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

6 months to
7 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 2,796 1,615 1,453
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.73% 12.05% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.45% 13.02% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 1,079 1,007
10th Percentile £400 £367 £413
25th Percentile £450 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £54.25 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £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 18,094 12,405 14,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,846 8,173 9,340
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £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 338 241 182
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -18.14% -7.51%
75th Percentile £58.44 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +10 346 £550 -9.13% 267
South London +2 71 £535 +0.47% 17
West London -4 50 £560 +13.71% 54
East London +2 11 £585 +8.33% 19
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
1 138 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.15%) Confluence
3 111 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 86 (3.08%) Apache
5 37 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
11 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.57%) 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 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) 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%) Maximo
9 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.036%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (44.96%) Azure
2 1,204 (43.06%) AWS
3 628 (22.46%) GitHub
4 473 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 441 (15.77%) GCP
6 422 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
7 340 (12.16%) Serverless
8 253 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.15%) Power Platform
10 216 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 189 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (5.58%) Snowflake
14 150 (5.36%) Entra ID
15 138 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 135 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
17 134 (4.79%) dbt
18 112 (4.01%) Azure AKS
19 103 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
20 98 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.36%) Firewall
2 48 (1.72%) Network Security
3 47 (1.68%) DNS
4 37 (1.32%) VPN
5 32 (1.14%) Internet
6 28 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.75%) SSL
8 19 (0.68%) 5G
9 18 (0.64%) HTTP
10 12 (0.43%) WAN
11 11 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.39%) SAN
12 10 (0.36%) SSH
13 9 (0.32%) 4G
13 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.29%) BGP
15 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
16 6 (0.21%) SD-WAN
17 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 172 (6.15%) Power BI
3 151 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 132 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.11%) Data Lake
7 114 (4.08%) MongoDB
8 110 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 102 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.18%) Delta Lake
11 84 (3.00%) Metadata
12 74 (2.65%) BigQuery
13 73 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 60 (2.15%) Redis
15 51 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
16 50 (1.79%) MySQL
17 46 (1.65%) Big Data
17 46 (1.65%) DynamoDB
18 45 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
18 45 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 550 (19.67%) Git
2 457 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 384 (13.73%) GitLab
4 195 (6.97%) JIRA
5 103 (3.68%) Selenium
6 79 (2.83%) JUnit
7 59 (2.11%) Gradle
8 58 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 55 (1.97%) Cypress.io
10 49 (1.75%) JMeter
10 49 (1.75%) Maven
11 46 (1.65%) Bitbucket
12 45 (1.61%) SonarQube
13 43 (1.54%) Postman
14 37 (1.32%) Mockito
15 33 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 26 (0.93%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.93%) Gatling
17 22 (0.79%) MLflow
18 21 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 717 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 706 (25.25%) Finance
3 342 (12.23%) Banking
4 315 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 277 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.72%) Front Office
7 70 (2.50%) Retail
8 67 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.43%) Marketing
11 34 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (1.18%) Law
13 30 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.82%) Back Office
16 23 (0.82%) Military
17 20 (0.72%) Local Government
18 18 (0.64%) Police
19 17 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 582 (20.82%) Developer
2 518 (18.53%) Senior
3 352 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 296 (10.59%) Architect
5 284 (10.16%) Lead
6 254 (9.08%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
7 150 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
8 135 (4.83%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 124 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 121 (4.33%) Java Developer
12 106 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 99 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 94 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
15 80 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
16 75 (2.68%) Python Developer
17 72 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
18 71 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 919 (32.87%) Terraform
2 450 (16.09%) REST
3 310 (11.09%) Kafka
4 265 (9.48%) .NET
5 262 (9.37%) React
6 225 (8.05%) RESTful
7 222 (7.94%) Spring
8 198 (7.08%) Spring Boot
9 146 (5.22%) PySpark
10 118 (4.22%) Node.js
11 113 (4.04%) HTML
12 102 (3.65%) Playwright
13 101 (3.61%) CSS
14 98 (3.51%) OAuth
15 88 (3.15%) JSON
16 85 (3.04%) AngularJS
17 83 (2.97%) FastAPI
18 78 (2.79%) SOAP
19 70 (2.50%) Middleware
20 69 (2.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 593 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 230 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
3 164 (5.87%) Product Ownership
4 143 (5.11%) AI Agents
5 122 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
5 122 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 98 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 43 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 40 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 38 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.32%) Replication
13 37 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 36 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 32 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
15 32 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 271 (9.69%) Linux
2 132 (4.72%) Windows
3 82 (2.93%) Unix
4 49 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.00%) Android
7 25 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.50%) VMS
9 11 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.21%) 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 1,553 (55.54%) DevOps
2 1,027 (36.73%) Agile
3 968 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 657 (23.50%) AI
5 634 (22.68%) Test Automation
6 547 (19.56%) Containerisation
7 545 (19.49%) Observability
8 541 (19.35%) Microservices
9 516 (18.45%) Software Engineering
10 431 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
11 407 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 399 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 369 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
14 363 (12.98%) Analytics
15 359 (12.84%) Event-Driven
16 353 (12.63%) Data Engineering
17 352 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
18 334 (11.95%) Data Modelling
19 315 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
20 303 (10.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,183 (42.31%) Python
2 765 (27.36%) SQL
3 564 (20.17%) Java
4 311 (11.12%) JavaScript
5 283 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 277 (9.91%) C#
7 257 (9.19%) Bash
8 233 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 117 (4.18%) Bicep
10 81 (2.90%) Go
11 60 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 58 (2.07%) Kotlin
13 49 (1.75%) Scala
14 41 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 39 (1.39%) Apex Code
16 35 (1.25%) Groovy
17 29 (1.04%) C++
18 28 (1.00%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 748 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 668 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 159 (5.69%) Degree
4 98 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 95 (3.40%) AWS Certification
5 95 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 75 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (0.86%) CISSP
9 24 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 16 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.39%) CISM
14 11 (0.39%) GIAC
14 11 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (9.91%) QA
2 266 (9.51%) Data Quality
3 93 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.50%) GDPR
5 42 (1.50%) NIST
6 24 (0.86%) NCSC
6 24 (0.86%) WCAG
7 18 (0.64%) SLA
8 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.43%) GRC
11 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.29%) Basel III
13 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.21%) MiFID
14 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 716 (25.61%) Docker
2 66 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 10 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) 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%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.072%) KVM
10 2 (0.072%) RACF
10 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 849 (30.36%) Kubernetes
2 238 (8.51%) Grafana
3 232 (8.30%) Ansible
4 187 (6.69%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.57%) Argo
6 36 (1.29%) Puppet
7 33 (1.18%) Kibana
8 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.64%) Packer
9 18 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.50%) Istio
11 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) 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 (0.21%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 484 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 267 (9.55%) Databricks
3 175 (6.26%) Google
4 145 (5.19%) Oracle
5 113 (4.04%) Splunk
6 90 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 66 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 48 (1.72%) VMware
10 43 (1.54%) IBM
11 41 (1.47%) Foundry
12 34 (1.22%) Informatica
12 34 (1.22%) SAP
13 31 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.82%) New Relic
16 22 (0.79%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.64%) Cisco
17 18 (0.64%) Palantir