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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,375 1,229 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.60% 10.01% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 10.84% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,592 830 982
10th Percentile £400 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £540 £567
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -4.76% -8.92%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £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 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -14.82% +6.70%

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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -1 268 £575 -4.17% 124
West London +6 53 £603 +21.41% 26
South London -1 43 £513 -6.82%
East London +7 12 £450 +80.00% 18
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
1 103 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
1 103 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 78 (3.28%) Confluence
3 67 (2.82%) Apache
4 26 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.46%) Camunda
6 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.38%) SAS
8 8 (0.34%) Appian
8 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) HCL Notes
10 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.25%) Mendix
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.084%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.25%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.084%) Endur
7 2 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (44.59%) AWS
1 1,059 (44.59%) Azure
2 548 (23.07%) GitHub
3 411 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
4 358 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
5 338 (14.23%) GCP
6 315 (13.26%) Serverless
7 236 (9.94%) Amazon S3
8 213 (8.97%) Power Platform
9 212 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
10 181 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 137 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
12 122 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 119 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
15 111 (4.67%) Azure AKS
16 104 (4.38%) Snowflake
17 99 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
18 95 (4.00%) Entra ID
19 85 (3.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.33%) Firewall
2 50 (2.11%) Network Security
3 33 (1.39%) DNS
4 28 (1.18%) VPN
5 25 (1.05%) HTTP
6 15 (0.63%) Internet
6 15 (0.63%) WAN
7 12 (0.51%) 5G
7 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.46%) SSL
9 10 (0.42%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.29%) BGP
12 6 (0.25%) FTP
12 6 (0.25%) OSPF
13 5 (0.21%) 4G
13 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.21%) LTE
13 5 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.11%) Power BI
2 143 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 140 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
4 136 (5.73%) SQL Server
5 124 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.99%) Delta Lake
11 70 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
12 66 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (2.61%) Metadata
14 60 (2.53%) BigQuery
15 53 (2.23%) Big Data
16 49 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 41 (1.73%) Redis
18 40 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 419 (17.64%) Git
2 365 (15.37%) Jenkins
3 291 (12.25%) GitLab
4 150 (6.32%) JIRA
5 65 (2.74%) JUnit
5 65 (2.74%) Selenium
6 48 (2.02%) MLflow
7 44 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.85%) Postman
8 42 (1.77%) JMeter
9 38 (1.60%) Mockito
10 35 (1.47%) Gradle
11 33 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 27 (1.14%) Cypress.io
13 25 (1.05%) CircleCI
14 23 (0.97%) Bitbucket
14 23 (0.97%) SonarQube
15 22 (0.93%) Maven
16 21 (0.88%) Artifactory
17 19 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 566 (23.83%) Finance
2 547 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 283 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 246 (10.36%) Banking
5 166 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (1.94%) Front Office
7 46 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 44 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.77%) Retail
10 40 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.09%) Law
13 23 (0.97%) Legal
13 23 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.80%) Marketing
15 17 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.67%) Publishing
17 13 (0.55%) Military
18 11 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 488 (20.55%) Developer
2 404 (17.01%) Senior
3 273 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 271 (11.41%) Architect
5 224 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 224 (9.43%) Lead
6 148 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
7 139 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
8 136 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 113 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 101 (4.25%) Senior Developer
11 99 (4.17%) Java Developer
11 99 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 77 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 74 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 74 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 71 (2.99%) Python Developer
15 62 (2.61%) AWS DevOps
16 59 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 55 (2.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (11.49%) REST
2 235 (9.89%) React
3 223 (9.39%) Kafka
4 208 (8.76%) .NET
5 202 (8.51%) RESTful
6 188 (7.92%) Spring
7 171 (7.20%) Spring Boot
8 127 (5.35%) Node.js
9 124 (5.22%) PySpark
10 116 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.66%) OAuth
12 83 (3.49%) HTML
13 69 (2.91%) CSS
14 67 (2.82%) Playwright
15 65 (2.74%) FastAPI
16 60 (2.53%) Pandas
17 59 (2.48%) OAuth2
18 58 (2.44%) JSON
19 53 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
19 53 (2.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 505 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 175 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.61%) AI Agents
7 42 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 33 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 33 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 32 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.18%) Equities
16 27 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 157 (6.61%) Linux
2 93 (3.92%) Windows
3 47 (1.98%) Unix
4 24 (1.01%) Android
4 24 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.76%) VMS
8 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.21%) Solaris
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.084%) AIX
13 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,299 (54.69%) DevOps
2 816 (34.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 748 (31.49%) Agile
4 534 (22.48%) Containerisation
5 515 (21.68%) AI
6 473 (19.92%) Test Automation
7 455 (19.16%) Microservices
8 411 (17.31%) Observability
9 379 (15.96%) Analytics
10 358 (15.07%) Software Engineering
11 321 (13.52%) Data Modelling
12 310 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
13 308 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
14 304 (12.80%) Data Engineering
15 283 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 273 (11.49%) Machine Learning
17 266 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
18 243 (10.23%) Migration
19 235 (9.89%) ETL
20 225 (9.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 937 (39.45%) Python
2 673 (28.34%) SQL
3 451 (18.99%) Java
4 256 (10.78%) C#
5 231 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 231 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 160 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 158 (6.65%) Bash
8 89 (3.75%) Bicep
9 55 (2.32%) Scala
10 42 (1.77%) Apex Code
11 41 (1.73%) Go
12 38 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 37 (1.56%) Ruby
14 36 (1.52%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 28 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.63%) C++
17 15 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.51%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 587 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 526 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 121 (5.09%) Degree
4 97 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 54 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.84%) CISSP
13 15 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.42%) CISM
16 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (7.96%) QA
2 186 (7.83%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 72 (3.03%) GDPR
5 64 (2.69%) NIST
6 51 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.18%) NCSC
8 26 (1.09%) WCAG
9 25 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.88%) SLA
11 13 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 9 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.29%) PSD2
14 6 (0.25%) COBIT
14 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.21%) MiFID
15 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 630 (26.53%) Docker
2 57 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) HDFS
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.042%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 784 (33.01%) Terraform
2 701 (29.52%) Kubernetes
3 171 (7.20%) Ansible
4 164 (6.91%) Grafana
5 149 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.05%) Argo
8 20 (0.84%) Istio
8 20 (0.84%) Puppet
9 18 (0.76%) Kibana
10 13 (0.55%) Packer
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.17%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 347 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.08%) Databricks
3 115 (4.84%) Google
4 102 (4.29%) Oracle
5 91 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 82 (3.45%) Splunk
7 57 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 56 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.26%) VMware
11 25 (1.05%) Foundry
11 25 (1.05%) IBM
11 25 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.01%) SAP
13 23 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.80%) Informatica
15 18 (0.76%) Cisco
16 14 (0.59%) Palantir
16 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto