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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,597 1,474 1,350
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.92% 10.74% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.52% 11.64% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 997 954
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £527 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -6.64% -5.92%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £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 £65.83 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% -1.52% -8.01%

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 17,889 12,658 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.21% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,794 8,473 10,216
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 £658 £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 301 250 195
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.54 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £29.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -16.90% -12.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +9 318 £550 -12.00% 181
South London +1 56 £543 +2.36% 14
West London +6 51 £560 +13.71% 43
East London +5 12 £585 +62.50% 24
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 124 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.00%) Confluence
3 97 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 78 (3.00%) Apache
5 30 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
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%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.077%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,165 (44.86%) Azure
2 1,135 (43.70%) AWS
3 578 (22.26%) GitHub
4 453 (17.44%) Azure DevOps
5 390 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
6 384 (14.79%) GCP
7 302 (11.63%) Serverless
8 242 (9.32%) Amazon S3
9 225 (8.66%) Power Platform
10 201 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 153 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
12 141 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 130 (5.01%) Snowflake
14 121 (4.66%) dbt
15 118 (4.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 118 (4.54%) Entra ID
16 115 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
16 115 (4.43%) Azure AKS
17 108 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 90 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.81%) Firewall
2 43 (1.66%) Network Security
3 36 (1.39%) DNS
4 34 (1.31%) VPN
5 27 (1.04%) Internet
6 22 (0.85%) HTTP
7 19 (0.73%) 5G
8 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 15 (0.58%) SSL
10 11 (0.42%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
15 5 (0.19%) MPLS
15 5 (0.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (6.51%) Power BI
2 145 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 122 (4.70%) SQL Server
5 121 (4.66%) Data Lake
6 92 (3.54%) Relational Database
7 91 (3.50%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.00%) Delta Lake
9 77 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 70 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
10 70 (2.70%) Metadata
11 66 (2.54%) BigQuery
12 64 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
13 51 (1.96%) DynamoDB
14 47 (1.81%) Big Data
15 45 (1.73%) Redis
16 44 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
17 37 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
18 30 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 455 (17.52%) Git
2 402 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 323 (12.44%) GitLab
4 186 (7.16%) JIRA
5 72 (2.77%) Selenium
6 68 (2.62%) JUnit
7 46 (1.77%) JMeter
8 44 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.66%) Gradle
10 41 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.50%) Mockito
12 38 (1.46%) Bitbucket
13 37 (1.42%) Postman
14 35 (1.35%) REST Assured
15 32 (1.23%) Maven
16 31 (1.19%) MLflow
17 30 (1.16%) SonarQube
18 29 (1.12%) CircleCI
19 24 (0.92%) Gatling
20 21 (0.81%) Liquibase
General
1 625 (24.07%) Finance
2 613 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 318 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 289 (11.13%) Banking
5 207 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.27%) Retail
7 57 (2.19%) Front Office
8 56 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.16%) Law
12 30 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 28 (1.08%) Marketing
15 24 (0.92%) Legal
16 16 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.50%) Local Government
18 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 561 (21.60%) Developer
2 460 (17.71%) Senior
3 292 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 283 (10.90%) Architect
5 269 (10.36%) Lead
6 232 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 153 (5.89%) Azure Engineer
8 151 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 136 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 134 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 120 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 117 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 109 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 82 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
16 70 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.50%) Python Developer
19 63 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
20 59 (2.27%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (13.44%) REST
2 254 (9.78%) React
3 241 (9.28%) .NET
4 236 (9.09%) Kafka
5 207 (7.97%) RESTful
6 204 (7.86%) Spring
7 173 (6.66%) Spring Boot
8 136 (5.24%) Node.js
9 133 (5.12%) PySpark
10 106 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 103 (3.97%) HTML
12 93 (3.58%) Playwright
13 89 (3.43%) CSS
14 77 (2.96%) JSON
15 73 (2.81%) OAuth
16 66 (2.54%) SOAP
17 65 (2.50%) FastAPI
18 59 (2.27%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.16%) GraphQL
20 55 (2.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 536 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 223 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 93 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 91 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 86 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 39 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 38 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 36 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.09%) Linux
2 107 (4.12%) Windows
3 58 (2.23%) Unix
4 35 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.12%) Android
5 29 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.42%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
13 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,430 (55.06%) DevOps
2 928 (35.73%) Agile
3 861 (33.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 562 (21.64%) Containerisation
5 552 (21.26%) Test Automation
6 548 (21.10%) AI
7 516 (19.87%) Microservices
8 452 (17.40%) Software Engineering
9 448 (17.25%) Observability
10 382 (14.71%) Analytics
11 354 (13.63%) Data Pipeline
12 353 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
13 336 (12.94%) Data Modelling
14 329 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 317 (12.21%) Data Engineering
16 305 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
17 288 (11.09%) Event-Driven
18 274 (10.55%) Machine Learning
19 271 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 267 (10.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 987 (38.01%) Python
2 706 (27.19%) SQL
3 519 (19.98%) Java
4 272 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 270 (10.40%) C#
6 268 (10.32%) TypeScript
7 202 (7.78%) Bash
8 181 (6.97%) PowerShell
9 106 (4.08%) Bicep
10 62 (2.39%) Go
11 59 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.93%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.85%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.69%) Scala
15 35 (1.35%) Ruby
16 31 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 29 (1.12%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.73%) C++
19 19 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 662 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 600 (23.10%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.20%) Degree
4 99 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 74 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 63 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 20 (0.77%) CISSP
12 16 (0.62%) 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%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) GIAC
16 11 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (8.97%) QA
2 212 (8.16%) Data Quality
3 105 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 57 (2.19%) GDPR
5 50 (1.93%) NIST
6 43 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.31%) WCAG
8 23 (0.89%) NCSC
9 20 (0.77%) SLA
10 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.35%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.15%) COBIT
15 4 (0.15%) MiFID
15 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 665 (25.61%) Docker
2 63 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.077%) KVM
11 2 (0.077%) Postfix
11 2 (0.077%) Varnish
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 823 (31.69%) Terraform
2 758 (29.19%) Kubernetes
3 200 (7.70%) Grafana
4 183 (7.05%) Ansible
5 167 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.27%) Argo
7 28 (1.08%) Puppet
8 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
10 18 (0.69%) Packer
11 12 (0.46%) 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%) Oracle RMAN
17 5 (0.19%) Salt
17 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 392 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.05%) Databricks
3 134 (5.16%) Google
4 117 (4.51%) Oracle
5 103 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 89 (3.43%) Splunk
7 60 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 43 (1.66%) OpenAI
10 41 (1.58%) VMware
11 29 (1.12%) IBM
11 29 (1.12%) Informatica
12 28 (1.08%) SAP
13 27 (1.04%) Foundry
13 27 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.81%) Cisco
14 21 (0.81%) New Relic
14 21 (0.81%) Palantir
14 21 (0.81%) Red Hat
15 17 (0.65%) CyberArk