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

6 months to
22 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 2,188 1,281 1,263
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.52% 10.08% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.09% 10.95% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 906 918
10th Percentile £394 £400 £415
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.41% -8.92%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £739 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.02% -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 £66.50 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -1.54% -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 15,531 11,694 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 91.98% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,392 7,939 11,222
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £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 £755 £806 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 167 333
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.39 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.55 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.95
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -3 245 £567 -1.35% 204
West London +7 73 £603 +47.31% 23
South London +2 60 £525 +8.25% 6
East London -2 9 £450 -20.70% 26
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 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.20%) Apache
4 62 (2.83%) Confluence
5 34 (1.55%) 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
9 8 (0.37%) CMS
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.82%) 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 (0.091%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.91%) 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 (0.091%) 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 1,016 (46.44%) Azure
2 979 (44.74%) AWS
3 509 (23.26%) GitHub
4 404 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
5 338 (15.45%) GCP
6 319 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
7 312 (14.26%) Serverless
8 232 (10.60%) Amazon S3
9 212 (9.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
11 192 (8.78%) Power Platform
12 132 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 127 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
14 123 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
15 114 (5.21%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 95 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 93 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
19 91 (4.16%) Entra ID
20 84 (3.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.29%) Firewall
2 44 (2.01%) Network Security
3 36 (1.65%) DNS
4 25 (1.14%) HTTP
5 20 (0.91%) 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%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) FTP
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (6.72%) Data Lake
2 138 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.03%) Power BI
4 129 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 123 (5.62%) NoSQL
6 109 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 77 (3.52%) Relational Database
9 73 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 64 (2.93%) Delta Lake
11 63 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
11 63 (2.88%) Metadata
12 61 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 59 (2.70%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.51%) Big Data
15 53 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (1.97%) DynamoDB
17 33 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.51%) Tableau
18 31 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 395 (18.05%) Git
2 357 (16.32%) Jenkins
3 255 (11.65%) GitLab
4 143 (6.54%) JIRA
5 78 (3.56%) Selenium
6 59 (2.70%) JUnit
7 51 (2.33%) MLflow
8 48 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 45 (2.06%) Postman
10 35 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 34 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 34 (1.55%) Mockito
12 29 (1.33%) 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
16 16 (0.73%) Appium
16 16 (0.73%) SpecFlow
General
1 536 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 513 (23.45%) Finance
3 257 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.10%) Banking
5 178 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.10%) Front Office
8 41 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.19%) Retail
13 23 (1.05%) Legal
14 21 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.73%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.64%) Marketing
18 12 (0.55%) Publishing
19 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 499 (22.81%) Developer
2 342 (15.63%) Senior
3 245 (11.20%) Architect
4 236 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 219 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 182 (8.32%) Lead
7 135 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
8 130 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 101 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
12 92 (4.20%) Java Developer
13 82 (3.75%) Senior Developer
14 77 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 70 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 64 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
16 64 (2.93%) Python Developer
17 59 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 57 (2.61%) Python Engineer
19 56 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (10.69%) React
2 224 (10.24%) Kafka
3 205 (9.37%) REST
4 199 (9.10%) .NET
5 191 (8.73%) RESTful
6 177 (8.09%) Node.js
7 176 (8.04%) Spring
8 152 (6.95%) Spring Boot
9 118 (5.39%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.03%) PySpark
11 88 (4.02%) Playwright
12 86 (3.93%) HTML
13 79 (3.61%) CSS
14 78 (3.56%) OAuth
15 61 (2.79%) YAML
16 53 (2.42%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.42%) Pandas
17 51 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
18 49 (2.24%) FastAPI
19 48 (2.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 445 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 152 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 38 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.23%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 25 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 24 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.67%) Linux
2 82 (3.75%) Windows
3 34 (1.55%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) VMS
5 25 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.10%) Android
7 13 (0.59%) 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 1,200 (54.84%) DevOps
2 744 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 711 (32.50%) Agile
4 508 (23.22%) Containerisation
5 453 (20.70%) Test Automation
6 431 (19.70%) AI
7 423 (19.33%) Microservices
8 375 (17.14%) Analytics
9 357 (16.32%) Observability
10 327 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
11 310 (14.17%) Software Engineering
12 292 (13.35%) Data Modelling
13 285 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
14 269 (12.29%) Data Engineering
15 252 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 245 (11.20%) Machine Learning
17 226 (10.33%) ETL
18 215 (9.83%) Migration
19 212 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
20 211 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 859 (39.26%) Python
2 626 (28.61%) SQL
3 417 (19.06%) Java
4 263 (12.02%) C#
5 251 (11.47%) JavaScript
5 251 (11.47%) TypeScript
6 124 (5.67%) Bash
7 109 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 88 (4.02%) Bicep
9 64 (2.93%) Scala
10 49 (2.24%) Go
11 41 (1.87%) Ruby
12 35 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 30 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 29 (1.33%) Apex Code
15 28 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.87%) C++
17 12 (0.55%) R
18 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 542 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 481 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.67%) Degree
4 85 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.82%) CISSP
12 16 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.50%) 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
1 184 (8.41%) QA
2 172 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.93%) GDPR
4 65 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.83%) NIST
6 56 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.55%) NCSC
8 26 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.19%) WCAG
9 20 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (0.91%) SLA
10 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 6 (0.27%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) MiFID
14 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 620 (28.34%) Docker
2 61 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) 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 (0.091%) HDFS
10 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.091%) 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 (33.46%) Terraform
2 669 (30.58%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.44%) Ansible
4 133 (6.08%) Grafana
5 118 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.65%) Argo
7 24 (1.10%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
9 21 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.55%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.37%) Packer
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.32%) Rancher
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) SCCM
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 357 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 207 (9.46%) Databricks
3 117 (5.35%) Google
4 92 (4.20%) Oracle
5 71 (3.24%) Splunk
6 66 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 60 (2.74%) OpenAI
8 57 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 21 (0.96%) IBM
11 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 20 (0.91%) SAP
12 20 (0.91%) VMware
13 17 (0.78%) Foundry
14 15 (0.69%) Cisco
15 13 (0.59%) Okta
16 12 (0.55%) UiPath
17 11 (0.50%) Lotus