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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,264 1,197 1,313
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.34% 9.91% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.94% 10.74% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 819 956
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -2.22% -9.64%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £814
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.25 £48.40
25th Percentile £58.56 £43.13 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £95.75 - £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £67.50
% change year-on-year +9.01% -11.67% +2.89%

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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £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 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 243 £575 -1.71% 154
West London +11 62 £603 +21.77% 16
South London 0 46 £513 +3.54% 6
East London +4 12 £450 +80.00% 30
North London - 1 £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
1 108 (4.77%) Apache Spark
2 95 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.05%) Apache
4 65 (2.87%) Confluence
5 30 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.49%) Camunda
8 10 (0.44%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.44%) Mendix
8 10 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.35%) Appian
9 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.22%) nginx
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.044%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.044%) Endur
8 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.044%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.044%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.044%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.044%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (45.80%) Azure
2 998 (44.08%) AWS
3 518 (22.88%) GitHub
4 406 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 337 (14.89%) GCP
6 335 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
7 300 (13.25%) Serverless
8 219 (9.67%) Amazon S3
9 204 (9.01%) Power Platform
10 195 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
11 182 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 131 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
13 129 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 110 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
15 108 (4.77%) Azure AKS
16 107 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 102 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
18 98 (4.33%) Snowflake
19 91 (4.02%) Entra ID
20 88 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.36%) Firewall
2 44 (1.94%) Network Security
3 36 (1.59%) DNS
4 25 (1.10%) HTTP
5 23 (1.02%) VPN
6 14 (0.62%) WAN
7 12 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.44%) Internet
9 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.35%) 5G
9 8 (0.35%) SSL
10 7 (0.31%) BGP
11 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 6 (0.27%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.22%) FTP
12 5 (0.22%) LTE
12 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 141 (6.23%) Power BI
3 134 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 132 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 124 (5.48%) NoSQL
6 102 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 79 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 72 (3.18%) Delta Lake
10 69 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
11 63 (2.78%) Metadata
12 62 (2.74%) BigQuery
13 59 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
14 53 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 53 (2.34%) Big Data
15 48 (2.12%) DynamoDB
16 46 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (1.46%) Redis
19 32 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 399 (17.62%) Git
2 358 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 262 (11.57%) GitLab
4 127 (5.61%) JIRA
5 69 (3.05%) Selenium
6 59 (2.61%) JUnit
7 50 (2.21%) MLflow
8 48 (2.12%) Postman
9 44 (1.94%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.77%) JMeter
11 37 (1.63%) Mockito
12 31 (1.37%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.19%) Gradle
14 26 (1.15%) Cypress.io
15 22 (0.97%) Bitbucket
16 21 (0.93%) Artifactory
17 20 (0.88%) SonarQube
18 19 (0.84%) Maven
19 18 (0.80%) CircleCI
19 18 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 544 (24.03%) Finance
2 519 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 264 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 232 (10.25%) Banking
5 161 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.08%) Front Office
8 42 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.59%) Retail
12 26 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 21 (0.93%) Legal
14 18 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.71%) Law
16 16 (0.71%) Marketing
17 15 (0.66%) Publishing
18 11 (0.49%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 474 (20.94%) Developer
2 373 (16.48%) Senior
3 255 (11.26%) Architect
4 253 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 222 (9.81%) Data Engineer
6 215 (9.50%) Lead
7 139 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 131 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 126 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 104 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 91 (4.02%) Java Developer
11 91 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 91 (4.02%) Senior Developer
12 74 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 71 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 71 (3.14%) Python Developer
14 67 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (2.39%) Security Engineer
16 52 (2.30%) AWS DevOps
17 49 (2.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (10.60%) REST
2 228 (10.07%) React
3 218 (9.63%) Kafka
4 210 (9.28%) .NET
5 192 (8.48%) RESTful
6 175 (7.73%) Spring
7 160 (7.07%) Spring Boot
8 130 (5.74%) Node.js
9 117 (5.17%) PySpark
10 114 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 80 (3.53%) OAuth
12 78 (3.45%) HTML
13 72 (3.18%) Playwright
14 67 (2.96%) CSS
15 59 (2.61%) Pandas
16 58 (2.56%) FastAPI
17 53 (2.34%) YAML
18 52 (2.30%) OAuth2
19 51 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
20 50 (2.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 465 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 163 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 52 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 41 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (1.41%) Equities
11 30 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 29 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.24%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.15%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 153 (6.76%) Linux
2 88 (3.89%) Windows
3 42 (1.86%) Unix
4 24 (1.06%) VMS
5 20 (0.88%) Android
6 19 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.088%) AIX
12 2 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (55.21%) DevOps
2 772 (34.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 704 (31.10%) Agile
4 505 (22.31%) Containerisation
5 460 (20.32%) AI
6 455 (20.10%) Test Automation
7 426 (18.82%) Microservices
8 386 (17.05%) Observability
9 368 (16.25%) Analytics
10 327 (14.44%) Software Engineering
11 310 (13.69%) Data Modelling
12 293 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
13 290 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
14 284 (12.54%) Data Engineering
15 264 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 247 (10.91%) Machine Learning
17 240 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
18 231 (10.20%) ETL
19 225 (9.94%) Migration
20 210 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 875 (38.65%) Python
2 654 (28.89%) SQL
3 429 (18.95%) Java
4 257 (11.35%) C#
5 224 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 223 (9.85%) TypeScript
7 149 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 144 (6.36%) Bash
9 91 (4.02%) Bicep
10 58 (2.56%) Scala
11 44 (1.94%) Go
12 39 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 38 (1.68%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.68%) Ruby
14 29 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 26 (1.15%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.93%) C++
17 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 564 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 505 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.61%) Degree
4 96 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 63 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.80%) CISSP
12 16 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.40%) CISM
17 8 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (7.99%) QA
2 174 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 78 (3.45%) GDPR
4 66 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.74%) NIST
6 51 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.37%) NCSC
8 25 (1.10%) WCAG
9 23 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.02%) SLA
10 16 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.27%) COBIT
12 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 6 (0.27%) MiFID
12 6 (0.27%) PSD2
13 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 608 (26.86%) Docker
2 56 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.40%) Squid
7 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Postfix
10 1 (0.044%) HDFS
10 1 (0.044%) IAG
10 1 (0.044%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.044%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 736 (32.51%) Terraform
2 682 (30.12%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.67%) Ansible
4 150 (6.63%) Grafana
5 136 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.15%) Argo
8 21 (0.93%) Istio
9 19 (0.84%) Puppet
10 18 (0.80%) Kibana
11 11 (0.49%) Packer
11 11 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.27%) SCCM
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) Suricata
16 3 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 352 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.92%) Databricks
3 114 (5.04%) Google
4 101 (4.46%) Oracle
5 83 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.27%) Splunk
7 56 (2.47%) OpenAI
8 52 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.10%) VMware
11 24 (1.06%) Foundry
12 23 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.02%) IBM
12 23 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.02%) SAP
13 22 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.66%) Cisco
14 15 (0.66%) Informatica
15 13 (0.57%) Okta
16 12 (0.53%) New Relic