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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,421 1,271 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 10.16% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.31% 11.00% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,623 862 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £567
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -5.20% -8.92%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.00 £59.63 £67.50
% change year-on-year +12.37% -11.67% +2.89%

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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -1 274 £566 -5.67% 70
West London +2 50 £603 +21.41% 19
South London -1 42 £513 -3.53% 3
East London +10 13 £450 +80.00% 16
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
1 107 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 106 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (3.30%) Confluence
4 69 (2.85%) Apache
5 28 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.45%) Camunda
7 11 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.29%) Appian
10 7 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.25%) nginx
12 5 (0.21%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.21%) Mendix
12 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
Applications
1 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.083%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 18 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.29%) Shopify
4 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.21%) Magento
5 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.12%) Findur
7 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.083%) Endur
8 2 (0.083%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,092 (45.11%) AWS
2 1,078 (44.53%) Azure
3 547 (22.59%) GitHub
4 416 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
5 356 (14.70%) GitHub Actions
6 343 (14.17%) GCP
7 322 (13.30%) Serverless
8 243 (10.04%) Amazon S3
9 218 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 217 (8.96%) Power Platform
11 173 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 138 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 119 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
15 117 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 112 (4.63%) Azure AKS
17 105 (4.34%) Snowflake
18 102 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
19 101 (4.17%) Entra ID
20 91 (3.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.26%) Firewall
2 53 (2.19%) Network Security
3 34 (1.40%) DNS
4 31 (1.28%) VPN
5 25 (1.03%) HTTP
6 17 (0.70%) Internet
7 16 (0.66%) WAN
8 14 (0.58%) 5G
9 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.37%) SSL
12 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.29%) 4G
13 7 (0.29%) BGP
14 6 (0.25%) FTP
14 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 6 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 5 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (6.24%) Power BI
2 140 (5.78%) Data Lake
3 139 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
4 132 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 131 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 120 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
7 90 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 77 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 73 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
10 73 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 70 (2.89%) Delta Lake
12 64 (2.64%) Metadata
13 58 (2.40%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.11%) Big Data
14 51 (2.11%) DynamoDB
15 43 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (1.73%) Redis
17 35 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 425 (17.55%) Git
2 369 (15.24%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.56%) GitLab
4 156 (6.44%) JIRA
5 68 (2.81%) JUnit
6 63 (2.60%) Selenium
7 44 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.82%) JMeter
7 44 (1.82%) MLflow
7 44 (1.82%) Postman
8 40 (1.65%) Mockito
9 35 (1.45%) Gradle
10 33 (1.36%) REST Assured
11 27 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 25 (1.03%) CircleCI
13 24 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 24 (0.99%) SonarQube
14 23 (0.95%) Maven
15 21 (0.87%) Artifactory
15 21 (0.87%) Snyk
General
1 584 (24.12%) Finance
2 564 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 291 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 262 (10.82%) Banking
5 174 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 49 (2.02%) Front Office
9 45 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (1.69%) Retail
11 28 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.12%) Law
12 27 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 24 (0.99%) Legal
14 19 (0.78%) Marketing
15 18 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.66%) Publishing
17 13 (0.54%) Military
18 11 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 487 (20.12%) Developer
2 405 (16.73%) Senior
3 286 (11.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 279 (11.52%) Architect
5 229 (9.46%) Lead
6 224 (9.25%) Data Engineer
7 156 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
8 144 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
10 119 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 103 (4.25%) Java Developer
11 103 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
12 99 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 76 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
14 75 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
15 74 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 72 (2.97%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
18 61 (2.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (11.65%) REST
2 237 (9.79%) React
3 228 (9.42%) Kafka
4 208 (8.59%) .NET
5 205 (8.47%) RESTful
6 189 (7.81%) Spring
7 171 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 128 (5.29%) PySpark
9 116 (4.79%) Node.js
10 112 (4.63%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.59%) OAuth
12 81 (3.35%) HTML
13 68 (2.81%) CSS
13 68 (2.81%) FastAPI
14 66 (2.73%) Playwright
15 62 (2.56%) JSON
16 60 (2.48%) OAuth2
17 58 (2.40%) Pandas
18 53 (2.19%) SOAP
19 51 (2.11%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 509 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 183 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.81%) AI Agents
7 44 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 32 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 28 (1.16%) Data Structures
17 27 (1.12%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 160 (6.61%) Linux
2 103 (4.25%) Windows
3 47 (1.94%) Unix
4 24 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (0.87%) Android
7 20 (0.83%) VMS
7 20 (0.83%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.21%) Solaris
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.083%) AIX
13 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,316 (54.36%) DevOps
2 825 (34.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 785 (32.42%) Agile
4 538 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 516 (21.31%) AI
6 482 (19.91%) Test Automation
7 464 (19.17%) Microservices
8 412 (17.02%) Observability
9 380 (15.70%) Analytics
10 370 (15.28%) Software Engineering
11 323 (13.34%) Data Modelling
12 319 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
13 316 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
14 305 (12.60%) Data Engineering
15 286 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 279 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
17 278 (11.48%) Machine Learning
18 247 (10.20%) Migration
19 236 (9.75%) Event-Driven
20 233 (9.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 946 (39.07%) Python
2 681 (28.13%) SQL
3 460 (19.00%) Java
4 265 (10.95%) C#
5 239 (9.87%) TypeScript
6 234 (9.67%) JavaScript
7 160 (6.61%) Bash
8 154 (6.36%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.80%) Bicep
10 53 (2.19%) Scala
11 48 (1.98%) Go
12 42 (1.73%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.53%) Ruby
15 36 (1.49%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.62%) C++
18 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 13 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 599 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 535 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.20%) Degree
4 97 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 73 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (0.91%) CISSP
12 16 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.50%) CISM
14 12 (0.50%) GIAC
14 12 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (8.14%) QA
2 193 (7.97%) Data Quality
3 79 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.85%) GDPR
4 69 (2.85%) NIST
5 55 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.28%) NCSC
7 26 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.07%) WCAG
8 22 (0.91%) SLA
9 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 9 (0.37%) GRC
10 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.29%) PSD2
12 6 (0.25%) COBIT
12 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.21%) MiFID
13 5 (0.21%) SEPA
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 632 (26.10%) Docker
2 63 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.083%) HDFS
10 2 (0.083%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.083%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 795 (32.84%) Terraform
2 716 (29.57%) Kubernetes
3 176 (7.27%) Ansible
4 167 (6.90%) Grafana
5 152 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.95%) Puppet
8 20 (0.83%) Argo
9 18 (0.74%) Kibana
10 14 (0.58%) Istio
10 14 (0.58%) Packer
11 11 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.21%) Salt
16 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 357 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 188 (7.77%) Databricks
3 109 (4.50%) Google
4 96 (3.97%) Oracle
5 92 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 83 (3.43%) Splunk
7 59 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.28%) VMware
11 25 (1.03%) Foundry
11 25 (1.03%) Red Hat
12 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 24 (0.99%) IBM
12 24 (0.99%) Informatica
12 24 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 24 (0.99%) SAP
13 19 (0.78%) Cisco
14 17 (0.70%) Palantir
15 14 (0.58%) Palo Alto