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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,241 1,198 1,302
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.30% 9.88% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.91% 10.71% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 821 948
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -2.65% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.68% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £48.40
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £95.50 - £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -3 248 £575 -1.71% 226
West London +10 65 £603 +21.77% 23
South London +2 52 £521 +5.30% 3
East London +4 12 £450 +80.00% 26
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
1 111 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 91 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.99%) Apache
4 65 (2.90%) Confluence
5 28 (1.25%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) Camunda
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) IIS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.13%) Shopify
7 2 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.045%) Actimize
8 1 (0.045%) Endur
8 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.045%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (46.05%) Azure
2 990 (44.18%) AWS
3 518 (23.11%) GitHub
4 400 (17.85%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (15.17%) GCP
6 334 (14.90%) GitHub Actions
7 302 (13.48%) Serverless
8 219 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 197 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
10 195 (8.70%) Power Platform
11 185 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 131 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 128 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
14 109 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
15 105 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
15 105 (4.69%) Azure AKS
16 104 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 92 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 90 (4.02%) Snowflake
19 89 (3.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.30%) Firewall
2 45 (2.01%) Network Security
3 35 (1.56%) DNS
4 25 (1.12%) HTTP
5 21 (0.94%) VPN
6 13 (0.58%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
8 8 (0.36%) Internet
8 8 (0.36%) SSL
9 7 (0.31%) BGP
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
10 6 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.22%) FTP
11 5 (0.22%) LTE
11 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (6.60%) Data Lake
2 134 (5.98%) Power BI
3 133 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 130 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 121 (5.40%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 72 (3.21%) Delta Lake
10 71 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
11 65 (2.90%) Metadata
12 62 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (2.68%) BigQuery
14 56 (2.50%) Big Data
15 54 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 45 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (2.01%) DynamoDB
17 37 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.43%) Redis
19 30 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 396 (17.67%) Git
2 359 (16.02%) Jenkins
3 264 (11.78%) GitLab
4 129 (5.76%) JIRA
5 73 (3.26%) Selenium
6 57 (2.54%) JUnit
7 50 (2.23%) MLflow
8 49 (2.19%) Postman
9 44 (1.96%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.78%) JMeter
11 34 (1.52%) Mockito
12 31 (1.38%) REST Assured
13 28 (1.25%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.12%) Gradle
15 21 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 18 (0.80%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.80%) SonarQube
18 17 (0.76%) Liquibase
19 16 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 530 (23.65%) Finance
2 507 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 260 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 229 (10.22%) Banking
5 167 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.01%) Front Office
8 41 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 36 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.52%) Retail
11 27 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 21 (0.94%) Legal
13 19 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.67%) Law
15 15 (0.67%) Publishing
16 14 (0.62%) Marketing
17 11 (0.49%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 476 (21.24%) Developer
2 364 (16.24%) Senior
3 254 (11.33%) Architect
4 247 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 222 (9.91%) Data Engineer
6 205 (9.15%) Lead
7 140 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 121 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 105 (4.69%) Software Engineer
11 90 (4.02%) Java Developer
11 90 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 86 (3.84%) Senior Developer
13 72 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 71 (3.17%) Python Developer
15 69 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
16 64 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
17 54 (2.41%) Security Engineer
18 50 (2.23%) AWS DevOps
19 49 (2.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (10.35%) REST
2 222 (9.91%) Kafka
3 221 (9.86%) React
4 204 (9.10%) .NET
5 194 (8.66%) RESTful
6 183 (8.17%) Spring
7 164 (7.32%) Spring Boot
8 137 (6.11%) Node.js
9 119 (5.31%) PySpark
10 112 (5.00%) AngularJS
11 80 (3.57%) HTML
12 77 (3.44%) OAuth
13 74 (3.30%) Playwright
14 66 (2.95%) CSS
15 58 (2.59%) FastAPI
15 58 (2.59%) Pandas
16 54 (2.41%) YAML
17 52 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
18 50 (2.23%) OAuth2
19 49 (2.19%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 460 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 164 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 38 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 32 (1.43%) Equities
12 29 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.20%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.65%) Linux
2 85 (3.79%) Windows
3 41 (1.83%) Unix
4 24 (1.07%) VMS
5 22 (0.98%) Android
6 21 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.089%) AIX
12 2 (0.089%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,241 (55.38%) DevOps
2 761 (33.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 700 (31.24%) Agile
4 512 (22.85%) Containerisation
5 453 (20.21%) Test Automation
6 452 (20.17%) AI
7 432 (19.28%) Microservices
8 377 (16.82%) Observability
9 362 (16.15%) Analytics
10 320 (14.28%) Software Engineering
11 309 (13.79%) Data Modelling
12 294 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
13 290 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
14 281 (12.54%) Data Engineering
15 257 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 240 (10.71%) Machine Learning
17 234 (10.44%) ETL
18 231 (10.31%) Platform Engineering
19 220 (9.82%) Migration
20 207 (9.24%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 865 (38.60%) Python
2 644 (28.74%) SQL
3 428 (19.10%) Java
4 255 (11.38%) C#
5 232 (10.35%) JavaScript
6 223 (9.95%) TypeScript
7 140 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 138 (6.16%) Bash
9 90 (4.02%) Bicep
10 59 (2.63%) Scala
11 41 (1.83%) Go
12 39 (1.74%) Ruby
13 38 (1.70%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.56%) Apex Code
15 30 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.20%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.98%) C++
18 14 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 573 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 513 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.49%) Degree
4 93 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (0.76%) CISSP
12 16 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.40%) CISM
16 8 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.30%) QA
2 176 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 78 (3.48%) GDPR
4 67 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 59 (2.63%) NIST
6 51 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.43%) NCSC
8 24 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.07%) WCAG
9 22 (0.98%) SLA
10 17 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.31%) MiFID
13 6 (0.27%) COBIT
13 6 (0.27%) GRC
13 6 (0.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) SEPA
16 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 610 (27.22%) Docker
2 54 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.089%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.089%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) HDFS
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 727 (32.44%) Terraform
2 682 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 151 (6.74%) Ansible
4 149 (6.65%) Grafana
5 134 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.12%) Argo
8 20 (0.89%) Istio
9 18 (0.80%) Puppet
10 17 (0.76%) Kibana
11 10 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.40%) Packer
13 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.22%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
17 4 (0.18%) Suricata
18 3 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 347 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 205 (9.15%) Databricks
3 111 (4.95%) Google
4 99 (4.42%) Oracle
5 78 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.35%) Splunk
7 56 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 31 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.03%) Foundry
10 23 (1.03%) VMware
11 22 (0.98%) IBM
12 21 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 21 (0.94%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.89%) SAP
14 17 (0.76%) Cisco
15 14 (0.62%) Informatica
16 12 (0.54%) Okta
16 12 (0.54%) Palo Alto