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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,478 1,344 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.35% 8.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.22% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,669 901 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £385 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -7.42% -6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £813 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £551
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.99% -8.17%
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% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year +5.60% -7.06% +2.51%

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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 0 285 £550 -9.84% 192
West London +7 53 £601 +22.08% 26
South London +3 48 £538 +1.03% 6
East London +5 11 £475 +90.00% 17
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
1 110 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 89 (3.59%) Confluence
4 69 (2.78%) Apache
5 29 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Camunda
7 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) Appian
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) HCL Notes
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.081%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (44.47%) AWS
2 1,088 (43.91%) Azure
3 543 (21.91%) GitHub
4 423 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
5 357 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
6 348 (14.04%) GCP
7 316 (12.75%) Serverless
8 242 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.64%) Power Platform
10 211 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 133 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
14 117 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.56%) Azure AKS
15 113 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 110 (4.44%) Snowflake
17 105 (4.24%) Entra ID
18 98 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
19 96 (3.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.99%) Firewall
2 50 (2.02%) Network Security
3 32 (1.29%) DNS
4 31 (1.25%) VPN
5 24 (0.97%) HTTP
6 20 (0.81%) Internet
7 17 (0.69%) WAN
8 16 (0.65%) 5G
9 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.36%) SSL
12 8 (0.32%) 4G
12 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.28%) BGP
13 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
15 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (6.09%) Power BI
2 143 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 130 (5.25%) Data Lake
4 130 (5.25%) NoSQL
5 125 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
6 93 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 87 (3.51%) MongoDB
8 76 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 70 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 69 (2.78%) Delta Lake
12 66 (2.66%) Metadata
13 55 (2.22%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.06%) Big Data
15 49 (1.98%) DynamoDB
16 40 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 35 (1.41%) Redis
19 32 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 436 (17.59%) Git
2 380 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 303 (12.23%) GitLab
4 168 (6.78%) JIRA
5 74 (2.99%) JUnit
6 70 (2.82%) Selenium
7 45 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 45 (1.82%) Postman
8 43 (1.74%) JMeter
9 41 (1.65%) Mockito
10 40 (1.61%) MLflow
11 38 (1.53%) REST Assured
12 37 (1.49%) Gradle
13 33 (1.33%) Cypress.io
14 27 (1.09%) Maven
15 26 (1.05%) CircleCI
16 25 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 25 (1.01%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.81%) Gatling
17 20 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 596 (24.05%) Finance
2 573 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 299 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 275 (11.10%) Banking
5 189 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 50 (2.02%) Front Office
9 48 (1.94%) Retail
10 44 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.13%) Law
13 27 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 24 (0.97%) Legal
15 22 (0.89%) Marketing
16 16 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.52%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 509 (20.54%) Developer
2 415 (16.75%) Senior
3 294 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 277 (11.18%) Architect
5 241 (9.73%) Lead
6 227 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 158 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
8 144 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 136 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 122 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 116 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 100 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 100 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 80 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
14 76 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
15 69 (2.78%) Python Developer
16 68 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
17 67 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 64 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (11.95%) REST
2 241 (9.73%) React
3 231 (9.32%) Kafka
4 222 (8.96%) .NET
5 209 (8.43%) RESTful
6 202 (8.15%) Spring
7 173 (6.98%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.33%) PySpark
9 125 (5.04%) Node.js
10 112 (4.52%) AngularJS
11 85 (3.43%) HTML
12 80 (3.23%) Playwright
13 79 (3.19%) OAuth
14 72 (2.91%) CSS
15 66 (2.66%) JSON
16 64 (2.58%) FastAPI
17 57 (2.30%) SOAP
18 56 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.26%) OAuth2
19 55 (2.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 524 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 188 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 84 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 51 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.37%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 33 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 171 (6.90%) Linux
2 106 (4.28%) Windows
3 52 (2.10%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.89%) Android
6 22 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.52%) VMS
8 8 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.20%) Solaris
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) zOS
11 2 (0.081%) AIX
11 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,360 (54.88%) DevOps
2 833 (33.62%) Agile
3 826 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 557 (22.48%) Containerisation
5 508 (20.50%) Test Automation
6 506 (20.42%) AI
7 468 (18.89%) Microservices
8 403 (16.26%) Observability
9 388 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 380 (15.33%) Analytics
11 330 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
12 322 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
13 316 (12.75%) Data Modelling
14 308 (12.43%) Data Engineering
15 303 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 286 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
17 272 (10.98%) Machine Learning
18 254 (10.25%) Migration
19 246 (9.93%) Event-Driven
20 240 (9.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 949 (38.30%) Python
2 677 (27.32%) SQL
3 481 (19.41%) Java
4 274 (11.06%) C#
5 251 (10.13%) TypeScript
6 240 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 174 (7.02%) Bash
8 162 (6.54%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.87%) Bicep
10 52 (2.10%) Go
10 52 (2.10%) Scala
11 44 (1.78%) Apex Code
12 41 (1.65%) Kotlin
13 40 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.41%) Ruby
15 29 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.05%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.56%) SOQL
19 13 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 626 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 561 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.21%) Degree
4 91 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 69 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 58 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.89%) CISSP
11 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.48%) CISM
14 12 (0.48%) GIAC
14 12 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (8.39%) QA
2 195 (7.87%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 67 (2.70%) GDPR
5 65 (2.62%) NIST
6 53 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.29%) NCSC
8 27 (1.09%) WCAG
9 23 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.89%) SLA
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.40%) GRC
13 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.24%) COBIT
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.20%) PSD2
17 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 648 (26.15%) Docker
2 59 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
5 11 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.081%) HDFS
10 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.040%) IAG
11 1 (0.040%) NFS
11 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.040%) Samba
11 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 803 (32.41%) Terraform
2 746 (30.10%) Kubernetes
3 178 (7.18%) Ansible
4 171 (6.90%) Grafana
5 151 (6.09%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.05%) Puppet
7 24 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.81%) Argo
9 18 (0.73%) Kibana
10 15 (0.61%) Packer
11 12 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.44%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.24%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.67%) Databricks
3 107 (4.32%) Google
4 104 (4.20%) Oracle
5 96 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 89 (3.59%) Splunk
7 54 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 38 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.29%) VMware
11 28 (1.13%) IBM
11 28 (1.13%) Informatica
12 26 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.05%) Foundry
13 25 (1.01%) SAP
14 23 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.89%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.85%) Palantir
17 18 (0.73%) Cisco
18 13 (0.52%) Sybase