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

6 months to
24 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 2,435 1,289 1,397
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.73% 10.24% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.32% 11.09% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,630 872 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £390 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £571
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -5.91% -8.23%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £554
% change year-on-year +1.94% -7.00% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £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 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -11.01% +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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
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 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 0 278 £551 -8.25% 78
West London +1 50 £603 +22.34% 20
South London -1 42 £513 -3.53% 5
East London +10 13 £450 +80.00% 16
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
1 106 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 106 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 80 (3.29%) Confluence
3 68 (2.79%) Apache
4 28 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.45%) Camunda
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.33%) Appian
9 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.21%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.21%) Mendix
12 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.082%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.29%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.082%) Endur
7 2 (0.082%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (45.09%) AWS
2 1,083 (44.48%) Azure
3 551 (22.63%) GitHub
4 421 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
5 362 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
6 343 (14.09%) GCP
7 321 (13.18%) Serverless
8 241 (9.90%) Amazon S3
9 217 (8.91%) Power Platform
10 213 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 118 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 117 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
16 113 (4.64%) Azure AKS
17 105 (4.31%) Snowflake
18 100 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
18 100 (4.11%) Entra ID
19 92 (3.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.20%) Firewall
2 52 (2.14%) Network Security
3 34 (1.40%) DNS
4 31 (1.27%) VPN
5 25 (1.03%) HTTP
6 19 (0.78%) Internet
7 16 (0.66%) 5G
7 16 (0.66%) WAN
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.37%) SSL
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
11 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.29%) BGP
12 7 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.25%) FTP
13 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 5 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (6.20%) Power BI
2 142 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 140 (5.75%) Data Lake
4 133 (5.46%) NoSQL
5 131 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 119 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
7 92 (3.78%) Relational Database
8 85 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 75 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 71 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
10 71 (2.92%) Delta Lake
11 64 (2.63%) Metadata
12 55 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 52 (2.14%) Big Data
14 51 (2.09%) DynamoDB
15 43 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 41 (1.68%) Redis
17 35 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 428 (17.58%) Git
2 374 (15.36%) Jenkins
3 305 (12.53%) GitLab
4 157 (6.45%) JIRA
5 69 (2.83%) JUnit
6 63 (2.59%) Selenium
7 45 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 45 (1.85%) JMeter
8 44 (1.81%) Postman
9 43 (1.77%) MLflow
10 41 (1.68%) Mockito
11 36 (1.48%) Gradle
12 34 (1.40%) REST Assured
13 28 (1.15%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 25 (1.03%) CircleCI
14 25 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 24 (0.99%) Maven
16 21 (0.86%) Gatling
16 21 (0.86%) Snyk
General
1 587 (24.11%) Finance
2 569 (23.37%) Social Skills
3 294 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 266 (10.92%) Banking
5 179 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 49 (2.01%) Front Office
9 45 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.77%) Retail
11 42 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 28 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.11%) Law
15 25 (1.03%) Legal
16 21 (0.86%) Marketing
17 17 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (0.66%) Publishing
19 12 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
20 11 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 488 (20.04%) Developer
2 409 (16.80%) Senior
3 286 (11.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (11.50%) Architect
5 230 (9.45%) Lead
6 228 (9.36%) Data Engineer
7 156 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 119 (4.89%) Software Engineer
11 105 (4.31%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 97 (3.98%) Senior Developer
14 76 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
15 75 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.83%) Python Developer
18 65 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
19 61 (2.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 59 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (11.79%) REST
2 237 (9.73%) React
3 231 (9.49%) Kafka
4 212 (8.71%) .NET
5 208 (8.54%) RESTful
6 191 (7.84%) Spring
7 172 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.50%) PySpark
9 117 (4.80%) Node.js
10 108 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 89 (3.66%) OAuth
12 82 (3.37%) HTML
13 68 (2.79%) CSS
14 66 (2.71%) FastAPI
14 66 (2.71%) Playwright
15 63 (2.59%) JSON
16 62 (2.55%) OAuth2
17 58 (2.38%) Pandas
18 55 (2.26%) SOAP
19 50 (2.05%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 516 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 187 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 84 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 80 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.83%) AI Agents
7 45 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 34 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 34 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.31%) Fixed Income
15 31 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 164 (6.74%) Linux
2 102 (4.19%) Windows
3 49 (2.01%) Unix
4 24 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (0.86%) Android
6 20 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.74%) VMS
8 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.21%) Solaris
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 2 (0.082%) AIX
12 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,326 (54.46%) DevOps
2 823 (33.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 800 (32.85%) Agile
4 540 (22.18%) Containerisation
5 518 (21.27%) AI
6 487 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 463 (19.01%) Microservices
8 411 (16.88%) Observability
9 379 (15.56%) Analytics
10 375 (15.40%) Software Engineering
11 325 (13.35%) Data Modelling
12 320 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
12 320 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
13 308 (12.65%) Data Engineering
14 289 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 283 (11.62%) Platform Engineering
16 277 (11.38%) Machine Learning
17 250 (10.27%) Migration
18 238 (9.77%) Event-Driven
19 237 (9.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 950 (39.01%) Python
2 679 (27.89%) SQL
3 467 (19.18%) Java
4 268 (11.01%) C#
5 240 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 235 (9.65%) JavaScript
7 163 (6.69%) Bash
8 155 (6.37%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.94%) Bicep
10 52 (2.14%) Scala
11 50 (2.05%) Go
12 42 (1.72%) Apex Code
13 39 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.52%) Ruby
15 36 (1.48%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.57%) C++
20 13 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 599 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 536 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.30%) Degree
4 97 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 72 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (0.90%) CISSP
12 16 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.49%) CISM
15 12 (0.49%) GIAC
15 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (8.21%) QA
2 195 (8.01%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.83%) NIST
5 68 (2.79%) GDPR
6 55 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.31%) NCSC
8 26 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.07%) WCAG
9 22 (0.90%) SLA
10 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.41%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.37%) GRC
12 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.29%) PSD2
14 6 (0.25%) COBIT
14 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.25%) SEPA
15 5 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 634 (26.04%) Docker
2 60 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.082%) HDFS
10 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.082%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 799 (32.81%) Terraform
2 723 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 176 (7.23%) Ansible
4 168 (6.90%) Grafana
5 151 (6.20%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.94%) Puppet
6 23 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.82%) Argo
8 18 (0.74%) Kibana
9 14 (0.57%) Packer
10 12 (0.49%) Istio
11 11 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.25%) SCCM
14 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 355 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.80%) Databricks
3 108 (4.44%) Google
4 99 (4.07%) Oracle
5 92 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 85 (3.49%) Splunk
7 60 (2.46%) OpenAI
8 58 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.23%) VMware
11 26 (1.07%) Foundry
12 25 (1.03%) Informatica
13 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
13 24 (0.99%) IBM
13 24 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 24 (0.99%) SAP
14 23 (0.94%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.86%) Palantir
16 18 (0.74%) Cisco
17 14 (0.57%) Palo Alto