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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,998 1,392 1,292
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.11% 10.24% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.30% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 972 981
10th Percentile £369 £406 £425
25th Percentile £433 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +2.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £729 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £555 £563
% change year-on-year -7.62% -1.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -7 215 £525 -8.70% 149
West London +9 73 £603 +47.31% 28
South London +8 59 £525 -2.42% 9
East London -6 8 £450 -12.41% 16
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 84 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 68 (3.40%) Confluence
3 67 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (2.60%) Apache
5 35 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.60%) CMS
7 11 (0.55%) Appian
7 11 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.55%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.50%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.50%) nginx
9 9 (0.45%) Mendix
9 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SAS
12 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
13 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.050%) Maya
7 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Maximo
4 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.050%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.050%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.050%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.050%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.050%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 886 (44.34%) AWS
2 884 (44.24%) Azure
3 486 (24.32%) GitHub
4 332 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
5 323 (16.17%) GCP
6 320 (16.02%) GitHub Actions
7 295 (14.76%) Serverless
8 201 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 178 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
10 171 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 152 (7.61%) Power Platform
12 120 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
14 110 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 100 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 94 (4.70%) Azure AKS
17 80 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
18 79 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (3.75%) Azure Functions
19 75 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.90%) Firewall
2 50 (2.50%) Network Security
3 49 (2.45%) DNS
4 26 (1.30%) VPN
5 22 (1.10%) HTTP
6 15 (0.75%) SSL
7 13 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.65%) WAN
8 11 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.30%) FTP
9 6 (0.30%) IMAP
9 6 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (0.30%) SMTP
9 6 (0.30%) SSH
10 5 (0.25%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.20%) BGP
11 4 (0.20%) DHCP
11 4 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.20%) LAN
11 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.51%) Data Lake
3 110 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 107 (5.36%) Power BI
5 80 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 77 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (3.65%) MongoDB
8 68 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (2.25%) BigQuery
10 45 (2.25%) Delta Lake
11 44 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (1.80%) Big Data
14 35 (1.75%) DynamoDB
14 35 (1.75%) Metadata
14 35 (1.75%) MySQL
15 34 (1.70%) Redis
16 28 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 372 (18.62%) Git
2 366 (18.32%) Jenkins
3 258 (12.91%) GitLab
4 142 (7.11%) JIRA
5 71 (3.55%) Selenium
6 49 (2.45%) Cucumber
6 49 (2.45%) JUnit
7 45 (2.25%) MLflow
8 40 (2.00%) Postman
9 39 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 31 (1.55%) JMeter
11 28 (1.40%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.15%) TeamCity
13 22 (1.10%) Bitbucket
14 21 (1.05%) Maven
15 20 (1.00%) Gradle
15 20 (1.00%) Mockito
16 17 (0.85%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.80%) Gatling
18 14 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 531 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 447 (22.37%) Finance
3 222 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 196 (9.81%) Banking
5 164 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.20%) Front Office
8 41 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 34 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.35%) Marketing
13 25 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.15%) Retail
15 20 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.60%) Law
17 12 (0.60%) Military
18 11 (0.55%) Electronics
19 10 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 497 (24.87%) Developer
2 313 (15.67%) Senior
3 258 (12.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 184 (9.21%) Architect
6 140 (7.01%) Lead
7 122 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
8 112 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 90 (4.50%) Senior Developer
11 88 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 85 (4.25%) Software Engineer
13 83 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 83 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 72 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 69 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
16 63 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 56 (2.80%) Python Engineer
17 56 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 55 (2.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (12.76%) React
2 210 (10.51%) Kafka
3 208 (10.41%) Node.js
4 189 (9.46%) RESTful
5 182 (9.11%) REST
6 170 (8.51%) .NET
7 154 (7.71%) Spring
8 124 (6.21%) Spring Boot
9 110 (5.51%) AngularJS
10 96 (4.80%) CSS
10 96 (4.80%) Playwright
11 86 (4.30%) HTML
12 85 (4.25%) OAuth
13 78 (3.90%) PySpark
14 73 (3.65%) GraphQL
15 61 (3.05%) YAML
16 55 (2.75%) JSON
17 49 (2.45%) Vue
18 48 (2.40%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 394 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 128 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 42 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 37 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 31 (1.55%) Derivative
10 29 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.25%) Replication
12 24 (1.20%) Equities
12 24 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 24 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.66%) Linux
2 67 (3.35%) Windows
3 36 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.60%) VMS
5 30 (1.50%) Android
5 30 (1.50%) Unix
6 17 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.30%) CentOS
10 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.25%) Solaris
11 5 (0.25%) zOS
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (55.01%) DevOps
2 663 (33.18%) Agile
3 658 (32.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 459 (22.97%) Containerisation
5 409 (20.47%) Test Automation
6 383 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 354 (17.72%) Microservices
8 340 (17.02%) AI
9 300 (15.02%) Analytics
10 298 (14.91%) Observability
11 272 (13.61%) Software Engineering
12 235 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 225 (11.26%) Data Engineering
14 213 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 208 (10.41%) Data Modelling
16 202 (10.11%) Machine Learning
17 201 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 190 (9.51%) ETL
19 179 (8.96%) Mentoring
20 175 (8.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 796 (39.84%) Python
2 494 (24.72%) SQL
3 396 (19.82%) Java
4 281 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 273 (13.66%) TypeScript
6 211 (10.56%) C#
7 129 (6.46%) Bash
8 103 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 71 (3.55%) Bicep
10 66 (3.30%) Go
11 60 (3.00%) Scala
12 37 (1.85%) C++
13 32 (1.60%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.55%) Ruby
15 26 (1.30%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.10%) Rust
17 22 (1.10%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.90%) Swift
19 16 (0.80%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 466 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 405 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.56%) Degree
4 71 (3.55%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 33 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.95%) CISSP
12 18 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.45%) OSCP
16 9 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.71%) QA
2 129 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 86 (4.30%) GDPR
4 74 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.50%) NIST
7 27 (1.35%) NCSC
7 27 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.25%) WCAG
9 21 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 10 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) MiFID
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 635 (31.78%) Docker
2 48 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.40%) Squid
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.30%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.30%) Postfix
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) zsh
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) HDFS
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.050%) etcd
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 683 (34.18%) Kubernetes
2 670 (33.53%) Terraform
3 150 (7.51%) Ansible
4 134 (6.71%) Grafana
5 119 (5.96%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.55%) Argo
7 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.10%) Istio
9 16 (0.80%) Kibana
10 13 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (0.60%) Puppet
12 9 (0.45%) Rancher
13 8 (0.40%) Nessus
14 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.30%) logstash
15 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.30%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.81%) Databricks
3 125 (6.26%) Google
4 74 (3.70%) Oracle
5 63 (3.15%) Splunk
6 62 (3.10%) OpenAI
7 53 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.20%) VMware
12 21 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 20 (1.00%) SAP
14 15 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.75%) Solace
15 14 (0.70%) Cisco
16 13 (0.65%) Adobe
16 13 (0.65%) UiPath
17 11 (0.55%) Apple
18 10 (0.50%) Lotus