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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,738 1,568 1,462
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.47% 11.63% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.17% 12.57% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 1,049 1,016
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% - -
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.60 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.45% -8.33%

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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £671 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +10 350 £550 -9.84% 290
South London +5 68 £535 -1.15% 25
West London -10 49 £560 +15.45% 99
East London +3 10 £585 +8.33% 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 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.24%) Confluence
3 106 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.07%) Apache
5 38 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.66%) CMS
7 15 (0.55%) Camunda
8 13 (0.47%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.037%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.037%) Sketch
6 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.22%) Shopify
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
5 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.11%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,227 (44.81%) Azure
2 1,178 (43.02%) AWS
3 616 (22.50%) GitHub
4 466 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 425 (15.52%) GCP
6 414 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
7 328 (11.98%) Serverless
8 244 (8.91%) Amazon S3
9 229 (8.36%) Power Platform
10 214 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (5.66%) Snowflake
13 151 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 142 (5.19%) Entra ID
15 134 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (4.82%) dbt
17 127 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
18 108 (3.94%) Azure AKS
19 104 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
20 91 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.26%) Firewall
2 44 (1.61%) Network Security
3 42 (1.53%) DNS
4 34 (1.24%) VPN
5 30 (1.10%) Internet
6 26 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.77%) HTTP
8 20 (0.73%) 5G
8 20 (0.73%) SSL
9 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
10 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.40%) SAN
10 11 (0.40%) WAN
11 10 (0.37%) SSH
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.26%) BGP
13 7 (0.26%) FTP
14 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 174 (6.36%) Power BI
3 154 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 120 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.98%) MongoDB
8 103 (3.76%) Relational Database
9 92 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.25%) Delta Lake
11 80 (2.92%) Metadata
12 73 (2.67%) BigQuery
13 71 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.15%) Redis
15 51 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.75%) MySQL
17 46 (1.68%) DynamoDB
18 42 (1.53%) Big Data
19 41 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
20 40 (1.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 527 (19.25%) Git
2 440 (16.07%) Jenkins
3 368 (13.44%) GitLab
4 193 (7.05%) JIRA
5 98 (3.58%) Selenium
6 77 (2.81%) JUnit
7 57 (2.08%) Gradle
8 55 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 52 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 49 (1.79%) JMeter
11 46 (1.68%) Maven
12 45 (1.64%) SonarQube
13 43 (1.57%) Bitbucket
14 42 (1.53%) Postman
15 38 (1.39%) Mockito
16 34 (1.24%) REST Assured
17 26 (0.95%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.91%) Gatling
19 23 (0.84%) MLflow
20 21 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 691 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 682 (24.91%) Finance
3 330 (12.05%) Banking
4 300 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 255 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.70%) Front Office
7 67 (2.45%) Retail
8 60 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.28%) Marketing
12 30 (1.10%) Law
13 28 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 26 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.84%) Military
16 19 (0.69%) Legal
16 19 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.66%) Back Office
17 18 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 573 (20.93%) Developer
2 505 (18.44%) Senior
3 331 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 304 (11.10%) Architect
5 270 (9.86%) Lead
6 254 (9.28%) Data Engineer
7 154 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.78%) Senior Developer
9 131 (4.78%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.31%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 98 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 81 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
16 72 (2.63%) Python Developer
16 72 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
17 70 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 67 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 889 (32.47%) Terraform
2 429 (15.67%) REST
3 299 (10.92%) Kafka
4 262 (9.57%) React
5 247 (9.02%) .NET
6 223 (8.14%) RESTful
7 216 (7.89%) Spring
8 193 (7.05%) Spring Boot
9 144 (5.26%) PySpark
10 117 (4.27%) Node.js
11 108 (3.94%) HTML
12 95 (3.47%) CSS
13 93 (3.40%) Playwright
14 92 (3.36%) OAuth
15 84 (3.07%) JSON
16 79 (2.89%) SOAP
17 78 (2.85%) FastAPI
18 77 (2.81%) AngularJS
19 67 (2.45%) Middleware
20 66 (2.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 582 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 140 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 121 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 107 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 39 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 37 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.31%) Security Posture
13 34 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.21%) Replication
15 32 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 31 (1.13%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 253 (9.24%) Linux
2 125 (4.57%) Windows
3 81 (2.96%) Unix
4 49 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.06%) Android
7 25 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.51%) VMS
9 13 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.073%) CentOS
15 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,512 (55.22%) DevOps
2 993 (36.27%) Agile
3 945 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 654 (23.89%) AI
5 611 (22.32%) Test Automation
6 548 (20.01%) Containerisation
7 535 (19.54%) Observability
8 533 (19.47%) Microservices
9 498 (18.19%) Software Engineering
10 413 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
11 389 (14.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 378 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 367 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
14 363 (13.26%) Analytics
15 351 (12.82%) Event-Driven
16 345 (12.60%) Data Engineering
17 341 (12.45%) Platform Engineering
18 335 (12.24%) Data Modelling
19 306 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
20 291 (10.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,143 (41.75%) Python
2 751 (27.43%) SQL
3 555 (20.27%) Java
4 300 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 276 (10.08%) TypeScript
6 263 (9.61%) C#
7 233 (8.51%) Bash
8 221 (8.07%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.13%) Bicep
10 76 (2.78%) Go
11 61 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.79%) Scala
14 41 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 40 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 30 (1.10%) Groovy
17 29 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.02%) C++
18 28 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 715 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 636 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.62%) Degree
4 100 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 85 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.84%) CISSP
12 22 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.40%) CISM
17 11 (0.40%) GIAC
17 11 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (9.75%) QA
2 253 (9.24%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.61%) GDPR
4 44 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.57%) NIST
6 26 (0.95%) NCSC
7 23 (0.84%) WCAG
8 19 (0.69%) SLA
9 15 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 11 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
13 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) Basel III
15 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.22%) MiFID
17 5 (0.18%) COBIT
17 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 694 (25.35%) Docker
2 62 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.073%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.073%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.073%) KVM
11 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.073%) Varnish
11 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 822 (30.02%) Kubernetes
2 225 (8.22%) Grafana
3 222 (8.11%) Ansible
4 182 (6.65%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.39%) Argo
6 32 (1.17%) Puppet
7 27 (0.99%) Kibana
8 24 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.69%) Packer
10 15 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.44%) Istio
11 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.40%) Control-M
13 8 (0.29%) SCCM
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 473 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 255 (9.31%) Databricks
3 165 (6.03%) Google
4 138 (5.04%) Oracle
5 112 (4.09%) Splunk
6 88 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.41%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 62 (2.26%) Dynatrace
10 50 (1.83%) VMware
11 45 (1.64%) IBM
12 38 (1.39%) Foundry
13 34 (1.24%) SAP
14 33 (1.21%) Informatica
14 33 (1.21%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.84%) New Relic
17 20 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.69%) Cisco
19 18 (0.66%) Palantir