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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,780 1,621 1,471
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.76% 12.07% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.47% 13.04% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 1,087 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £436 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £688
90th Percentile £738 £729 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% - -
75th Percentile £79.13 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% -8.33%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +10 347 £550 -8.41% 292
South London +3 69 £536 +0.66% 20
West London -4 50 £560 +13.71% 60
East London +5 11 £585 +8.33% 22
North London - 1 £650 - 5
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
1 137 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (4.10%) Confluence
3 111 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 85 (3.06%) Apache
5 35 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.036%) Sketch
7 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.036%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.036%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (45.22%) Azure
2 1,188 (42.73%) AWS
3 622 (22.37%) GitHub
4 470 (16.91%) Azure DevOps
5 437 (15.72%) GCP
6 425 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
7 333 (11.98%) Serverless
8 245 (8.81%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.17%) Power Platform
10 212 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 187 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 153 (5.50%) Snowflake
14 148 (5.32%) Entra ID
15 138 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 131 (4.71%) dbt
17 130 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
18 112 (4.03%) Azure AKS
19 104 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 98 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.34%) Firewall
2 50 (1.80%) DNS
3 47 (1.69%) Network Security
4 40 (1.44%) VPN
5 32 (1.15%) Internet
6 29 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.76%) SSL
8 18 (0.65%) 5G
9 17 (0.61%) HTTP
10 12 (0.43%) WAN
11 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.40%) SAN
12 10 (0.36%) 3GPP
13 9 (0.32%) 4G
13 9 (0.32%) BGP
13 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.32%) SSH
14 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
15 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.15%) Power BI
3 153 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 151 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 132 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 112 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 109 (3.92%) Relational Database
9 103 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.17%) Delta Lake
11 86 (3.09%) Metadata
12 73 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 70 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 61 (2.19%) Redis
15 50 (1.80%) MySQL
16 49 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.69%) Big Data
17 47 (1.69%) DynamoDB
17 47 (1.69%) Oracle Database
18 45 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 549 (19.75%) Git
2 455 (16.37%) Jenkins
3 380 (13.67%) GitLab
4 193 (6.94%) JIRA
5 105 (3.78%) Selenium
6 80 (2.88%) JUnit
7 60 (2.16%) Gradle
8 59 (2.12%) Cucumber
9 58 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 50 (1.80%) Maven
11 49 (1.76%) JMeter
12 46 (1.65%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.62%) Postman
14 44 (1.58%) SonarQube
15 38 (1.37%) Mockito
16 33 (1.19%) REST Assured
17 26 (0.94%) CircleCI
17 26 (0.94%) Gatling
18 23 (0.83%) MLflow
19 21 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 723 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 698 (25.11%) Finance
3 343 (12.34%) Banking
4 313 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 283 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.73%) Front Office
7 70 (2.52%) Retail
8 68 (2.45%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (1.51%) Marketing
11 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.12%) Law
13 30 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 26 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 24 (0.86%) Back Office
17 21 (0.76%) Local Government
17 21 (0.76%) Military
18 18 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 577 (20.76%) Developer
2 514 (18.49%) Senior
3 348 (12.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 294 (10.58%) Architect
5 286 (10.29%) Lead
6 255 (9.17%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
8 146 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
9 130 (4.68%) Senior Developer
9 130 (4.68%) Software Engineer
10 123 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 118 (4.24%) Java Developer
12 106 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 101 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 91 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
15 80 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (2.66%) Python Developer
16 74 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
17 71 (2.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (2.48%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (32.91%) Terraform
2 454 (16.33%) REST
3 310 (11.15%) Kafka
4 267 (9.60%) .NET
5 265 (9.53%) React
6 224 (8.06%) RESTful
7 218 (7.84%) Spring
8 194 (6.98%) Spring Boot
9 148 (5.32%) PySpark
10 116 (4.17%) Node.js
11 114 (4.10%) HTML
12 103 (3.71%) Playwright
13 102 (3.67%) CSS
14 98 (3.53%) OAuth
15 88 (3.17%) AngularJS
15 88 (3.17%) JSON
16 81 (2.91%) FastAPI
17 78 (2.81%) SOAP
18 71 (2.55%) Middleware
19 69 (2.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 590 (21.22%) Cloud Native
2 230 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 164 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 142 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 120 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 119 (4.28%) Onboarding
7 99 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 44 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 38 (1.37%) Replication
13 37 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 37 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 37 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
15 31 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 265 (9.53%) Linux
2 129 (4.64%) Windows
3 80 (2.88%) Unix
4 49 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.01%) Android
7 26 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.50%) VMS
9 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Solaris
14 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,547 (55.65%) DevOps
2 1,022 (36.76%) Agile
3 963 (34.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 656 (23.60%) AI
5 643 (23.13%) Test Automation
6 544 (19.57%) Observability
7 541 (19.46%) Containerisation
8 530 (19.06%) Microservices
9 513 (18.45%) Software Engineering
10 430 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
11 414 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 403 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 368 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
14 361 (12.99%) Event-Driven
15 360 (12.95%) Analytics
16 355 (12.77%) Data Engineering
17 351 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
18 335 (12.05%) Data Modelling
19 319 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
20 305 (10.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (42.41%) Python
2 759 (27.30%) SQL
3 556 (20.00%) Java
4 316 (11.37%) JavaScript
5 288 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 275 (9.89%) C#
7 251 (9.03%) Bash
8 233 (8.38%) PowerShell
9 119 (4.28%) Bicep
10 80 (2.88%) Go
11 59 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 59 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.76%) Scala
13 40 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 38 (1.37%) Apex Code
15 35 (1.26%) Groovy
16 29 (1.04%) C++
17 28 (1.01%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.97%) PL/SQL
19 25 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 738 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 658 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 162 (5.83%) Degree
4 97 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 95 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 93 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 77 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.90%) CISSP
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 17 (0.61%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.40%) CISM
17 11 (0.40%) GIAC
17 11 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (10.00%) QA
2 267 (9.60%) Data Quality
3 93 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.51%) GDPR
6 39 (1.40%) NIST
7 24 (0.86%) NCSC
7 24 (0.86%) WCAG
8 17 (0.61%) SLA
9 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.40%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
14 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 708 (25.47%) Docker
2 63 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 10 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.072%) KVM
10 2 (0.072%) RACF
10 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.072%) vSphere
11 1 (0.036%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 839 (30.18%) Kubernetes
2 235 (8.45%) Grafana
3 227 (8.17%) Ansible
4 182 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.55%) Argo
6 34 (1.22%) Puppet
7 33 (1.19%) Kibana
8 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.61%) Packer
11 13 (0.47%) Istio
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.40%) Control-M
13 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.29%) SCCM
14 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 489 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 270 (9.71%) Databricks
3 174 (6.26%) Google
4 148 (5.32%) Oracle
5 115 (4.14%) Splunk
6 90 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 66 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 46 (1.65%) VMware
10 44 (1.58%) IBM
11 43 (1.55%) Foundry
12 34 (1.22%) Informatica
12 34 (1.22%) SAP
13 33 (1.19%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.83%) New Relic
16 21 (0.76%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.65%) Cisco
17 18 (0.65%) Palantir