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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,609 1,478 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.99% 10.90% 8.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.57% 11.80% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,002 965
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -10.34%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +9 326 £550 -11.36% 101
South London +3 64 £538 +2.48% 16
West London +7 52 £560 +13.71% 40
East London 0 11 £588 +12.98% 23
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 127 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 102 (3.91%) Confluence
3 77 (2.95%) Apache
4 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.38%) CMS
7 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.31%) SAS
9 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,187 (45.50%) Azure
2 1,143 (43.81%) AWS
3 589 (22.58%) GitHub
4 470 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
5 397 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 389 (14.91%) GCP
7 290 (11.12%) Serverless
8 234 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 229 (8.78%) Power Platform
10 198 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
12 141 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 139 (5.33%) Snowflake
14 126 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 122 (4.68%) Entra ID
16 121 (4.64%) dbt
17 118 (4.52%) Azure AKS
18 117 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
19 109 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
20 85 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.84%) Firewall
2 43 (1.65%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
3 36 (1.38%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 22 (0.84%) HTTP
6 19 (0.73%) 5G
7 18 (0.69%) SSL
7 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.38%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) BGP
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
12 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.31%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
13 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.71%) Power BI
2 154 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 125 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.48%) Data Lake
7 95 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 94 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
10 78 (2.99%) Delta Lake
11 77 (2.95%) Metadata
12 74 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 70 (2.68%) BigQuery
14 59 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
15 48 (1.84%) Big Data
15 48 (1.84%) Redis
16 47 (1.80%) DynamoDB
17 45 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
19 33 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 466 (17.86%) Git
2 410 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 334 (12.80%) GitLab
4 182 (6.98%) JIRA
5 80 (3.07%) Selenium
6 71 (2.72%) JUnit
7 46 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.72%) Gradle
9 44 (1.69%) JMeter
10 40 (1.53%) Mockito
11 36 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 36 (1.38%) Cucumber
12 35 (1.34%) Postman
13 34 (1.30%) Maven
14 32 (1.23%) SonarQube
15 28 (1.07%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.03%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.96%) MLflow
18 23 (0.88%) Gatling
19 20 (0.77%) Snyk
General
1 636 (24.38%) Finance
2 634 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 307 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 293 (11.23%) Banking
5 212 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.22%) Front Office
6 58 (2.22%) Retail
7 57 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 44 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.15%) Law
11 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.11%) Marketing
11 29 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 24 (0.92%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (0.54%) Local Government
15 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 560 (21.46%) Developer
2 470 (18.01%) Senior
3 297 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 281 (10.77%) Architect
5 275 (10.54%) Lead
6 234 (8.97%) Data Engineer
7 158 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 143 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 133 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 117 (4.48%) Java Developer
12 105 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
13 87 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
14 82 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
15 79 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 72 (2.76%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 63 (2.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 62 (2.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (14.11%) REST
2 258 (9.89%) Kafka
3 251 (9.62%) React
4 240 (9.20%) .NET
5 208 (7.97%) RESTful
6 204 (7.82%) Spring
7 173 (6.63%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.06%) PySpark
9 123 (4.71%) Node.js
10 103 (3.95%) HTML
11 101 (3.87%) AngularJS
12 89 (3.41%) Playwright
13 86 (3.30%) CSS
14 81 (3.10%) JSON
15 71 (2.72%) OAuth
16 67 (2.57%) FastAPI
17 66 (2.53%) SOAP
18 58 (2.22%) Next.js
19 57 (2.18%) OAuth2
20 56 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 545 (20.89%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 102 (3.91%) AI Agents
5 99 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 85 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 42 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 35 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.19%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 28 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 201 (7.70%) Linux
2 113 (4.33%) Windows
3 65 (2.49%) Unix
4 38 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.11%) Android
6 28 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.15%) Solaris
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.077%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,446 (55.42%) DevOps
2 936 (35.88%) Agile
3 867 (33.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 562 (21.54%) AI
5 554 (21.23%) Test Automation
6 550 (21.08%) Containerisation
7 517 (19.82%) Microservices
8 456 (17.48%) Observability
9 454 (17.40%) Software Engineering
10 369 (14.14%) Analytics
11 367 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
12 353 (13.53%) Data Pipeline
13 337 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 334 (12.80%) Data Modelling
15 315 (12.07%) Data Engineering
16 309 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
17 296 (11.35%) Event-Driven
18 295 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
19 274 (10.50%) Migration
20 263 (10.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (39.02%) Python
2 728 (27.90%) SQL
3 536 (20.54%) Java
4 279 (10.69%) JavaScript
5 274 (10.50%) C#
6 265 (10.16%) TypeScript
7 206 (7.90%) PowerShell
8 200 (7.67%) Bash
9 108 (4.14%) Bicep
10 58 (2.22%) Go
11 53 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 49 (1.88%) Apex Code
13 45 (1.72%) Scala
13 45 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 33 (1.26%) Ruby
16 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.96%) C++
18 21 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 677 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 612 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 130 (4.98%) Degree
4 98 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 77 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 71 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.77%) CISSP
12 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) GIAC
15 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) CISM
17 8 (0.31%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (8.70%) QA
2 215 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 90 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 59 (2.26%) GDPR
5 49 (1.88%) NIST
6 46 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.03%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 22 (0.84%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.34%) GRC
12 9 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 665 (25.49%) Docker
2 62 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) Firmware
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 837 (32.08%) Terraform
2 768 (29.44%) Kubernetes
3 201 (7.70%) Grafana
4 192 (7.36%) Ansible
5 168 (6.44%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.26%) Puppet
7 32 (1.23%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
9 20 (0.77%) Packer
10 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) Control-M
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
16 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 407 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 214 (8.20%) Databricks
3 140 (5.37%) Google
4 129 (4.94%) Oracle
5 103 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 92 (3.53%) Splunk
7 70 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 43 (1.65%) VMware
11 33 (1.26%) Informatica
12 32 (1.23%) IBM
13 30 (1.15%) Foundry
14 29 (1.11%) SAP
15 28 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
17 25 (0.96%) Cisco
18 23 (0.88%) New Relic
19 22 (0.84%) Palantir
20 19 (0.73%) CyberArk