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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,473 1,327 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.35% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.20% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 890 1,007
10th Percentile £400 £387 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -6.52% -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £555
% change year-on-year +1.94% -7.21% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £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 £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.60% -6.72% +2.13%

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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -1 281 £550 -10.02% 74
West London +8 52 £603 +22.34% 20
South London +3 48 £538 +1.03% 4
East London +7 11 £475 +90.00% 17
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 110 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 87 (3.52%) Confluence
4 69 (2.79%) Apache
5 27 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Camunda
7 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) Appian
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) HCL Notes
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.081%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 21 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.081%) Endur
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.040%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (44.88%) AWS
2 1,095 (44.28%) Azure
3 548 (22.16%) GitHub
4 422 (17.06%) Azure DevOps
5 357 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
6 348 (14.07%) GCP
7 322 (13.02%) Serverless
8 244 (9.87%) Amazon S3
9 215 (8.69%) Power Platform
10 213 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
11 174 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
15 115 (4.65%) Azure AKS
16 114 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
17 108 (4.37%) Snowflake
18 103 (4.16%) Entra ID
19 100 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
20 97 (3.92%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.03%) Firewall
2 49 (1.98%) Network Security
3 35 (1.42%) DNS
4 31 (1.25%) VPN
5 24 (0.97%) HTTP
6 19 (0.77%) Internet
7 16 (0.65%) 5G
7 16 (0.65%) WAN
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.44%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.36%) SSL
11 8 (0.32%) 4G
11 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
13 6 (0.24%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.15%) Power BI
2 148 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
3 137 (5.54%) NoSQL
4 136 (5.50%) Data Lake
5 133 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 124 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
7 95 (3.84%) Relational Database
8 89 (3.60%) MongoDB
9 76 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
11 71 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.79%) Delta Lake
13 65 (2.63%) Metadata
14 56 (2.26%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.10%) Big Data
16 51 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 40 (1.62%) Redis
19 37 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
20 32 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 434 (17.55%) Git
2 379 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 303 (12.25%) GitLab
4 164 (6.63%) JIRA
5 74 (2.99%) JUnit
6 68 (2.75%) Selenium
7 45 (1.82%) Postman
8 44 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.74%) JMeter
10 42 (1.70%) MLflow
11 41 (1.66%) Mockito
12 38 (1.54%) REST Assured
13 37 (1.50%) Gradle
14 30 (1.21%) Cypress.io
15 26 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 26 (1.05%) Maven
16 25 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 25 (1.01%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.85%) Gatling
18 20 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 597 (24.14%) Finance
2 575 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 301 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 274 (11.08%) Banking
5 183 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 56 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.02%) Front Office
9 47 (1.90%) Retail
10 45 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.13%) Law
12 28 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.01%) Legal
14 22 (0.89%) Marketing
15 16 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.57%) Publishing
17 12 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 509 (20.58%) Developer
2 414 (16.74%) Senior
3 287 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (11.32%) Architect
5 238 (9.62%) Lead
6 227 (9.18%) Data Engineer
7 159 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 122 (4.93%) Software Engineer
11 116 (4.69%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 79 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 70 (2.83%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
19 64 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 61 (2.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (11.89%) REST
2 240 (9.70%) React
3 234 (9.46%) Kafka
4 221 (8.94%) .NET
5 211 (8.53%) RESTful
6 205 (8.29%) Spring
7 177 (7.16%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.42%) PySpark
9 122 (4.93%) Node.js
10 112 (4.53%) AngularJS
11 86 (3.48%) OAuth
12 84 (3.40%) HTML
13 76 (3.07%) Playwright
14 71 (2.87%) CSS
15 66 (2.67%) JSON
16 65 (2.63%) FastAPI
17 62 (2.51%) OAuth2
18 56 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.26%) Pandas
19 55 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 525 (21.23%) Cloud Native
2 191 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 114 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.83%) AI Agents
7 47 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 36 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 33 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.33%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 30 (1.21%) Public Cloud
17 29 (1.17%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (6.75%) Linux
2 104 (4.21%) Windows
3 52 (2.10%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.93%) Android
7 22 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.65%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.081%) AIX
13 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,348 (54.51%) DevOps
2 828 (33.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 825 (33.36%) Agile
4 557 (22.52%) Containerisation
5 520 (21.03%) AI
6 502 (20.30%) Test Automation
7 472 (19.09%) Microservices
8 410 (16.58%) Observability
9 383 (15.49%) Analytics
9 383 (15.49%) Software Engineering
10 323 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
11 320 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
12 319 (12.90%) Data Modelling
13 307 (12.41%) Data Engineering
14 293 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 285 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
16 276 (11.16%) Machine Learning
17 253 (10.23%) Migration
18 247 (9.99%) Event-Driven
19 239 (9.66%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 953 (38.54%) Python
2 682 (27.58%) SQL
3 482 (19.49%) Java
4 274 (11.08%) C#
5 249 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 237 (9.58%) JavaScript
7 170 (6.87%) Bash
8 155 (6.27%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.88%) Bicep
10 53 (2.14%) Scala
11 51 (2.06%) Go
12 43 (1.74%) Apex Code
13 40 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 40 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.46%) Ruby
15 28 (1.13%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.05%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.57%) SOQL
19 13 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 622 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 558 (22.56%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.30%) Degree
4 94 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.87%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.89%) CISSP
11 21 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.49%) CISM
14 12 (0.49%) GIAC
14 12 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (8.49%) QA
2 193 (7.80%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 68 (2.75%) NIST
5 67 (2.71%) GDPR
6 56 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.29%) NCSC
8 28 (1.13%) WCAG
9 26 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.89%) SLA
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.32%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.24%) COBIT
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 652 (26.36%) Docker
2 59 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
5 11 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.081%) HDFS
9 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.081%) Postfix
10 1 (0.040%) IAG
10 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.040%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 807 (32.63%) Terraform
2 746 (30.17%) Kubernetes
3 175 (7.08%) Ansible
4 169 (6.83%) Grafana
5 150 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.97%) Puppet
8 20 (0.81%) Argo
9 18 (0.73%) Kibana
10 14 (0.57%) Packer
11 12 (0.49%) Istio
11 12 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.24%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 353 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 192 (7.76%) Databricks
3 108 (4.37%) Google
4 102 (4.12%) Oracle
5 93 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 87 (3.52%) Splunk
7 55 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 38 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.21%) VMware
10 28 (1.13%) Informatica
11 27 (1.09%) IBM
12 26 (1.05%) Foundry
13 24 (0.97%) CyberArk
13 24 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 24 (0.97%) SAP
14 23 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.85%) Palantir
16 18 (0.73%) Cisco
17 13 (0.53%) Sybase