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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,827 1,621 1,463
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.88% 12.20% 9.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.59% 13.19% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,943 1,093 1,019
10th Percentile £400 £365 £413
25th Percentile £450 £435 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £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 0
10th Percentile £51.18 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% - -
75th Percentile £69.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £66.83 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +2.82% -5.45% -8.33%

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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +9 349 £550 -8.37% 304
South London +2 68 £537 +0.85% 15
West London -6 50 £560 +13.71% 54
East London +4 11 £585 +8.33% 24
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
1 138 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.07%) Confluence
3 114 (4.03%) Apache Spark
4 86 (3.04%) Apache
5 38 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.74%) CMS
7 15 (0.53%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Camunda
9 9 (0.32%) SAS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.18%) IIS
13 5 (0.18%) Mule
13 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.14%) Trello
7 2 (0.071%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.035%) Sketch
8 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.071%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.035%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.035%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (45.21%) Azure
2 1,204 (42.59%) AWS
3 636 (22.50%) GitHub
4 476 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
5 448 (15.85%) GCP
6 437 (15.46%) GitHub Actions
7 340 (12.03%) Serverless
8 249 (8.81%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.03%) Power Platform
10 215 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
12 160 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 160 (5.66%) Snowflake
13 153 (5.41%) Entra ID
14 142 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 133 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
16 129 (4.56%) dbt
17 115 (4.07%) Azure AKS
18 106 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
19 100 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.37%) Firewall
2 53 (1.87%) DNS
3 49 (1.73%) Network Security
4 41 (1.45%) VPN
5 33 (1.17%) Internet
6 30 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.74%) SSL
8 18 (0.64%) 5G
8 18 (0.64%) HTTP
9 13 (0.46%) WAN
10 11 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.39%) SAN
11 10 (0.35%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.35%) BGP
12 9 (0.32%) 4G
12 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.32%) SSH
13 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.25%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (5.98%) Power BI
3 153 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 152 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
5 131 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.10%) Data Lake
7 115 (4.07%) MongoDB
8 111 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 104 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
10 91 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 86 (3.04%) Metadata
12 75 (2.65%) BigQuery
13 70 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.09%) Redis
15 53 (1.87%) MySQL
16 50 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
17 48 (1.70%) DynamoDB
18 47 (1.66%) Big Data
18 47 (1.66%) Oracle Database
19 46 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 555 (19.63%) Git
2 461 (16.31%) Jenkins
3 382 (13.51%) GitLab
4 196 (6.93%) JIRA
5 107 (3.78%) Selenium
6 84 (2.97%) JUnit
7 66 (2.33%) Gradle
8 62 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 59 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 52 (1.84%) Maven
11 50 (1.77%) JMeter
12 47 (1.66%) Bitbucket
13 46 (1.63%) Postman
14 45 (1.59%) SonarQube
15 39 (1.38%) Mockito
16 35 (1.24%) REST Assured
17 30 (1.06%) CircleCI
18 26 (0.92%) Gatling
19 25 (0.88%) MLflow
20 23 (0.81%) Claude Code
General
1 734 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 710 (25.11%) Finance
3 349 (12.35%) Banking
4 320 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 289 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (2.72%) Front Office
7 72 (2.55%) Retail
8 70 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.52%) Marketing
11 33 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.10%) Law
13 30 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 28 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.88%) Back Office
17 21 (0.74%) Local Government
17 21 (0.74%) Military
18 18 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 580 (20.52%) Developer
2 522 (18.46%) Senior
3 354 (12.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 299 (10.58%) Architect
5 291 (10.29%) Lead
6 259 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (4.70%) Senior Developer
10 130 (4.60%) Software Engineer
11 126 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.21%) Java Developer
13 111 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 99 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 98 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
16 82 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
17 77 (2.72%) Python Developer
18 75 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
19 73 (2.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 69 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 938 (33.18%) Terraform
2 464 (16.41%) REST
3 313 (11.07%) Kafka
4 271 (9.59%) .NET
5 263 (9.30%) React
6 228 (8.07%) RESTful
7 221 (7.82%) Spring
8 197 (6.97%) Spring Boot
9 150 (5.31%) PySpark
10 115 (4.07%) Node.js
11 114 (4.03%) HTML
12 104 (3.68%) Playwright
13 102 (3.61%) CSS
14 99 (3.50%) OAuth
15 89 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 89 (3.15%) JSON
16 84 (2.97%) FastAPI
17 79 (2.79%) SOAP
18 74 (2.62%) Middleware
19 69 (2.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 599 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 233 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 169 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 146 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 121 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
6 120 (4.24%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 45 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 44 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.45%) Virtual Team
12 39 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (1.34%) Replication
13 38 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 37 (1.31%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.27%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 32 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 268 (9.48%) Linux
2 129 (4.56%) Windows
3 81 (2.87%) Unix
4 49 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.10%) Android
7 28 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.53%) macOS
9 14 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.50%) VMS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.071%) CentOS
14 2 (0.071%) Solaris
14 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.035%) AIX
15 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,570 (55.54%) DevOps
2 1,039 (36.75%) Agile
3 984 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 674 (23.84%) AI
5 656 (23.20%) Test Automation
6 555 (19.63%) Observability
7 545 (19.28%) Containerisation
8 531 (18.78%) Microservices
9 526 (18.61%) Software Engineering
10 443 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
11 422 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 419 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 374 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
14 364 (12.88%) Analytics
14 364 (12.88%) Event-Driven
14 364 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
15 361 (12.77%) Data Engineering
16 340 (12.03%) Data Modelling
17 325 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
18 313 (11.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,204 (42.59%) Python
2 764 (27.03%) SQL
3 560 (19.81%) Java
4 315 (11.14%) JavaScript
5 289 (10.22%) TypeScript
6 274 (9.69%) C#
7 253 (8.95%) Bash
8 236 (8.35%) PowerShell
9 123 (4.35%) Bicep
10 81 (2.87%) Go
11 64 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 59 (2.09%) Shell Script
13 51 (1.80%) Scala
14 41 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 38 (1.34%) Apex Code
16 35 (1.24%) Groovy
17 29 (1.03%) C++
18 28 (0.99%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.96%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 750 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 669 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 166 (5.87%) Degree
4 98 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 97 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 94 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 81 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.88%) CISSP
11 24 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 17 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.53%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.39%) CISM
18 11 (0.39%) GIAC
18 11 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (10.12%) QA
2 271 (9.59%) Data Quality
3 93 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.56%) GDPR
4 44 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.38%) NIST
6 24 (0.85%) NCSC
6 24 (0.85%) WCAG
7 17 (0.60%) SLA
8 16 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 15 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 11 (0.39%) GRC
11 10 (0.35%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.28%) Basel III
13 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.21%) MiFID
14 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 718 (25.40%) Docker
2 62 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.46%) Squid
6 10 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.071%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.071%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.071%) KVM
10 2 (0.071%) RACF
10 2 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.071%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 853 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 239 (8.45%) Grafana
3 227 (8.03%) Ansible
4 183 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.52%) Argo
6 34 (1.20%) Puppet
7 33 (1.17%) Kibana
8 22 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.60%) Packer
11 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) Control-M
12 11 (0.39%) Istio
13 8 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.28%) SCCM
14 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.21%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 496 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 279 (9.87%) Databricks
3 181 (6.40%) Google
4 150 (5.31%) Oracle
5 116 (4.10%) Splunk
6 92 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 65 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.66%) VMware
10 46 (1.63%) Foundry
11 43 (1.52%) IBM
12 35 (1.24%) Red Hat
13 34 (1.20%) Informatica
13 34 (1.20%) SAP
14 30 (1.06%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.85%) New Relic
16 21 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.64%) Cisco
17 18 (0.64%) Palantir