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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,645 1,486 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.16% 11.10% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.78% 12.00% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,774 1,011 969
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £795
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.60 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -12.75%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +8 332 £550 -10.20% 169
South London +5 64 £538 +1.27% 19
West London +5 54 £560 +13.71% 106
East London +6 11 £590 +9.26% 18
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
1 129 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.16%) Confluence
3 104 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.87%) Apache
5 29 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.45%) Camunda
6 12 (0.45%) CMS
7 11 (0.42%) nginx
8 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (45.63%) Azure
2 1,157 (43.74%) AWS
3 595 (22.50%) GitHub
4 480 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
6 397 (15.01%) GCP
7 312 (11.80%) Serverless
8 236 (8.92%) Power Platform
9 233 (8.81%) Amazon S3
10 202 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (5.63%) Snowflake
13 136 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 131 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 130 (4.91%) dbt
16 123 (4.65%) Azure AKS
17 120 (4.54%) Entra ID
18 118 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
19 109 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.65%) Firewall
2 43 (1.63%) Network Security
3 36 (1.36%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 25 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 24 (0.91%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 16 (0.60%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.42%) SAN
13 10 (0.38%) 4G
13 10 (0.38%) BGP
13 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.73%) Power BI
2 169 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 131 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.39%) Data Lake
7 105 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 99 (3.74%) Relational Database
9 86 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
10 85 (3.21%) Metadata
11 83 (3.14%) Delta Lake
12 74 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 70 (2.65%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.08%) Redis
15 52 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 45 (1.70%) DynamoDB
18 44 (1.66%) Big Data
19 38 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
20 35 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 485 (18.34%) Git
2 429 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 347 (13.12%) GitLab
4 187 (7.07%) JIRA
5 86 (3.25%) Selenium
6 72 (2.72%) JUnit
7 51 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 48 (1.81%) Gradle
9 46 (1.74%) JMeter
10 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 39 (1.47%) Mockito
11 35 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 35 (1.32%) Maven
11 35 (1.32%) Postman
12 33 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 32 (1.21%) REST Assured
14 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.95%) MLflow
16 23 (0.87%) Gatling
17 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 661 (24.99%) Social Skills
2 641 (24.23%) Finance
3 310 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.19%) Banking
5 235 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.38%) Front Office
7 61 (2.31%) Retail
8 57 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.17%) Law
11 31 (1.17%) Marketing
12 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.95%) Legal
15 17 (0.64%) Military
16 15 (0.57%) Local Government
16 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 568 (21.47%) Developer
2 475 (17.96%) Senior
3 316 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 302 (11.42%) Architect
5 262 (9.91%) Lead
6 242 (9.15%) Data Engineer
7 158 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 140 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.95%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 120 (4.54%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 80 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 76 (2.87%) Python Developer
18 67 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 63 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 853 (32.25%) Terraform
2 387 (14.63%) REST
3 274 (10.36%) Kafka
4 263 (9.94%) React
5 241 (9.11%) .NET
6 215 (8.13%) RESTful
7 206 (7.79%) Spring
8 176 (6.65%) Spring Boot
9 139 (5.26%) PySpark
10 129 (4.88%) Node.js
11 102 (3.86%) HTML
12 92 (3.48%) AngularJS
13 91 (3.44%) CSS
14 89 (3.36%) Playwright
15 87 (3.29%) JSON
16 73 (2.76%) OAuth
17 70 (2.65%) FastAPI
18 68 (2.57%) SOAP
19 57 (2.16%) Next.js
20 56 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 552 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 151 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.20%) AI Agents
5 107 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 35 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.17%) Fixed Income
15 31 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 30 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 223 (8.43%) Linux
2 113 (4.27%) Windows
3 71 (2.68%) Unix
4 46 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.13%) Android
6 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.60%) VMS
8 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Solaris
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.076%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,471 (55.61%) DevOps
2 961 (36.33%) Agile
3 889 (33.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 578 (21.85%) AI
5 567 (21.44%) Test Automation
6 559 (21.13%) Containerisation
7 531 (20.08%) Microservices
8 488 (18.45%) Observability
9 465 (17.58%) Software Engineering
10 393 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
11 369 (13.95%) Analytics
12 353 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 353 (13.35%) Data Pipeline
13 336 (12.70%) Data Modelling
14 329 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 324 (12.25%) Platform Engineering
16 323 (12.21%) Data Engineering
17 313 (11.83%) Event-Driven
18 283 (10.70%) Migration
19 272 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,063 (40.19%) Python
2 756 (28.58%) SQL
3 545 (20.60%) Java
4 278 (10.51%) JavaScript
5 272 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 268 (10.13%) C#
7 218 (8.24%) Bash
8 215 (8.13%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.27%) Bicep
10 63 (2.38%) Go
11 53 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 50 (1.89%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.70%) Scala
15 36 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.29%) PL/SQL
16 34 (1.29%) Ruby
17 27 (1.02%) C++
17 27 (1.02%) T-SQL
18 26 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 687 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 615 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 140 (5.29%) Degree
4 106 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 83 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 77 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.68%) CISSP
12 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (8.96%) QA
2 229 (8.66%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.04%) GDPR
5 47 (1.78%) NIST
6 44 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.02%) WCAG
8 25 (0.95%) SLA
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 685 (25.90%) Docker
2 60 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.076%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.076%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.076%) HDFS
10 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.076%) KVM
10 2 (0.076%) Varnish
10 2 (0.076%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 786 (29.72%) Kubernetes
2 215 (8.13%) Grafana
3 198 (7.49%) Ansible
4 177 (6.69%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.29%) Argo
6 33 (1.25%) Puppet
7 24 (0.91%) Kibana
8 20 (0.76%) Packer
8 20 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.53%) Istio
11 10 (0.38%) Control-M
12 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.26%) SCCM
14 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 440 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 232 (8.77%) Databricks
3 140 (5.29%) Google
4 139 (5.26%) Oracle
5 101 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 101 (3.82%) Splunk
6 68 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 50 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 49 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 45 (1.70%) VMware
10 38 (1.44%) IBM
11 36 (1.36%) Informatica
12 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.10%) Foundry
14 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
15 27 (1.02%) SAP
16 24 (0.91%) New Relic
17 23 (0.87%) Cisco
18 20 (0.76%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.76%) Palantir