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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,834 1,437 1,345
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.69% 9.68% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.90% 10.74% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,010 1,009
10th Percentile £371 £406 £425
25th Percentile £438 £496 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +0.43% -6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.95
25th Percentile £52.88 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £72.00
90th Percentile £68.95 - £73.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +3 215 £550 -8.33% 532
West London +5 59 £603 +30.27% 23
South London +12 57 £525 -2.42% 44
East London -7 11 £530 +6.00% 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 80 (4.36%) Confluence
2 63 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.96%) Apache
5 29 (1.58%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.93%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 8 (0.44%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.38%) Mendix
10 6 (0.33%) SAS
11 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
13 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.22%) Endur
3 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.055%) Actimize
5 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.055%) Maximo
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.055%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 816 (44.49%) AWS
2 797 (43.46%) Azure
3 436 (23.77%) GitHub
4 310 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
5 305 (16.63%) Azure DevOps
6 302 (16.47%) GCP
7 253 (13.79%) Serverless
8 174 (9.49%) Amazon S3
9 150 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
10 126 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 121 (6.60%) Power Platform
12 100 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
13 98 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 89 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 84 (4.58%) Azure AKS
17 82 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
18 70 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
19 66 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 65 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.69%) Firewall
2 64 (3.49%) DNS
3 40 (2.18%) Network Security
4 29 (1.58%) VPN
5 21 (1.15%) HTTP
6 20 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.93%) SSL
8 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (0.65%) SSH
9 12 (0.65%) WAN
10 11 (0.60%) SMTP
11 10 (0.55%) FTP
11 10 (0.55%) IMAP
11 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.38%) DHCP
13 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
13 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.27%) BGP
14 5 (0.27%) MPLS
15 4 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (5.62%) SQL Server
3 99 (5.40%) NoSQL
4 87 (4.74%) Power BI
5 83 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 57 (3.11%) Relational Database
10 41 (2.24%) BigQuery
10 41 (2.24%) Delta Lake
11 37 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 30 (1.64%) DynamoDB
14 29 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (1.58%) Big Data
15 28 (1.53%) Metadata
16 27 (1.47%) MySQL
17 23 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
18 22 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 362 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 332 (18.10%) Git
3 231 (12.60%) GitLab
4 146 (7.96%) JIRA
5 72 (3.93%) Selenium
6 48 (2.62%) Cypress.io
7 46 (2.51%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.40%) JUnit
9 37 (2.02%) Postman
10 31 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 31 (1.69%) TeamCity
11 29 (1.58%) JMeter
12 28 (1.53%) MLflow
13 27 (1.47%) Maven
14 25 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 24 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.15%) Gradle
17 20 (1.09%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.04%) CircleCI
18 19 (1.04%) Mockito
General
1 485 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 405 (22.08%) Finance
3 209 (11.40%) Banking
4 194 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 136 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.84%) Investment Banking
7 47 (2.56%) Front Office
8 34 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.47%) Marketing
12 25 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.09%) Retail
14 17 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.71%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.71%) Publishing
17 12 (0.65%) Military
18 11 (0.60%) Electronics
18 11 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 474 (25.85%) Developer
2 291 (15.87%) Senior
3 248 (13.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 153 (8.34%) Architect
5 146 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 119 (6.49%) Lead
7 111 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 102 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 101 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 89 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 85 (4.63%) Java Developer
12 84 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 83 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 67 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 65 (3.54%) Python Engineer
16 62 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 61 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (3.00%) Python Developer
19 51 (2.78%) Consultant
19 51 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (12.76%) React
2 200 (10.91%) Node.js
3 193 (10.52%) Kafka
4 176 (9.60%) RESTful
5 163 (8.89%) .NET
6 162 (8.83%) REST
7 131 (7.14%) Spring
8 107 (5.83%) AngularJS
9 104 (5.67%) Spring Boot
10 92 (5.02%) CSS
11 89 (4.85%) HTML
12 84 (4.58%) Playwright
13 70 (3.82%) GraphQL
14 67 (3.65%) YAML
15 62 (3.38%) OAuth
16 60 (3.27%) PySpark
17 58 (3.16%) JSON
18 53 (2.89%) .NET Core
19 51 (2.78%) Vue
20 49 (2.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 332 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 127 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 35 (1.91%) AI Agents
5 35 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 34 (1.85%) Derivative
7 31 (1.69%) Replication
8 30 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 29 (1.58%) Hedge funds
10 27 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 22 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.49%) Linux
2 69 (3.76%) Windows
3 37 (2.02%) Android
3 37 (2.02%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.64%) VMS
5 28 (1.53%) Unix
6 20 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.38%) CentOS
10 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.055%) tvOS
12 1 (0.055%) watchOS
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (57.25%) DevOps
2 651 (35.50%) Agile
3 602 (32.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 384 (20.94%) Containerisation
5 366 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 363 (19.79%) Test Automation
7 350 (19.08%) Microservices
8 269 (14.67%) Software Engineering
9 247 (13.47%) Observability
10 244 (13.30%) AI
11 238 (12.98%) Analytics
12 204 (11.12%) Data Pipeline
13 182 (9.92%) Data Engineering
14 180 (9.81%) Full-Stack Development
15 170 (9.27%) Migration
16 166 (9.05%) Machine Learning
17 162 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 150 (8.18%) Data Modelling
18 150 (8.18%) Mentoring
19 149 (8.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 729 (39.75%) Python
2 423 (23.06%) SQL
3 377 (20.56%) Java
4 269 (14.67%) JavaScript
5 247 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 204 (11.12%) C#
7 144 (7.85%) Bash
8 116 (6.32%) PowerShell
9 87 (4.74%) Go
10 68 (3.71%) Bicep
11 47 (2.56%) C++
12 36 (1.96%) Scala
13 29 (1.58%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.53%) Rust
15 26 (1.42%) Ruby
16 25 (1.36%) PL/SQL
17 23 (1.25%) T-SQL
18 20 (1.09%) Groovy
19 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 402 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 354 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.60%) Degree
4 67 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 64 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 26 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.87%) CISSP
11 15 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.76%) MCP
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
14 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.38%) CCSP
16 7 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.85%) QA
2 88 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.63%) GDPR
4 65 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.24%) NIST
7 21 (1.15%) WCAG
8 18 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.71%) NCSC
11 10 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.55%) MiFID
12 9 (0.49%) SLA
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.22%) PERC
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 2 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 590 (32.17%) Docker
2 54 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.65%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.055%) etcd
Systems Management
1 621 (33.86%) Kubernetes
2 620 (33.81%) Terraform
3 164 (8.94%) Ansible
4 151 (8.23%) Grafana
5 134 (7.31%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.67%) Argo
7 24 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.25%) Istio
9 22 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.98%) Kibana
11 17 (0.93%) Puppet
12 16 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
13 12 (0.65%) Nessus
14 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.49%) Rancher
16 7 (0.38%) logstash
16 7 (0.38%) Packer
17 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
18 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 252 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 179 (9.76%) Databricks
3 126 (6.87%) Google
4 75 (4.09%) Oracle
5 53 (2.89%) Splunk
6 51 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 49 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.51%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.80%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.31%) VMware
12 19 (1.04%) SAP
13 18 (0.98%) Solace
14 17 (0.93%) Cisco
14 17 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.87%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.55%) Qualys