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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,205 1,270 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.35% 10.13% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 10.98% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,474 888 956
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +0.89% -10.04%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £528 £555
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.95% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% -5.77% -0.92%

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 15,783 11,565 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.20% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,545 7,839 11,342
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 324
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +19.13% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.95
90th Percentile £74.75 £63.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -2 249 £575 -0.43% 182
West London +9 69 £603 +52.53% 27
South London +1 56 £525 +6.06% 5
East London +4 11 £450 +9.09% 19
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
1 111 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.95%) Apache
4 60 (2.72%) Confluence
5 28 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) Camunda
9 8 (0.36%) Appian
9 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.36%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 6 (0.27%) nginx
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) CMS
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 3 (0.14%) Magento
5 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.045%) Actimize
7 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (46.71%) Azure
2 973 (44.13%) AWS
3 518 (23.49%) GitHub
4 405 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 344 (15.60%) GCP
6 334 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
7 299 (13.56%) Serverless
8 216 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 200 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
10 191 (8.66%) Power Platform
11 130 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 129 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
14 112 (5.08%) Azure AKS
15 95 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
16 94 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 94 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 89 (4.04%) Snowflake
18 87 (3.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.49%) Firewall
2 45 (2.04%) Network Security
3 39 (1.77%) DNS
4 27 (1.22%) HTTP
5 23 (1.04%) VPN
6 14 (0.63%) WAN
7 13 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) Internet
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 138 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
3 136 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 133 (6.03%) Power BI
5 120 (5.44%) NoSQL
6 103 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
7 80 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 80 (3.63%) Relational Database
8 70 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 65 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
10 64 (2.90%) Metadata
11 61 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
12 58 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 57 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 55 (2.49%) Big Data
15 52 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
16 41 (1.86%) DynamoDB
17 36 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.45%) Redis
19 30 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 390 (17.69%) Git
2 369 (16.73%) Jenkins
3 257 (11.66%) GitLab
4 128 (5.80%) JIRA
5 72 (3.27%) Selenium
6 62 (2.81%) JUnit
7 51 (2.31%) MLflow
8 46 (2.09%) Cucumber
9 45 (2.04%) Postman
10 37 (1.68%) Mockito
11 35 (1.59%) JMeter
12 31 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.22%) Cypress.io
14 22 (1.00%) Bitbucket
14 22 (1.00%) Gradle
15 19 (0.86%) Artifactory
16 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.77%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.77%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.73%) Appium
General
1 529 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 527 (23.90%) Finance
3 256 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 218 (9.89%) Banking
5 176 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.04%) Front Office
8 40 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.54%) Investment Banking
11 29 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.27%) Retail
13 22 (1.00%) Legal
14 21 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Law
16 15 (0.68%) Publishing
17 13 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.59%) Marketing
18 10 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 489 (22.18%) Developer
2 357 (16.19%) Senior
3 254 (11.52%) Architect
4 236 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 223 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 192 (8.71%) Lead
7 140 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 119 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
9 114 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 101 (4.58%) Software Engineer
11 95 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 93 (4.22%) Java Developer
13 86 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 73 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 70 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 63 (2.86%) Python Developer
17 60 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
18 56 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
19 52 (2.36%) Security Engineer
19 52 (2.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (10.25%) Kafka
2 222 (10.07%) React
3 216 (9.80%) REST
4 202 (9.16%) .NET
5 191 (8.66%) RESTful
6 189 (8.57%) Spring
7 165 (7.48%) Spring Boot
8 151 (6.85%) Node.js
9 117 (5.31%) AngularJS
10 113 (5.12%) PySpark
11 87 (3.95%) HTML
12 83 (3.76%) Playwright
13 73 (3.31%) CSS
14 70 (3.17%) OAuth
15 57 (2.59%) Pandas
16 56 (2.54%) YAML
17 53 (2.40%) FastAPI
18 51 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
19 47 (2.13%) GraphQL
20 45 (2.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 458 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 152 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.81%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.41%) Equities
11 31 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 30 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.22%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.22%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 152 (6.89%) Linux
2 92 (4.17%) Windows
3 37 (1.68%) Unix
4 26 (1.18%) Android
4 26 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.18%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.23%) zOS
8 4 (0.18%) Solaris
8 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.091%) AIX
10 1 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,225 (55.56%) DevOps
2 759 (34.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 714 (32.38%) Agile
4 520 (23.58%) Containerisation
5 458 (20.77%) Test Automation
6 434 (19.68%) AI
7 431 (19.55%) Microservices
8 371 (16.83%) Analytics
8 371 (16.83%) Observability
9 318 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
10 306 (13.88%) Software Engineering
11 304 (13.79%) Data Modelling
12 289 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
13 270 (12.24%) Data Engineering
14 258 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 244 (11.07%) Machine Learning
16 228 (10.34%) ETL
17 220 (9.98%) Migration
18 219 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
19 207 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 853 (38.68%) Python
2 631 (28.62%) SQL
3 426 (19.32%) Java
4 258 (11.70%) C#
5 246 (11.16%) JavaScript
6 237 (10.75%) TypeScript
7 134 (6.08%) Bash
8 126 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 87 (3.95%) Bicep
10 61 (2.77%) Scala
11 43 (1.95%) Go
12 40 (1.81%) Ruby
13 37 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 33 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 32 (1.45%) PL/SQL
16 31 (1.41%) Kotlin
17 28 (1.27%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.77%) C++
19 14 (0.63%) R
20 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 567 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 510 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 120 (5.44%) Degree
4 92 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 65 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.77%) CISSP
12 17 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.36%) CCSP
17 8 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (8.53%) QA
2 172 (7.80%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.76%) GDPR
4 62 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.72%) NIST
6 54 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.36%) NCSC
8 27 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.04%) WCAG
10 22 (1.00%) SLA
11 18 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 620 (28.12%) Docker
2 55 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.091%) HDFS
10 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.045%) IAG
11 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.045%) Postfix
11 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 737 (33.42%) Terraform
2 677 (30.70%) Kubernetes
3 149 (6.76%) Grafana
4 144 (6.53%) Ansible
5 131 (5.94%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.45%) Argo
7 23 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.00%) Puppet
9 21 (0.95%) Istio
10 15 (0.68%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.45%) Packer
13 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.32%) SCCM
14 6 (0.27%) Rancher
15 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 200 (9.07%) Databricks
3 115 (5.22%) Google
4 94 (4.26%) Oracle
5 76 (3.45%) Splunk
6 75 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 56 (2.54%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.09%) VMware
11 23 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 22 (1.00%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.91%) Foundry
14 20 (0.91%) SAP
15 19 (0.86%) IBM
16 15 (0.68%) Cisco
17 13 (0.59%) Informatica
18 12 (0.54%) Okta
19 11 (0.50%) UiPath