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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,644 1,465 1,380
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.18% 10.91% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.77% 11.80% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,785 997 967
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £49.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile - £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £66.66 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.55% - -10.65%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +7 331 £550 -11.36% 117
South London +4 61 £537 +1.80% 10
West London +6 53 £560 +13.71% 36
East London +4 11 £588 +12.98% 29
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 130 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 104 (3.93%) Confluence
4 76 (2.87%) Apache
5 30 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.42%) Camunda
6 11 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) CMS
7 10 (0.38%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
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%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.076%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,205 (45.57%) Azure
2 1,160 (43.87%) AWS
3 593 (22.43%) GitHub
4 478 (18.08%) Azure DevOps
5 398 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
6 396 (14.98%) GCP
7 299 (11.31%) Serverless
8 231 (8.74%) Amazon S3
9 229 (8.66%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (5.41%) Snowflake
13 138 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 126 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 124 (4.69%) Entra ID
16 121 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 121 (4.58%) dbt
17 116 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
18 110 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
19 89 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.69%) Firewall
2 44 (1.66%) Network Security
3 36 (1.36%) VPN
4 34 (1.29%) DNS
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 23 (0.87%) HTTP
7 20 (0.76%) 5G
7 20 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.68%) SSL
9 17 (0.64%) WAN
10 12 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.42%) BGP
11 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.38%) 4G
12 10 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.30%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.30%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.26%) LTE
14 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.58%) Power BI
2 157 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
3 149 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 129 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 101 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 94 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 83 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 80 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (3.03%) Metadata
11 74 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 70 (2.65%) BigQuery
13 56 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
14 54 (2.04%) Redis
15 46 (1.74%) Big Data
16 45 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (1.70%) DynamoDB
17 35 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 479 (18.12%) Git
2 418 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 340 (12.86%) GitLab
4 185 (7.00%) JIRA
5 84 (3.18%) Selenium
6 71 (2.69%) JUnit
7 51 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.74%) Gradle
8 46 (1.74%) JMeter
9 40 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 40 (1.51%) Mockito
10 37 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 36 (1.36%) Postman
12 34 (1.29%) Maven
13 32 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 31 (1.17%) REST Assured
15 29 (1.10%) CircleCI
16 24 (0.91%) Gatling
16 24 (0.91%) MLflow
17 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 654 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 646 (24.43%) Finance
3 313 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.20%) Banking
5 227 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (2.31%) Front Office
7 60 (2.27%) Retail
8 57 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.13%) Law
12 30 (1.13%) Marketing
13 29 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.91%) Legal
15 15 (0.57%) Local Government
15 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.49%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 569 (21.52%) Developer
2 470 (17.78%) Senior
3 306 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (11.20%) Architect
5 271 (10.25%) Lead
6 239 (9.04%) Data Engineer
7 159 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.99%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (4.50%) Senior Developer
12 116 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 106 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 89 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 75 (2.84%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 65 (2.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 62 (2.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 844 (31.92%) Terraform
2 381 (14.41%) REST
3 267 (10.10%) Kafka
4 253 (9.57%) React
5 245 (9.27%) .NET
6 216 (8.17%) RESTful
7 205 (7.75%) Spring
8 176 (6.66%) Spring Boot
9 139 (5.26%) PySpark
10 122 (4.61%) Node.js
11 106 (4.01%) HTML
12 103 (3.90%) AngularJS
13 92 (3.48%) Playwright
14 85 (3.21%) CSS
15 83 (3.14%) JSON
16 71 (2.69%) OAuth
17 68 (2.57%) FastAPI
18 65 (2.46%) SOAP
19 57 (2.16%) Next.js
20 56 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 546 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 228 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 103 (3.90%) AI Agents
4 103 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 89 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 85 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 39 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 37 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.17%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 29 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 212 (8.02%) Linux
2 116 (4.39%) Windows
3 69 (2.61%) Unix
4 41 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.10%) Android
5 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 29 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.57%) VMS
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.076%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,465 (55.41%) DevOps
2 951 (35.97%) Agile
3 878 (33.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 571 (21.60%) AI
5 570 (21.56%) Test Automation
6 556 (21.03%) Containerisation
7 525 (19.86%) Microservices
8 468 (17.70%) Observability
9 463 (17.51%) Software Engineering
10 382 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
11 374 (14.15%) Analytics
12 358 (13.54%) Data Pipeline
13 354 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 336 (12.71%) Data Modelling
15 321 (12.14%) Data Engineering
16 317 (11.99%) Platform Engineering
17 315 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 307 (11.61%) Event-Driven
19 280 (10.59%) Migration
20 266 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (39.30%) Python
2 753 (28.48%) SQL
3 541 (20.46%) Java
4 280 (10.59%) JavaScript
5 279 (10.55%) C#
6 267 (10.10%) TypeScript
7 209 (7.90%) PowerShell
8 206 (7.79%) Bash
9 109 (4.12%) Bicep
10 59 (2.23%) Go
11 53 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.89%) Apex Code
13 49 (1.85%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.70%) Scala
15 36 (1.36%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 33 (1.25%) Ruby
17 29 (1.10%) T-SQL
18 26 (0.98%) C++
19 21 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 698 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 624 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.07%) Degree
4 99 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 81 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 72 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.76%) CISSP
11 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.45%) GIAC
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 11 (0.42%) CISM
16 8 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (9.00%) QA
2 224 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 88 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 56 (2.12%) GDPR
5 47 (1.78%) NIST
6 46 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.06%) WCAG
8 26 (0.98%) SLA
9 23 (0.87%) NCSC
10 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
13 9 (0.34%) GRC
14 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 677 (25.61%) Docker
2 61 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.076%) HDFS
9 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.076%) KVM
9 2 (0.076%) Postfix
9 2 (0.076%) Varnish
9 2 (0.076%) vSphere
10 1 (0.038%) IAG
10 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 781 (29.54%) Kubernetes
2 209 (7.90%) Grafana
3 197 (7.45%) Ansible
4 171 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.25%) Puppet
6 32 (1.21%) Argo
7 22 (0.83%) Kibana
8 21 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.76%) Packer
10 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.53%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 8 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
16 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 421 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 224 (8.47%) Databricks
3 138 (5.22%) Google
4 135 (5.11%) Oracle
5 106 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.67%) Splunk
7 69 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 45 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 44 (1.66%) VMware
11 35 (1.32%) IBM
12 33 (1.25%) Informatica
13 29 (1.10%) Foundry
13 29 (1.10%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 28 (1.06%) SAP
15 26 (0.98%) Cisco
16 25 (0.95%) New Relic
17 21 (0.79%) Palantir
18 19 (0.72%) CyberArk