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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,533 1,409 1,406
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.82% 10.39% 8.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.41% 11.28% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,711 934 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £377 £413
25th Percentile £455 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £529 £566
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -6.63% -6.56%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
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% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -4.48% +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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +3 296 £550 -12.00% 99
West London +11 55 £560 +13.71% 24
South London +1 53 £539 +1.30% 10
East London +5 10 £500 +29.87% 26
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
1 112 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 99 (3.91%) Confluence
4 74 (2.92%) Apache
5 26 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.47%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
11 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.24%) nginx
13 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.20%) Appian
13 5 (0.20%) Mule
13 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.039%) Maya
6 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,117 (44.10%) Azure
2 1,116 (44.06%) AWS
3 554 (21.87%) GitHub
4 436 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
5 370 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
6 361 (14.25%) GCP
7 307 (12.12%) Serverless
8 252 (9.95%) Amazon S3
9 215 (8.49%) Power Platform
10 206 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 144 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 116 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
15 110 (4.34%) Azure AKS
16 109 (4.30%) Entra ID
17 108 (4.26%) Snowflake
18 104 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
19 99 (3.91%) dbt
20 93 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.84%) Firewall
2 45 (1.78%) Network Security
3 35 (1.38%) DNS
4 33 (1.30%) VPN
5 28 (1.11%) HTTP
6 23 (0.91%) Internet
7 19 (0.75%) 5G
8 17 (0.67%) WAN
9 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.39%) 4G
10 10 (0.39%) SSL
11 9 (0.36%) BGP
12 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.28%) LTE
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
15 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.08%) Power BI
2 141 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (5.01%) Data Lake
4 124 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 121 (4.78%) NoSQL
7 85 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 81 (3.20%) MongoDB
9 75 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 70 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
11 69 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
11 69 (2.72%) Delta Lake
12 68 (2.68%) Metadata
13 58 (2.29%) BigQuery
14 50 (1.97%) DynamoDB
15 49 (1.93%) Big Data
16 39 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
18 36 (1.42%) Redis
19 29 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 454 (17.92%) Git
2 392 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 303 (11.96%) GitLab
4 179 (7.07%) JIRA
5 78 (3.08%) Selenium
6 74 (2.92%) JUnit
7 46 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 45 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 44 (1.74%) JMeter
9 44 (1.74%) Postman
10 43 (1.70%) Gradle
11 41 (1.62%) Mockito
12 40 (1.58%) REST Assured
13 36 (1.42%) MLflow
14 33 (1.30%) Maven
15 29 (1.14%) SonarQube
16 28 (1.11%) Bitbucket
17 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
18 23 (0.91%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 603 (23.81%) Finance
2 588 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 307 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 274 (10.82%) Banking
5 206 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.05%) Front Office
9 51 (2.01%) Retail
10 41 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.11%) Law
13 26 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.95%) Legal
15 22 (0.87%) Marketing
16 14 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 526 (20.77%) Developer
2 430 (16.98%) Senior
3 297 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 277 (10.94%) Architect
5 258 (10.19%) Lead
6 222 (8.76%) Data Engineer
7 157 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
8 149 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 123 (4.86%) Software Engineer
11 117 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 105 (4.15%) Senior Developer
13 102 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 84 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 67 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
18 63 (2.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 63 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 63 (2.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (12.79%) REST
2 245 (9.67%) React
3 231 (9.12%) .NET
4 230 (9.08%) Kafka
5 203 (8.01%) RESTful
6 197 (7.78%) Spring
7 171 (6.75%) Spring Boot
8 129 (5.09%) Node.js
8 129 (5.09%) PySpark
9 110 (4.34%) AngularJS
10 92 (3.63%) HTML
11 91 (3.59%) Playwright
12 79 (3.12%) CSS
13 74 (2.92%) OAuth
14 69 (2.72%) JSON
15 63 (2.49%) FastAPI
16 61 (2.41%) SOAP
17 57 (2.25%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.21%) Next.js
19 55 (2.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 523 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 207 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 94 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 85 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 77 (3.04%) AI Agents
7 59 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 38 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.30%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.26%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 31 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (6.79%) Linux
2 105 (4.15%) Windows
3 52 (2.05%) Unix
4 30 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.03%) Android
7 25 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.43%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) zOS
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (54.88%) DevOps
2 875 (34.54%) Agile
3 835 (32.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 549 (21.67%) Containerisation
5 542 (21.40%) Test Automation
6 522 (20.61%) AI
7 489 (19.31%) Microservices
8 422 (16.66%) Observability
9 409 (16.15%) Software Engineering
10 363 (14.33%) Analytics
11 340 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
13 316 (12.48%) Data Modelling
14 310 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 302 (11.92%) Data Engineering
16 292 (11.53%) Platform Engineering
17 279 (11.01%) Machine Learning
18 260 (10.26%) Event-Driven
19 257 (10.15%) Migration
20 246 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 969 (38.26%) Python
2 678 (26.77%) SQL
3 489 (19.31%) Java
4 271 (10.70%) C#
5 267 (10.54%) TypeScript
6 253 (9.99%) JavaScript
7 183 (7.22%) Bash
8 166 (6.55%) PowerShell
9 91 (3.59%) Bicep
10 59 (2.33%) Go
11 52 (2.05%) Scala
12 48 (1.89%) Apex Code
12 48 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 42 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.38%) Ruby
15 29 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.07%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.63%) Groovy
18 16 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 657 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 595 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.09%) Degree
4 94 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 72 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 65 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.79%) CISSP
11 19 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) GIAC
15 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.36%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.32%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (8.84%) QA
2 199 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 98 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.29%) NIST
5 57 (2.25%) GDPR
6 49 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.34%) NCSC
8 31 (1.22%) WCAG
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 636 (25.11%) Docker
2 61 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.079%) KVM
11 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.039%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 804 (31.74%) Terraform
2 732 (28.90%) Kubernetes
3 191 (7.54%) Grafana
4 175 (6.91%) Ansible
5 158 (6.24%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.11%) Argo
7 27 (1.07%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
11 11 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 362 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 191 (7.54%) Databricks
3 121 (4.78%) Google
4 113 (4.46%) Oracle
5 100 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.79%) Splunk
7 52 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 35 (1.38%) VMware
11 30 (1.18%) Foundry
11 30 (1.18%) IBM
12 28 (1.11%) SAP
13 27 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 26 (1.03%) Informatica
14 26 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
16 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.79%) Cisco
18 14 (0.55%) Okta