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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,819 1,500 1,441
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 9.61% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.87% 10.70% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,068 1,079
10th Percentile £363 £407 £425
25th Percentile £434 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £713 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -8.44% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £31.13 - £57.13
25th Percentile £38.44 - £59.75
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £68.50
75th Percentile £67.38 - £74.25
90th Percentile £68.95 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +3 214 £569 -9.90% 106
South London +10 56 £525 -2.42% 20
West London +5 50 £603 +30.27% 27
East London -4 11 £540 +8.00% 33
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 80 (4.40%) Confluence
2 64 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.81%) Apache
5 25 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.99%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 7 (0.38%) SAS
9 6 (0.33%) IIS
10 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Camunda
11 4 (0.22%) HCL Notes
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Mendix
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.16%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) Actimize
7 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.055%) Maximo
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) OpenText MBPM
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.055%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 829 (45.57%) AWS
2 755 (41.51%) Azure
3 406 (22.32%) GitHub
4 297 (16.33%) GCP
5 285 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
6 284 (15.61%) GitHub Actions
7 235 (12.92%) Serverless
8 175 (9.62%) Amazon S3
9 143 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 106 (5.83%) Power Platform
12 100 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
13 91 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 88 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
15 83 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
16 80 (4.40%) Azure AKS
17 77 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 67 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 57 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.29%) Firewall
2 62 (3.41%) DNS
3 37 (2.03%) Network Security
4 31 (1.70%) VPN
5 23 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.21%) HTTP
7 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
7 15 (0.82%) SSL
8 12 (0.66%) SSH
8 12 (0.66%) WAN
9 11 (0.60%) SMTP
10 10 (0.55%) FTP
10 10 (0.55%) IMAP
10 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.38%) BGP
12 6 (0.33%) DHCP
12 6 (0.33%) MPLS
12 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
12 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (5.28%) NoSQL
3 86 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 75 (4.12%) Power BI
5 74 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 72 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
7 68 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 65 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 54 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 36 (1.98%) BigQuery
10 36 (1.98%) Delta Lake
11 34 (1.87%) DynamoDB
12 32 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (1.70%) Big Data
14 27 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.37%) MySQL
16 24 (1.32%) Metadata
17 22 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
18 21 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 360 (19.79%) Jenkins
2 344 (18.91%) Git
3 217 (11.93%) GitLab
4 147 (8.08%) JIRA
5 70 (3.85%) Selenium
6 52 (2.86%) JUnit
7 49 (2.69%) Cypress.io
8 48 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 41 (2.25%) SonarQube
10 34 (1.87%) Postman
11 30 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 30 (1.65%) TeamCity
12 29 (1.59%) Maven
13 26 (1.43%) JMeter
13 26 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 23 (1.26%) Mockito
15 21 (1.15%) Gradle
15 21 (1.15%) MLflow
16 20 (1.10%) CircleCI
16 20 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 494 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 410 (22.54%) Finance
3 213 (11.71%) Banking
4 188 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 156 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 49 (2.69%) Front Office
8 36 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.76%) Marketing
11 30 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.88%) Retail
15 14 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.77%) Military
15 14 (0.77%) Publishing
16 13 (0.71%) Electronics
17 11 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 478 (26.28%) Developer
2 288 (15.83%) Senior
3 241 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 146 (8.03%) Architect
5 139 (7.64%) Data Engineer
6 126 (6.93%) Lead
7 115 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 107 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 98 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
11 86 (4.73%) Senior Developer
12 79 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 79 (4.34%) Software Engineer
13 71 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 65 (3.57%) Python Engineer
15 64 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 60 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 58 (3.19%) Python Developer
18 53 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 50 (2.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (12.31%) React
2 199 (10.94%) Kafka
3 193 (10.61%) Node.js
4 181 (9.95%) RESTful
5 176 (9.68%) REST
6 153 (8.41%) .NET
7 144 (7.92%) Spring
8 110 (6.05%) Spring Boot
9 104 (5.72%) AngularJS
10 94 (5.17%) CSS
11 92 (5.06%) HTML
12 81 (4.45%) Playwright
13 68 (3.74%) GraphQL
14 59 (3.24%) JSON
15 58 (3.19%) OAuth
15 58 (3.19%) YAML
16 51 (2.80%) .NET Core
17 50 (2.75%) Vue
18 48 (2.64%) PySpark
19 46 (2.53%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 312 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 121 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 31 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (1.70%) Hedge funds
10 30 (1.65%) Derivative
10 30 (1.65%) Replication
11 29 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 29 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.54%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.32%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 21 (1.15%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.51%) Linux
2 67 (3.68%) Windows
3 45 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 44 (2.42%) Android
5 31 (1.70%) Unix
6 22 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.21%) VMS
7 19 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.44%) CentOS
10 8 (0.44%) Solaris
11 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.055%) tvOS
13 1 (0.055%) watchOS
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (56.29%) DevOps
2 687 (37.77%) Agile
3 577 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
5 380 (20.89%) Containerisation
6 355 (19.52%) Test Automation
7 352 (19.35%) Microservices
8 268 (14.73%) Software Engineering
9 231 (12.70%) Observability
10 217 (11.93%) Analytics
11 204 (11.21%) AI
12 195 (10.72%) Data Pipeline
13 170 (9.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 169 (9.29%) Data Engineering
15 166 (9.13%) Migration
16 161 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 158 (8.69%) Mentoring
18 153 (8.41%) Machine Learning
19 151 (8.30%) Platform Engineering
20 143 (7.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 731 (40.19%) Python
2 413 (22.70%) Java
3 400 (21.99%) SQL
4 270 (14.84%) JavaScript
5 239 (13.14%) TypeScript
6 214 (11.76%) C#
7 160 (8.80%) Bash
8 110 (6.05%) PowerShell
9 106 (5.83%) Go
10 59 (3.24%) Bicep
11 50 (2.75%) C++
12 35 (1.92%) Scala
13 29 (1.59%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.54%) Rust
15 24 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 22 (1.21%) Groovy
16 22 (1.21%) T-SQL
17 21 (1.15%) Ruby
18 18 (0.99%) PHP
18 18 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 386 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 334 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.60%) Degree
4 66 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 52 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.82%) CISSP
12 14 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.66%) OSCP
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.55%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (0.38%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.03%) QA
2 82 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 78 (4.29%) GDPR
4 70 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.03%) NIST
7 22 (1.21%) WCAG
8 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.77%) NCSC
10 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.49%) MiFID
13 8 (0.44%) SLA
14 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
16 4 (0.22%) PERC
16 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 580 (31.89%) Docker
2 48 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.60%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 4 (0.22%) NFS
8 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.22%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) HDFS
9 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 618 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 604 (33.21%) Terraform
3 163 (8.96%) Ansible
4 157 (8.63%) Grafana
5 140 (7.70%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.47%) Argo
7 22 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.10%) Puppet
8 20 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 14 (0.77%) Istio
10 14 (0.77%) Kibana
11 13 (0.71%) Nessus
12 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.49%) Packer
13 9 (0.49%) Rancher
14 7 (0.38%) logstash
15 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.33%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 228 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.74%) Databricks
3 125 (6.87%) Google
4 72 (3.96%) Oracle
5 61 (3.35%) Splunk
6 54 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 49 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 32 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 24 (1.32%) VMware
11 23 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.26%) SAP
12 18 (0.99%) Cisco
12 18 (0.99%) Solace
13 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
17 9 (0.49%) F5