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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,478 1,335 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 10.36% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.47% 11.23% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,664 896 1,007
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -7.83% -6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £813 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £555
% change year-on-year +2.44% -7.66% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £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 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.60% -6.72% +2.13%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +2 284 £550 -9.84% 179
West London +8 53 £601 +22.08% 24
South London +3 48 £538 +1.03% 5
East London +7 11 £475 +90.00% 18
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 88 (3.55%) Confluence
4 69 (2.78%) Apache
5 28 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Camunda
7 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) Appian
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) HCL Notes
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.081%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 21 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.081%) Endur
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.081%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.040%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (44.71%) AWS
2 1,092 (44.07%) Azure
3 547 (22.07%) GitHub
4 424 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 358 (14.45%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (14.08%) GCP
7 319 (12.87%) Serverless
8 241 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 216 (8.72%) Power Platform
10 210 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 135 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
14 117 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 114 (4.60%) Azure AKS
15 114 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 109 (4.40%) Snowflake
17 104 (4.20%) Entra ID
18 98 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
19 97 (3.91%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.99%) Firewall
2 49 (1.98%) Network Security
3 32 (1.29%) DNS
4 31 (1.25%) VPN
5 24 (0.97%) HTTP
6 20 (0.81%) Internet
7 17 (0.69%) WAN
8 16 (0.65%) 5G
9 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.36%) SSL
12 8 (0.32%) 4G
12 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.28%) BGP
13 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
15 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (6.17%) Power BI
2 145 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (5.45%) Data Lake
4 133 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 132 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 126 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
7 94 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 88 (3.55%) MongoDB
9 76 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 71 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
11 70 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.82%) Delta Lake
12 66 (2.66%) Metadata
13 55 (2.22%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.06%) Big Data
15 48 (1.94%) DynamoDB
16 42 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 36 (1.45%) Redis
19 32 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 438 (17.68%) Git
2 380 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.27%) GitLab
4 167 (6.74%) JIRA
5 74 (2.99%) JUnit
6 69 (2.78%) Selenium
7 45 (1.82%) Postman
8 44 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.74%) JMeter
10 41 (1.65%) Mockito
11 40 (1.61%) MLflow
12 38 (1.53%) REST Assured
13 37 (1.49%) Gradle
14 33 (1.33%) Cypress.io
15 27 (1.09%) Maven
16 26 (1.05%) CircleCI
17 25 (1.01%) Bitbucket
17 25 (1.01%) SonarQube
18 21 (0.85%) Gatling
19 20 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 598 (24.13%) Finance
2 574 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 300 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 276 (11.14%) Banking
5 187 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
6 58 (2.34%) Investment Banking
7 51 (2.06%) Front Office
8 47 (1.90%) Retail
9 44 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.13%) Law
12 27 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 24 (0.97%) Legal
14 22 (0.89%) Marketing
15 16 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.52%) Publishing
17 12 (0.48%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 509 (20.54%) Developer
2 413 (16.67%) Senior
3 294 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 279 (11.26%) Architect
5 240 (9.69%) Lead
6 228 (9.20%) Data Engineer
7 160 (6.46%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.89%) Azure Engineer
9 136 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.88%) Software Engineer
11 116 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 101 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 99 (4.00%) Senior Developer
14 80 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
16 69 (2.78%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 61 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (11.82%) REST
2 240 (9.69%) React
3 235 (9.48%) Kafka
4 223 (9.00%) .NET
5 209 (8.43%) RESTful
6 204 (8.23%) Spring
7 175 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.41%) PySpark
9 123 (4.96%) Node.js
10 113 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 85 (3.43%) HTML
12 82 (3.31%) OAuth
13 79 (3.19%) Playwright
14 72 (2.91%) CSS
15 66 (2.66%) JSON
16 65 (2.62%) FastAPI
17 59 (2.38%) OAuth2
18 57 (2.30%) GraphQL
19 55 (2.22%) Pandas
19 55 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 525 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 190 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 83 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.78%) AI Agents
7 50 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 42 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 38 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.33%) Fixed Income
12 33 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 32 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 30 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 168 (6.78%) Linux
2 104 (4.20%) Windows
3 52 (2.10%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.89%) Android
6 22 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.52%) VMS
8 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) zOS
11 2 (0.081%) AIX
11 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,360 (54.88%) DevOps
2 831 (33.54%) Agile
3 830 (33.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (22.52%) Containerisation
5 512 (20.66%) AI
6 505 (20.38%) Test Automation
7 469 (18.93%) Microservices
8 407 (16.42%) Observability
9 386 (15.58%) Software Engineering
10 381 (15.38%) Analytics
11 326 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
12 320 (12.91%) Data Pipeline
13 318 (12.83%) Data Modelling
14 306 (12.35%) Data Engineering
15 299 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 286 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
17 272 (10.98%) Machine Learning
18 252 (10.17%) Migration
19 248 (10.01%) Event-Driven
20 240 (9.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 952 (38.42%) Python
2 679 (27.40%) SQL
3 481 (19.41%) Java
4 274 (11.06%) C#
5 250 (10.09%) TypeScript
6 239 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 172 (6.94%) Bash
8 159 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.95%) Bicep
10 52 (2.10%) Go
10 52 (2.10%) Scala
11 44 (1.78%) Apex Code
12 41 (1.65%) Kotlin
13 40 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.41%) Ruby
15 29 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.05%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.56%) SOQL
19 13 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 628 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 563 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.21%) Degree
4 93 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 58 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.89%) CISSP
11 21 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.48%) CISM
15 12 (0.48%) GIAC
15 12 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.44%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (8.35%) QA
2 195 (7.87%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 68 (2.74%) GDPR
5 65 (2.62%) NIST
6 53 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.33%) NCSC
8 28 (1.13%) WCAG
9 23 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.89%) SLA
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.32%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.24%) COBIT
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 651 (26.27%) Docker
2 59 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
5 11 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.081%) HDFS
10 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.040%) IAG
11 1 (0.040%) NFS
11 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.040%) Samba
11 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 809 (32.65%) Terraform
2 746 (30.10%) Kubernetes
3 177 (7.14%) Ansible
4 171 (6.90%) Grafana
5 151 (6.09%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.01%) Puppet
7 24 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.81%) Argo
9 18 (0.73%) Kibana
10 15 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.44%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
16 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 355 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 191 (7.71%) Databricks
3 107 (4.32%) Google
4 105 (4.24%) Oracle
5 94 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 88 (3.55%) Splunk
7 55 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 38 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 31 (1.25%) VMware
10 28 (1.13%) IBM
10 28 (1.13%) Informatica
11 26 (1.05%) Foundry
12 25 (1.01%) CyberArk
13 24 (0.97%) SAP
14 23 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.89%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.85%) Palantir
17 18 (0.73%) Cisco
18 13 (0.52%) Sybase