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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,839 1,439 1,365
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.78% 9.55% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.98% 10.60% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,011 1,025
10th Percentile £365 £406 £425
25th Percentile £435 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -8.44% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £32.75 - £56.95
25th Percentile £42.50 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - £72.00
90th Percentile £68.60 - £73.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,151 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 237
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +3 215 £550 -10.20% 100
West London +5 59 £603 +26.84% 24
South London +11 55 £525 -2.42% 31
East London -5 11 £540 +8.00% 20
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 83 (4.51%) Confluence
2 67 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.96%) Apache
5 28 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.92%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 7 (0.38%) HCL Notes
9 6 (0.33%) Mendix
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.16%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.054%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.054%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.054%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.054%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 834 (45.35%) AWS
2 783 (42.58%) Azure
3 432 (23.49%) GitHub
4 313 (17.02%) GCP
5 306 (16.64%) GitHub Actions
6 304 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
7 248 (13.49%) Serverless
8 172 (9.35%) Amazon S3
9 150 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 130 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 114 (6.20%) Power Platform
12 102 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
13 99 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
14 95 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 84 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 82 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
16 82 (4.46%) Azure AKS
17 70 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 65 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.46%) Firewall
2 66 (3.59%) DNS
3 36 (1.96%) Network Security
4 30 (1.63%) VPN
5 23 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.14%) HTTP
7 17 (0.92%) SSL
8 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (0.65%) SSH
9 12 (0.65%) WAN
10 11 (0.60%) SMTP
11 10 (0.54%) FTP
11 10 (0.54%) IMAP
11 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.33%) BGP
12 6 (0.33%) DHCP
12 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
12 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.27%) MPLS
13 5 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 96 (5.22%) NoSQL
4 81 (4.40%) Power BI
5 76 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
8 63 (3.43%) MongoDB
9 58 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 39 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 35 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 34 (1.85%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (1.63%) Big Data
15 28 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.47%) Metadata
16 27 (1.47%) MySQL
17 22 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
18 21 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 365 (19.85%) Jenkins
2 335 (18.22%) Git
3 228 (12.40%) GitLab
4 145 (7.88%) JIRA
5 72 (3.92%) Selenium
6 49 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 49 (2.66%) JUnit
7 48 (2.61%) Cypress.io
8 38 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 36 (1.96%) Postman
10 30 (1.63%) TeamCity
11 29 (1.58%) Maven
12 27 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 27 (1.47%) JMeter
12 27 (1.47%) MLflow
13 25 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
14 23 (1.25%) Gradle
15 21 (1.14%) Mockito
16 20 (1.09%) CircleCI
17 19 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 491 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 407 (22.13%) Finance
3 210 (11.42%) Banking
4 193 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 151 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 47 (2.56%) Front Office
8 35 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.69%) Marketing
10 30 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.20%) Retail
13 19 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.71%) Electronics
16 13 (0.71%) Publishing
17 12 (0.65%) Military
18 11 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 478 (25.99%) Developer
2 300 (16.31%) Senior
3 243 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 153 (8.32%) Architect
5 145 (7.88%) Data Engineer
6 124 (6.74%) Lead
7 111 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
8 104 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 97 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
10 95 (5.17%) Java Developer
11 91 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 82 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (4.40%) Software Engineer
14 68 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.48%) Python Engineer
16 62 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 61 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 54 (2.94%) Python Developer
20 50 (2.72%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (12.67%) React
2 206 (11.20%) Node.js
3 195 (10.60%) Kafka
4 176 (9.57%) RESTful
5 166 (9.03%) REST
6 165 (8.97%) .NET
7 139 (7.56%) Spring
8 111 (6.04%) Spring Boot
9 104 (5.66%) AngularJS
10 91 (4.95%) CSS
11 89 (4.84%) HTML
12 83 (4.51%) Playwright
13 70 (3.81%) GraphQL
14 59 (3.21%) JSON
14 59 (3.21%) YAML
15 58 (3.15%) OAuth
16 56 (3.05%) PySpark
17 55 (2.99%) .NET Core
18 50 (2.72%) Vue
19 45 (2.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 327 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 125 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 40 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 33 (1.79%) Derivative
6 33 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 31 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 31 (1.69%) Replication
9 30 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (1.25%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 22 (1.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 181 (9.84%) Linux
2 67 (3.64%) Windows
3 39 (2.12%) Android
3 39 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.63%) Unix
5 27 (1.47%) VMS
6 20 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.054%) tvOS
12 1 (0.054%) watchOS
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,053 (57.26%) DevOps
2 664 (36.11%) Agile
3 595 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 384 (20.88%) Containerisation
5 374 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 371 (20.17%) Test Automation
7 351 (19.09%) Microservices
8 272 (14.79%) Software Engineering
9 244 (13.27%) Observability
10 229 (12.45%) AI
10 229 (12.45%) Analytics
11 201 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
12 181 (9.84%) Data Engineering
13 177 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
14 174 (9.46%) Migration
15 164 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 161 (8.75%) Machine Learning
17 156 (8.48%) Mentoring
18 150 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
19 147 (7.99%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 733 (39.86%) Python
2 416 (22.62%) SQL
3 399 (21.70%) Java
4 270 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 246 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 211 (11.47%) C#
7 159 (8.65%) Bash
8 113 (6.14%) PowerShell
9 101 (5.49%) Go
10 67 (3.64%) Bicep
11 50 (2.72%) C++
12 35 (1.90%) Scala
13 30 (1.63%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.58%) Rust
15 25 (1.36%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.25%) Ruby
16 23 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 21 (1.14%) Groovy
18 19 (1.03%) PHP
19 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 395 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 347 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.69%) Degree
4 68 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 59 (3.21%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (0.92%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.87%) CISSP
13 14 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.65%) OSCP
16 11 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 10 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.38%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.10%) QA
2 84 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 81 (4.40%) GDPR
4 66 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 49 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.18%) NIST
7 21 (1.14%) WCAG
8 16 (0.87%) NCSC
8 16 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.49%) MiFID
11 9 (0.49%) SLA
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.22%) PERC
14 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 592 (32.19%) Docker
2 49 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.65%) Squid
6 10 (0.54%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.54%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.54%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 5 (0.27%) vSphere
9 4 (0.22%) NFS
9 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 633 (34.42%) Kubernetes
2 624 (33.93%) Terraform
3 169 (9.19%) Ansible
4 157 (8.54%) Grafana
5 138 (7.50%) Prometheus
6 52 (2.83%) Argo
7 22 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.14%) Istio
9 20 (1.09%) Puppet
10 18 (0.98%) Kibana
10 18 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
12 12 (0.65%) Nessus
13 10 (0.54%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.49%) Rancher
15 8 (0.44%) Packer
16 7 (0.38%) logstash
17 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
17 6 (0.33%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 236 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.46%) Databricks
3 126 (6.85%) Google
4 78 (4.24%) Oracle
5 59 (3.21%) Splunk
6 52 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 52 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.34%) OpenAI
8 32 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 25 (1.36%) VMware
10 24 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 22 (1.20%) SAP
12 18 (0.98%) Cisco
12 18 (0.98%) Solace
13 16 (0.87%) Atlassian
13 16 (0.87%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.60%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (0.54%) Qualys