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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,572 1,470 1,355
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 10.79% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.70% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,730 996 954
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £530 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% -6.11% -5.92%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% -1.52% -8.97%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +5 317 £550 -12.00% 179
South London +1 57 £543 +2.36% 14
West London +5 51 £560 +13.71% 40
East London +7 12 £585 +62.50% 24
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 124 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.00%) Confluence
3 96 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 75 (2.92%) Apache
5 30 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.16%) Trello
5 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Magento
4 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.078%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,153 (44.83%) Azure
2 1,117 (43.43%) AWS
3 573 (22.28%) GitHub
4 453 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
5 387 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
6 383 (14.89%) GCP
7 296 (11.51%) Serverless
8 239 (9.29%) Amazon S3
9 222 (8.63%) Power Platform
10 197 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 138 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 128 (4.98%) Snowflake
14 118 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 118 (4.59%) dbt
15 117 (4.55%) Entra ID
16 115 (4.47%) Azure AKS
17 113 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
18 107 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
19 89 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.80%) Firewall
2 43 (1.67%) Network Security
3 35 (1.36%) DNS
4 34 (1.32%) VPN
5 27 (1.05%) Internet
6 22 (0.86%) HTTP
7 19 (0.74%) 5G
8 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 15 (0.58%) SSL
10 11 (0.43%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
15 5 (0.19%) MPLS
15 5 (0.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.53%) Power BI
2 145 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.63%) SQL Server
7 90 (3.50%) Relational Database
8 89 (3.46%) MongoDB
9 78 (3.03%) Delta Lake
10 73 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 70 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
12 69 (2.68%) Metadata
13 66 (2.57%) BigQuery
14 63 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
15 51 (1.98%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.87%) Big Data
17 44 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (1.71%) Redis
18 36 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 453 (17.61%) Git
2 399 (15.51%) Jenkins
3 321 (12.48%) GitLab
4 184 (7.15%) JIRA
5 71 (2.76%) Selenium
6 68 (2.64%) JUnit
7 46 (1.79%) JMeter
8 44 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.67%) Gradle
10 39 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.52%) Mockito
11 38 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 36 (1.40%) Postman
13 34 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 33 (1.28%) Maven
15 31 (1.21%) MLflow
16 30 (1.17%) SonarQube
17 28 (1.09%) CircleCI
18 24 (0.93%) Gatling
19 21 (0.82%) Liquibase
General
1 621 (24.14%) Finance
2 611 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 312 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 286 (11.12%) Banking
5 204 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.26%) Retail
7 56 (2.18%) Front Office
8 55 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.17%) Law
12 30 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.09%) Marketing
15 24 (0.93%) Legal
16 15 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.51%) Local Government
18 13 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 558 (21.70%) Developer
2 457 (17.77%) Senior
3 290 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 283 (11.00%) Architect
5 264 (10.26%) Lead
6 228 (8.86%) Data Engineer
7 152 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 135 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 133 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.70%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.47%) Java Developer
13 108 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 66 (2.57%) Python Developer
19 62 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
20 59 (2.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (13.53%) REST
2 249 (9.68%) React
3 240 (9.33%) .NET
4 232 (9.02%) Kafka
5 206 (8.01%) RESTful
6 202 (7.85%) Spring
7 169 (6.57%) Spring Boot
8 135 (5.25%) Node.js
9 131 (5.09%) PySpark
10 103 (4.00%) AngularJS
11 100 (3.89%) HTML
12 92 (3.58%) Playwright
13 86 (3.34%) CSS
14 76 (2.95%) JSON
15 71 (2.76%) OAuth
16 66 (2.57%) SOAP
17 65 (2.53%) FastAPI
18 57 (2.22%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.18%) GraphQL
20 54 (2.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 527 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 222 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 92 (3.58%) AI Agents
5 91 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 86 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 38 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 36 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.24%) Fixed Income
14 29 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 185 (7.19%) Linux
2 107 (4.16%) Windows
3 59 (2.29%) Unix
4 36 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.13%) Android
5 29 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.43%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,418 (55.13%) DevOps
2 918 (35.69%) Agile
3 850 (33.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (21.70%) Containerisation
5 544 (21.15%) AI
5 544 (21.15%) Test Automation
6 509 (19.79%) Microservices
7 448 (17.42%) Software Engineering
8 442 (17.19%) Observability
9 376 (14.62%) Analytics
10 352 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
11 350 (13.61%) Data Pipeline
12 330 (12.83%) Data Modelling
13 322 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 312 (12.13%) Data Engineering
15 303 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
16 283 (11.00%) Event-Driven
17 272 (10.58%) Machine Learning
18 270 (10.50%) Full-Stack Development
19 261 (10.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 975 (37.91%) Python
2 695 (27.02%) SQL
3 512 (19.91%) Java
4 269 (10.46%) C#
5 267 (10.38%) TypeScript
6 266 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 199 (7.74%) Bash
8 182 (7.08%) PowerShell
9 107 (4.16%) Bicep
10 59 (2.29%) Go
11 58 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.94%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.87%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.75%) Scala
15 34 (1.32%) Ruby
16 32 (1.24%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.09%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 20 (0.78%) C++
20 19 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 653 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 592 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.17%) Degree
4 100 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 74 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 20 (0.78%) CISSP
12 16 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) PhD
16 11 (0.43%) GIAC
16 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (8.86%) QA
2 207 (8.05%) Data Quality
3 104 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 57 (2.22%) GDPR
5 50 (1.94%) NIST
6 43 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.36%) WCAG
8 23 (0.89%) NCSC
9 20 (0.78%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.35%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.16%) COBIT
14 4 (0.16%) MiFID
14 4 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 663 (25.78%) Docker
2 61 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 2 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.078%) KVM
10 2 (0.078%) Postfix
10 2 (0.078%) Varnish
10 2 (0.078%) vSphere
11 1 (0.039%) IAG
11 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 814 (31.65%) Terraform
2 748 (29.08%) Kubernetes
3 195 (7.58%) Grafana
4 182 (7.08%) Ansible
5 161 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.21%) Argo
7 29 (1.13%) Puppet
8 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.70%) Kibana
9 18 (0.70%) Packer
10 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
12 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 6 (0.23%) Control-M
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
17 4 (0.16%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 388 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 207 (8.05%) Databricks
3 135 (5.25%) Google
4 116 (4.51%) Oracle
5 101 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 89 (3.46%) Splunk
7 59 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 43 (1.67%) OpenAI
10 40 (1.56%) VMware
11 29 (1.13%) IBM
11 29 (1.13%) Informatica
12 27 (1.05%) Foundry
12 27 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 27 (1.05%) SAP
13 22 (0.86%) Red Hat
14 21 (0.82%) Cisco
14 21 (0.82%) New Relic
14 21 (0.82%) Palantir
15 17 (0.66%) CyberArk