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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,697 1,539 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.27% 11.40% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.92% 12.32% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,805 1,031 982
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +11 342 £550 -10.20% 174
South London +4 66 £536 +0.66% 22
West London -5 50 £560 +15.45% 82
East London +6 13 £588 +8.80% 34
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.23%) Confluence
3 105 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 81 (3.00%) Apache
5 37 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.56%) CMS
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) nginx
9 10 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.22%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,219 (45.20%) Azure
2 1,167 (43.27%) AWS
3 619 (22.95%) GitHub
4 477 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
5 419 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
6 408 (15.13%) GCP
7 321 (11.90%) Serverless
8 242 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 237 (8.79%) Power Platform
10 209 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
11 155 (5.75%) Snowflake
12 138 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 138 (5.12%) dbt
13 134 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 126 (4.67%) Entra ID
15 122 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
16 116 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
17 110 (4.08%) Azure AKS
18 90 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.45%) Firewall
2 42 (1.56%) Network Security
3 38 (1.41%) DNS
4 35 (1.30%) VPN
5 28 (1.04%) Internet
6 25 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.85%) HTTP
8 22 (0.82%) 5G
9 19 (0.70%) SSL
10 14 (0.52%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.48%) WAN
12 12 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.41%) SAN
14 9 (0.33%) 4G
14 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) BGP
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.71%) Power BI
2 180 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 160 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 126 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 120 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 107 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 100 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 90 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.26%) Delta Lake
11 85 (3.15%) Metadata
12 73 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.04%) Redis
15 50 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.78%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 43 (1.59%) Big Data
18 41 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
18 41 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 506 (18.76%) Git
2 433 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 354 (13.13%) GitLab
4 191 (7.08%) JIRA
5 92 (3.41%) Selenium
6 78 (2.89%) JUnit
7 55 (2.04%) Gradle
8 53 (1.97%) Cypress.io
9 50 (1.85%) JMeter
10 43 (1.59%) Mockito
11 40 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 40 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 40 (1.48%) Maven
11 40 (1.48%) SonarQube
12 39 (1.45%) Postman
13 35 (1.30%) REST Assured
14 27 (1.00%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.93%) MLflow
16 23 (0.85%) Gatling
17 20 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 675 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 669 (24.81%) Finance
3 315 (11.68%) Banking
4 311 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 248 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (2.60%) Front Office
7 67 (2.48%) Retail
8 61 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (1.22%) Law
11 33 (1.22%) Marketing
11 33 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.89%) Legal
15 19 (0.70%) Military
16 18 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.63%) Local Government
18 15 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 586 (21.73%) Developer
2 491 (18.21%) Senior
3 322 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (10.98%) Architect
5 264 (9.79%) Lead
6 261 (9.68%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
8 141 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.89%) Software Engineer
10 128 (4.75%) Senior Developer
11 122 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.41%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 93 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 82 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 79 (2.93%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 68 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
19 67 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 868 (32.18%) Terraform
2 405 (15.02%) REST
3 288 (10.68%) Kafka
4 268 (9.94%) React
5 240 (8.90%) .NET
6 223 (8.27%) RESTful
7 214 (7.93%) Spring
8 191 (7.08%) Spring Boot
9 148 (5.49%) PySpark
10 120 (4.45%) Node.js
11 105 (3.89%) HTML
12 95 (3.52%) CSS
13 92 (3.41%) Playwright
14 88 (3.26%) AngularJS
15 86 (3.19%) JSON
16 80 (2.97%) FastAPI
17 76 (2.82%) OAuth
18 71 (2.63%) SOAP
19 59 (2.19%) OAuth2
20 57 (2.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 567 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 232 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 126 (4.67%) AI Agents
5 109 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 36 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 35 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.19%) Replication
17 31 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (8.45%) Linux
2 113 (4.19%) Windows
3 75 (2.78%) Unix
4 47 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.11%) Android
7 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.56%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) zOS
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,489 (55.21%) DevOps
2 971 (36.00%) Agile
3 918 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 606 (22.47%) AI
5 587 (21.76%) Test Automation
6 569 (21.10%) Containerisation
7 537 (19.91%) Microservices
8 508 (18.84%) Observability
9 485 (17.98%) Software Engineering
10 395 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
11 372 (13.79%) Analytics
12 371 (13.76%) Data Pipeline
13 359 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 351 (13.01%) Data Modelling
15 345 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 343 (12.72%) Data Engineering
17 337 (12.50%) Event-Driven
18 328 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
19 286 (10.60%) Migration
19 286 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,124 (41.68%) Python
2 759 (28.14%) SQL
3 553 (20.50%) Java
4 288 (10.68%) JavaScript
5 277 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 260 (9.64%) C#
7 222 (8.23%) Bash
8 214 (7.93%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.19%) Bicep
10 65 (2.41%) Go
11 58 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 55 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.82%) Scala
14 44 (1.63%) Apex Code
15 42 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.26%) Ruby
17 32 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 27 (1.00%) C++
20 25 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 701 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 627 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 145 (5.38%) Degree
4 102 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 87 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 81 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 65 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.70%) CISSP
12 17 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 14 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.44%) GIAC
16 12 (0.44%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
18 9 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 252 (9.34%) QA
3 87 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 49 (1.82%) GDPR
5 46 (1.71%) NIST
6 45 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.96%) WCAG
8 21 (0.78%) NCSC
9 20 (0.74%) SLA
10 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) EMIR
16 4 (0.15%) Basel III
System Software
1 697 (25.84%) Docker
2 60 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.074%) HDFS
10 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.074%) KVM
10 2 (0.074%) Varnish
10 2 (0.074%) vSphere
11 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 797 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.86%) Grafana
3 202 (7.49%) Ansible
4 173 (6.41%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.41%) Argo
6 32 (1.19%) Puppet
7 24 (0.89%) Kibana
8 20 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.67%) Packer
10 17 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.44%) Istio
12 11 (0.41%) Control-M
13 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.30%) SCCM
15 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Nagios
17 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 455 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 247 (9.16%) Databricks
3 149 (5.52%) Oracle
4 148 (5.49%) Google
5 100 (3.71%) Splunk
6 97 (3.60%) Salesforce
7 64 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 59 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.74%) VMware
11 41 (1.52%) IBM
12 37 (1.37%) Foundry
12 37 (1.37%) Informatica
13 32 (1.19%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.00%) SAP
15 25 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.85%) New Relic
17 20 (0.74%) Cisco
17 20 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.74%) Palantir