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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,487 1,359 1,412
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 10.37% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.48% 11.25% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 909 1,017
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £533 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -6.08% -7.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £813 £807
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
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 £66.00 £62.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year +5.60% -7.06% +2.51%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +1 285 £550 -10.02% 186
West London +6 53 £603 +22.34% 25
South London +2 47 £538 +1.03% 6
East London +6 11 £475 +90.00% 19
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 110 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 94 (3.78%) Confluence
4 69 (2.77%) Apache
5 28 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Camunda
8 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Appian
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
14 3 (0.12%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.080%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.080%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.080%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.040%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (44.63%) AWS
2 1,098 (44.15%) Azure
3 548 (22.03%) GitHub
4 424 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
5 361 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
6 352 (14.15%) GCP
7 313 (12.59%) Serverless
8 248 (9.97%) Amazon S3
9 213 (8.56%) Power Platform
10 209 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 141 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
13 118 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
15 114 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 113 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
17 112 (4.50%) Snowflake
18 104 (4.18%) Entra ID
19 100 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
20 97 (3.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.94%) Firewall
2 49 (1.97%) Network Security
3 32 (1.29%) DNS
4 31 (1.25%) VPN
5 24 (0.97%) HTTP
6 20 (0.80%) Internet
7 17 (0.68%) WAN
8 16 (0.64%) 5G
9 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.36%) SSL
12 8 (0.32%) 4G
12 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.28%) BGP
13 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
15 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.03%) Power BI
2 144 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.23%) Data Lake
3 130 (5.23%) NoSQL
3 130 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 126 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 87 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 78 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 70 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
9 69 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 69 (2.77%) Delta Lake
10 67 (2.69%) Metadata
11 55 (2.21%) BigQuery
12 51 (2.05%) Big Data
13 49 (1.97%) DynamoDB
14 40 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 39 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
16 36 (1.45%) Redis
17 32 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 435 (17.49%) Git
2 383 (15.40%) Jenkins
3 303 (12.18%) GitLab
4 169 (6.80%) JIRA
5 74 (2.98%) JUnit
6 71 (2.85%) Selenium
7 46 (1.85%) Postman
8 45 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 45 (1.81%) JMeter
9 41 (1.65%) Mockito
10 39 (1.57%) MLflow
11 38 (1.53%) REST Assured
12 37 (1.49%) Gradle
13 33 (1.33%) Cypress.io
14 27 (1.09%) Maven
15 26 (1.05%) CircleCI
16 25 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 25 (1.01%) SonarQube
17 21 (0.84%) Gatling
18 19 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 594 (23.88%) Finance
2 581 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 303 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 274 (11.02%) Banking
5 190 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 50 (2.01%) Front Office
9 49 (1.97%) Retail
10 44 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.13%) Law
13 27 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.01%) Legal
15 22 (0.88%) Marketing
16 15 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 506 (20.35%) Developer
2 414 (16.65%) Senior
3 296 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 277 (11.14%) Architect
5 249 (10.01%) Lead
6 228 (9.17%) Data Engineer
7 157 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.87%) Software Engineer
11 116 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 101 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
16 68 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
16 68 (2.73%) Python Developer
17 66 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 64 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (11.86%) REST
2 237 (9.53%) React
3 231 (9.29%) Kafka
4 223 (8.97%) .NET
5 209 (8.40%) RESTful
6 202 (8.12%) Spring
7 173 (6.96%) Spring Boot
8 133 (5.35%) PySpark
9 125 (5.03%) Node.js
10 111 (4.46%) AngularJS
11 85 (3.42%) HTML
12 79 (3.18%) Playwright
13 77 (3.10%) OAuth
14 71 (2.85%) CSS
15 66 (2.65%) JSON
16 61 (2.45%) FastAPI
17 58 (2.33%) SOAP
18 56 (2.25%) GraphQL
19 55 (2.21%) OAuth2
20 53 (2.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 525 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 188 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 85 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.73%) AI Agents
7 51 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 41 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 38 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 36 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.37%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 33 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 32 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (6.92%) Linux
2 107 (4.30%) Windows
3 52 (2.09%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.84%) Android
8 13 (0.52%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 2 (0.080%) AIX
12 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,367 (54.97%) DevOps
2 835 (33.57%) Agile
3 834 (33.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 556 (22.36%) Containerisation
5 511 (20.55%) Test Automation
6 505 (20.31%) AI
7 468 (18.82%) Microservices
8 411 (16.53%) Observability
9 388 (15.60%) Software Engineering
10 381 (15.32%) Analytics
11 325 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
12 324 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
13 317 (12.75%) Data Modelling
14 305 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 305 (12.26%) Data Engineering
15 289 (11.62%) Platform Engineering
16 273 (10.98%) Machine Learning
17 256 (10.29%) Migration
18 248 (9.97%) Event-Driven
19 240 (9.65%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 956 (38.44%) Python
2 679 (27.30%) SQL
3 482 (19.38%) Java
4 275 (11.06%) C#
5 252 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 242 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 181 (7.28%) Bash
8 161 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 95 (3.82%) Bicep
10 53 (2.13%) Go
10 53 (2.13%) Scala
11 44 (1.77%) Apex Code
12 41 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 41 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.41%) Ruby
14 30 (1.21%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.09%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.56%) SOQL
18 13 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 635 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 570 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.23%) Degree
4 90 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 69 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 60 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 59 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.88%) CISSP
11 20 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.48%) CISM
15 12 (0.48%) GIAC
15 12 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.44%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (8.52%) QA
2 197 (7.92%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 66 (2.65%) GDPR
5 65 (2.61%) NIST
6 53 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.29%) NCSC
8 28 (1.13%) WCAG
9 23 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.88%) SLA
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.24%) COBIT
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 651 (26.18%) Docker
2 59 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.080%) HDFS
11 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.080%) Postfix
12 1 (0.040%) IAG
12 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.040%) Samba
12 1 (0.040%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 814 (32.73%) Terraform
2 746 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 182 (7.32%) Grafana
4 178 (7.16%) Ansible
5 153 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.09%) Argo
7 26 (1.05%) Puppet
8 23 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.72%) Kibana
10 15 (0.60%) Packer
11 12 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.44%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 355 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 191 (7.68%) Databricks
3 108 (4.34%) Google
3 108 (4.34%) Oracle
4 96 (3.86%) Salesforce
5 91 (3.66%) Splunk
6 55 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 39 (1.57%) Dynatrace
9 32 (1.29%) VMware
10 29 (1.17%) Foundry
11 28 (1.13%) IBM
11 28 (1.13%) Informatica
12 26 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.05%) SAP
13 23 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.88%) Palantir
14 22 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 18 (0.72%) Cisco
16 14 (0.56%) Okta