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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,185 1,256 1,306
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.31% 10.06% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.94% 10.91% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,466 873 948
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -0.48% -11.22%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £685
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 £65.00 £61.25 £67.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% -8.58% +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 15,677 11,512 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.23% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,479 7,802 11,216
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £431 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 175 313
10th Percentile £18.52 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.66 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +23.21% -26.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -2 247 £563 -2.17% 193
West London +11 67 £603 +52.53% 17
South London +1 52 £530 +7.07% 4
East London +4 11 £450 +80.00% 25
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 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 84 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (2.88%) Apache
4 60 (2.75%) Confluence
5 27 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) Camunda
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
9 8 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.37%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.23%) IIS
12 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) CMS
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 2 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.046%) Actimize
7 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,012 (46.32%) Azure
2 963 (44.07%) AWS
3 511 (23.39%) GitHub
4 399 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
5 335 (15.33%) GCP
6 329 (15.06%) GitHub Actions
7 297 (13.59%) Serverless
8 214 (9.79%) Amazon S3
9 194 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 193 (8.83%) Power Platform
11 191 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
12 129 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 116 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
15 105 (4.81%) Azure AKS
16 98 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 98 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
17 94 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 88 (4.03%) Snowflake
19 82 (3.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.52%) Firewall
2 47 (2.15%) Network Security
3 35 (1.60%) DNS
4 25 (1.14%) HTTP
5 22 (1.01%) VPN
6 14 (0.64%) WAN
7 13 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.37%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) Internet
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.64%) Data Lake
2 133 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (6.09%) Power BI
3 128 (5.86%) SQL Server
4 118 (5.40%) NoSQL
5 101 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 80 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 77 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 70 (3.20%) Delta Lake
9 63 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (2.88%) Metadata
10 61 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
11 57 (2.61%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 55 (2.52%) Big Data
13 47 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
14 41 (1.88%) DynamoDB
15 36 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 31 (1.42%) Redis
17 29 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 382 (17.48%) Git
2 362 (16.57%) Jenkins
3 259 (11.85%) GitLab
4 125 (5.72%) JIRA
5 71 (3.25%) Selenium
6 61 (2.79%) JUnit
7 51 (2.33%) MLflow
8 45 (2.06%) Postman
9 44 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 36 (1.65%) JMeter
10 36 (1.65%) Mockito
11 31 (1.42%) REST Assured
12 26 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.01%) Gradle
14 21 (0.96%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.87%) Artifactory
16 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.78%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.73%) Appium
18 16 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 519 (23.75%) Finance
2 516 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 261 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 219 (10.02%) Banking
5 172 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.06%) Front Office
8 39 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 28 (1.28%) Retail
12 27 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 21 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.92%) Legal
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.69%) Publishing
17 14 (0.64%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Marketing
18 12 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 476 (21.78%) Developer
2 355 (16.25%) Senior
3 249 (11.40%) Architect
4 237 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 223 (10.21%) Data Engineer
6 196 (8.97%) Lead
7 139 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 94 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 94 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 83 (3.80%) Senior Developer
13 72 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 70 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 63 (2.88%) Python Developer
16 59 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
17 54 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
18 53 (2.43%) Security Engineer
19 51 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (10.11%) Kafka
2 216 (9.89%) React
3 211 (9.66%) REST
4 194 (8.88%) .NET
5 188 (8.60%) RESTful
6 184 (8.42%) Spring
7 164 (7.51%) Spring Boot
8 140 (6.41%) Node.js
9 114 (5.22%) PySpark
10 112 (5.13%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.98%) HTML
12 79 (3.62%) Playwright
13 72 (3.30%) CSS
14 69 (3.16%) OAuth
15 57 (2.61%) Pandas
16 55 (2.52%) YAML
17 54 (2.47%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
19 46 (2.11%) GraphQL
20 44 (2.01%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 450 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 156 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 40 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 37 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (1.46%) Equities
10 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 28 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.19%) Low-Code
14 26 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.82%) Linux
2 85 (3.89%) Windows
3 37 (1.69%) Unix
4 27 (1.24%) Android
4 27 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.14%) VMS
6 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.092%) AIX
11 2 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,217 (55.70%) DevOps
2 755 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 703 (32.17%) Agile
4 512 (23.43%) Containerisation
5 447 (20.46%) Test Automation
6 433 (19.82%) AI
7 421 (19.27%) Microservices
8 370 (16.93%) Observability
9 364 (16.66%) Analytics
10 307 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
11 304 (13.91%) Data Modelling
12 301 (13.78%) Software Engineering
13 283 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (12.36%) Data Engineering
15 257 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 240 (10.98%) Machine Learning
17 229 (10.48%) ETL
18 218 (9.98%) Platform Engineering
19 216 (9.89%) Migration
20 203 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 846 (38.72%) Python
2 623 (28.51%) SQL
3 419 (19.18%) Java
4 247 (11.30%) C#
5 241 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 229 (10.48%) TypeScript
7 131 (6.00%) Bash
8 128 (5.86%) PowerShell
9 85 (3.89%) Bicep
10 60 (2.75%) Scala
11 45 (2.06%) Go
12 40 (1.83%) Ruby
13 37 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.60%) Apex Code
15 31 (1.42%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.37%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.82%) C++
19 14 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 564 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 506 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 117 (5.35%) Degree
4 91 (4.16%) Azure Certification
5 68 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.78%) CISSP
12 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.37%) CCSP
17 8 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.51%) QA
2 174 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 79 (3.62%) GDPR
4 64 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.61%) NIST
6 51 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.37%) NCSC
8 27 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.05%) WCAG
10 22 (1.01%) SLA
11 17 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 606 (27.73%) Docker
2 53 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.23%) Squid
6 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.092%) HDFS
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.046%) Postfix
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 722 (33.04%) Terraform
2 668 (30.57%) Kubernetes
3 145 (6.64%) Grafana
4 144 (6.59%) Ansible
5 130 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.33%) Argo
7 24 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.96%) Istio
9 19 (0.87%) Puppet
10 15 (0.69%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.41%) Packer
13 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.23%) Rancher
17 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
17 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 344 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 196 (8.97%) Databricks
3 113 (5.17%) Google
4 91 (4.16%) Oracle
5 75 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 73 (3.34%) Splunk
7 52 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 51 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.05%) VMware
11 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 21 (0.96%) Foundry
12 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.87%) Red Hat
13 19 (0.87%) SAP
14 18 (0.82%) IBM
15 15 (0.69%) Cisco
16 13 (0.59%) Informatica
17 12 (0.55%) Okta
18 11 (0.50%) UiPath