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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,660 1,486 1,407
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.26% 11.25% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.87% 12.16% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,793 1,001 984
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +10 338 £550 -10.02% 171
South London +6 66 £538 +1.18% 19
West London +1 50 £560 +15.45% 96
East London +5 12 £590 +9.26% 29
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 134 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (4.21%) Confluence
3 104 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 81 (3.05%) Apache
5 37 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.56%) CMS
7 14 (0.53%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) nginx
9 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (45.60%) Azure
2 1,159 (43.57%) AWS
3 607 (22.82%) GitHub
4 482 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
5 407 (15.30%) GitHub Actions
6 402 (15.11%) GCP
7 319 (11.99%) Serverless
8 238 (8.95%) Amazon S3
9 236 (8.87%) Power Platform
10 206 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.71%) Snowflake
12 150 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 135 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 135 (5.08%) dbt
15 127 (4.77%) Entra ID
16 115 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
17 114 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
18 112 (4.21%) Azure AKS
19 89 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.48%) Firewall
2 41 (1.54%) Network Security
3 37 (1.39%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 27 (1.02%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.86%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 19 (0.71%) SSL
10 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
10 13 (0.49%) WAN
11 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.41%) SAN
12 9 (0.34%) 4G
12 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.30%) SSH
14 7 (0.26%) BGP
14 7 (0.26%) FTP
14 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.80%) Power BI
2 175 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
3 158 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 127 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 119 (4.47%) Data Lake
7 103 (3.87%) MongoDB
8 99 (3.72%) Relational Database
9 89 (3.35%) Delta Lake
10 88 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
11 85 (3.20%) Metadata
12 73 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (2.71%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.07%) Redis
15 51 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (1.77%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.65%) Big Data
18 43 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 41 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
20 38 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 494 (18.57%) Git
2 427 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 346 (13.01%) GitLab
4 189 (7.11%) JIRA
5 89 (3.35%) Selenium
6 75 (2.82%) JUnit
7 52 (1.95%) Gradle
8 51 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 49 (1.84%) JMeter
10 42 (1.58%) Mockito
11 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.47%) Maven
11 39 (1.47%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.43%) Cucumber
12 38 (1.43%) Postman
13 33 (1.24%) REST Assured
14 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.98%) MLflow
16 23 (0.86%) Gatling
17 20 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 666 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 644 (24.21%) Finance
3 309 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 300 (11.28%) Banking
5 243 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (2.44%) Front Office
6 65 (2.44%) Retail
7 59 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 44 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 33 (1.24%) Law
11 33 (1.24%) Marketing
12 28 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 26 (0.98%) Legal
14 19 (0.71%) Military
15 17 (0.64%) Local Government
16 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 572 (21.50%) Developer
2 480 (18.05%) Senior
3 320 (12.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 297 (11.17%) Architect
5 261 (9.81%) Lead
6 255 (9.59%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
8 140 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 126 (4.74%) Senior Developer
11 121 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 89 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (2.86%) Python Developer
18 67 (2.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 67 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 64 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 856 (32.18%) Terraform
2 398 (14.96%) REST
3 281 (10.56%) Kafka
4 265 (9.96%) React
5 239 (8.98%) .NET
6 219 (8.23%) RESTful
7 209 (7.86%) Spring
8 183 (6.88%) Spring Boot
9 144 (5.41%) PySpark
10 121 (4.55%) Node.js
11 102 (3.83%) HTML
12 92 (3.46%) CSS
13 88 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 88 (3.31%) Playwright
14 85 (3.20%) JSON
15 77 (2.89%) OAuth
16 76 (2.86%) FastAPI
17 70 (2.63%) SOAP
18 60 (2.26%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 556 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 153 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 121 (4.55%) AI Agents
5 108 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 39 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 36 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 34 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 33 (1.24%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 31 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 222 (8.35%) Linux
2 110 (4.14%) Windows
3 73 (2.74%) Unix
4 47 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.09%) Android
7 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.56%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.075%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,465 (55.08%) DevOps
2 959 (36.05%) Agile
3 906 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 596 (22.41%) AI
5 570 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 561 (21.09%) Containerisation
7 529 (19.89%) Microservices
8 502 (18.87%) Observability
9 472 (17.74%) Software Engineering
10 390 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
11 371 (13.95%) Analytics
12 363 (13.65%) Data Pipeline
13 348 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 343 (12.89%) Data Modelling
15 340 (12.78%) Data Engineering
16 338 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 326 (12.26%) Event-Driven
17 326 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
18 283 (10.64%) Migration
19 280 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,097 (41.24%) Python
2 748 (28.12%) SQL
3 544 (20.45%) Java
4 282 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 269 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 261 (9.81%) C#
7 223 (8.38%) Bash
8 213 (8.01%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.25%) Bicep
10 63 (2.37%) Go
11 55 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 53 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.80%) Scala
14 44 (1.65%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.28%) Ruby
17 32 (1.20%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.05%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.98%) C++
20 25 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 694 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 623 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 143 (5.38%) Degree
4 104 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 87 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 82 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 65 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.71%) CISSP
12 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.45%) GIAC
16 12 (0.45%) PhD
17 10 (0.38%) CISM
18 9 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 239 (8.98%) QA
3 82 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 51 (1.92%) GDPR
5 48 (1.80%) NIST
6 47 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.94%) WCAG
8 22 (0.83%) SLA
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) Basel III
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 688 (25.86%) Docker
2 62 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.075%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.075%) HDFS
11 2 (0.075%) KVM
11 2 (0.075%) Varnish
11 2 (0.075%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 785 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.97%) Grafana
3 197 (7.41%) Ansible
4 173 (6.50%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.39%) Argo
6 32 (1.20%) Puppet
7 24 (0.90%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.68%) Packer
10 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.45%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 454 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 243 (9.14%) Databricks
3 148 (5.56%) Google
4 142 (5.34%) Oracle
5 100 (3.76%) Splunk
6 96 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.77%) VMware
11 40 (1.50%) IBM
12 37 (1.39%) Informatica
13 35 (1.32%) Foundry
14 31 (1.17%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.98%) SAP
16 25 (0.94%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.86%) New Relic
18 20 (0.75%) Cisco
18 20 (0.75%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.75%) Palantir