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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,531 1,432 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.78% 10.49% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.37% 11.39% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 954 990
10th Percentile £400 £375 £412
25th Percentile £455 £438 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £570
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.02% -5.08%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £813
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% -26.67%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 299 £550 -12.00% 86
South London +4 55 £541 -0.07% 6
West London +12 53 £560 +13.71% 23
East London +5 11 £543 +40.91% 25
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
1 114 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.99%) Confluence
3 97 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 72 (2.84%) Apache
5 26 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.40%) Camunda
7 10 (0.40%) SAS
8 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.32%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.079%) Trello
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.040%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,118 (44.17%) Azure
2 1,112 (43.94%) AWS
3 560 (22.13%) GitHub
4 431 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
5 373 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
6 363 (14.34%) GCP
7 303 (11.97%) Serverless
8 246 (9.72%) Amazon S3
9 215 (8.49%) Power Platform
10 202 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 138 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 113 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (4.43%) Azure AKS
14 112 (4.43%) Snowflake
15 110 (4.35%) Entra ID
16 104 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 103 (4.07%) dbt
18 88 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.73%) Firewall
2 42 (1.66%) Network Security
3 33 (1.30%) DNS
4 30 (1.19%) VPN
5 28 (1.11%) HTTP
6 24 (0.95%) Internet
7 19 (0.75%) 5G
8 14 (0.55%) WAN
9 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.40%) 4G
11 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.36%) SSL
12 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.28%) BGP
13 7 (0.28%) LTE
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
15 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.08%) Power BI
2 143 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.94%) Data Lake
4 124 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 85 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 84 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 75 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 69 (2.73%) Delta Lake
10 68 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 68 (2.69%) Metadata
11 67 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
12 59 (2.33%) BigQuery
13 51 (2.02%) DynamoDB
14 48 (1.90%) Big Data
15 40 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 37 (1.46%) Redis
18 28 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 457 (18.06%) Git
2 389 (15.37%) Jenkins
3 299 (11.81%) GitLab
4 183 (7.23%) JIRA
5 77 (3.04%) Selenium
6 74 (2.92%) JUnit
7 46 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 46 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 44 (1.74%) JMeter
9 43 (1.70%) Gradle
10 42 (1.66%) Postman
11 41 (1.62%) Mockito
12 40 (1.58%) REST Assured
13 35 (1.38%) MLflow
14 33 (1.30%) Maven
15 31 (1.22%) Bitbucket
16 29 (1.15%) SonarQube
17 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
18 23 (0.91%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 602 (23.79%) Finance
2 588 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 305 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 277 (10.94%) Banking
5 205 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.13%) Front Office
8 53 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 51 (2.02%) Retail
10 41 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.11%) Law
14 25 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.99%) Legal
15 22 (0.87%) Marketing
16 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 532 (21.02%) Developer
2 433 (17.11%) Senior
3 294 (11.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 277 (10.94%) Architect
5 257 (10.15%) Lead
6 221 (8.73%) Data Engineer
7 156 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
8 147 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 134 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 118 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 110 (4.35%) Senior Developer
13 100 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 87 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 78 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 72 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 64 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
17 64 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 63 (2.49%) Python Developer
19 60 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (12.80%) REST
2 245 (9.68%) React
3 236 (9.32%) .NET
4 230 (9.09%) Kafka
5 204 (8.06%) RESTful
6 198 (7.82%) Spring
7 169 (6.68%) Spring Boot
8 130 (5.14%) Node.js
9 128 (5.06%) PySpark
10 110 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 97 (3.83%) HTML
12 94 (3.71%) Playwright
13 84 (3.32%) CSS
14 73 (2.88%) OAuth
15 70 (2.77%) JSON
16 62 (2.45%) FastAPI
17 61 (2.41%) SOAP
18 56 (2.21%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.21%) Next.js
18 56 (2.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 517 (20.43%) Cloud Native
2 210 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 92 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 85 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 61 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.34%) Fixed Income
14 33 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 32 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (6.84%) Linux
2 103 (4.07%) Windows
3 53 (2.09%) Unix
4 32 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.03%) Android
7 25 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) zOS
14 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,383 (54.64%) DevOps
2 885 (34.97%) Agile
3 826 (32.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 546 (21.57%) Containerisation
5 543 (21.45%) Test Automation
6 525 (20.74%) AI
7 498 (19.68%) Microservices
8 420 (16.59%) Observability
9 414 (16.36%) Software Engineering
10 363 (14.34%) Analytics
11 338 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
12 336 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
13 315 (12.45%) Data Modelling
14 307 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 302 (11.93%) Data Engineering
16 291 (11.50%) Platform Engineering
17 275 (10.87%) Machine Learning
18 260 (10.27%) Event-Driven
19 258 (10.19%) Migration
20 253 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 962 (38.01%) Python
2 681 (26.91%) SQL
3 492 (19.44%) Java
4 273 (10.79%) C#
5 271 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 255 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 184 (7.27%) Bash
8 167 (6.60%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.63%) Bicep
10 58 (2.29%) Go
11 50 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 50 (1.98%) Scala
12 48 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 45 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.42%) Ruby
15 29 (1.15%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.07%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.63%) Groovy
18 16 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 652 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 591 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.14%) Degree
4 94 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 68 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 67 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.79%) CISSP
11 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) GIAC
15 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.36%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.32%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (8.89%) QA
2 201 (7.94%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.29%) GDPR
5 57 (2.25%) NIST
6 48 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.30%) WCAG
8 32 (1.26%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 636 (25.13%) Docker
2 62 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.079%) Postfix
13 1 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.040%) Samba
13 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 798 (31.53%) Terraform
2 735 (29.04%) Kubernetes
3 193 (7.63%) Grafana
4 179 (7.07%) Ansible
5 157 (6.20%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.15%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 23 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
12 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 365 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 189 (7.47%) Databricks
3 121 (4.78%) Google
4 115 (4.54%) Oracle
5 99 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 95 (3.75%) Splunk
7 55 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 36 (1.42%) VMware
11 31 (1.22%) Foundry
12 30 (1.19%) IBM
13 26 (1.03%) Informatica
13 26 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 26 (1.03%) SAP
14 25 (0.99%) CyberArk
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
15 22 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 20 (0.79%) Cisco
17 15 (0.59%) Okta