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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,052 1,360 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.95% 10.10% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.34% 11.13% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 958 935
10th Percentile £363 £405 £425
25th Percentile £433 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £736 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £63.25 - £50.55
25th Percentile £65.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £58.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £67.00
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.70%

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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -1 223 £525 -8.70% 155
West London +8 70 £603 +47.31% 26
South London +4 65 £525 +6.06% 7
East London -7 8 £450 -14.69% 17
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 87 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 70 (3.41%) Confluence
3 66 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (2.53%) Apache
5 31 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) SAS
7 11 (0.54%) Appian
7 11 (0.54%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.54%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.49%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.44%) Mendix
9 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.44%) nginx
10 7 (0.34%) Camunda
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.049%) Maya
6 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.097%) Endur
3 2 (0.097%) Magento
3 2 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.097%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.097%) Shopify
4 1 (0.049%) Actimize
4 1 (0.049%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.049%) Maximo
4 1 (0.049%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.049%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.049%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 914 (44.54%) Azure
2 909 (44.30%) AWS
3 489 (23.83%) GitHub
4 349 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
5 331 (16.13%) GCP
6 313 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
7 292 (14.23%) Serverless
8 198 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 184 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 180 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (7.80%) Power Platform
12 122 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
14 117 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 94 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 86 (4.19%) Azure AKS
17 85 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 81 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
19 74 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
20 71 (3.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.95%) Firewall
2 51 (2.49%) Network Security
3 49 (2.39%) DNS
4 28 (1.36%) VPN
5 23 (1.12%) HTTP
6 15 (0.73%) SSL
7 14 (0.68%) WAN
8 13 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.24%) BGP
10 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.19%) DHCP
11 4 (0.19%) FTP
11 4 (0.19%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.19%) LAN
11 4 (0.19%) Multicast
11 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.19%) SSH
11 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 120 (5.85%) Data Lake
4 114 (5.56%) Power BI
5 106 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 91 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
7 73 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 69 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 69 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 52 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
10 51 (2.49%) Delta Lake
11 50 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 49 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 43 (2.10%) Big Data
14 38 (1.85%) Metadata
15 37 (1.80%) DynamoDB
16 35 (1.71%) MySQL
17 33 (1.61%) Redis
18 27 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 378 (18.42%) Git
2 364 (17.74%) Jenkins
3 255 (12.43%) GitLab
4 151 (7.36%) JIRA
5 79 (3.85%) Selenium
6 58 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 55 (2.68%) JUnit
8 48 (2.34%) MLflow
9 47 (2.29%) Postman
10 40 (1.95%) Cypress.io
11 33 (1.61%) JMeter
12 32 (1.56%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.17%) Maven
15 22 (1.07%) Mockito
16 21 (1.02%) TeamCity
17 19 (0.93%) Gradle
18 18 (0.88%) SonarQube
19 17 (0.83%) Gatling
20 15 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 535 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 456 (22.22%) Finance
3 228 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 198 (9.65%) Banking
5 164 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (2.00%) Front Office
8 39 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 33 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.27%) Retail
13 22 (1.07%) Marketing
13 22 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.58%) Law
17 11 (0.54%) Military
18 10 (0.49%) Publishing
19 9 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 496 (24.17%) Developer
2 321 (15.64%) Senior
3 246 (11.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (9.65%) Architect
5 189 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 157 (7.65%) Lead
7 127 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
9 91 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 91 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 91 (4.43%) Software Engineer
10 90 (4.39%) Senior Developer
11 88 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 84 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 71 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
15 62 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 56 (2.73%) Python Engineer
17 55 (2.68%) Python Developer
18 53 (2.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (12.52%) React
2 207 (10.09%) Kafka
3 199 (9.70%) Node.js
4 191 (9.31%) RESTful
5 188 (9.16%) REST
6 181 (8.82%) .NET
7 158 (7.70%) Spring
8 127 (6.19%) Spring Boot
9 120 (5.85%) AngularJS
10 105 (5.12%) Playwright
11 101 (4.92%) CSS
12 93 (4.53%) HTML
13 89 (4.34%) PySpark
14 86 (4.19%) OAuth
15 67 (3.27%) GraphQL
16 60 (2.92%) YAML
17 51 (2.49%) JSON
18 49 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.39%) PyTorch
18 49 (2.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 400 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.19%) Mobile App
6 44 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 41 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 34 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.41%) Derivative
11 29 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.17%) Low-Code
14 24 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.12%) Equities
15 23 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.80%) Linux
2 66 (3.22%) Windows
3 36 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.46%) VMS
5 28 (1.36%) Android
6 27 (1.32%) Unix
7 17 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.34%) Solaris
11 6 (0.29%) CentOS
12 5 (0.24%) zOS
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,129 (55.02%) DevOps
2 677 (32.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 672 (32.75%) Agile
4 465 (22.66%) Containerisation
5 420 (20.47%) Test Automation
6 381 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 365 (17.79%) AI
8 363 (17.69%) Microservices
9 321 (15.64%) Analytics
10 306 (14.91%) Observability
11 279 (13.60%) Software Engineering
12 241 (11.74%) Data Engineering
13 240 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
14 230 (11.21%) Data Modelling
15 223 (10.87%) Machine Learning
16 222 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
17 221 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 202 (9.84%) ETL
19 184 (8.97%) Mentoring
20 180 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 818 (39.86%) Python
2 516 (25.15%) SQL
3 398 (19.40%) Java
4 296 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 276 (13.45%) TypeScript
6 227 (11.06%) C#
7 132 (6.43%) Bash
8 100 (4.87%) PowerShell
9 72 (3.51%) Bicep
10 62 (3.02%) Go
10 62 (3.02%) Scala
11 34 (1.66%) C++
12 31 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 31 (1.51%) Ruby
13 29 (1.41%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.97%) Rust
16 19 (0.93%) Swift
17 18 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.83%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 481 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 420 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.14%) Degree
4 74 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 70 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 68 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.97%) CISSP
11 20 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.49%) CCSP
17 9 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (7.99%) QA
2 134 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 84 (4.09%) GDPR
4 79 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 53 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.39%) NIST
7 30 (1.46%) WCAG
8 28 (1.36%) NCSC
9 25 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.54%) SLA
12 9 (0.44%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.29%) PSD2
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
16 4 (0.19%) GRC
16 4 (0.19%) HL7
16 4 (0.19%) PERC
16 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 636 (30.99%) Docker
2 50 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.39%) vSphere
6 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
7 4 (0.19%) zsh
8 3 (0.15%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.15%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) HDFS
9 2 (0.097%) NFS
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.097%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.097%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) etcd
10 1 (0.049%) IAG
Systems Management
1 688 (33.53%) Terraform
2 676 (32.94%) Kubernetes
3 156 (7.60%) Ansible
4 126 (6.14%) Grafana
5 112 (5.46%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.39%) Argo
7 26 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.07%) Istio
9 13 (0.63%) Kibana
9 13 (0.63%) Puppet
10 11 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.39%) Rancher
13 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Nessus
14 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 293 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 207 (10.09%) Databricks
3 129 (6.29%) Google
4 77 (3.75%) Oracle
5 63 (3.07%) Splunk
6 58 (2.83%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.41%) VMware
11 27 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 20 (0.97%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.93%) SAP
14 17 (0.83%) Cisco
15 16 (0.78%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.68%) Foundry
17 13 (0.63%) Apple
17 13 (0.63%) IBM
17 13 (0.63%) Solace
17 13 (0.63%) UiPath