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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,699 1,524 1,408
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.27% 11.37% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.91% 12.29% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,807 1,023 978
10th Percentile £400 £370 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £684
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%

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 18,098 12,396 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.01% 92.48% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,824 8,192 9,654
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 255 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.76 £25.01 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £63.75 £72.81
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +10 342 £550 -10.20% 161
South London +4 68 £538 +0.94% 21
West London -1 51 £560 +15.45% 87
East London +7 13 £588 +8.80% 32
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
1 134 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.19%) Confluence
3 105 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 81 (3.00%) Apache
5 37 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.56%) CMS
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) nginx
9 10 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.22%) SAS
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 5 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (45.42%) Azure
2 1,171 (43.39%) AWS
3 618 (22.90%) GitHub
4 485 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
5 416 (15.41%) GitHub Actions
6 408 (15.12%) GCP
7 324 (12.00%) Serverless
8 246 (9.11%) Amazon S3
9 238 (8.82%) Power Platform
10 211 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
11 155 (5.74%) Snowflake
12 140 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 138 (5.11%) dbt
14 135 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 128 (4.74%) Entra ID
16 123 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
17 115 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
18 113 (4.19%) Azure AKS
19 90 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.45%) Firewall
2 41 (1.52%) Network Security
3 38 (1.41%) DNS
4 35 (1.30%) VPN
5 27 (1.00%) Internet
6 25 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.85%) HTTP
8 22 (0.82%) 5G
9 19 (0.70%) SSL
10 14 (0.52%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.48%) WAN
12 12 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.41%) SAN
14 9 (0.33%) 4G
14 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) BGP
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (6.74%) Power BI
2 179 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 159 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 129 (4.78%) NoSQL
6 120 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 107 (3.96%) MongoDB
8 100 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 91 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.30%) Delta Lake
11 86 (3.19%) Metadata
12 73 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 73 (2.70%) BigQuery
13 55 (2.04%) Redis
14 52 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
15 48 (1.78%) DynamoDB
16 45 (1.67%) Big Data
17 43 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
18 41 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
19 40 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 507 (18.78%) Git
2 434 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 352 (13.04%) GitLab
4 190 (7.04%) JIRA
5 91 (3.37%) Selenium
6 78 (2.89%) JUnit
7 54 (2.00%) Gradle
8 52 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 50 (1.85%) JMeter
10 43 (1.59%) Mockito
11 41 (1.52%) Cucumber
12 40 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 40 (1.48%) Maven
13 39 (1.44%) Postman
13 39 (1.44%) SonarQube
14 34 (1.26%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.00%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.96%) MLflow
17 23 (0.85%) Gatling
18 20 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 676 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 661 (24.49%) Finance
3 313 (11.60%) Banking
4 310 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 249 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (2.59%) Front Office
7 66 (2.45%) Retail
8 61 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.22%) Law
12 33 (1.22%) Marketing
13 28 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 26 (0.96%) Legal
15 19 (0.70%) Military
16 17 (0.63%) Local Government
16 17 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 583 (21.60%) Developer
2 489 (18.12%) Senior
3 323 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 302 (11.19%) Architect
5 266 (9.86%) Lead
6 262 (9.71%) Data Engineer
7 157 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.89%) Software Engineer
10 127 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 121 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 118 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 99 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 91 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
17 78 (2.89%) Python Developer
18 69 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 68 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
20 67 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 868 (32.16%) Terraform
2 405 (15.01%) REST
3 285 (10.56%) Kafka
4 268 (9.93%) React
5 241 (8.93%) .NET
6 221 (8.19%) RESTful
7 215 (7.97%) Spring
8 189 (7.00%) Spring Boot
9 148 (5.48%) PySpark
10 120 (4.45%) Node.js
11 105 (3.89%) HTML
12 95 (3.52%) CSS
13 91 (3.37%) Playwright
14 89 (3.30%) AngularJS
15 86 (3.19%) JSON
16 79 (2.93%) FastAPI
17 77 (2.85%) OAuth
18 70 (2.59%) SOAP
19 60 (2.22%) OAuth2
20 56 (2.07%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 569 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 234 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 158 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 124 (4.59%) AI Agents
5 109 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
16 31 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.30%) Linux
2 111 (4.11%) Windows
3 73 (2.70%) Unix
4 48 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.11%) Android
7 28 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.56%) VMS
9 14 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) zOS
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,492 (55.28%) DevOps
2 974 (36.09%) Agile
3 920 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 606 (22.45%) AI
5 583 (21.60%) Test Automation
6 570 (21.12%) Containerisation
7 537 (19.90%) Microservices
8 507 (18.78%) Observability
9 487 (18.04%) Software Engineering
10 397 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 373 (13.82%) Analytics
12 372 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
13 358 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 354 (13.12%) Data Modelling
15 348 (12.89%) Data Engineering
16 345 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 336 (12.45%) Event-Driven
18 327 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
19 290 (10.74%) Migration
20 287 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (41.46%) Python
2 763 (28.27%) SQL
3 553 (20.49%) Java
4 288 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 275 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 263 (9.74%) C#
7 223 (8.26%) Bash
8 214 (7.93%) PowerShell
9 114 (4.22%) Bicep
10 64 (2.37%) Go
11 58 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 54 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.78%) Scala
14 44 (1.63%) Apex Code
15 42 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.26%) Ruby
17 32 (1.19%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 27 (1.00%) C++
20 25 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 703 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 629 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 148 (5.48%) Degree
4 106 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 87 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 84 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.70%) CISSP
12 17 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 14 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.44%) GIAC
16 12 (0.44%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
18 9 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (9.48%) Data Quality
2 249 (9.23%) QA
3 86 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 52 (1.93%) GDPR
5 48 (1.78%) NIST
6 47 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.96%) WCAG
8 21 (0.78%) NCSC
9 20 (0.74%) SLA
10 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) EMIR
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 697 (25.82%) Docker
2 62 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.074%) HDFS
11 2 (0.074%) KVM
11 2 (0.074%) Varnish
11 2 (0.074%) vSphere
12 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 796 (29.49%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.89%) Grafana
3 200 (7.41%) Ansible
4 174 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.41%) Argo
6 32 (1.19%) Puppet
7 24 (0.89%) Kibana
8 20 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.67%) Packer
10 17 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.44%) Istio
12 10 (0.37%) Control-M
13 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 460 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 247 (9.15%) Databricks
3 150 (5.56%) Google
4 148 (5.48%) Oracle
5 100 (3.71%) Splunk
6 97 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 48 (1.78%) VMware
11 41 (1.52%) IBM
12 37 (1.37%) Informatica
13 36 (1.33%) Foundry
14 32 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.96%) SAP
16 25 (0.93%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.85%) New Relic
18 20 (0.74%) Cisco
18 20 (0.74%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.74%) Palantir