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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,590 1,469 1,357
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 10.81% 8.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.43% 11.71% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 992 955
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £526 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -6.90% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% -1.52% -8.97%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +7 320 £550 -12.00% 189
South London +1 58 £543 +2.36% 20
West London +7 51 £560 +13.71% 37
East London +7 12 £585 +62.50% 18
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 124 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.05%) Confluence
3 96 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 74 (2.86%) Apache
5 30 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 26 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Magento
4 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Endur
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.077%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,168 (45.10%) Azure
2 1,120 (43.24%) AWS
3 585 (22.59%) GitHub
4 459 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 392 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
6 387 (14.94%) GCP
7 294 (11.35%) Serverless
8 238 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 224 (8.65%) Power Platform
10 197 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
11 151 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 138 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 128 (4.94%) Snowflake
14 119 (4.59%) dbt
14 119 (4.59%) Entra ID
15 118 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 117 (4.52%) Azure AKS
17 114 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
18 107 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 88 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.78%) Firewall
2 43 (1.66%) Network Security
3 35 (1.35%) DNS
3 35 (1.35%) VPN
4 28 (1.08%) Internet
5 23 (0.89%) HTTP
6 19 (0.73%) 5G
7 17 (0.66%) SSL
7 17 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.27%) BGP
12 7 (0.27%) LTE
13 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 5 (0.19%) MPLS
14 5 (0.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (6.56%) Power BI
2 145 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.71%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.59%) SQL Server
7 90 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 89 (3.44%) MongoDB
9 79 (3.05%) Delta Lake
10 73 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 71 (2.74%) Metadata
12 70 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
13 67 (2.59%) BigQuery
14 63 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.93%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.85%) Big Data
17 44 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (1.70%) Redis
18 36 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 458 (17.68%) Git
2 401 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 326 (12.59%) GitLab
4 187 (7.22%) JIRA
5 72 (2.78%) Selenium
6 69 (2.66%) JUnit
7 46 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 46 (1.78%) JMeter
8 44 (1.70%) Gradle
9 40 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.51%) Mockito
11 38 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 37 (1.43%) Postman
13 35 (1.35%) Maven
14 33 (1.27%) REST Assured
15 32 (1.24%) MLflow
15 32 (1.24%) SonarQube
16 29 (1.12%) CircleCI
17 24 (0.93%) Gatling
18 21 (0.81%) Liquibase
General
1 624 (24.09%) Finance
2 617 (23.82%) Social Skills
3 312 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 284 (10.97%) Banking
5 208 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.24%) Retail
7 56 (2.16%) Front Office
8 55 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 42 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.12%) Law
13 29 (1.12%) Marketing
14 24 (0.93%) Legal
15 15 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.54%) Local Government
16 14 (0.54%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 557 (21.51%) Developer
2 460 (17.76%) Senior
3 291 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 287 (11.08%) Architect
5 267 (10.31%) Lead
6 228 (8.80%) Data Engineer
7 154 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
9 136 (5.25%) Software Engineer
10 134 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 121 (4.67%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 109 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 67 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 66 (2.55%) Python Developer
19 62 (2.39%) AWS DevOps
20 60 (2.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (13.71%) REST
2 248 (9.58%) React
3 244 (9.42%) .NET
4 234 (9.03%) Kafka
5 209 (8.07%) RESTful
6 201 (7.76%) Spring
7 168 (6.49%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.17%) Node.js
9 131 (5.06%) PySpark
10 102 (3.94%) AngularJS
11 101 (3.90%) HTML
12 93 (3.59%) Playwright
13 87 (3.36%) CSS
14 77 (2.97%) JSON
15 72 (2.78%) OAuth
16 67 (2.59%) SOAP
17 65 (2.51%) FastAPI
18 58 (2.24%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.16%) GraphQL
20 54 (2.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 531 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 94 (3.63%) AI Agents
4 94 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 85 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 74 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 40 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 39 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 36 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.24%) Fixed Income
14 31 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.30%) Linux
2 110 (4.25%) Windows
3 61 (2.36%) Unix
4 36 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.12%) Android
7 28 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.42%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.077%) AIX
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
14 1 (0.039%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,432 (55.29%) DevOps
2 924 (35.68%) Agile
3 853 (32.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (21.54%) Containerisation
5 549 (21.20%) AI
5 549 (21.20%) Test Automation
6 510 (19.69%) Microservices
7 453 (17.49%) Software Engineering
8 444 (17.14%) Observability
9 378 (14.59%) Analytics
10 353 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
11 352 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
12 331 (12.78%) Data Modelling
13 324 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 315 (12.16%) Data Engineering
15 305 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
16 285 (11.00%) Event-Driven
17 273 (10.54%) Machine Learning
18 268 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 263 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 986 (38.07%) Python
2 697 (26.91%) SQL
3 514 (19.85%) Java
4 274 (10.58%) C#
5 270 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 267 (10.31%) TypeScript
7 201 (7.76%) Bash
8 185 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 108 (4.17%) Bicep
10 60 (2.32%) Go
11 57 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.93%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.85%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.78%) Scala
15 34 (1.31%) Ruby
16 31 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 26 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 21 (0.81%) C++
20 19 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 661 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 597 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.10%) Degree
4 102 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 74 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 20 (0.77%) CISSP
12 16 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) CISM
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) GIAC
17 10 (0.39%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (9.00%) QA
2 210 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.24%) GDPR
5 50 (1.93%) NIST
6 43 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.35%) WCAG
8 23 (0.89%) NCSC
9 20 (0.77%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 9 (0.35%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
17 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 666 (25.71%) Docker
2 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.039%) IAG
11 1 (0.039%) NFS
11 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 820 (31.66%) Terraform
2 753 (29.07%) Kubernetes
3 195 (7.53%) Grafana
4 185 (7.14%) Ansible
5 161 (6.22%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.20%) Argo
7 29 (1.12%) Puppet
8 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.69%) Packer
10 17 (0.66%) Kibana
11 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.42%) Istio
13 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 6 (0.23%) Control-M
17 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
17 5 (0.19%) Salt
18 4 (0.15%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 396 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.07%) Databricks
3 137 (5.29%) Google
4 117 (4.52%) Oracle
5 103 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.47%) Splunk
7 62 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 41 (1.58%) VMware
11 30 (1.16%) IBM
12 29 (1.12%) Informatica
13 28 (1.08%) Foundry
13 28 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 28 (1.08%) SAP
14 22 (0.85%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.81%) Cisco
15 21 (0.81%) New Relic
15 21 (0.81%) Palantir
16 18 (0.69%) CyberArk