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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,988 1,395 1,282
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.10% 10.26% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.33% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 974 973
10th Percentile £366 £406 £425
25th Percentile £433 £490 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +2.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £722 £688
90th Percentile £736 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £559 £563
% change year-on-year -8.28% -0.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,766 12,313 16,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.57% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,152 7,857 11,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -4 214 £525 -8.70% 158
West London +8 72 £603 +36.31% 28
South London +8 57 £525 -2.42% 9
East London -5 9 £450 -12.41% 16
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 84 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 69 (3.47%) Confluence
3 64 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (2.62%) Apache
5 35 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.60%) CMS
7 11 (0.55%) Appian
7 11 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.55%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.50%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.50%) nginx
9 9 (0.45%) Mendix
9 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SAS
12 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
13 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.050%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.050%) Maximo
4 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.050%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.050%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.050%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 879 (44.22%) Azure
2 877 (44.11%) AWS
3 479 (24.09%) GitHub
4 330 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
5 324 (16.30%) GCP
6 315 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
7 291 (14.64%) Serverless
8 198 (9.96%) Amazon S3
9 176 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 168 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 150 (7.55%) Power Platform
12 117 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
13 116 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
14 110 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 98 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 92 (4.63%) Azure AKS
17 80 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 77 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (3.77%) Azure Functions
20 74 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.97%) Firewall
2 50 (2.52%) Network Security
3 49 (2.46%) DNS
4 26 (1.31%) VPN
5 22 (1.11%) HTTP
6 15 (0.75%) SSL
7 13 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.65%) WAN
8 11 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.30%) FTP
9 6 (0.30%) IMAP
9 6 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (0.30%) SMTP
9 6 (0.30%) SSH
10 5 (0.25%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.20%) DHCP
11 4 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.20%) Multicast
11 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.53%) Data Lake
4 109 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 105 (5.28%) Power BI
6 78 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (3.72%) MongoDB
9 68 (3.42%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 44 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (2.21%) Delta Lake
13 37 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.76%) Big Data
14 35 (1.76%) Metadata
14 35 (1.76%) MySQL
15 34 (1.71%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.66%) Redis
17 28 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 367 (18.46%) Jenkins
2 366 (18.41%) Git
3 254 (12.78%) GitLab
4 143 (7.19%) JIRA
5 74 (3.72%) Selenium
6 51 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 49 (2.46%) JUnit
8 44 (2.21%) MLflow
9 40 (2.01%) Postman
10 39 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 31 (1.56%) JMeter
12 28 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.26%) TeamCity
14 22 (1.11%) Bitbucket
15 21 (1.06%) Maven
16 20 (1.01%) Gradle
16 20 (1.01%) Mockito
17 19 (0.96%) SonarQube
18 16 (0.80%) Gatling
19 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 526 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 448 (22.54%) Finance
3 219 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 200 (10.06%) Banking
5 162 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.21%) Front Office
8 41 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 33 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.36%) Marketing
13 25 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.16%) Retail
15 19 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.60%) Law
17 12 (0.60%) Military
18 11 (0.55%) Electronics
18 11 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 496 (24.95%) Developer
2 309 (15.54%) Senior
3 258 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 184 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 183 (9.21%) Architect
6 138 (6.94%) Lead
7 122 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
8 112 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 92 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 89 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
10 89 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 86 (4.33%) Java Developer
12 84 (4.23%) Software Engineer
13 81 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 69 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
16 63 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 57 (2.87%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 54 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (12.73%) React
2 209 (10.51%) Kafka
3 208 (10.46%) Node.js
4 190 (9.56%) RESTful
5 183 (9.21%) REST
6 167 (8.40%) .NET
7 153 (7.70%) Spring
8 126 (6.34%) Spring Boot
9 109 (5.48%) AngularJS
10 97 (4.88%) CSS
11 95 (4.78%) Playwright
12 88 (4.43%) HTML
13 84 (4.23%) OAuth
14 76 (3.82%) PySpark
15 73 (3.67%) GraphQL
16 60 (3.02%) YAML
17 56 (2.82%) JSON
18 49 (2.46%) Vue
19 48 (2.41%) FastAPI
19 48 (2.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 391 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 126 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 38 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 35 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.56%) Derivative
11 29 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 25 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.26%) Replication
14 24 (1.21%) Equities
14 24 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.16%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.60%) Linux
2 67 (3.37%) Windows
3 36 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.61%) VMS
5 30 (1.51%) Android
5 30 (1.51%) Unix
6 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.30%) CentOS
9 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.25%) Solaris
10 5 (0.25%) zOS
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (54.78%) DevOps
2 658 (33.10%) Agile
3 651 (32.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 451 (22.69%) Containerisation
5 407 (20.47%) Test Automation
6 383 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
7 353 (17.76%) Microservices
8 335 (16.85%) AI
9 295 (14.84%) Analytics
9 295 (14.84%) Observability
10 267 (13.43%) Software Engineering
11 230 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
12 219 (11.02%) Data Engineering
13 210 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 205 (10.31%) Data Modelling
15 199 (10.01%) Machine Learning
16 197 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 189 (9.51%) ETL
18 178 (8.95%) Mentoring
19 173 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 786 (39.54%) Python
2 488 (24.55%) SQL
3 397 (19.97%) Java
4 280 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 268 (13.48%) TypeScript
6 208 (10.46%) C#
7 129 (6.49%) Bash
8 103 (5.18%) PowerShell
9 70 (3.52%) Bicep
10 67 (3.37%) Go
11 60 (3.02%) Scala
12 36 (1.81%) C++
13 32 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.56%) Ruby
15 26 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.21%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.11%) Rust
18 19 (0.96%) Shell Script
19 18 (0.91%) Swift
20 17 (0.86%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 464 (23.34%) Security Cleared
2 403 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.39%) Degree
4 69 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 69 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 68 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 19 (0.96%) CISSP
11 18 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
13 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.45%) OSCP
15 9 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.40%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.75%) QA
2 127 (6.39%) Data Quality
3 86 (4.33%) GDPR
4 73 (3.67%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.52%) NIST
7 27 (1.36%) NCSC
7 27 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.16%) WCAG
9 21 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 10 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) MiFID
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 631 (31.74%) Docker
2 48 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.40%) Squid
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.30%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.30%) Postfix
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) zsh
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) HDFS
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.050%) etcd
10 1 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 681 (34.26%) Kubernetes
2 666 (33.50%) Terraform
3 150 (7.55%) Ansible
4 133 (6.69%) Grafana
5 118 (5.94%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.57%) Argo
7 27 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.11%) Istio
9 16 (0.80%) Kibana
10 13 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (0.60%) Puppet
12 9 (0.45%) Rancher
13 8 (0.40%) Nessus
14 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.30%) logstash
15 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.30%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.25%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 288 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.86%) Databricks
3 127 (6.39%) Google
4 74 (3.72%) Oracle
5 63 (3.17%) Splunk
6 61 (3.07%) OpenAI
7 53 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.21%) VMware
12 21 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 20 (1.01%) SAP
14 15 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.75%) Solace
15 14 (0.70%) Cisco
16 13 (0.65%) Adobe
16 13 (0.65%) UiPath
17 12 (0.60%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.55%) Apple