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

6 months to
26 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 2,236 1,201 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.28% 9.92% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.89% 10.76% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 821 956
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -9.64%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £814
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.25 £48.40
25th Percentile £58.56 £43.13 £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 £95.75 - £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -2 244 £575 -1.71% 123
West London +10 64 £603 +21.77% 20
South London +3 49 £513 +3.54% 7
East London +5 12 £450 +80.00% 20
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
1 109 (4.87%) Apache Spark
2 93 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.00%) Apache
4 64 (2.86%) Confluence
5 27 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.45%) Camunda
6 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
6 10 (0.45%) Mendix
6 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) IIS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) Shopify
7 2 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.045%) Endur
8 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.045%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (45.93%) Azure
2 988 (44.19%) AWS
3 514 (22.99%) GitHub
4 401 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (15.21%) GCP
6 331 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
7 297 (13.28%) Serverless
8 219 (9.79%) Amazon S3
9 197 (8.81%) Power Platform
10 192 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
11 183 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 130 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 127 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
14 110 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
15 107 (4.79%) Azure AKS
16 102 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 102 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
17 93 (4.16%) Snowflake
18 90 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 90 (4.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.26%) Firewall
2 44 (1.97%) Network Security
3 35 (1.57%) DNS
4 25 (1.12%) HTTP
5 21 (0.94%) VPN
6 13 (0.58%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.40%) Internet
9 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
9 8 (0.36%) 5G
10 7 (0.31%) BGP
10 7 (0.31%) SSL
11 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 6 (0.27%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.22%) FTP
12 5 (0.22%) LTE
12 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.53%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.08%) Power BI
3 133 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
4 131 (5.86%) SQL Server
5 120 (5.37%) NoSQL
6 99 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 79 (3.53%) MongoDB
9 74 (3.31%) Delta Lake
10 69 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
11 64 (2.86%) Metadata
12 61 (2.73%) BigQuery
13 60 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
14 53 (2.37%) Big Data
15 52 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 45 (2.01%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
19 32 (1.43%) Redis
20 30 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 392 (17.53%) Git
2 353 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 261 (11.67%) GitLab
4 127 (5.68%) JIRA
5 69 (3.09%) Selenium
6 57 (2.55%) JUnit
7 50 (2.24%) MLflow
8 48 (2.15%) Postman
9 43 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.79%) JMeter
11 35 (1.57%) Mockito
12 30 (1.34%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.16%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.12%) Gradle
15 21 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 18 (0.81%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.81%) SonarQube
18 17 (0.76%) Liquibase
18 17 (0.76%) Maven
General
1 537 (24.02%) Finance
2 505 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 257 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 232 (10.38%) Banking
5 161 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.06%) Front Office
8 42 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.52%) Retail
12 28 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 21 (0.94%) Legal
14 18 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.67%) Law
16 15 (0.67%) Marketing
16 15 (0.67%) Publishing
17 11 (0.49%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 473 (21.15%) Developer
2 363 (16.23%) Senior
3 253 (11.31%) Architect
4 246 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 221 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 206 (9.21%) Lead
7 139 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
8 126 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
9 123 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 103 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
12 91 (4.07%) Java Developer
13 87 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 73 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 72 (3.22%) Python Developer
16 67 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
17 64 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.37%) Security Engineer
19 50 (2.24%) AWS DevOps
20 49 (2.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (10.51%) REST
2 221 (9.88%) React
3 218 (9.75%) Kafka
4 207 (9.26%) .NET
5 191 (8.54%) RESTful
6 176 (7.87%) Spring
7 160 (7.16%) Spring Boot
8 131 (5.86%) Node.js
9 119 (5.32%) PySpark
10 112 (5.01%) AngularJS
11 79 (3.53%) OAuth
12 77 (3.44%) HTML
13 71 (3.18%) Playwright
14 66 (2.95%) CSS
15 58 (2.59%) FastAPI
16 57 (2.55%) Pandas
17 54 (2.42%) YAML
18 52 (2.33%) OAuth2
18 52 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
19 50 (2.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 457 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 165 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 49 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 38 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 33 (1.48%) Equities
12 29 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.25%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.16%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.62%) Linux
2 86 (3.85%) Windows
3 41 (1.83%) Unix
4 24 (1.07%) VMS
5 20 (0.89%) Android
6 19 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.76%) 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 (0.089%) AIX
12 2 (0.089%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,236 (55.28%) DevOps
2 764 (34.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 698 (31.22%) Agile
4 502 (22.45%) Containerisation
5 456 (20.39%) AI
6 448 (20.04%) Test Automation
7 424 (18.96%) Microservices
8 377 (16.86%) Observability
9 363 (16.23%) Analytics
10 321 (14.36%) Software Engineering
11 307 (13.73%) Data Modelling
12 290 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
13 285 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
14 281 (12.57%) Data Engineering
15 262 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 244 (10.91%) Machine Learning
17 237 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
18 228 (10.20%) ETL
19 220 (9.84%) Migration
20 204 (9.12%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 868 (38.82%) Python
2 645 (28.85%) SQL
3 424 (18.96%) Java
4 255 (11.40%) C#
5 224 (10.02%) JavaScript
6 217 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 140 (6.26%) PowerShell
8 138 (6.17%) Bash
9 91 (4.07%) Bicep
10 59 (2.64%) Scala
11 45 (2.01%) Go
12 38 (1.70%) Ruby
12 38 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.61%) Apex Code
14 30 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.98%) C++
18 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 564 (25.22%) Security Cleared
2 505 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.46%) Degree
4 94 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 63 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (0.76%) CISSP
12 16 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.40%) CISM
16 8 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.09%) QA
2 173 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 78 (3.49%) GDPR
4 65 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.68%) NIST
6 51 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.43%) NCSC
8 24 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.07%) SLA
8 24 (1.07%) WCAG
9 17 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.27%) COBIT
11 6 (0.27%) GRC
11 6 (0.27%) MiFID
11 6 (0.27%) PSD2
12 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.18%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 598 (26.74%) Docker
2 54 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.63%) 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 (0.089%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.089%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) HDFS
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 731 (32.69%) Terraform
2 673 (30.10%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.75%) Ansible
4 150 (6.71%) Grafana
5 135 (6.04%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.12%) Argo
8 20 (0.89%) Istio
9 18 (0.81%) Kibana
9 18 (0.81%) Puppet
10 10 (0.45%) 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%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.27%) SCCM
15 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) Suricata
16 3 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 344 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.21%) Databricks
3 113 (5.05%) Google
4 100 (4.47%) Oracle
5 79 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.44%) Splunk
7 57 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.07%) Foundry
10 24 (1.07%) VMware
11 23 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 22 (0.98%) IBM
12 22 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.89%) SAP
15 16 (0.72%) Cisco
16 14 (0.63%) Informatica
17 13 (0.58%) Okta
18 12 (0.54%) Palo Alto