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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,574 1,412 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 10.44% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.32% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 938 1,025
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.53% -6.71%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £688
90th Percentile £745 £802 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
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% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.85% +2.13%

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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -1 296 £550 -9.84% 111
West London +9 58 £580 +17.77% 23
South London +2 51 £538 +1.03% 8
East London +4 10 £500 +29.87% 21
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
1 114 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.81%) Confluence
4 73 (2.84%) Apache
5 27 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.43%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.27%) CMS
10 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.23%) nginx
12 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.19%) Appian
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
7 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.078%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.078%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,152 (44.76%) AWS
2 1,134 (44.06%) Azure
3 568 (22.07%) GitHub
4 433 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
5 372 (14.45%) GitHub Actions
6 367 (14.26%) GCP
7 317 (12.32%) Serverless
8 256 (9.95%) Amazon S3
9 218 (8.47%) Power Platform
10 214 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 120 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
15 111 (4.31%) Azure AKS
15 111 (4.31%) Snowflake
16 110 (4.27%) Entra ID
17 109 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 105 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
19 98 (3.81%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.80%) Firewall
2 45 (1.75%) Network Security
3 33 (1.28%) VPN
4 32 (1.24%) DNS
5 26 (1.01%) HTTP
6 21 (0.82%) Internet
7 17 (0.66%) 5G
7 17 (0.66%) WAN
8 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.35%) SSL
11 8 (0.31%) 4G
11 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
11 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 6 (0.23%) FTP
13 6 (0.23%) OSPF
14 5 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.02%) Power BI
2 149 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.05%) Data Lake
3 130 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 129 (5.01%) SQL Server
5 126 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 96 (3.73%) Relational Database
7 88 (3.42%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 74 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 73 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
11 71 (2.76%) Delta Lake
11 71 (2.76%) Metadata
12 56 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 53 (2.06%) Big Data
14 48 (1.86%) DynamoDB
15 42 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 37 (1.44%) Redis
18 31 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 454 (17.64%) Git
2 392 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 310 (12.04%) GitLab
4 178 (6.92%) JIRA
5 76 (2.95%) JUnit
6 73 (2.84%) Selenium
7 46 (1.79%) Postman
8 45 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 44 (1.71%) JMeter
10 41 (1.59%) Gradle
10 41 (1.59%) Mockito
11 40 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 40 (1.55%) REST Assured
12 38 (1.48%) MLflow
13 31 (1.20%) Maven
14 28 (1.09%) Bitbucket
14 28 (1.09%) CircleCI
14 28 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 22 (0.85%) Gatling
16 19 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 613 (23.82%) Finance
2 605 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 312 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 282 (10.96%) Banking
5 207 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.21%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.02%) Front Office
9 51 (1.98%) Retail
10 43 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.09%) Law
12 28 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.97%) Legal
15 23 (0.89%) Marketing
16 15 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 538 (20.90%) Developer
2 435 (16.90%) Senior
3 302 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 283 (10.99%) Architect
5 255 (9.91%) Lead
6 234 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 163 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 122 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.70%) Java Developer
12 106 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
13 105 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 86 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
16 70 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 70 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
17 69 (2.68%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 61 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (12.28%) REST
2 253 (9.83%) React
3 243 (9.44%) Kafka
4 231 (8.97%) .NET
5 219 (8.51%) RESTful
6 210 (8.16%) Spring
7 180 (6.99%) Spring Boot
8 136 (5.28%) Node.js
9 134 (5.21%) PySpark
10 113 (4.39%) AngularJS
11 96 (3.73%) HTML
12 88 (3.42%) Playwright
13 82 (3.19%) CSS
14 77 (2.99%) OAuth
15 70 (2.72%) JSON
16 61 (2.37%) FastAPI
16 61 (2.37%) SOAP
17 59 (2.29%) GraphQL
18 57 (2.21%) OAuth2
19 53 (2.06%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 541 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 200 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 94 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 89 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (2.87%) AI Agents
7 56 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 42 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 40 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 34 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.28%) Fixed Income
16 32 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (6.99%) Linux
2 109 (4.23%) Windows
3 55 (2.14%) Unix
4 28 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (0.97%) Android
5 25 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.43%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (54.74%) DevOps
2 877 (34.07%) Agile
3 855 (33.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 576 (22.38%) Containerisation
5 534 (20.75%) Test Automation
6 522 (20.28%) AI
7 495 (19.23%) Microservices
8 427 (16.59%) Observability
9 406 (15.77%) Software Engineering
10 381 (14.80%) Analytics
11 342 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 339 (13.17%) Data Pipeline
13 323 (12.55%) Data Modelling
14 313 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 310 (12.04%) Data Engineering
16 300 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
17 277 (10.76%) Machine Learning
18 264 (10.26%) Event-Driven
19 257 (9.98%) Migration
20 248 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 983 (38.19%) Python
2 692 (26.88%) SQL
3 505 (19.62%) Java
4 276 (10.72%) C#
5 269 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 258 (10.02%) JavaScript
7 184 (7.15%) Bash
8 165 (6.41%) PowerShell
9 94 (3.65%) Bicep
10 59 (2.29%) Go
11 57 (2.21%) Scala
12 48 (1.86%) Apex Code
13 47 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 35 (1.36%) Ruby
16 30 (1.17%) T-SQL
17 27 (1.05%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 15 (0.58%) SOQL
19 15 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 670 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 601 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.21%) Degree
4 91 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 63 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 49 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.85%) CISSP
11 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.47%) CISM
14 12 (0.47%) GIAC
14 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.39%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (8.51%) QA
2 202 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 64 (2.49%) GDPR
5 62 (2.41%) NIST
6 50 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.36%) NCSC
8 29 (1.13%) WCAG
9 21 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.82%) SLA
10 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.39%) GRC
12 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.19%) COBIT
14 5 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.19%) PSD2
15 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 663 (25.76%) Docker
2 61 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) NFS
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
12 1 (0.039%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 826 (32.09%) Terraform
2 761 (29.56%) Kubernetes
3 188 (7.30%) Grafana
4 179 (6.95%) Ansible
5 160 (6.22%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.13%) Argo
7 27 (1.05%) Puppet
8 23 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.74%) Kibana
10 16 (0.62%) Packer
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Istio
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.23%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
16 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 365 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.61%) Databricks
3 115 (4.47%) Google
4 113 (4.39%) Oracle
5 103 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.77%) Splunk
7 55 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.28%) VMware
11 31 (1.20%) Foundry
12 28 (1.09%) IBM
12 28 (1.09%) Informatica
12 28 (1.09%) SAP
13 27 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 26 (1.01%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.85%) Palantir
15 22 (0.85%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.70%) Cisco
17 14 (0.54%) Okta