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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,997 1,382 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.02% 10.16% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 11.21% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 966 988
10th Percentile £369 £406 £425
25th Percentile £433 £490 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £722 £688
90th Percentile £735 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £552 £563
% change year-on-year -7.16% -1.87% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -7 215 £525 -8.70% 108
West London +9 73 £603 +47.31% 24
South London +9 63 £525 -2.42% 8
East London -7 8 £450 -14.69% 16
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 83 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.56%) Confluence
3 58 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (2.50%) Apache
5 34 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.60%) CMS
7 11 (0.55%) Appian
7 11 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 11 (0.55%) nginx
8 10 (0.50%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.45%) Mendix
9 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SAS
12 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.050%) Maya
7 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.050%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.050%) Maximo
4 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.050%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.050%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.050%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 889 (44.52%) Azure
2 885 (44.32%) AWS
3 480 (24.04%) GitHub
4 333 (16.68%) Azure DevOps
5 326 (16.32%) GCP
6 315 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
7 292 (14.62%) Serverless
8 193 (9.66%) Amazon S3
9 179 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
10 171 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 153 (7.66%) Power Platform
12 121 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
13 118 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
14 110 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 99 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 90 (4.51%) Azure AKS
17 78 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
18 76 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
18 76 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 71 (3.56%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.96%) Firewall
2 51 (2.55%) Network Security
3 49 (2.45%) DNS
4 26 (1.30%) VPN
5 24 (1.20%) HTTP
6 15 (0.75%) SSL
7 13 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.65%) WAN
8 11 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.30%) FTP
9 6 (0.30%) IMAP
9 6 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (0.30%) SMTP
9 6 (0.30%) SSH
10 5 (0.25%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.20%) BGP
11 4 (0.20%) Calico
11 4 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.20%) Multicast
11 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 111 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 108 (5.41%) Power BI
5 107 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 82 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
8 69 (3.46%) MongoDB
9 68 (3.41%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (2.30%) Delta Lake
11 45 (2.25%) BigQuery
12 44 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.75%) Big Data
14 35 (1.75%) DynamoDB
14 35 (1.75%) Metadata
14 35 (1.75%) MySQL
15 34 (1.70%) Redis
16 28 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 366 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 365 (18.28%) Git
3 258 (12.92%) GitLab
4 148 (7.41%) JIRA
5 73 (3.66%) Selenium
6 50 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 50 (2.50%) JUnit
7 45 (2.25%) MLflow
8 41 (2.05%) Cypress.io
9 40 (2.00%) Postman
10 31 (1.55%) JMeter
11 29 (1.45%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.15%) TeamCity
13 22 (1.10%) Bitbucket
14 21 (1.05%) Maven
15 20 (1.00%) Gradle
15 20 (1.00%) Mockito
16 17 (0.85%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.80%) Gatling
18 14 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 529 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 440 (22.03%) Finance
3 223 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 195 (9.76%) Banking
5 162 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.20%) Front Office
8 41 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 34 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.30%) Marketing
12 24 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.15%) Retail
14 20 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.60%) Law
17 11 (0.55%) Military
18 10 (0.50%) Electronics
18 10 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 493 (24.69%) Developer
2 307 (15.37%) Senior
3 261 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 190 (9.51%) Architect
5 178 (8.91%) Data Engineer
6 142 (7.11%) Lead
7 122 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
8 113 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 89 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
12 85 (4.26%) Software Engineer
13 84 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
14 83 (4.16%) Java Developer
15 72 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
17 63 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 55 (2.75%) Python Developer
19 55 (2.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (12.82%) React
2 209 (10.47%) Kafka
3 202 (10.12%) Node.js
4 189 (9.46%) RESTful
5 181 (9.06%) REST
6 167 (8.36%) .NET
7 155 (7.76%) Spring
8 125 (6.26%) Spring Boot
9 111 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 98 (4.91%) Playwright
11 96 (4.81%) CSS
12 86 (4.31%) HTML
13 85 (4.26%) OAuth
14 80 (4.01%) PySpark
15 73 (3.66%) GraphQL
16 62 (3.10%) YAML
17 54 (2.70%) JSON
18 49 (2.45%) Vue
19 48 (2.40%) FastAPI
19 48 (2.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 388 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 121 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 35 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.55%) Derivative
11 30 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.20%) Equities
13 24 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 24 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 24 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 169 (8.46%) Linux
2 68 (3.41%) Windows
3 36 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 33 (1.65%) VMS
5 30 (1.50%) Android
5 30 (1.50%) Unix
6 16 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.30%) CentOS
9 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.30%) Solaris
10 5 (0.25%) zOS
11 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (55.38%) DevOps
2 662 (33.15%) Agile
3 658 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 459 (22.98%) Containerisation
5 412 (20.63%) Test Automation
6 382 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
7 356 (17.83%) Microservices
8 337 (16.88%) AI
9 300 (15.02%) Analytics
10 299 (14.97%) Observability
11 273 (13.67%) Software Engineering
12 225 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
13 221 (11.07%) Data Engineering
14 213 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 204 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 201 (10.07%) Data Modelling
16 201 (10.07%) Machine Learning
17 188 (9.41%) ETL
18 183 (9.16%) Mentoring
19 175 (8.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 790 (39.56%) Python
2 482 (24.14%) SQL
3 396 (19.83%) Java
4 281 (14.07%) JavaScript
5 273 (13.67%) TypeScript
6 210 (10.52%) C#
7 130 (6.51%) Bash
8 102 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 72 (3.61%) Bicep
10 66 (3.30%) Go
11 60 (3.00%) Scala
12 37 (1.85%) C++
13 32 (1.60%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.55%) Ruby
15 26 (1.30%) T-SQL
16 25 (1.25%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.10%) Rust
18 20 (1.00%) Shell Script
19 18 (0.90%) Swift
20 17 (0.85%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 467 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 405 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.51%) Degree
4 72 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 71 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 70 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.90%) CISSP
12 18 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.45%) OSCP
18 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (7.91%) QA
2 124 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.26%) GDPR
4 75 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.50%) NIST
7 27 (1.35%) NCSC
7 27 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.30%) WCAG
9 21 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 10 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) MiFID
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 639 (32.00%) Docker
2 48 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.40%) Squid
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.30%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.30%) Postfix
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) zsh
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) etcd
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 680 (34.05%) Kubernetes
2 678 (33.95%) Terraform
3 152 (7.61%) Ansible
4 131 (6.56%) Grafana
5 116 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.45%) Argo
7 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.10%) Istio
9 14 (0.70%) Kibana
10 12 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.60%) Puppet
11 10 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (0.45%) Rancher
13 8 (0.40%) Nessus
14 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.30%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.25%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 291 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 197 (9.86%) Databricks
3 124 (6.21%) Google
4 75 (3.76%) Oracle
5 62 (3.10%) OpenAI
6 61 (3.05%) Splunk
7 54 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 50 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 26 (1.30%) VMware
12 21 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.95%) SAP
14 16 (0.80%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.70%) Cisco
16 13 (0.65%) Adobe
16 13 (0.65%) Solace
16 13 (0.65%) UiPath
17 12 (0.60%) IBM
18 11 (0.55%) Apple