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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,654 1,491 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.22% 11.14% 8.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.85% 12.05% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,787 1,011 982
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +8 334 £550 -10.46% 170
South London +1 65 £538 +1.27% 19
West London +3 52 £560 +13.71% 101
East London +5 11 £590 +9.26% 27
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 127 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.11%) Confluence
3 102 (3.84%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.86%) Apache
5 36 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.49%) Camunda
6 13 (0.49%) CMS
7 11 (0.41%) nginx
8 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Mendix
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 28 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (45.74%) Azure
2 1,162 (43.78%) AWS
3 603 (22.72%) GitHub
4 484 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
5 405 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
6 398 (15.00%) GCP
7 320 (12.06%) Serverless
8 236 (8.89%) Amazon S3
8 236 (8.89%) Power Platform
9 206 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
10 150 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
11 147 (5.54%) Snowflake
12 137 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 135 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 130 (4.90%) dbt
15 125 (4.71%) Entra ID
16 117 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
17 114 (4.30%) Azure AKS
18 107 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
19 92 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.60%) Firewall
2 40 (1.51%) Network Security
3 37 (1.39%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 28 (1.06%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.87%) HTTP
8 20 (0.75%) 5G
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 15 (0.57%) WAN
11 12 (0.45%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.41%) SAN
13 10 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
14 9 (0.34%) 4G
14 9 (0.34%) BGP
14 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
17 6 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.78%) Power BI
2 170 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (5.09%) SQL Server
5 129 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 100 (3.77%) MongoDB
8 98 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 89 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (3.28%) Delta Lake
11 86 (3.24%) Metadata
12 73 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 70 (2.64%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.07%) Redis
15 52 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.81%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.62%) Big Data
18 42 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
19 40 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
20 38 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 490 (18.46%) Git
2 428 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 344 (12.96%) GitLab
4 188 (7.08%) JIRA
5 91 (3.43%) Selenium
6 71 (2.68%) JUnit
7 52 (1.96%) Cypress.io
8 49 (1.85%) Gradle
9 47 (1.77%) JMeter
10 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 38 (1.43%) Mockito
11 38 (1.43%) Postman
12 36 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 36 (1.36%) Maven
13 35 (1.32%) SonarQube
14 32 (1.21%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.98%) MLflow
17 22 (0.83%) Gatling
18 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 664 (25.02%) Social Skills
2 645 (24.30%) Finance
3 311 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 298 (11.23%) Banking
5 236 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.37%) Front Office
7 61 (2.30%) Retail
8 57 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.21%) Law
10 32 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.17%) Marketing
12 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.90%) Legal
15 19 (0.72%) Military
16 16 (0.60%) Local Government
16 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 569 (21.44%) Developer
2 471 (17.75%) Senior
3 319 (12.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 300 (11.30%) Architect
5 261 (9.83%) Lead
6 246 (9.27%) Data Engineer
7 157 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
8 140 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (5.01%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 120 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 114 (4.30%) Java Developer
13 101 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 87 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (2.79%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (2.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 64 (2.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 860 (32.40%) Terraform
2 394 (14.85%) REST
3 275 (10.36%) Kafka
4 263 (9.91%) React
5 242 (9.12%) .NET
6 220 (8.29%) RESTful
7 207 (7.80%) Spring
8 177 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.31%) PySpark
10 126 (4.75%) Node.js
11 103 (3.88%) HTML
12 93 (3.50%) CSS
13 89 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 89 (3.35%) Playwright
14 86 (3.24%) JSON
15 76 (2.86%) OAuth
16 75 (2.83%) FastAPI
17 68 (2.56%) SOAP
18 59 (2.22%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 553 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 230 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 153 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 117 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 106 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 92 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 37 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 36 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 31 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
15 30 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.44%) Linux
2 111 (4.18%) Windows
3 71 (2.68%) Unix
4 46 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.09%) Android
7 28 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.60%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.075%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,474 (55.54%) DevOps
2 968 (36.47%) Agile
3 904 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 592 (22.31%) AI
5 569 (21.44%) Test Automation
6 558 (21.02%) Containerisation
7 532 (20.05%) Microservices
8 498 (18.76%) Observability
9 474 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 389 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
11 368 (13.87%) Analytics
12 351 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 351 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
13 336 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 335 (12.62%) Data Modelling
15 328 (12.36%) Data Engineering
16 326 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
17 320 (12.06%) Event-Driven
18 278 (10.47%) Migration
19 276 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (40.84%) Python
2 750 (28.26%) SQL
3 545 (20.54%) Java
4 283 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 267 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 266 (10.02%) C#
7 220 (8.29%) Bash
8 215 (8.10%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.26%) Bicep
10 64 (2.41%) Go
11 53 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 52 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 49 (1.85%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.73%) Scala
15 40 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.28%) Ruby
17 32 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 27 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.98%) C++
20 25 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 690 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 619 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 142 (5.35%) Degree
4 103 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 84 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 79 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.72%) CISSP
11 16 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (8.93%) QA
2 236 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.03%) GDPR
5 49 (1.85%) NIST
6 47 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.02%) WCAG
8 23 (0.87%) SLA
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.15%) COBIT
17 4 (0.15%) MiFID
17 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 684 (25.77%) Docker
2 61 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.075%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.075%) HDFS
11 2 (0.075%) KVM
11 2 (0.075%) Varnish
11 2 (0.075%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 786 (29.62%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.99%) Grafana
3 198 (7.46%) Ansible
4 172 (6.48%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.36%) Argo
6 33 (1.24%) Puppet
7 24 (0.90%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.72%) Packer
10 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.49%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 449 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 236 (8.89%) Databricks
3 146 (5.50%) Google
4 142 (5.35%) Oracle
5 101 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 99 (3.73%) Splunk
7 64 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.73%) VMware
11 38 (1.43%) IBM
12 37 (1.39%) Informatica
13 33 (1.24%) Foundry
14 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.98%) SAP
17 23 (0.87%) New Relic
18 22 (0.83%) Cisco
19 20 (0.75%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.75%) Palantir