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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,858 1,623 1,470
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.94% 12.13% 9.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.65% 13.12% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 1,093 1,027
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £732 £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 £51.10 £29.75 -
25th Percentile - £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £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 £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +9 350 £550 -8.33% 276
South London +2 68 £537 +1.08% 16
West London -5 50 £560 +13.71% 57
East London +4 11 £585 +8.33% 23
North London - 2 £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
1 133 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.02%) Confluence
3 108 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 85 (2.97%) Apache
5 37 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 23 (0.80%) CMS
7 16 (0.56%) nginx
8 13 (0.45%) Camunda
9 9 (0.31%) SAS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.17%) IIS
12 5 (0.17%) Mule
12 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.14%) Trello
7 2 (0.070%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.035%) Sketch
8 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
5 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.10%) Endur
7 3 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.070%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.035%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.035%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,292 (45.21%) Azure
2 1,207 (42.23%) AWS
3 647 (22.64%) GitHub
4 485 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
5 451 (15.78%) GCP
6 444 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
7 345 (12.07%) Serverless
8 245 (8.57%) Amazon S3
9 228 (7.98%) Power Platform
10 215 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
12 162 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 160 (5.60%) Snowflake
14 155 (5.42%) Entra ID
15 145 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 135 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
17 128 (4.48%) dbt
18 118 (4.13%) Azure AKS
19 106 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
20 101 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.34%) Firewall
2 54 (1.89%) DNS
3 49 (1.71%) Network Security
4 41 (1.43%) VPN
5 33 (1.15%) Internet
6 30 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.73%) SSL
8 18 (0.63%) 5G
8 18 (0.63%) HTTP
9 13 (0.45%) WAN
10 11 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.38%) SAN
11 10 (0.35%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.35%) BGP
12 9 (0.31%) 4G
12 9 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.31%) SSH
13 7 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (5.88%) Power BI
3 157 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 151 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
5 128 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.02%) Data Lake
7 112 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 112 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 103 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
9 91 (3.18%) Delta Lake
10 85 (2.97%) Metadata
11 75 (2.62%) BigQuery
12 68 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 60 (2.10%) Redis
14 54 (1.89%) MySQL
15 50 (1.75%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.64%) Oracle Database
18 46 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
19 43 (1.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 562 (19.66%) Git
2 460 (16.10%) Jenkins
3 387 (13.54%) GitLab
4 196 (6.86%) JIRA
5 108 (3.78%) Selenium
6 84 (2.94%) JUnit
7 66 (2.31%) Gradle
8 62 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 61 (2.13%) Cypress.io
10 53 (1.85%) Maven
11 51 (1.78%) JMeter
12 47 (1.64%) Bitbucket
13 46 (1.61%) Postman
14 44 (1.54%) SonarQube
15 39 (1.36%) Mockito
16 35 (1.22%) REST Assured
17 30 (1.05%) CircleCI
18 26 (0.91%) Gatling
18 26 (0.91%) MLflow
19 25 (0.87%) Claude Code
General
1 748 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 723 (25.30%) Finance
3 356 (12.46%) Banking
4 321 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 288 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (2.69%) Front Office
7 73 (2.55%) Retail
8 70 (2.45%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.50%) Marketing
11 33 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.08%) Law
13 29 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 28 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.87%) Back Office
16 21 (0.73%) Military
17 20 (0.70%) Local Government
18 17 (0.59%) Billing
18 17 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 585 (20.47%) Developer
2 525 (18.37%) Senior
3 361 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 301 (10.53%) Architect
5 295 (10.32%) Lead
6 257 (8.99%) Data Engineer
7 159 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 150 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
9 134 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 130 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 129 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 111 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 103 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
15 99 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
17 78 (2.73%) Python Developer
18 75 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (2.55%) Senior Data Engineer
20 69 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 956 (33.45%) Terraform
2 471 (16.48%) REST
3 313 (10.95%) Kafka
4 279 (9.76%) .NET
5 268 (9.38%) React
6 228 (7.98%) RESTful
7 220 (7.70%) Spring
8 196 (6.86%) Spring Boot
9 149 (5.21%) PySpark
10 121 (4.23%) Node.js
11 109 (3.81%) HTML
12 106 (3.71%) Playwright
13 101 (3.53%) OAuth
14 98 (3.43%) CSS
15 91 (3.18%) AngularJS
16 90 (3.15%) JSON
17 84 (2.94%) FastAPI
18 80 (2.80%) SOAP
19 77 (2.69%) Middleware
20 70 (2.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 608 (21.27%) Cloud Native
2 236 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 168 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 147 (5.14%) AI Agents
5 124 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
6 122 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 47 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 45 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 39 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.33%) Replication
13 38 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 37 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 33 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 271 (9.48%) Linux
2 131 (4.58%) Windows
3 78 (2.73%) Unix
4 49 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.12%) Android
7 30 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.52%) macOS
9 14 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.49%) VMS
10 7 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.10%) zOS
14 2 (0.070%) CentOS
14 2 (0.070%) Solaris
14 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.035%) AIX
15 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,598 (55.91%) DevOps
2 1,048 (36.67%) Agile
3 997 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 685 (23.97%) AI
5 662 (23.16%) Test Automation
6 566 (19.80%) Observability
7 552 (19.31%) Containerisation
8 534 (18.68%) Microservices
9 532 (18.61%) Software Engineering
10 445 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
11 428 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 428 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 375 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
13 373 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
14 371 (12.98%) Event-Driven
15 370 (12.95%) Analytics
16 365 (12.77%) Data Engineering
17 339 (11.86%) Data Modelling
18 334 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
19 322 (11.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (42.41%) Python
2 764 (26.73%) SQL
3 560 (19.59%) Java
4 317 (11.09%) JavaScript
5 298 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 282 (9.87%) C#
7 256 (8.96%) Bash
8 242 (8.47%) PowerShell
9 127 (4.44%) Bicep
10 83 (2.90%) Go
11 65 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 61 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 45 (1.57%) Scala
14 41 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 37 (1.29%) Apex Code
16 36 (1.26%) Groovy
17 29 (1.01%) C++
17 29 (1.01%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.94%) PL/SQL
19 25 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 755 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 674 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 168 (5.88%) Degree
4 102 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 101 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 93 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 83 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.87%) CISSP
11 24 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 18 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.52%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.38%) CISM
18 11 (0.38%) GIAC
18 11 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (10.04%) QA
2 272 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 93 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.54%) GDPR
5 43 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.29%) NIST
7 24 (0.84%) WCAG
8 22 (0.77%) NCSC
9 19 (0.66%) SLA
10 16 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) GRC
13 10 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.28%) Basel III
15 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.21%) MiFID
16 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 726 (25.40%) Docker
2 63 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.45%) Squid
6 10 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.070%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.070%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.070%) KVM
10 2 (0.070%) RACF
10 2 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.070%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Samba
Systems Management
1 868 (30.37%) Kubernetes
2 237 (8.29%) Grafana
3 228 (7.98%) Ansible
4 183 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 46 (1.61%) Argo
6 34 (1.19%) Puppet
7 30 (1.05%) Kibana
8 22 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.63%) Packer
9 18 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.38%) Control-M
11 11 (0.38%) Istio
12 8 (0.28%) Karpenter
12 8 (0.28%) SCCM
13 7 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.17%) Nagios
15 5 (0.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 500 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 281 (9.83%) Databricks
3 186 (6.51%) Google
4 149 (5.21%) Oracle
5 114 (3.99%) Splunk
6 91 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 69 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 66 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.64%) VMware
11 46 (1.61%) Foundry
12 43 (1.50%) IBM
13 37 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 34 (1.19%) Informatica
15 32 (1.12%) SAP
16 30 (1.05%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.84%) New Relic
18 21 (0.73%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.66%) Palantir
20 18 (0.63%) Cisco