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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,606 1,463 1,354
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.90% 10.79% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.48% 11.69% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 990 950
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £526 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -7.23% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% -1.52% -8.97%

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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +6 325 £550 -12.00% 183
South London -1 60 £546 +3.07% 18
West London +6 51 £560 +13.71% 32
East London +5 12 £585 +62.50% 17
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
1 126 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.03%) Confluence
3 97 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 75 (2.88%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) Camunda
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.12%) Mendix
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 26 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Magento
4 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.077%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (45.13%) Azure
2 1,129 (43.32%) AWS
3 590 (22.64%) GitHub
4 464 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 397 (15.23%) GitHub Actions
6 393 (15.08%) GCP
7 296 (11.36%) Serverless
8 239 (9.17%) Amazon S3
9 226 (8.67%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
12 141 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 130 (4.99%) Snowflake
14 120 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 119 (4.57%) dbt
15 119 (4.57%) Entra ID
16 116 (4.45%) Azure AKS
17 114 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
18 108 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 89 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.80%) Firewall
2 44 (1.69%) Network Security
3 35 (1.34%) DNS
3 35 (1.34%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 23 (0.88%) HTTP
6 19 (0.73%) 5G
7 17 (0.65%) SSL
7 17 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.27%) BGP
12 7 (0.27%) LTE
13 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 5 (0.19%) MPLS
14 5 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (6.60%) Power BI
2 148 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 124 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 123 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 91 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 90 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.07%) Delta Lake
9 74 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (2.80%) Metadata
11 72 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
12 68 (2.61%) BigQuery
13 63 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (1.92%) DynamoDB
15 48 (1.84%) Big Data
16 46 (1.77%) Redis
17 45 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 461 (17.69%) Git
2 403 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 327 (12.55%) GitLab
4 187 (7.18%) JIRA
5 77 (2.95%) Selenium
6 69 (2.65%) JUnit
7 46 (1.77%) Cypress.io
7 46 (1.77%) JMeter
8 44 (1.69%) Gradle
9 40 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.50%) Mockito
11 38 (1.46%) Bitbucket
12 37 (1.42%) Postman
13 35 (1.34%) Maven
14 33 (1.27%) REST Assured
14 33 (1.27%) SonarQube
15 29 (1.11%) CircleCI
15 29 (1.11%) MLflow
16 24 (0.92%) Gatling
17 21 (0.81%) Liquibase
General
1 627 (24.06%) Finance
2 620 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 314 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 289 (11.09%) Banking
5 209 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.26%) Retail
7 56 (2.15%) Front Office
8 55 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.11%) Law
13 29 (1.11%) Marketing
14 24 (0.92%) Legal
15 14 (0.54%) Local Government
15 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.50%) Military
16 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 558 (21.41%) Developer
2 463 (17.77%) Senior
3 292 (11.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 289 (11.09%) Architect
5 271 (10.40%) Lead
6 231 (8.86%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
9 136 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 136 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 121 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 110 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
13 94 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 84 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
15 70 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 68 (2.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 67 (2.57%) Python Developer
18 62 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
19 60 (2.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (13.78%) REST
2 253 (9.71%) React
3 245 (9.40%) .NET
4 241 (9.25%) Kafka
5 209 (8.02%) RESTful
6 203 (7.79%) Spring
7 170 (6.52%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.14%) PySpark
9 133 (5.10%) Node.js
10 102 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 102 (3.91%) HTML
11 94 (3.61%) Playwright
12 87 (3.34%) CSS
13 78 (2.99%) JSON
14 73 (2.80%) OAuth
15 67 (2.57%) FastAPI
16 66 (2.53%) SOAP
17 58 (2.23%) OAuth2
18 56 (2.15%) GraphQL
19 54 (2.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 537 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 96 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 93 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 86 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 38 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.23%) Fixed Income
15 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.25%) Linux
2 112 (4.30%) Windows
3 61 (2.34%) Unix
4 36 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.11%) Android
7 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.38%) VMS
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.077%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (55.41%) DevOps
2 928 (35.61%) Agile
3 859 (32.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 560 (21.49%) Containerisation
5 559 (21.45%) Test Automation
6 550 (21.11%) AI
7 518 (19.88%) Microservices
8 457 (17.54%) Software Engineering
9 449 (17.23%) Observability
10 380 (14.58%) Analytics
11 355 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
12 354 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
13 337 (12.93%) Data Modelling
14 330 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 318 (12.20%) Data Engineering
16 305 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
17 288 (11.05%) Event-Driven
18 273 (10.48%) Machine Learning
19 271 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
20 268 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 998 (38.30%) Python
2 707 (27.13%) SQL
3 524 (20.11%) Java
4 282 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 277 (10.63%) C#
6 269 (10.32%) TypeScript
7 199 (7.64%) Bash
8 188 (7.21%) PowerShell
9 105 (4.03%) Bicep
10 60 (2.30%) Go
11 57 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 49 (1.88%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.84%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.77%) Scala
15 34 (1.30%) Ruby
16 31 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 21 (0.81%) C++
20 19 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 673 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 609 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.07%) Degree
4 102 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 69 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.81%) CISSP
11 20 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) CISM
15 12 (0.46%) GIAC
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 10 (0.38%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (9.06%) QA
2 214 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.23%) GDPR
5 49 (1.88%) NIST
6 44 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.34%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 21 (0.81%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.35%) GRC
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
17 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 673 (25.83%) Docker
2 61 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 828 (31.77%) Terraform
2 758 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 195 (7.48%) Grafana
4 185 (7.10%) Ansible
5 161 (6.18%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.19%) Argo
7 29 (1.11%) Puppet
8 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.73%) Packer
10 17 (0.65%) Kibana
11 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.42%) Istio
13 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 6 (0.23%) Control-M
17 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
17 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 398 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 208 (7.98%) Databricks
3 140 (5.37%) Google
4 118 (4.53%) Oracle
5 102 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.45%) Splunk
7 63 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 45 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 42 (1.61%) VMware
10 32 (1.23%) IBM
11 29 (1.11%) Informatica
12 28 (1.07%) Foundry
12 28 (1.07%) SAP
13 27 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.81%) Cisco
15 21 (0.81%) New Relic
15 21 (0.81%) Palantir
16 18 (0.69%) CyberArk