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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,184 1,297 1,268
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.54% 10.20% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 11.10% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 919 924
10th Percentile £394 £400 £415
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +1.32% -8.91%
75th Percentile £644 £709 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £36.63 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £39.06 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £43.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.14% -22.22% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £49.06 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.88 £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.69% -1.54% -0.84%

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 15,485 11,688 15,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 91.95% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,369 7,938 11,291
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £757 £802 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 334
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.94
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.13 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -2 249 £550 -4.35% 184
West London +8 72 £603 +47.31% 27
South London +2 63 £525 +8.25% 5
East London -4 9 £450 -15.69% 27
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
1 108 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 88 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.11%) Apache
4 61 (2.79%) Confluence
5 34 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.50%) SAS
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Camunda
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.87%) 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 20 (0.92%) 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%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) Actimize
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
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%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,006 (46.06%) Azure
2 978 (44.78%) AWS
3 506 (23.17%) GitHub
4 398 (18.22%) Azure DevOps
5 333 (15.25%) GCP
6 317 (14.51%) GitHub Actions
7 311 (14.24%) Serverless
8 232 (10.62%) Amazon S3
9 211 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 200 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (8.70%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
14 124 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
15 110 (5.04%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 97 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 92 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
19 89 (4.08%) Entra ID
20 82 (3.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.25%) Firewall
2 44 (2.01%) Network Security
3 36 (1.65%) DNS
4 26 (1.19%) HTTP
5 20 (0.92%) 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
10 6 (0.27%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Internet
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (6.46%) Data Lake
3 132 (6.04%) Power BI
4 127 (5.82%) NoSQL
5 126 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 107 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 77 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 75 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
10 63 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
11 61 (2.79%) Metadata
12 60 (2.75%) Delta Lake
13 59 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 56 (2.56%) BigQuery
15 54 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 54 (2.47%) Big Data
16 45 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 33 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (1.42%) Redis
18 31 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 395 (18.09%) Git
2 354 (16.21%) Jenkins
3 254 (11.63%) GitLab
4 143 (6.55%) JIRA
5 78 (3.57%) Selenium
6 60 (2.75%) JUnit
7 49 (2.24%) MLflow
8 48 (2.20%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.01%) Postman
10 35 (1.60%) Mockito
10 35 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 34 (1.56%) Cypress.io
12 28 (1.28%) JMeter
13 24 (1.10%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.82%) Artifactory
14 18 (0.82%) Maven
14 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.78%) Gradle
15 17 (0.78%) Liquibase
16 16 (0.73%) Appium
General
1 531 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 507 (23.21%) Finance
3 258 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.12%) Banking
5 176 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.06%) Front Office
8 41 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 34 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.19%) Retail
13 23 (1.05%) Legal
14 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.73%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.64%) Marketing
18 13 (0.60%) Publishing
19 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 506 (23.17%) Developer
2 340 (15.57%) Senior
3 240 (10.99%) Architect
4 238 (10.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 220 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 189 (8.65%) Lead
7 133 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
8 132 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
9 109 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 102 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
12 94 (4.30%) Java Developer
13 81 (3.71%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 69 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 65 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
17 64 (2.93%) Python Developer
18 60 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.66%) Python Engineer
20 56 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (11.13%) React
2 225 (10.30%) Kafka
3 204 (9.34%) REST
4 195 (8.93%) RESTful
5 192 (8.79%) .NET
6 187 (8.56%) Node.js
7 177 (8.10%) Spring
8 152 (6.96%) Spring Boot
9 121 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.99%) PySpark
11 87 (3.98%) Playwright
12 86 (3.94%) HTML
13 81 (3.71%) CSS
14 79 (3.62%) OAuth
15 62 (2.84%) YAML
16 54 (2.47%) GraphQL
17 53 (2.43%) Pandas
18 50 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
19 49 (2.24%) FastAPI
19 49 (2.24%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 440 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 38 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 32 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (1.19%) Management Information System
16 25 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
17 24 (1.10%) Data Structures
18 23 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.64%) Linux
2 78 (3.57%) Windows
3 32 (1.47%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.19%) VMS
5 24 (1.10%) Android
6 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.23%) zOS
8 4 (0.18%) Solaris
8 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.046%) AIX
9 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (54.58%) DevOps
2 734 (33.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 705 (32.28%) Agile
4 506 (23.17%) Containerisation
5 450 (20.60%) Test Automation
6 429 (19.64%) AI
7 422 (19.32%) Microservices
8 369 (16.90%) Analytics
9 356 (16.30%) Observability
10 326 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
11 309 (14.15%) Software Engineering
12 289 (13.23%) Data Modelling
13 278 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
14 265 (12.13%) Data Engineering
15 255 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 244 (11.17%) Machine Learning
17 222 (10.16%) ETL
18 215 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
19 213 (9.75%) Migration
20 211 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 853 (39.06%) Python
2 623 (28.53%) SQL
3 422 (19.32%) Java
4 259 (11.86%) TypeScript
5 257 (11.77%) JavaScript
6 253 (11.58%) C#
7 121 (5.54%) Bash
8 105 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 85 (3.89%) Bicep
10 65 (2.98%) Scala
11 48 (2.20%) Go
12 41 (1.88%) Ruby
13 33 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 31 (1.42%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.33%) Apex Code
16 28 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.92%) C++
18 11 (0.50%) Formula Language
18 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 544 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 480 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.68%) Degree
4 83 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.82%) CISSP
13 16 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.33%) QA
2 168 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.94%) GDPR
4 68 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.84%) NIST
6 56 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.56%) NCSC
8 28 (1.28%) WCAG
9 26 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.92%) SLA
11 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.27%) GRC
13 6 (0.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) MiFID
15 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 621 (28.43%) Docker
2 59 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.14%) Squid
9 2 (0.092%) HDFS
9 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.046%) IAG
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.046%) Postfix
10 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 727 (33.29%) Terraform
2 668 (30.59%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.36%) Ansible
4 131 (6.00%) Grafana
5 115 (5.27%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.65%) Argo
7 24 (1.10%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
9 21 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.60%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.37%) Packer
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.32%) Rancher
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 208 (9.52%) Databricks
3 118 (5.40%) Google
4 93 (4.26%) Oracle
5 70 (3.21%) Splunk
6 64 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.66%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 21 (0.96%) IBM
11 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.96%) VMware
12 20 (0.92%) SAP
13 17 (0.78%) Foundry
14 15 (0.69%) Cisco
15 12 (0.55%) Okta
15 12 (0.55%) UiPath
16 11 (0.50%) Lotus