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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,375 1,226 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.61% 10.01% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.21% 10.84% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 826 981
10th Percentile £400 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £540 £567
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.76% -8.92%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +1.65% -6.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £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 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -18.93% +6.70%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -3 265 £575 -4.17% 98
West London +7 53 £603 +21.41% 25
South London 0 43 £513 -6.82%
East London +6 12 £450 +80.00% 15
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
1 104 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 103 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.24%) Confluence
4 67 (2.82%) Apache
5 27 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.46%) Camunda
7 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.38%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) Appian
9 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) HCL Notes
11 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.25%) Mendix
11 6 (0.25%) nginx
12 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.084%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.25%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.084%) Endur
7 2 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (44.59%) Azure
2 1,058 (44.55%) AWS
3 550 (23.16%) GitHub
4 411 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
5 359 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
6 339 (14.27%) GCP
7 316 (13.31%) Serverless
8 236 (9.94%) Amazon S3
9 213 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
10 211 (8.88%) Power Platform
11 182 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 138 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
13 122 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
16 112 (4.72%) Azure AKS
17 104 (4.38%) Snowflake
18 99 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
19 94 (3.96%) Entra ID
20 85 (3.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.37%) Firewall
2 48 (2.02%) Network Security
3 33 (1.39%) DNS
4 28 (1.18%) VPN
5 25 (1.05%) HTTP
6 15 (0.63%) Internet
6 15 (0.63%) WAN
7 12 (0.51%) 5G
7 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.46%) SSL
9 10 (0.42%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.29%) BGP
12 6 (0.25%) FTP
12 6 (0.25%) OSPF
13 5 (0.21%) 4G
13 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.21%) LTE
13 5 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.06%) Power BI
2 142 (5.98%) Data Lake
3 141 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
4 138 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 124 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 113 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 85 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 83 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.95%) Delta Lake
12 66 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (2.61%) Metadata
14 60 (2.53%) BigQuery
15 53 (2.23%) Big Data
16 49 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 41 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
18 39 (1.64%) Redis
19 34 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 418 (17.60%) Git
2 365 (15.37%) Jenkins
3 288 (12.13%) GitLab
4 148 (6.23%) JIRA
5 66 (2.78%) Selenium
6 65 (2.74%) JUnit
7 48 (2.02%) MLflow
8 45 (1.89%) Postman
9 44 (1.85%) Cucumber
10 43 (1.81%) JMeter
11 38 (1.60%) Mockito
12 35 (1.47%) Gradle
13 34 (1.43%) REST Assured
14 27 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 25 (1.05%) CircleCI
16 23 (0.97%) Bitbucket
16 23 (0.97%) SonarQube
17 22 (0.93%) Maven
18 21 (0.88%) Artifactory
19 19 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 564 (23.75%) Finance
2 546 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 279 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 244 (10.27%) Banking
5 165 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (1.98%) Front Office
8 46 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.77%) Retail
10 41 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.05%) Law
13 23 (0.97%) Legal
13 23 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.80%) Marketing
15 17 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.67%) Publishing
17 13 (0.55%) Military
18 11 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 487 (20.51%) Developer
2 404 (17.01%) Senior
3 274 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 270 (11.37%) Architect
5 224 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 224 (9.43%) Lead
6 149 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
7 141 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
8 135 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 113 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 101 (4.25%) Senior Developer
11 100 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
12 99 (4.17%) Java Developer
13 78 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 74 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 73 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 61 (2.57%) AWS DevOps
18 58 (2.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 55 (2.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (11.33%) REST
2 237 (9.98%) React
3 224 (9.43%) Kafka
4 211 (8.88%) .NET
5 202 (8.51%) RESTful
6 189 (7.96%) Spring
7 172 (7.24%) Spring Boot
8 127 (5.35%) Node.js
9 121 (5.09%) PySpark
10 116 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.66%) OAuth
12 82 (3.45%) HTML
13 69 (2.91%) CSS
14 67 (2.82%) Playwright
15 65 (2.74%) FastAPI
16 60 (2.53%) Pandas
17 59 (2.48%) OAuth2
18 58 (2.44%) JSON
19 53 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
19 53 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 506 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 174 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.57%) AI Agents
7 42 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 35 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 33 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.35%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.18%) Equities
14 26 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 157 (6.61%) Linux
2 93 (3.92%) Windows
3 47 (1.98%) Unix
4 24 (1.01%) Android
4 24 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.84%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.21%) Solaris
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.084%) AIX
13 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,301 (54.78%) DevOps
2 819 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 744 (31.33%) Agile
4 532 (22.40%) Containerisation
5 515 (21.68%) AI
6 473 (19.92%) Test Automation
7 455 (19.16%) Microservices
8 410 (17.26%) Observability
9 376 (15.83%) Analytics
10 358 (15.07%) Software Engineering
11 321 (13.52%) Data Modelling
12 309 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
13 306 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
14 303 (12.76%) Data Engineering
15 280 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 272 (11.45%) Machine Learning
17 268 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
18 243 (10.23%) Migration
19 234 (9.85%) ETL
20 226 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 936 (39.41%) Python
2 675 (28.42%) SQL
3 454 (19.12%) Java
4 259 (10.91%) C#
5 232 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 232 (9.77%) TypeScript
6 160 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 158 (6.65%) Bash
8 89 (3.75%) Bicep
9 55 (2.32%) Scala
10 42 (1.77%) Go
11 40 (1.68%) Apex Code
12 39 (1.64%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.56%) Ruby
14 36 (1.52%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 28 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.63%) C++
18 14 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 586 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 525 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.14%) Degree
4 98 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 74 (3.12%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.84%) CISSP
12 15 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.42%) CISM
15 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.04%) QA
2 184 (7.75%) Data Quality
3 75 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 72 (3.03%) GDPR
5 66 (2.78%) NIST
6 52 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.22%) NCSC
8 26 (1.09%) WCAG
9 25 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.88%) SLA
11 13 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 9 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.29%) PSD2
14 6 (0.25%) COBIT
14 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.21%) MiFID
15 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 628 (26.44%) Docker
2 56 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.042%) HDFS
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.042%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 788 (33.18%) Terraform
2 702 (29.56%) Kubernetes
3 172 (7.24%) Ansible
4 164 (6.91%) Grafana
5 148 (6.23%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.09%) Argo
8 20 (0.84%) Istio
8 20 (0.84%) Puppet
9 18 (0.76%) Kibana
10 13 (0.55%) Packer
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.17%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 347 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 193 (8.13%) Databricks
3 117 (4.93%) Google
4 102 (4.29%) Oracle
5 89 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 83 (3.49%) Splunk
7 56 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 56 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 38 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.26%) VMware
10 25 (1.05%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.05%) Foundry
10 25 (1.05%) IBM
10 25 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.01%) SAP
12 23 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.80%) Informatica
14 18 (0.76%) Cisco
15 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.55%) Okta