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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,632 1,466 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.11% 10.90% 8.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.70% 11.80% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 997 965
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £453 £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 9 6 1
10th Percentile £49.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile - £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -10.65%

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 17,902 12,422 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.40% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,269 10,048
10th Percentile £361 £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 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 197
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.22% -16.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £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% +5.81%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +8 331 £550 -10.71% 79
South London +2 61 £537 +2.29% 13
West London +5 53 £560 +13.71% 29
East London 0 11 £588 +12.98% 23
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
1 131 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 105 (3.99%) Confluence
3 77 (2.93%) Apache
4 30 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.42%) Camunda
5 11 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.38%) CMS
7 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.27%) SAS
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,199 (45.55%) Azure
2 1,164 (44.22%) AWS
3 596 (22.64%) GitHub
4 478 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
5 402 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
6 398 (15.12%) GCP
7 296 (11.25%) Serverless
8 234 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 229 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 201 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 153 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
12 144 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 142 (5.40%) Snowflake
14 128 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 123 (4.67%) Entra ID
16 121 (4.60%) dbt
17 120 (4.56%) Azure AKS
18 118 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
19 110 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.77%) Firewall
2 44 (1.67%) Network Security
3 36 (1.37%) VPN
4 35 (1.33%) DNS
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 23 (0.87%) HTTP
7 20 (0.76%) 5G
8 18 (0.68%) SSL
8 18 (0.68%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.65%) WAN
10 12 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.42%) BGP
11 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.38%) 4G
12 10 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.30%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.30%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.27%) LTE
15 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.65%) Power BI
2 150 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 99 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 94 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 83 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (3.04%) Metadata
11 79 (3.00%) Delta Lake
12 76 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (2.74%) BigQuery
14 58 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
15 52 (1.98%) Redis
16 47 (1.79%) DynamoDB
17 46 (1.75%) Big Data
18 45 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
20 33 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 471 (17.90%) Git
2 416 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 336 (12.77%) GitLab
4 186 (7.07%) JIRA
5 84 (3.19%) Selenium
6 72 (2.74%) JUnit
7 51 (1.94%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.75%) JMeter
9 45 (1.71%) Gradle
10 40 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.48%) Mockito
12 37 (1.41%) Cucumber
13 36 (1.37%) Postman
14 34 (1.29%) Maven
15 32 (1.22%) SonarQube
16 31 (1.18%) REST Assured
17 28 (1.06%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.95%) MLflow
19 24 (0.91%) Gatling
20 20 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 649 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 646 (24.54%) Finance
3 312 (11.85%) Public Sector
4 292 (11.09%) Banking
5 221 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (2.32%) Retail
7 60 (2.28%) Front Office
8 56 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.14%) Law
11 30 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.10%) Marketing
13 24 (0.91%) Legal
14 15 (0.57%) Local Government
14 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 563 (21.39%) Developer
2 474 (18.01%) Senior
3 303 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 290 (11.02%) Architect
5 277 (10.52%) Lead
6 236 (8.97%) Data Engineer
7 157 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 144 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 132 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 117 (4.45%) Java Developer
13 104 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 89 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 82 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 73 (2.77%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 62 (2.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (14.25%) REST
2 264 (10.03%) Kafka
3 252 (9.57%) React
4 244 (9.27%) .NET
5 214 (8.13%) RESTful
6 205 (7.79%) Spring
7 176 (6.69%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.09%) PySpark
9 123 (4.67%) Node.js
10 105 (3.99%) HTML
11 103 (3.91%) AngularJS
12 93 (3.53%) Playwright
13 85 (3.23%) CSS
14 82 (3.12%) JSON
15 72 (2.74%) OAuth
16 67 (2.55%) FastAPI
17 65 (2.47%) SOAP
18 59 (2.24%) Next.js
19 57 (2.17%) OAuth2
20 56 (2.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 556 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 228 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 103 (3.91%) AI Agents
5 101 (3.84%) Onboarding
6 88 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 84 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 40 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 34 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.22%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.18%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.18%) Fixed Income
17 30 (1.14%) Security Posture
18 29 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 207 (7.86%) Linux
2 115 (4.37%) Windows
3 68 (2.58%) Unix
4 39 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.10%) Android
5 29 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.49%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.19%) Solaris
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.076%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,463 (55.59%) DevOps
2 946 (35.94%) Agile
3 883 (33.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 568 (21.58%) Test Automation
5 567 (21.54%) AI
6 558 (21.20%) Containerisation
7 524 (19.91%) Microservices
8 468 (17.78%) Observability
9 461 (17.52%) Software Engineering
10 379 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
11 370 (14.06%) Analytics
12 353 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
13 348 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 336 (12.77%) Data Modelling
15 316 (12.01%) Data Engineering
16 311 (11.82%) Platform Engineering
17 307 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 305 (11.59%) Event-Driven
19 277 (10.52%) Migration
20 267 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (39.17%) Python
2 742 (28.19%) SQL
3 541 (20.55%) Java
4 280 (10.64%) C#
4 280 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 266 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.90%) PowerShell
7 204 (7.75%) Bash
8 109 (4.14%) Bicep
9 59 (2.24%) Go
10 53 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 49 (1.86%) Apex Code
12 47 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 45 (1.71%) Scala
14 36 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 33 (1.25%) Ruby
16 28 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.95%) C++
18 20 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 691 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 621 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.02%) Degree
4 98 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 81 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 73 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.76%) CISSP
12 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.46%) GIAC
16 12 (0.46%) PhD
17 11 (0.42%) CISM
18 8 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (8.93%) QA
2 220 (8.36%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.20%) GDPR
5 49 (1.86%) NIST
6 46 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.06%) WCAG
8 23 (0.87%) NCSC
8 23 (0.87%) SLA
9 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
10 11 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.34%) GRC
12 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.15%) COBIT
15 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 677 (25.72%) Docker
2 60 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.076%) HDFS
10 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.076%) KVM
10 2 (0.076%) Postfix
10 2 (0.076%) Varnish
10 2 (0.076%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 847 (32.18%) Terraform
2 783 (29.75%) Kubernetes
3 206 (7.83%) Grafana
4 195 (7.41%) Ansible
5 170 (6.46%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.25%) Puppet
7 32 (1.22%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.80%) Kibana
10 20 (0.76%) Packer
11 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.53%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) Control-M
14 8 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 417 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 217 (8.24%) Databricks
3 143 (5.43%) Google
4 133 (5.05%) Oracle
5 104 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.65%) Splunk
7 70 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 48 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 45 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 44 (1.67%) VMware
11 34 (1.29%) IBM
12 33 (1.25%) Informatica
13 29 (1.10%) Foundry
13 29 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.10%) SAP
14 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.99%) Cisco
16 25 (0.95%) New Relic
17 21 (0.80%) Palantir
18 19 (0.72%) CyberArk