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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,079 1,320 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.22% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 11.23% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,428 944 913
10th Percentile £375 £405 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -6.82% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £60.81
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.54% +2.71%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -4 235 £540 -6.09% 241
West London +7 65 £603 +47.31% 29
South London +6 60 £525 +8.25% 26
East London -3 7 £450 -10.00% 28
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 96 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 75 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.22%) Confluence
4 55 (2.65%) Apache
5 31 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
7 11 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.53%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) Appian
8 10 (0.48%) Mendix
8 10 (0.48%) SAS
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.34%) Camunda
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) nginx
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Endur
4 2 (0.096%) Magento
4 2 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.096%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.096%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.048%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 946 (45.50%) Azure
2 920 (44.25%) AWS
3 501 (24.10%) GitHub
4 369 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
5 333 (16.02%) GCP
6 317 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
7 304 (14.62%) Serverless
8 204 (9.81%) Amazon S3
9 190 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 186 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
11 172 (8.27%) Power Platform
12 126 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
13 123 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 116 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
15 99 (4.76%) Azure AKS
16 90 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 89 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
19 78 (3.75%) Snowflake
20 74 (3.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.70%) Firewall
2 49 (2.36%) Network Security
3 38 (1.83%) DNS
4 23 (1.11%) VPN
5 18 (0.87%) HTTP
6 17 (0.82%) WAN
7 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
10 7 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.29%) MPLS
11 6 (0.29%) OSPF
11 6 (0.29%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 124 (5.96%) Power BI
3 124 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 118 (5.68%) NoSQL
5 96 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 75 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 72 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (3.46%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.74%) Delta Lake
9 56 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
9 56 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.60%) BigQuery
11 48 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.31%) Big Data
12 43 (2.07%) Metadata
13 38 (1.83%) DynamoDB
14 33 (1.59%) MySQL
15 32 (1.54%) Redis
16 29 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 388 (18.66%) Git
2 358 (17.22%) Jenkins
3 260 (12.51%) GitLab
4 147 (7.07%) JIRA
5 83 (3.99%) Selenium
6 61 (2.93%) JUnit
7 60 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.41%) MLflow
9 43 (2.07%) Postman
10 37 (1.78%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.68%) JMeter
12 32 (1.54%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.25%) Mockito
14 25 (1.20%) Bitbucket
15 21 (1.01%) Maven
16 18 (0.87%) Gatling
16 18 (0.87%) Gradle
16 18 (0.87%) TeamCity
17 16 (0.77%) SonarQube
18 15 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 531 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 474 (22.80%) Finance
3 234 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 213 (10.25%) Banking
5 173 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.12%) Front Office
8 43 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 37 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.11%) Retail
13 20 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.82%) Marketing
15 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.67%) Legal
17 13 (0.63%) Law
18 12 (0.58%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.53%) Publishing
20 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 500 (24.05%) Developer
2 326 (15.68%) Senior
3 225 (10.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 210 (10.10%) Architect
5 197 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 167 (8.03%) Lead
7 124 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
9 99 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 93 (4.47%) Software Engineer
11 91 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
12 84 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 83 (3.99%) Java Developer
13 83 (3.99%) Senior Developer
14 71 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 64 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
16 58 (2.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 58 (2.79%) Python Engineer
17 55 (2.65%) Python Developer
17 55 (2.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (11.93%) React
2 215 (10.34%) Kafka
3 201 (9.67%) Node.js
4 194 (9.33%) .NET
5 191 (9.19%) RESTful
6 190 (9.14%) REST
7 161 (7.74%) Spring
8 128 (6.16%) AngularJS
9 123 (5.92%) Spring Boot
10 102 (4.91%) Playwright
11 97 (4.67%) CSS
12 96 (4.62%) PySpark
13 95 (4.57%) HTML
14 81 (3.90%) OAuth
15 62 (2.98%) GraphQL
16 57 (2.74%) YAML
17 50 (2.41%) JSON
17 50 (2.41%) PyTorch
17 50 (2.41%) Vue
18 49 (2.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 411 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 115 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 38 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 32 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.44%) Derivative
10 30 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 27 (1.30%) Equities
13 25 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.93%) Linux
2 69 (3.32%) Windows
3 35 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.35%) Android
5 26 (1.25%) VMS
6 25 (1.20%) Unix
7 12 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.24%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Solaris
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) AIX
13 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,148 (55.22%) DevOps
2 674 (32.42%) Agile
3 667 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 466 (22.41%) Containerisation
5 442 (21.26%) Test Automation
6 385 (18.52%) AI
7 377 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
8 375 (18.04%) Microservices
9 340 (16.35%) Analytics
10 325 (15.63%) Observability
11 284 (13.66%) Software Engineering
12 259 (12.46%) Data Modelling
13 252 (12.12%) Data Engineering
14 244 (11.74%) Data Pipeline
15 243 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 232 (11.16%) Machine Learning
17 215 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
18 209 (10.05%) ETL
19 196 (9.43%) Mentoring
20 193 (9.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 823 (39.59%) Python
2 575 (27.66%) SQL
3 398 (19.14%) Java
4 285 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 275 (13.23%) TypeScript
6 240 (11.54%) C#
7 117 (5.63%) Bash
8 100 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 77 (3.70%) Bicep
10 61 (2.93%) Scala
11 53 (2.55%) Go
12 33 (1.59%) Ruby
13 31 (1.49%) C++
13 31 (1.49%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.25%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.11%) Apex Code
16 23 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.91%) Swift
18 17 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 489 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 427 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.35%) Degree
4 77 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 70 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (0.87%) CISSP
15 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.48%) CCSP
19 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (8.66%) QA
2 145 (6.97%) Data Quality
3 86 (4.14%) GDPR
4 77 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.55%) NIST
7 29 (1.39%) NCSC
7 29 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.39%) WCAG
8 21 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.82%) SLA
10 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.29%) MiFID
12 6 (0.29%) PSD2
12 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.19%) GRC
13 4 (0.19%) PERC
13 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 627 (30.16%) Docker
2 51 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) vSphere
8 2 (0.096%) HDFS
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.096%) zsh
9 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) IAG
9 1 (0.048%) Squid
Systems Management
1 683 (32.85%) Terraform
2 669 (32.18%) Kubernetes
3 148 (7.12%) Ansible
4 128 (6.16%) Grafana
5 112 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.12%) Argo
7 23 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.96%) Istio
9 14 (0.67%) Puppet
10 12 (0.58%) Kibana
11 11 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.38%) Rancher
14 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.24%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 317 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 210 (10.10%) Databricks
3 129 (6.20%) Google
4 75 (3.61%) Oracle
5 60 (2.89%) Splunk
6 59 (2.84%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 26 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.11%) VMware
11 20 (0.96%) Cisco
11 20 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 19 (0.91%) SAP
13 17 (0.82%) CyberArk
14 15 (0.72%) Foundry
15 14 (0.67%) IBM
16 13 (0.63%) Apple
16 13 (0.63%) UiPath
17 12 (0.58%) Solace