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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,158 1,295 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.58% 10.21% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.07% 11.16% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 934 908
10th Percentile £393 £400 £418
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.41% -8.92%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £688
90th Percentile £747 £838 £791
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £47.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +12.17% -12.35%

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 15,334 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.40% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,290 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.25 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -2 254 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +8 71 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +4 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -1 11 £450 -10.00% 13
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
1 101 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.06%) Apache
4 61 (2.83%) Confluence
5 32 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
7 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.51%) SAS
8 10 (0.46%) Mendix
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.42%) nginx
10 8 (0.37%) Appian
11 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.28%) Camunda
12 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.093%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Findur
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.093%) Shopify
5 1 (0.046%) Actimize
5 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.046%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (46.57%) Azure
2 962 (44.58%) AWS
3 511 (23.68%) GitHub
4 395 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
5 338 (15.66%) GCP
6 326 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
7 316 (14.64%) Serverless
8 217 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 208 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
11 189 (8.76%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 130 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
14 121 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
15 108 (5.00%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 96 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 88 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
19 84 (3.89%) Snowflake
20 82 (3.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.24%) Firewall
2 43 (1.99%) Network Security
3 36 (1.67%) DNS
4 25 (1.16%) HTTP
5 21 (0.97%) VPN
6 12 (0.56%) WAN
7 11 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.32%) 3GPP
8 7 (0.32%) 5G
8 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 6 (0.28%) OSPF
9 6 (0.28%) SSL
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.23%) MPLS
10 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.19%) 4G
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (6.53%) Data Lake
2 139 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
3 134 (6.21%) Power BI
4 126 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 120 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 112 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
7 78 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 76 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (3.52%) MongoDB
9 59 (2.73%) Delta Lake
10 57 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
10 57 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (2.59%) BigQuery
11 56 (2.59%) Metadata
12 52 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 51 (2.36%) Big Data
14 44 (2.04%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.53%) Tableau
16 32 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
17 31 (1.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 406 (18.81%) Git
2 351 (16.27%) Jenkins
3 252 (11.68%) GitLab
4 140 (6.49%) JIRA
5 78 (3.61%) Selenium
6 62 (2.87%) JUnit
7 52 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.32%) MLflow
9 44 (2.04%) Postman
10 38 (1.76%) Cypress.io
11 36 (1.67%) REST Assured
12 34 (1.58%) Mockito
13 31 (1.44%) JMeter
14 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
15 20 (0.93%) Maven
16 18 (0.83%) Gradle
17 17 (0.79%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.74%) Appium
19 15 (0.70%) CircleCI
19 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 540 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 497 (23.03%) Finance
3 253 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 226 (10.47%) Banking
5 174 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.13%) Front Office
8 42 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 33 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 24 (1.11%) Retail
13 23 (1.07%) Legal
14 22 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.83%) Marketing
16 16 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.65%) Law
18 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.56%) Publishing
19 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 502 (23.26%) Developer
2 334 (15.48%) Senior
3 236 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 234 (10.84%) Architect
5 218 (10.10%) Data Engineer
6 185 (8.57%) Lead
7 135 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
8 125 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 102 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 101 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
10 101 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 89 (4.12%) Java Developer
12 84 (3.89%) Senior Developer
13 79 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
14 74 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 64 (2.97%) Python Developer
16 63 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
17 62 (2.87%) Python Engineer
18 57 (2.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 56 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (11.45%) React
2 227 (10.52%) Kafka
3 204 (9.45%) REST
4 193 (8.94%) Node.js
5 192 (8.90%) RESTful
6 188 (8.71%) .NET
7 169 (7.83%) Spring
8 140 (6.49%) Spring Boot
9 125 (5.79%) AngularJS
10 107 (4.96%) PySpark
11 94 (4.36%) Playwright
12 86 (3.99%) CSS
13 85 (3.94%) HTML
14 79 (3.66%) OAuth
15 61 (2.83%) YAML
16 53 (2.46%) GraphQL
17 51 (2.36%) Pandas
18 50 (2.32%) FastAPI
19 48 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
20 47 (2.18%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 438 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 142 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 40 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 38 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 33 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 32 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.34%) Equities
11 29 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.25%) Derivative
13 27 (1.25%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 23 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.49%) Linux
2 69 (3.20%) Windows
3 30 (1.39%) Unix
4 29 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.34%) VMS
5 24 (1.11%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Solaris
9 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (54.77%) DevOps
2 717 (33.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 695 (32.21%) Agile
4 503 (23.31%) Containerisation
5 443 (20.53%) Test Automation
6 425 (19.69%) AI
7 408 (18.91%) Microservices
8 362 (16.77%) Analytics
9 352 (16.31%) Observability
10 346 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (14.27%) Software Engineering
12 290 (13.44%) Data Modelling
13 277 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (12.51%) Data Engineering
15 253 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 250 (11.58%) Machine Learning
17 229 (10.61%) ETL
18 209 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
19 208 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
20 206 (9.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 853 (39.53%) Python
2 607 (28.13%) SQL
3 411 (19.05%) Java
4 269 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 259 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 244 (11.31%) C#
7 120 (5.56%) Bash
8 103 (4.77%) PowerShell
9 85 (3.94%) Bicep
10 60 (2.78%) Scala
11 51 (2.36%) Go
12 41 (1.90%) Ruby
13 34 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.30%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.25%) Apex Code
17 26 (1.20%) C++
17 26 (1.20%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.56%) Swift
19 11 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 529 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 466 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.02%) Degree
4 80 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 74 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.79%) CISSP
12 17 (0.79%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.42%) CISM
18 8 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.39%) QA
2 165 (7.65%) Data Quality
3 89 (4.12%) GDPR
4 71 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 58 (2.69%) NIST
6 56 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.48%) NCSC
8 30 (1.39%) WCAG
9 27 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.93%) SLA
11 7 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.28%) MiFID
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 629 (29.15%) Docker
2 54 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.093%) HDFS
9 1 (0.046%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) Squid
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 721 (33.41%) Terraform
2 670 (31.05%) Kubernetes
3 134 (6.21%) Ansible
4 128 (5.93%) Grafana
5 112 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.81%) Argo
7 22 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.93%) Istio
8 20 (0.93%) Puppet
9 13 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.46%) Kibana
11 8 (0.37%) Rancher
12 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.28%) Packer
14 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.19%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 345 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 213 (9.87%) Databricks
3 123 (5.70%) Google
4 90 (4.17%) Oracle
5 66 (3.06%) Splunk
6 63 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.69%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 20 (0.93%) IBM
12 20 (0.93%) VMware
13 19 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.88%) SAP
14 17 (0.79%) Foundry
15 14 (0.65%) Cisco
16 12 (0.56%) Okta
16 12 (0.56%) UiPath
17 11 (0.51%) Lotus