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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,404 1,270 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.67% 10.18% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.26% 11.02% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 862 1,008
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £540 £567
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -4.76% -8.40%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £688
90th Percentile £740 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -5.89% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £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 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.00 £59.63 £67.50
% change year-on-year +12.37% -11.67% +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 16,854 11,524 15,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.35% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,217 7,730 11,175
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £437 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 209 315
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +15.40% -28.60%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 269 £566 -5.67% 74
West London +4 50 £603 +21.41% 21
South London -2 42 £513 -3.53% 2
East London +9 13 £450 +80.00% 15
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
1 104 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
1 104 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 80 (3.33%) Confluence
3 66 (2.75%) Apache
4 27 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.46%) Camunda
6 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.42%) SAS
8 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.29%) Appian
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 5 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 5 (0.21%) Mendix
11 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.083%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 18 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.25%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.083%) Endur
7 2 (0.083%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,079 (44.88%) AWS
2 1,069 (44.47%) Azure
3 542 (22.55%) GitHub
4 412 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
5 355 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
6 337 (14.02%) GCP
7 318 (13.23%) Serverless
8 239 (9.94%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
10 212 (8.82%) Power Platform
11 174 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 137 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
14 117 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 110 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 104 (4.33%) Entra ID
16 104 (4.33%) Snowflake
17 102 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
18 89 (3.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.29%) Firewall
2 53 (2.20%) Network Security
3 33 (1.37%) DNS
4 30 (1.25%) VPN
5 25 (1.04%) HTTP
6 17 (0.71%) Internet
7 16 (0.67%) WAN
8 14 (0.58%) 5G
9 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.37%) SSL
12 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.29%) BGP
14 6 (0.25%) 4G
14 6 (0.25%) FTP
14 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 6 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.21%) LTE
15 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.07%) Power BI
2 139 (5.78%) Data Lake
3 137 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 129 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 128 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
7 88 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 83 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 76 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 70 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.87%) Delta Lake
13 64 (2.66%) Metadata
14 56 (2.33%) BigQuery
15 51 (2.12%) Big Data
16 49 (2.04%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
18 41 (1.71%) Redis
19 35 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 424 (17.64%) Git
2 367 (15.27%) Jenkins
3 302 (12.56%) GitLab
4 154 (6.41%) JIRA
5 67 (2.79%) JUnit
6 63 (2.62%) Selenium
7 44 (1.83%) JMeter
7 44 (1.83%) MLflow
8 43 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 43 (1.79%) Postman
9 39 (1.62%) Mockito
10 35 (1.46%) Gradle
11 33 (1.37%) REST Assured
12 27 (1.12%) Cypress.io
13 25 (1.04%) CircleCI
14 24 (1.00%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.00%) SonarQube
15 23 (0.96%) Maven
16 21 (0.87%) Artifactory
16 21 (0.87%) Snyk
General
1 580 (24.13%) Finance
2 561 (23.34%) Social Skills
3 289 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 259 (10.77%) Banking
5 172 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 48 (2.00%) Front Office
9 45 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (1.62%) Retail
12 27 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.12%) Law
12 27 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.00%) Legal
14 19 (0.79%) Marketing
15 18 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.67%) Publishing
17 13 (0.54%) Military
18 11 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 485 (20.17%) Developer
2 401 (16.68%) Senior
3 283 (11.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 276 (11.48%) Architect
5 229 (9.53%) Lead
6 221 (9.19%) Data Engineer
7 153 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 118 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 103 (4.28%) Java Developer
11 103 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 98 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 75 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 75 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 73 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 71 (2.95%) Python Developer
16 64 (2.66%) AWS DevOps
17 60 (2.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (11.61%) REST
2 235 (9.78%) React
3 225 (9.36%) Kafka
4 207 (8.61%) .NET
5 205 (8.53%) RESTful
6 187 (7.78%) Spring
7 169 (7.03%) Spring Boot
8 125 (5.20%) PySpark
9 116 (4.83%) Node.js
10 112 (4.66%) AngularJS
11 86 (3.58%) OAuth
12 81 (3.37%) HTML
13 68 (2.83%) CSS
14 66 (2.75%) FastAPI
15 65 (2.70%) Playwright
16 62 (2.58%) JSON
17 60 (2.50%) OAuth2
18 58 (2.41%) Pandas
19 52 (2.16%) SOAP
20 51 (2.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 509 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 184 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 82 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 80 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.83%) AI Agents
7 44 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 33 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.33%) Fixed Income
13 32 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 32 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.12%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 158 (6.57%) Linux
2 101 (4.20%) Windows
3 47 (1.96%) Unix
4 24 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (0.87%) Android
7 20 (0.83%) VMS
8 19 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Solaris
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.083%) AIX
14 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,311 (54.53%) DevOps
2 825 (34.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 776 (32.28%) Agile
4 534 (22.21%) Containerisation
5 512 (21.30%) AI
6 479 (19.93%) Test Automation
7 462 (19.22%) Microservices
8 406 (16.89%) Observability
9 376 (15.64%) Analytics
10 368 (15.31%) Software Engineering
11 323 (13.44%) Data Modelling
12 316 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
13 313 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
14 303 (12.60%) Data Engineering
15 287 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 277 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
17 275 (11.44%) Machine Learning
18 247 (10.27%) Migration
19 235 (9.78%) Event-Driven
20 230 (9.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 939 (39.06%) Python
2 675 (28.08%) SQL
3 458 (19.05%) Java
4 263 (10.94%) C#
5 236 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 233 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 160 (6.66%) Bash
8 157 (6.53%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.83%) Bicep
10 53 (2.20%) Scala
11 44 (1.83%) Go
12 42 (1.75%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.54%) Ruby
15 35 (1.46%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.08%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.62%) C++
18 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 13 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 596 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 532 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 125 (5.20%) Degree
4 99 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 74 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (0.92%) CISSP
11 16 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.50%) CISM
13 12 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.46%) GIAC
15 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (8.15%) QA
2 189 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 70 (2.91%) GDPR
5 68 (2.83%) NIST
6 56 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.29%) NCSC
8 26 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.08%) WCAG
9 21 (0.87%) SLA
10 11 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.37%) EU AI Act
11 9 (0.37%) GRC
11 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.29%) PSD2
13 6 (0.25%) COBIT
13 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.21%) MiFID
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 631 (26.25%) Docker
2 64 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.083%) HDFS
10 2 (0.083%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.083%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.042%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 793 (32.99%) Terraform
2 707 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 176 (7.32%) Ansible
4 165 (6.86%) Grafana
5 151 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.96%) Puppet
8 20 (0.83%) Argo
9 18 (0.75%) Kibana
10 14 (0.58%) Istio
10 14 (0.58%) Packer
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.25%) SCCM
14 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.21%) Salt
15 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 353 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 187 (7.78%) Databricks
3 109 (4.53%) Google
4 96 (3.99%) Oracle
5 92 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 82 (3.41%) Splunk
7 59 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.25%) VMware
11 25 (1.04%) IBM
11 25 (1.04%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.00%) Foundry
12 24 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.00%) SAP
13 22 (0.92%) Informatica
14 18 (0.75%) Cisco
15 17 (0.71%) Palantir
16 14 (0.58%) Palo Alto