 279 (10.15%) TypeScript
6 268 (9.75%) C#
7 249 (9.06%) Bash
8 223 (8.11%) PowerShell
9 111 (4.04%) Bicep
10 80 (2.91%) Go
11 60 (2.18%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.78%) Scala
14 41 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 38 (1.38%) Apex Code
16 31 (1.13%) Groovy
17 29 (1.05%) C++
18 28 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.98%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 719 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 639 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.60%) Degree
4 94 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 92 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 72 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.84%) CISSP
11 23 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.40%) GIAC
16 11 (0.40%) PhD
17 10 (0.36%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (9.82%) QA
2 258 (9.39%) Data Quality
3 88 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.56%) GDPR
4 43 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.53%) NIST
6 24 (0.87%) NCSC
6 24 (0.87%) WCAG
7 18 (0.65%) SLA
8 15 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.29%) Basel III
13 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.22%) MiFID
14 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 696 (25.32%) Docker
2 65 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.073%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.073%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.073%) KVM
11 2 (0.073%) RACF
11 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 829 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 233 (8.48%) Grafana
3 228 (8.29%) Ansible
4 187 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.56%) Argo
6 35 (1.27%) Puppet
7 28 (1.02%) Kibana
8 23 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.65%) Packer
10 17 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.51%) Istio
12 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.40%) Control-M
14 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
14 8 (0.29%) SCCM
15 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 474 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 264 (9.60%) Databricks
3 171 (6.22%) Google
4 143 (5.20%) Oracle
5 114 (4.15%) Splunk
6 89 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 65 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 60 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 47 (1.71%) VMware
10 43 (1.56%) IBM
11 39 (1.42%) Foundry
12 34 (1.24%) Informatica
12 34 (1.24%) SAP
13 31 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.95%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.84%) New Relic
16 21 (0.76%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.65%) Palantir
18 17 (0.62%) AppDynamics