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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,184 1,284 1,288
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.45% 10.07% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.03% 10.94% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 903 947
10th Percentile £394 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +1.77% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.80% -3.85% -0.92%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -3 249 £572 -1.38% 164
West London +11 71 £603 +47.31% 19
South London +3 57 £525 +8.25% 6
East London -4 9 £450 -20.70% 19
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
1 110 (5.04%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.07%) Apache
4 62 (2.84%) Confluence
5 31 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
9 8 (0.37%) Camunda
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.092%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) Magento
6 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,019 (46.66%) Azure
2 977 (44.73%) AWS
3 510 (23.35%) GitHub
4 406 (18.59%) Azure DevOps
5 339 (15.52%) GCP
6 323 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
7 312 (14.29%) Serverless
8 230 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 211 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
11 189 (8.65%) Power Platform
12 132 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 125 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
14 124 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
15 116 (5.31%) Azure AKS
16 99 (4.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 95 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 92 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
19 90 (4.12%) Entra ID
20 86 (3.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.34%) Firewall
2 45 (2.06%) Network Security
3 37 (1.69%) DNS
4 26 (1.19%) HTTP
5 21 (0.96%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.37%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
10 6 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.68%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (6.00%) Power BI
3 131 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 122 (5.59%) NoSQL
5 107 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 74 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 71 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
9 64 (2.93%) Delta Lake
10 62 (2.84%) Metadata
11 61 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
11 61 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (2.66%) BigQuery
13 56 (2.56%) Big Data
14 53 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 44 (2.01%) DynamoDB
16 34 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.51%) Tableau
18 30 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 392 (17.95%) Git
2 358 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 255 (11.68%) GitLab
4 138 (6.32%) JIRA
5 76 (3.48%) Selenium
6 60 (2.75%) JUnit
7 52 (2.38%) MLflow
8 49 (2.24%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.01%) Postman
10 35 (1.60%) Mockito
11 34 (1.56%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.51%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.28%) JMeter
14 24 (1.10%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.87%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.82%) Artifactory
16 18 (0.82%) Gradle
17 17 (0.78%) Maven
18 16 (0.73%) Appium
18 16 (0.73%) SpecFlow
General
1 530 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 517 (23.67%) Finance
3 257 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 220 (10.07%) Banking
5 176 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.06%) Front Office
8 40 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 34 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.19%) Retail
13 24 (1.10%) Legal
14 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.69%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.60%) Marketing
18 13 (0.60%) Publishing
19 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 495 (22.66%) Developer
2 340 (15.57%) Senior
3 248 (11.36%) Architect
4 237 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 218 (9.98%) Data Engineer
6 181 (8.29%) Lead
7 134 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 130 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
9 109 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 98 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
10 98 (4.49%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.26%) Java Developer
12 82 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 73 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 70 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 63 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
16 62 (2.84%) Python Developer
17 59 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 58 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
19 55 (2.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (10.39%) React
2 223 (10.21%) Kafka
3 206 (9.43%) REST
4 196 (8.97%) .NET
5 189 (8.65%) RESTful
6 180 (8.24%) Spring
7 175 (8.01%) Node.js
8 156 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 119 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.04%) PySpark
11 88 (4.03%) Playwright
12 84 (3.85%) HTML
13 77 (3.53%) OAuth
14 76 (3.48%) CSS
15 60 (2.75%) YAML
16 55 (2.52%) Pandas
17 54 (2.47%) GraphQL
18 52 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
19 49 (2.24%) FastAPI
20 46 (2.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 449 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 152 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 37 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.24%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 25 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 23 (1.05%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.78%) Linux
2 85 (3.89%) Windows
3 35 (1.60%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) VMS
5 25 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.10%) Android
7 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (55.13%) DevOps
2 748 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 708 (32.42%) Agile
4 512 (23.44%) Containerisation
5 452 (20.70%) Test Automation
6 432 (19.78%) AI
7 425 (19.46%) Microservices
8 376 (17.22%) Analytics
9 359 (16.44%) Observability
10 325 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (14.10%) Software Engineering
12 289 (13.23%) Data Modelling
13 281 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (12.36%) Data Engineering
15 250 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 247 (11.31%) Machine Learning
17 222 (10.16%) ETL
18 216 (9.89%) Migration
19 214 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
20 207 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 851 (38.97%) Python
2 625 (28.62%) SQL
3 418 (19.14%) Java
4 262 (12.00%) C#
5 244 (11.17%) JavaScript
5 244 (11.17%) TypeScript
6 123 (5.63%) Bash
7 112 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 91 (4.17%) Bicep
9 62 (2.84%) Scala
10 48 (2.20%) Go
11 41 (1.88%) Ruby
12 35 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 30 (1.37%) Apex Code
13 30 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.82%) C++
16 12 (0.55%) R
17 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 550 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 489 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.63%) Degree
4 86 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.82%) CISSP
13 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 8 (0.37%) CCSP
19 8 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.52%) QA
2 169 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.03%) GDPR
4 60 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 60 (2.75%) NIST
5 54 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.47%) NCSC
7 26 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.05%) WCAG
9 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (0.92%) SLA
10 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.27%) GRC
11 6 (0.27%) MiFID
11 6 (0.27%) PSD2
12 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.18%) COBIT
13 4 (0.18%) PERC
13 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 625 (28.62%) Docker
2 60 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.092%) HDFS
10 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.046%) IAG
11 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.046%) Postfix
11 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 732 (33.52%) Terraform
2 674 (30.86%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.46%) Ansible
4 133 (6.09%) Grafana
5 119 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.60%) Argo
7 23 (1.05%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
8 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.55%) Kibana
10 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.37%) Packer
13 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) Rancher
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) SCCM
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 357 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 204 (9.34%) Databricks
3 115 (5.27%) Google
4 93 (4.26%) Oracle
5 73 (3.34%) Splunk
6 66 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.70%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.01%) VMware
11 21 (0.96%) IBM
11 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.96%) SAP
12 18 (0.82%) Foundry
13 15 (0.69%) Cisco
14 13 (0.60%) Okta
15 12 (0.55%) UiPath
16 11 (0.50%) Lotus