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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,428 1,279 1,397
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 10.20% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.31% 11.04% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 865 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £571
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -5.91% -8.23%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £554
% change year-on-year +1.94% -7.00% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £66.00 £56.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +16.30% -15.30% +2.13%

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 16,970 11,588 15,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,314 7,764 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 214 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +14.34% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 0 276 £560 -6.67% 78
West London +1 50 £603 +22.34% 18
South London 0 40 £505 -4.94% 3
East London +10 13 £450 +80.00% 14
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
1 106 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
1 106 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 80 (3.29%) Confluence
3 68 (2.80%) Apache
4 28 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.45%) Camunda
6 11 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.41%) SAS
8 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.29%) Appian
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
10 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 5 (0.21%) Mendix
11 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
Applications
1 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.082%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.29%) Shopify
4 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.21%) Magento
5 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.12%) Findur
7 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.082%) Endur
8 2 (0.082%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (45.10%) AWS
2 1,082 (44.56%) Azure
3 549 (22.61%) GitHub
4 420 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
5 359 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
6 343 (14.13%) GCP
7 320 (13.18%) Serverless
8 239 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 218 (8.98%) Power Platform
10 215 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
11 174 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 119 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 117 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
16 113 (4.65%) Azure AKS
17 105 (4.32%) Snowflake
18 100 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
19 98 (4.04%) Entra ID
20 91 (3.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.25%) Firewall
2 53 (2.18%) Network Security
3 34 (1.40%) DNS
4 31 (1.28%) VPN
5 25 (1.03%) HTTP
6 18 (0.74%) Internet
7 16 (0.66%) WAN
8 15 (0.62%) 5G
9 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.37%) SSL
12 8 (0.33%) 4G
12 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.29%) BGP
14 6 (0.25%) FTP
14 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 6 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 5 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.26%) Power BI
2 141 (5.81%) Data Lake
3 140 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
4 133 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 132 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 120 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
7 92 (3.79%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.46%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
10 74 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 71 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
12 70 (2.88%) Delta Lake
13 65 (2.68%) Metadata
14 56 (2.31%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.14%) Big Data
16 51 (2.10%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
18 42 (1.73%) Redis
19 35 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 426 (17.55%) Git
2 372 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.52%) GitLab
4 157 (6.47%) JIRA
5 69 (2.84%) JUnit
6 63 (2.59%) Selenium
7 44 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.81%) JMeter
7 44 (1.81%) MLflow
7 44 (1.81%) Postman
8 41 (1.69%) Mockito
9 36 (1.48%) Gradle
10 33 (1.36%) REST Assured
11 28 (1.15%) Cypress.io
12 25 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 25 (1.03%) SonarQube
13 24 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 24 (0.99%) Maven
14 21 (0.86%) Snyk
15 20 (0.82%) Gatling
General
1 586 (24.14%) Finance
2 570 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 294 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 264 (10.87%) Banking
5 177 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 53 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 49 (2.02%) Front Office
9 45 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.77%) Retail
11 41 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.11%) Law
14 25 (1.03%) Legal
15 21 (0.86%) Marketing
16 18 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.66%) Publishing
18 13 (0.54%) Military
19 11 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 489 (20.14%) Developer
2 407 (16.76%) Senior
3 282 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 278 (11.45%) Architect
5 230 (9.47%) Lead
6 227 (9.35%) Data Engineer
7 154 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 134 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 118 (4.86%) Software Engineer
11 104 (4.28%) Java Developer
11 104 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 98 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 76 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 75 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 75 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
15 70 (2.88%) Python Developer
16 64 (2.64%) AWS DevOps
17 60 (2.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 58 (2.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (11.70%) REST
2 237 (9.76%) React
3 231 (9.51%) Kafka
4 211 (8.69%) .NET
5 207 (8.53%) RESTful
6 190 (7.83%) Spring
7 172 (7.08%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.44%) PySpark
9 117 (4.82%) Node.js
10 109 (4.49%) AngularJS
11 88 (3.62%) OAuth
12 82 (3.38%) HTML
13 68 (2.80%) CSS
14 66 (2.72%) FastAPI
14 66 (2.72%) Playwright
15 62 (2.55%) JSON
16 60 (2.47%) OAuth2
17 58 (2.39%) Pandas
18 53 (2.18%) SOAP
19 50 (2.06%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 511 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 186 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 84 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.84%) AI Agents
7 45 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 34 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 31 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.19%) Security Posture
17 28 (1.15%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 165 (6.80%) Linux
2 103 (4.24%) Windows
3 49 (2.02%) Unix
4 24 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (0.86%) Android
6 20 (0.82%) VMS
6 20 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.21%) Solaris
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) zOS
11 2 (0.082%) AIX
11 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,318 (54.28%) DevOps
2 819 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 797 (32.83%) Agile
4 540 (22.24%) Containerisation
5 517 (21.29%) AI
6 483 (19.89%) Test Automation
7 461 (18.99%) Microservices
8 411 (16.93%) Observability
9 381 (15.69%) Analytics
10 372 (15.32%) Software Engineering
11 323 (13.30%) Data Modelling
12 322 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
13 320 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
14 309 (12.73%) Data Engineering
15 288 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 282 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
17 279 (11.49%) Machine Learning
18 247 (10.17%) Migration
19 236 (9.72%) ETL
19 236 (9.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 948 (39.04%) Python
2 679 (27.97%) SQL
3 465 (19.15%) Java
4 266 (10.96%) C#
5 240 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 236 (9.72%) JavaScript
7 163 (6.71%) Bash
8 153 (6.30%) PowerShell
9 93 (3.83%) Bicep
10 52 (2.14%) Scala
11 50 (2.06%) Go
12 43 (1.77%) Apex Code
13 39 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.52%) Ruby
15 36 (1.48%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.62%) C++
18 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 13 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 594 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 530 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.23%) Degree
4 97 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 73 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (0.91%) CISSP
12 16 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.49%) CISM
14 12 (0.49%) GIAC
14 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (8.15%) QA
2 195 (8.03%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.84%) NIST
5 68 (2.80%) GDPR
6 55 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.32%) NCSC
8 26 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.07%) WCAG
9 22 (0.91%) SLA
10 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.41%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.37%) GRC
13 8 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.29%) PSD2
15 6 (0.25%) COBIT
15 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.21%) MiFID
16 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 632 (26.03%) Docker
2 60 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.082%) HDFS
10 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.082%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 796 (32.78%) Terraform
2 720 (29.65%) Kubernetes
3 177 (7.29%) Ansible
4 168 (6.92%) Grafana
5 152 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.95%) Puppet
8 20 (0.82%) Argo
9 18 (0.74%) Kibana
10 14 (0.58%) Packer
11 13 (0.54%) Istio
12 11 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 354 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.83%) Databricks
3 108 (4.45%) Google
4 97 (4.00%) Oracle
5 93 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 85 (3.50%) Splunk
7 59 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.39%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.24%) VMware
11 25 (1.03%) Foundry
12 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 24 (0.99%) IBM
12 24 (0.99%) Informatica
12 24 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 24 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 24 (0.99%) SAP
13 20 (0.82%) Palantir
14 18 (0.74%) Cisco
15 14 (0.58%) Palo Alto