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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,131 1,312 1,232
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.78% 10.37% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.25% 11.34% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 948 909
10th Percentile £392 £400 £424
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £640 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £47.25 - £50.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -8.70% -25.81%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £63.70
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.72% +2.02% -5.50%

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 14,959 11,567 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.45% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 7,825 11,442
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £71.13
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -6 242 £530 -7.83% 202
West London +8 68 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +2 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -2 11 £450 -10.00% 13
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 97 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 82 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.19%) Confluence
4 61 (2.86%) Apache
5 31 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
6 12 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
8 10 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.38%) Appian
11 7 (0.33%) Camunda
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.28%) nginx
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.094%) Endur
5 2 (0.094%) Magento
5 2 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.094%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.094%) Shopify
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.047%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.047%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 990 (46.46%) Azure
2 949 (44.53%) AWS
3 509 (23.89%) GitHub
4 392 (18.40%) Azure DevOps
5 344 (16.14%) GCP
6 324 (15.20%) GitHub Actions
7 314 (14.73%) Serverless
8 214 (10.04%) Amazon S3
9 201 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
11 182 (8.54%) Power Platform
12 129 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
15 103 (4.83%) Azure AKS
16 94 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 94 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 90 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
18 81 (3.80%) Snowflake
19 78 (3.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.61%) Firewall
2 48 (2.25%) Network Security
3 40 (1.88%) DNS
4 26 (1.22%) VPN
5 22 (1.03%) HTTP
6 18 (0.84%) WAN
7 16 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.42%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
9 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
10 6 (0.28%) 5G
10 6 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.28%) MPLS
10 6 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Multicast
12 4 (0.19%) 4G
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.34%) Data Lake
1 135 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (6.05%) Power BI
3 126 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 117 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 105 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
6 76 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 75 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 58 (2.72%) Delta Lake
10 57 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 56 (2.63%) BigQuery
12 51 (2.39%) Metadata
13 50 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 50 (2.35%) Big Data
14 42 (1.97%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.55%) Tableau
16 32 (1.50%) MySQL
17 31 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 397 (18.63%) Git
2 370 (17.36%) Jenkins
3 264 (12.39%) GitLab
4 149 (6.99%) JIRA
5 78 (3.66%) Selenium
6 62 (2.91%) JUnit
7 55 (2.58%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.44%) MLflow
9 43 (2.02%) Postman
10 35 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.64%) REST Assured
11 32 (1.50%) JMeter
11 32 (1.50%) Mockito
12 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.84%) Maven
14 17 (0.80%) Gatling
15 16 (0.75%) Gradle
15 16 (0.75%) Liquibase
15 16 (0.75%) SpecFlow
15 16 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 547 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 490 (22.99%) Finance
3 248 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 216 (10.14%) Banking
5 178 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.21%) Front Office
7 45 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 31 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.22%) Retail
12 21 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.84%) Legal
14 17 (0.80%) Marketing
15 15 (0.70%) Law
15 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.56%) Publishing
17 8 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 500 (23.46%) Developer
2 333 (15.63%) Senior
3 235 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 225 (10.56%) Architect
5 212 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 175 (8.21%) Lead
7 125 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 98 (4.60%) Software Engineer
11 96 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 84 (3.94%) Java Developer
12 84 (3.94%) Senior Developer
13 80 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 73 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 62 (2.91%) Python Developer
15 62 (2.91%) Python Engineer
16 61 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
17 57 (2.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 55 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (11.31%) React
2 226 (10.61%) Kafka
3 204 (9.57%) REST
4 195 (9.15%) Node.js
5 188 (8.82%) .NET
5 188 (8.82%) RESTful
6 162 (7.60%) Spring
7 134 (6.29%) Spring Boot
8 129 (6.05%) AngularJS
9 102 (4.79%) PySpark
10 100 (4.69%) Playwright
11 90 (4.22%) CSS
11 90 (4.22%) HTML
12 79 (3.71%) OAuth
13 61 (2.86%) YAML
14 55 (2.58%) GraphQL
15 52 (2.44%) FastAPI
16 48 (2.25%) Pandas
17 47 (2.21%) PyTorch
17 47 (2.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 425 (19.94%) Cloud Native
2 135 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 42 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 36 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 34 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.41%) Equities
13 29 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 29 (1.36%) Derivative
14 28 (1.31%) Fixed Income
14 28 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 26 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
17 24 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.76%) Linux
2 67 (3.14%) Windows
3 30 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.36%) Unix
5 28 (1.31%) VMS
6 23 (1.08%) Android
7 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.094%) Solaris
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (55.00%) DevOps
2 709 (33.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 690 (32.38%) Agile
4 497 (23.32%) Containerisation
5 452 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 399 (18.72%) AI
7 395 (18.54%) Microservices
8 366 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
9 347 (16.28%) Analytics
10 344 (16.14%) Observability
11 301 (14.12%) Software Engineering
12 277 (13.00%) Data Modelling
13 266 (12.48%) Data Engineering
14 263 (12.34%) Data Pipeline
15 254 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 239 (11.22%) Machine Learning
17 216 (10.14%) ETL
18 207 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
19 201 (9.43%) Mentoring
20 200 (9.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 859 (40.31%) Python
2 591 (27.73%) SQL
3 407 (19.10%) Java
4 266 (12.48%) TypeScript
5 263 (12.34%) JavaScript
6 244 (11.45%) C#
7 125 (5.87%) Bash
8 103 (4.83%) PowerShell
9 80 (3.75%) Bicep
10 63 (2.96%) Scala
11 55 (2.58%) Go
12 38 (1.78%) Ruby
13 31 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.31%) C++
15 27 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.13%) Apex Code
16 24 (1.13%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.61%) Rust
17 13 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 518 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 454 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.10%) Degree
4 79 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 74 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.89%) CISSP
12 19 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
15 12 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.47%) CCSP
18 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.40%) QA
2 158 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.13%) GDPR
4 74 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.67%) NIST
6 56 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.41%) NCSC
7 30 (1.41%) WCAG
8 29 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.89%) SLA
11 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.19%) GRC
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 635 (29.80%) Docker
2 52 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.094%) HDFS
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) IAG
9 1 (0.047%) Squid
9 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 717 (33.65%) Terraform
2 668 (31.35%) Kubernetes
3 147 (6.90%) Ansible
4 136 (6.38%) Grafana
5 119 (5.58%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.78%) Argo
7 22 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.94%) Istio
9 19 (0.89%) Puppet
10 13 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.52%) Kibana
12 9 (0.42%) Rancher
13 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.23%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 330 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.90%) Databricks
3 125 (5.87%) Google
4 86 (4.04%) Oracle
5 66 (3.10%) Splunk
6 61 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.58%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 19 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 19 (0.89%) VMware
13 18 (0.84%) Cisco
13 18 (0.84%) SAP
14 17 (0.80%) Foundry
14 17 (0.80%) IBM
15 13 (0.61%) UiPath
16 12 (0.56%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.56%) Solace