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

6 months to
3 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 2,764 1,608 1,478
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.58% 11.92% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.29% 12.87% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 1,071 1,031
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 £647 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £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 £66.66 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +2.55% -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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £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 £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +11 345 £550 -9.84% 279
South London +3 70 £535 +0.47% 20
West London -8 51 £560 +15.45% 84
East London +6 11 £585 +8.33% 19
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
1 134 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.20%) Confluence
3 109 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.04%) Apache
5 38 (1.37%) 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 (0.14%) 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 (0.14%) 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 26 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.22%) Shopify
6 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.14%) Magento
7 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.072%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.036%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.036%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (44.93%) Azure
2 1,192 (43.13%) AWS
3 620 (22.43%) GitHub
4 462 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
5 432 (15.63%) GCP
6 419 (15.16%) GitHub Actions
7 334 (12.08%) Serverless
8 252 (9.12%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.21%) Power Platform
10 214 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 157 (5.68%) Snowflake
14 147 (5.32%) Entra ID
15 140 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 134 (4.85%) dbt
17 130 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
18 107 (3.87%) Azure AKS
19 103 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
20 94 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.35%) Firewall
2 47 (1.70%) Network Security
3 46 (1.66%) DNS
4 34 (1.23%) VPN
5 31 (1.12%) Internet
6 28 (1.01%) 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
1 199 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.22%) Power BI
3 152 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 132 (4.78%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 115 (4.16%) MongoDB
8 107 (3.87%) Relational Database
9 101 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (3.15%) Delta Lake
11 79 (2.86%) Metadata
12 74 (2.68%) BigQuery
13 72 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.13%) Redis
15 51 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
16 50 (1.81%) MySQL
17 46 (1.66%) DynamoDB
18 45 (1.63%) Big Data
19 44 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
20 42 (1.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 546 (19.75%) Git
2 442 (15.99%) Jenkins
3 377 (13.64%) GitLab
4 195 (7.05%) JIRA
5 99 (3.58%) Selenium
6 77 (2.79%) JUnit
7 60 (2.17%) Gradle
8 55 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 54 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 49 (1.77%) Maven
11 47 (1.70%) JMeter
12 46 (1.66%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.59%) SonarQube
14 41 (1.48%) Postman
15 37 (1.34%) Mockito
16 33 (1.19%) REST Assured
17 25 (0.90%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.90%) Gatling
18 22 (0.80%) MLflow
19 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 703 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 700 (25.33%) Finance
3 338 (12.23%) Banking
4 305 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 269 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.75%) Front Office
7 69 (2.50%) Retail
8 66 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.41%) Marketing
11 34 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.12%) Law
13 30 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 27 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 22 (0.80%) Back Office
18 20 (0.72%) Local Government
19 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
20 16 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 581 (21.02%) Developer
2 509 (18.42%) Senior
3 341 (12.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (10.71%) Architect
5 277 (10.02%) Lead
6 252 (9.12%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
9 134 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 131 (4.74%) Senior Developer
11 124 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 106 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 99 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 95 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
16 78 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.71%) Python Developer
18 73 (2.64%) Senior Data Engineer
19 70 (2.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 67 (2.42%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (32.71%) Terraform
2 445 (16.10%) REST
3 310 (11.22%) Kafka
4 262 (9.48%) React
5 256 (9.26%) .NET
6 225 (8.14%) RESTful
7 219 (7.92%) Spring
8 196 (7.09%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.14%) PySpark
10 116 (4.20%) Node.js
11 112 (4.05%) HTML
12 99 (3.58%) CSS
13 95 (3.44%) Playwright
14 94 (3.40%) OAuth
15 87 (3.15%) JSON
16 84 (3.04%) AngularJS
17 83 (3.00%) FastAPI
18 78 (2.82%) SOAP
19 67 (2.42%) Middleware
19 67 (2.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 588 (21.27%) Cloud Native
2 228 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 142 (5.14%) AI Agents
5 120 (4.34%) Onboarding
6 115 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
7 94 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 38 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.30%) Replication
15 35 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 34 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.23%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
18 31 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.41%) Linux
2 125 (4.52%) Windows
3 81 (2.93%) Unix
4 50 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.05%) Android
7 25 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.54%) 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%) zOS
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.072%) Solaris
14 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,528 (55.28%) DevOps
2 1,016 (36.76%) Agile
3 955 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 654 (23.66%) AI
5 618 (22.36%) Test Automation
6 541 (19.57%) Containerisation
7 537 (19.43%) Observability
8 531 (19.21%) Microservices
9 509 (18.42%) Software Engineering
10 419 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
11 397 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 388 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 365 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
14 359 (12.99%) Analytics
15 354 (12.81%) Event-Driven
16 350 (12.66%) Data Engineering
17 345 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
18 333 (12.05%) Data Modelling
19 310 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
20 296 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (42.11%) Python
2 760 (27.50%) SQL
3 559 (20.22%) Java
4 306 (11.07%) JavaScript
5 280 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 268 (9.70%) C#
7 249 (9.01%) Bash
8 223 (8.07%) PowerShell
9 112 (4.05%) Bicep
10 80 (2.89%) Go
11 60 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.77%) Scala
14 42 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 38 (1.37%) Apex Code
16 31 (1.12%) Groovy
17 29 (1.05%) C++
18 28 (1.01%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.98%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 721 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 640 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 155 (5.61%) Degree
4 95 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 91 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 73 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.83%) CISSP
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.54%) 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
1 272 (9.84%) QA
2 259 (9.37%) Data Quality
3 88 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.56%) GDPR
4 43 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.52%) NIST
6 24 (0.87%) NCSC
6 24 (0.87%) WCAG
7 18 (0.65%) SLA
8 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.43%) 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
1 700 (25.33%) Docker
2 65 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.12%) 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 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.072%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.072%) KVM
11 2 (0.072%) RACF
11 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 834 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 234 (8.47%) Grafana
3 230 (8.32%) Ansible
4 188 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.59%) Argo
6 35 (1.27%) Puppet
7 28 (1.01%) Kibana
8 24 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.65%) Packer
10 17 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.51%) Istio
12 12 (0.43%) 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
1 477 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 265 (9.59%) Databricks
3 171 (6.19%) Google
4 143 (5.17%) Oracle
5 114 (4.12%) Splunk
6 90 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.17%) Dynatrace
10 48 (1.74%) VMware
11 43 (1.56%) IBM
12 39 (1.41%) Foundry
13 34 (1.23%) Informatica
13 34 (1.23%) SAP
14 32 (1.16%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.94%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.83%) New Relic
17 21 (0.76%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.65%) Palantir
19 17 (0.62%) AppDynamics