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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,226 1,232 1,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.36% 9.93% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.00% 10.77% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 851 939
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -2.48% -9.40%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.72% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.50 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.50 £56.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +15.42% -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 15,904 11,443 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.27% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,637 7,743 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 176 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -1 249 £574 -0.26% 216
West London +11 69 £603 +52.53% 22
South London +2 53 £525 +6.06% 3
East London +2 11 £450 +80.00% 30
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
1 108 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 86 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (2.88%) Confluence
4 63 (2.83%) Apache
5 28 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) Camunda
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.22%) IIS
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.18%) Shopify
5 3 (0.13%) Findur
5 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.045%) Actimize
7 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (46.00%) Azure
2 978 (43.94%) AWS
3 518 (23.27%) GitHub
4 397 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
5 337 (15.14%) GCP
6 336 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
7 303 (13.61%) Serverless
8 219 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 199 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
10 196 (8.81%) Power Platform
11 195 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
13 129 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
15 109 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
16 108 (4.85%) Azure AKS
17 104 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 93 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 87 (3.91%) Entra ID
20 86 (3.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.37%) Firewall
2 46 (2.07%) Network Security
3 36 (1.62%) DNS
4 25 (1.12%) HTTP
5 21 (0.94%) VPN
6 13 (0.58%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.31%) BGP
9 7 (0.31%) Internet
9 7 (0.31%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.22%) FTP
11 5 (0.22%) LTE
11 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.56%) Data Lake
2 135 (6.06%) Power BI
3 132 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 118 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 101 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 78 (3.50%) MongoDB
9 70 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 70 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 62 (2.79%) Metadata
11 61 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
12 60 (2.70%) BigQuery
13 55 (2.47%) Big Data
14 54 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 44 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 41 (1.84%) DynamoDB
17 36 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.44%) Redis
19 29 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 388 (17.43%) Git
2 368 (16.53%) Jenkins
3 265 (11.90%) GitLab
4 129 (5.80%) JIRA
5 71 (3.19%) Selenium
6 58 (2.61%) JUnit
7 51 (2.29%) MLflow
8 48 (2.16%) Postman
9 44 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.71%) JMeter
11 33 (1.48%) Mockito
12 31 (1.39%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.17%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.03%) Gradle
15 21 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.90%) Bitbucket
17 18 (0.81%) SonarQube
18 17 (0.76%) CircleCI
19 16 (0.72%) Appium
19 16 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 517 (23.23%) Finance
2 509 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 259 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 222 (9.97%) Banking
5 171 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.11%) Front Office
8 40 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 35 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.44%) Retail
12 28 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 21 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.90%) Legal
15 17 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.67%) Publishing
17 14 (0.63%) Marketing
18 13 (0.58%) Law
19 12 (0.54%) Manufacturing
20 10 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (21.38%) Developer
2 361 (16.22%) Senior
3 254 (11.41%) Architect
4 243 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 225 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 197 (8.85%) Lead
7 141 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 107 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.18%) Java Developer
12 91 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 86 (3.86%) Senior Developer
14 72 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 71 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
16 67 (3.01%) Python Developer
17 62 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
18 53 (2.38%) Security Engineer
19 52 (2.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (9.93%) Kafka
1 221 (9.93%) React
2 217 (9.75%) REST
3 200 (8.98%) .NET
4 194 (8.72%) RESTful
5 183 (8.22%) Spring
6 163 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 143 (6.42%) Node.js
8 116 (5.21%) PySpark
9 113 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 81 (3.64%) HTML
11 79 (3.55%) Playwright
12 73 (3.28%) OAuth
13 66 (2.96%) CSS
14 59 (2.65%) Pandas
15 57 (2.56%) FastAPI
16 54 (2.43%) YAML
17 52 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
18 50 (2.25%) GraphQL
19 48 (2.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 463 (20.80%) Cloud Native
2 164 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 70 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 39 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 38 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 33 (1.48%) Equities
11 32 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 29 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 28 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.26%) Fixed Income
15 27 (1.21%) Low-Code
16 26 (1.17%) Derivative
16 26 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.92%) Linux
2 84 (3.77%) Windows
3 40 (1.80%) Unix
4 26 (1.17%) Android
5 25 (1.12%) VMS
6 24 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.090%) AIX
12 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,237 (55.57%) DevOps
2 767 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 706 (31.72%) Agile
4 517 (23.23%) Containerisation
5 460 (20.66%) Test Automation
6 442 (19.86%) AI
7 428 (19.23%) Microservices
8 378 (16.98%) Observability
9 364 (16.35%) Analytics
10 314 (14.11%) Software Engineering
11 305 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 303 (13.61%) Data Modelling
13 287 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
14 273 (12.26%) Data Engineering
15 251 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 242 (10.87%) Machine Learning
17 230 (10.33%) ETL
18 222 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
19 217 (9.75%) Migration
20 205 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 855 (38.41%) Python
2 627 (28.17%) SQL
3 423 (19.00%) Java
4 252 (11.32%) C#
5 233 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 233 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 139 (6.24%) Bash
7 133 (5.97%) PowerShell
8 87 (3.91%) Bicep
9 61 (2.74%) Scala
10 43 (1.93%) Go
11 40 (1.80%) Ruby
12 38 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.53%) Apex Code
14 30 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 30 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.94%) C++
17 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 572 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 511 (22.96%) SC Cleared
3 119 (5.35%) Degree
4 89 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 67 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.81%) CISSP
13 17 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.40%) CISM
17 9 (0.40%) DBS Check
18 8 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.40%) QA
2 175 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.46%) GDPR
4 65 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.70%) NIST
6 52 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.44%) NCSC
8 26 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 24 (1.08%) WCAG
10 22 (0.99%) SLA
11 17 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.40%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.31%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) COBIT
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
17 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 612 (27.49%) Docker
2 54 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.090%) HDFS
9 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 732 (32.88%) Terraform
2 673 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 146 (6.56%) Ansible
3 146 (6.56%) Grafana
4 130 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.12%) Argo
6 24 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.90%) Istio
8 19 (0.85%) Puppet
9 15 (0.67%) Kibana
10 11 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.40%) Packer
12 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.22%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.18%) Suricata
Vendors
1 350 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 199 (8.94%) Databricks
3 111 (4.99%) Google
4 91 (4.09%) Oracle
5 77 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.32%) Splunk
7 54 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.03%) Foundry
11 22 (0.99%) VMware
12 21 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 21 (0.94%) SAP
13 20 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 19 (0.85%) IBM
15 15 (0.67%) Cisco
16 13 (0.58%) Informatica
17 12 (0.54%) Okta
18 10 (0.45%) UiPath